Lynn Fitch Calls Herself a Conservative. Her Record Keeps Saying Otherwise.

Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch calls herself a conservative. She says it often, and loudly — especially now that she wants to be your governor. But a title is not a record. And when you look at what Lynn Fitch actually does when conservatives need her, a very different picture comes into focus.

Consider the biggest Second Amendment victory in ninety years.

In 2025, Congress zeroed out the National Firearms Act’s $200 tax on suppressors, short-barreled rifles, and short-barreled shotguns. Then, on August 5, a federal court in Texas ruled in Silencer Shop Foundation v. ATF that once the tax hit zero, the NFA’s entire registration scheme — the Form 4, the fingerprints, the endless waiting — lost its constitutional footing. No tax, no power, no permission slip.

But because the Supreme Court recently ended nationwide injunctions, the ruling protects only the parties who actually joined the case. Fifteen states signed on to secure that right for their citizens. Texas. Louisiana. Georgia. Alaska. Montana. Eleven more. Our neighbors in Louisiana are covered today. Mississippi is not — because Lynn Fitch did not join.

Fifteen attorneys general understood the stakes and acted. Mississippi’s did not. And this is not the first time.

When nineteen attorneys general sent Costco a warning over its DEI policies, Fitch’s name was missing. When you look for her in the fights that define the conservative movement, she is too often absent — even as she climbs the ranks of the National Association of Attorneys General, an organization that has drifted steadily to the left. She shows up for the cameras and the credentials. She goes missing when it is time to stand and fight.

That is the difference between being a conservative and playing one on television.

Her defenders will point to Dobbs. And yes — Fitch’s office argued the case that overturned Roe v. Wade, and she deserves credit for it. But one landmark case, however historic, does not buy a lifetime pass, and it cannot be paraded across every campaign ad to paper over a pattern of absence everywhere else. Conservatives are not asking what Lynn Fitch did once. We are asking what she is doing now — and on the Second Amendment, the answer is nothing.

Here at home, the problem is even more direct. Mississippi’s own law, Section 97-37-31, makes owning a suppressor a crime unless you are “duly authorized under federal law.” We wrote our dependence on Washington into our own statute. As other states shake off the NFA, Mississippi keeps its citizens tethered to a federal permission slip — and our Attorney General has done nothing to change it.

Mississippians deserve better than a conservative in name only. Attorney General Fitch should explain why she left Mississippi gun owners out of a lawsuit that fifteen other states joined, and she should act now to win us the same protection. And our Legislature should not wait on her — lawmakers should repeal the federal-authorization language in Section 97-37-31 so that no Mississippian’s rights depend on Lynn Fitch finally deciding to show up.

Conservatism is not a slogan you print on a campaign banner. It is what you do when the fight is hard and the cameras are off. By that measure, Lynn Fitch has a great deal to answer for — and Mississippi gun owners are still waiting.