NRA-ILA Daily Alert For 9-18-2018


DAILY ALERT FOR Tuesday, September 18, 2018

LEGAL & LEGISLATION
Florida Alert! Galvano Committee Gets $200K from ‘EVERYTOWN’ Group
Incoming Florida Senate President Bill Galvano calls himself a Republican but is rumored to be the one who colluded with anti-gun Democrats to engineer the gun control package included in SB-7026 this past session. SB-7026 contained three major gun control provisions and was rammed down the throats of Senate and House Republican legislators.
WASHINGTON POST
Bloomberg gun control group’s political arm pouring millions into midterm elections external site
The Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund is spending millions to support candidates in four states, underscoring the extent to which gun control is shaping up to be an issue in the November midterm election.
WASHINGTON TIMES
Bloomberg reportedly plans to run for president as Democrat in 2020 external site
Mr. Bloomberg, who mulled presidential runs in 2008, 2012 and 2016, has told confidants that he plans to challenge President Trump’s re-election bid, according to a Thursday report in the Times of London.
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
Right-to-Carry permits surge to 18 million, Democrats rush to get too external site
A nation on edge has driven a surge in concealed carry gun licenses, but those getting them aren’t the usual suspects.
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
Some of the world’s most powerful banks push policies circumventing Constitution and federal laws external site
In America today a new oligarchy, independent of any democratic control, has arisen. It seeks to install its ideology through economic coercion, outside of any legal process.
TOWNHALL
The Ghosts of Obama’s Operation Choke Point external site
The Constitution stands as a bulwark against the widest affronts to individual rights. Whenever government powers are expanded, individual rights are diminished, and it is the Constitution, protecting us from our own best intentions, that is supposed to stand in the way of such expansions of government power. This is aggravating to some—people who get frustrated with the Constitution’s “arcane” views on free speech or property rights—or the rights to self-defense and to keep and bear arms, and they work hard at ways to try and sidestep the Constitution’s protections.
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
Activists take a page from NRA to quietly overturn knife restrictions across U.S. external site
He ordered the 20-ounce rib-eye, and so the waitress at the upscale restaurant dropped off a wood-handled serrated steak knife. Doug Ritter ignored it. Instead he pulled out a folding knife, its 3.4-inch blade illegal to carry concealed here in Clark County. He flicked it open with one hand. When the steak arrived, medium-rare, he started cutting.