NRA-ILA DAILY ALERTS FOR July 24, 2020

Everytown’s Hail Mary
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Everytown’s Hail Mary
At least, that’s what Everytown did. A Politico reporter used FBI NICS data acquired by Everytown to claim “Blocked gun sales skyrocket amid coronavirus pandemic.” The claim in the article is that the number of people denied the ability to purchase a firearm through the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) has, well, skyrocketed. The title and the first line of the article are pretty similar.
Member Spotlight: Meet the student who was harassed for posting a picture with his firearm
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Member Spotlight: Meet the student who was harassed for posting a picture with his firearm
Austin Tong was an average college kid working on his degree from Fordham University in New York City when, last week, he posted a couple pictures on Instagram that made him the target of an irrational Internet mob and a scurrilous university investigation. The pictures he posted – which nearly got him kicked out of school – were of a retired police captain who was recently killed by looters, and one of him holding an AR-15.
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