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NRA-ILA GRASSROOTS
VOLUME 25, NUMBER 19
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On Thursday, the
Trump Administration published two rulemakings designed to enhance the
competitiveness of American companies in the firearms and ammunition sectors,
remove burdens for small businesses, and modernize export controls for the
post-Cold War era. The moves will benefit both the domestic
firearms industry and improve national security. The publication of the
proposals also triggered a 45-day comment period during which members of the
public can provide feedback on the plans and share their own experiences with
the underlying regulations.
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Washington State’s
would-be oligarchs are attempting to buy Evergreen Staters’ rights again.
Four years after West Coast elites dumped $10 million into the campaign for
Initiative 594, which criminalized the private transfer of firearms, some of
the same plutocrats are spending big bucks to back I-1639, an even more
restrictive anti-gun ballot measure.
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Commencement speech
season is upon us. College graduations provide this annual platform for the
famous, the learned, or the highly successful to share their inspirations,
life truths, and wisdom with those who are about to embark on the beginning
of the rest of their lives. Michael Bloomberg, a former New York City mayor
turned gun-control bankroller billionaire, recently delivered the
commencement address at Rice University in Texas.
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As readers of our
legislative alerts are only too aware, whenever NRA efforts to create more
freedoms for law-abiding gun owners, anti-gun lawmakers and activists
immediately begin repeating their doom-and-gloom mantra that the streets will
run red with the blood of innocents, or some other outrageous
claim. As readers are also aware, however, the predicted carnage
or other negative impacts simply fail to materialize. Most frequently,
the sky-is-falling nonsense erupts around the right to carry firearms for
personal protection.
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Billionaire gun
control benefactor Michael Bloomberg has paid a great deal of money to
have is name grace Johns Hopkins University’s School of Public Health. Back
in 2001, when the university announced that they were changing the
name of the institution to the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Bloomberg
had already given his alma mater more than $100 million. By 2013, Bloomberg
had given more than $1 billion to Johns Hopkins. It’s curious then that
both the Washington Post and Bloomberg.com have failed to give the
aspiring oligarch his due credit for a new poll purporting to show
a public consensus in favor of gun control.
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We haven’t reported
on the FBI NICS background check numbers for some time, but recent numbers
show a sharp increase in checks. April 2018 was the busiest April ever (since
NICS began in November 1998). March was the busiest March ever. February was
the second-busiest February. More than 2.2 million background checks were
conducted through NICS last month, and nearly 2.8 million were run the
previous month. So far, 2018 is on track to be a very busy year for the FBI
NICS Section. There have been 9,354,635 total NICS checks run
through April; only 2016 had more checks run in the first four months of the
year. The third busiest January-April was in 2017.
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The executive
director of the National Rifle Association’s Institute for Legislative
Action, Chris W. Cox, will represent the 6 million members of the NRA on a
newly formed panel that will advise the Trump administration on public land
use policies on hunting and recreational shooting.
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