RI: GUN CONFISCATION Bill Being Heard TODAY – TAKE ACTION

April 8, 2026
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Rhode Island lawmakers are cranking up the heat on gun owners today with House Bill H8073, up for a House Judiciary Committee hearing at 4:00 PM. This isn't some minor tweak—it's a full-throated push for confiscation, building on the state's 2025 assault weapons ban that already outlawed future sales and transfers of AR-15s, AKs, and similar semi-autos. Where that law let existing owners grandfather in their rifles (for now), H8073 yanks the rug out, criminalizing possession outright. No more you can keep what you have loophole; this is the state saying, Hand it over or else. If you're in RI, drop everything and hit the phones—contact your reps and the committee members before they vote. Links to do it right now are in the original alert. Let's cut through the spin: this is classic incrementalism at work, the slow boil that's eroded rights in places like New York and California. Rhode Island's 2025 ban was sold as just future sales, but H8073 exposes the endgame—total disarmament of law-abiding citizens under the guise of public safety. Proponents will trot out mass shooting stats (ignoring that criminals don't obey laws), while glossing over how these bans disarm the good guys who stop threats, like the armed citizens who've thwarted attacks nationwide. The grandfather clause extension they're offering is a poison pill, just delaying the inevitable raid. For the 2A community, this is a five-alarm fire: if RI falls, expect copycats in blue states like Connecticut and Massachusetts, chipping away at Heller and Bruen protections. The implications ripple far beyond Providence. Nationally, this tests the post-Bruen landscape—will courts smack down state-level confiscation as the historical analogue-free overreach it is? Gun owners everywhere should watch, fund legal challenges via groups like GOA or FPC, and amplify this story. Rhode Island's fight is ours; apathy here means your safe next. Take action today—call, email, show up if you can—and let's bury this bill before it sets a precedent for the other 49 states. Stay vigilant, armed, and vocal.

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Rhode Island lawmakers are cranking up the heat on gun owners today with House Bill H8073, up for a House Judiciary Committee hearing at 4:00 PM. This isn’t some minor tweak—it’s a full-throated push for confiscation, building on the state’s 2025 assault weapons ban that already outlawed future sales and transfers of AR-15s, AKs, and similar semi-autos. Where that law let existing owners grandfather in their rifles (for now), H8073 yanks the rug out, criminalizing possession outright. No more you can keep what you have loophole; this is the state saying, Hand it over or else. If you’re in RI, drop everything and hit the phones—contact your reps and the committee members before they vote. Links to do it right now are in the original alert.

Let’s cut through the spin: this is classic incrementalism at work, the slow boil that’s eroded rights in places like New York and California. Rhode Island’s 2025 ban was sold as just future sales, but H8073 exposes the endgame—total disarmament of law-abiding citizens under the guise of public safety. Proponents will trot out mass shooting stats (ignoring that criminals don’t obey laws), while glossing over how these bans disarm the good guys who stop threats, like the armed citizens who’ve thwarted attacks nationwide. The grandfather clause extension they’re offering is a poison pill, just delaying the inevitable raid. For the 2A community, this is a five-alarm fire: if RI falls, expect copycats in blue states like Connecticut and Massachusetts, chipping away at Heller and Bruen protections.

The implications ripple far beyond Providence. Nationally, this tests the post-Bruen landscape—will courts smack down state-level confiscation as the historical analogue-free overreach it is? Gun owners everywhere should watch, fund legal challenges via groups like GOA or FPC, and amplify this story. Rhode Island’s fight is ours; apathy here means your safe next. Take action today—call, email, show up if you can—and let’s bury this bill before it sets a precedent for the other 49 states. Stay vigilant, armed, and vocal.

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