George Conway’s vow to “put Donald Trump away for good” through a third impeachment isn’t just another round of political theater—it’s a stark reminder that the same forces pushing lawfare against the former president are the ones who have spent years trying to criminalize the Second Amendment itself. Conway, a longtime Trump critic turned congressional hopeful, is pitching impeachment as a weapon of permanent political exile, a tactic that bypasses voters and turns the House into a partisan courtroom. For gun owners, this is déjà vu: the same procedural games that were used to harass Trump are the ones Democrats have deployed to ram through magazine bans, red-flag laws, and ATF rule changes without genuine legislative consensus.

What makes this threat especially relevant to the firearms community is the underlying philosophy it reveals. Conway and his allies view the Constitution not as a limit on government power but as an obstacle to be maneuvered around when inconvenient. If they’re willing to stretch impeachment into a tool for neutralizing a political opponent, there’s little reason to believe they’ll respect the plain text of the Second Amendment when it stands in the way of their gun-control agenda. The 2A community has already seen this pattern play out in states where Democratic majorities used procedural shortcuts to pass sweeping restrictions, only to watch those laws later collide with Bruen and other court rulings that re-centered constitutional text over policy preferences.

The larger implication is that elections like the one Conway is contesting aren’t just about one candidate’s grudge—they’re about whether the institutions meant to check power will be repurposed as instruments of it. Gun owners who treat these races as distant Beltway drama do so at their own peril; the same people promising to “put Trump away for good” have made no secret of their desire to put the right to keep and bear arms on the same endangered list.