Trump Warned Georgia Gun Owners About Ossoff and One Quiet Signature Proves He Was Right

Jon Ossoff looked straight into a camera in 2020 and promised Georgians he would defend their Second Amendment.

Donald Trump took the stage in Perry, Georgia and told voters that promise was worthless.

The proof is one signature Ossoff put on a Senate bill, and he would rather Georgia never saw it.

Ossoff Put His Name Under Adam Schiff's Plan to Ban the AR-15

Trump did not mince words at the October 24 rally.

"He's gonna wanna terminate your Second Amendment," Trump told the crowd.

He also branded Ossoff a phony and a radical who would vote that way on every subject.

He was talking about the Democrat asking Georgia for six more years in the Senate, and he urged voters to send Republican Rep. Mike Collins to Washington in his place.

Democrats will wave that off as campaign talk.

The Senate record says otherwise.

On April 30, 2025, California Sen. Adam Schiff introduced the Assault Weapons Ban of 2025.

That is the same Adam Schiff who led the first impeachment of Donald Trump.

On May 5, Ossoff added his name as the 41st cosponsor.

It would make selling, building or importing so-called assault weapons a federal crime, and it singles out AR- and AK-style rifles by name.

That is not a fringe idea Ossoff stumbled into by accident.

During his 2020 run, his campaign ad told Georgia, "I'll defend our Second Amendment."

In that same campaign, he endorsed "a ban on the sale of semi-automatic rifles and high-capacity magazines to the general public."

The NRA graded him an F that year, while Everytown and Brady lined up to endorse him.

He also opposed the Georgia law letting licensed adults carry concealed on college campuses.

He beat Republican Sen. David Perdue in the January 2021 runoff by barely more than a point.

Georgia gun owners got the ad.

Adam Schiff got the signature.

Thirty-Two Million Rifles Ossoff Would Pull Off the Shelves

The AR-15 is not some exotic weapon of war.

By the National Shooting Sports Foundation's count, more than 32 million of these rifles have been made in or shipped into America since 1990.

NSSF general counsel Larry Keane said reporters covering gun control proposals must recognize "just how commonly owned these firearms are."

Those rifles sit in gun safes in Perry, in Macon and in deer camps all over Georgia.

They belong to farmers, hunters, retirees and veterans – the same people Ossoff's ads were aimed at.

And the courts are catching up to that reality.

On July 17, 2026, the Third Circuit struck down New Jersey's assault weapons ban, finding the ban had no footing in the nation's history of gun laws – the test the Supreme Court set in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen.

New Jersey Democrats answered by drafting even more gun restrictions, including a push to make owners keep firearms locked and unloaded inside their homes.

Georgia went the opposite direction in April 2022, when Gov. Brian Kemp signed permitless carry into law.

Gun makers noticed.

In June 2026, Rideout Arsenal said it would pack up a $22 million gun plant in Virginia and rebuild it in Georgia, blaming the gun laws Democrat Gov. Abigail Spanberger put on the books.

Kemp rolled out the welcome mat.

Georgia is landing gun factories because it protects gun owners, and Ossoff signed a bill that would outlaw building new AR-15s for American civilians.

Democrats Learned Nothing From the 1994 Gun Ban Wipeout

Democrats have run this play before, and it blew up in their faces.

Bill Clinton signed a federal assault weapons ban in 1994, and that November Republicans took the House for the first time in 40 years.

Clinton admitted the damage in his memoir My Life, writing, "The NRA had a great night."

The NRA helped knock off Democrat House Speaker Tom Foley in his Washington State district.

Not one Republican has signed Schiff's bill.

Every one of its 42 cosponsors is a Democrat or Bernie Sanders.

Ossoff's Georgia colleague Raphael Warnock signed it the day it was introduced.

Ossoff waited five days, and then he signed it too.

He has never faced Georgia voters with his name on a rifle ban.

On November 3, he will.

Trump read the room in Perry exactly right.

He told the crowd Collins would keep Georgia safe and protect its borders, its culture and its heritage.

The signature is the truth, and the ad was the sales pitch.

Sources:

• AWR Hawkins, "President Trump on Democrat Sen. Jon Ossoff: He Is 'an Anti-Gun Radical'," Breitbart, October 26, 2026.
• Roll Call Factba.se, "Speech: Donald Trump Holds a Midterm Political Rally in Perry, Georgia," Roll Call, October 24, 2026.
• U.S. Congress, "S.1531 – Assault Weapons Ban of 2025," Congress.gov, 2025.
• David Rutz, "Ossoff Tells Voters He'll Defend Second Amendment But Wants to Ban Semiautomatic Rifle Sales," Washington Free Beacon, October 1, 2020.
• Pedro Rodriguez, "Ossoff's Anti-Second Amendment Record Stands Out as Gun Manufacturers Migrate to Georgia," The Daily Signal, June 20, 2026.
• Shooting Industry Staff, "NSSF Report Reveals Record 32 Million Modern Sporting Rifles in Circulation," Shooting Industry, February 13, 2026.
• AWR Hawkins, "NJ Dems Pledge More Gun Control After 'Assault Weapons' Smackdown," Breitbart, July 24, 2026.
• National Rifle Association, "'My Life' Recounts Your Impact & Power," NRA-ILA, July 31, 2004.