NRA-ILA Daily Alert For January 5, 2019


DAILY ALERT FOR Saturday, January 5, 2019

LEGAL & LEGISLATION
Florida: Anti-Gun Lobbyists – OR – Hired-Gun Mercenaries?
An article posted on FLORIDA POLITICS  dated 12/25/2018 titled The 12 Days of Christmas …reported that NY Billionaire  Mike Bloomberg’s anti-gun group “Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund” has hired the Smith Bryan & Myers lobbying team of Matt Bryan, David Daniels, Thomas Griffin, Jeff Hartley, Lisa Hurley and Jim Naff to fight NRA-USF’s “one-woman show,” Marion Hammer,  to help advance Bloomberg’s gun control agenda in Florida.
Gun Owners Call BS on Restrictive Measures in New Jersey and Canada
NEWS GUN LAWS
Gun Owners Call BS on Restrictive Measures in New Jersey and Canada
Treating nice people like criminals isn’t likely to enhance respect for the law.That’s a tough lesson anti-gun officials in New Jersey and Canada are learning now that deadlines are past or nearly arrived for certain newly-enacted gun control measures.
Gun Controllers Want Credit Card Companies to Monitor and Restrict Lawful Purchases
NEWS
Gun Controllers Want Credit Card Companies to Monitor and Restrict Lawful Purchases
Gun controllers frustrated that their federal agenda has been repeatedly rejected by Americans through their elected representatives are seeking to restrict gun rights by way of the private financial system. The goal is to pressure financial services companies into either not doing business with the firearms industry and gun owners or to comprehensively surveille their lawful activity
POLITICO
House Dems to introduce gun backgrounds checks bill on Tuesday external site
House Democrats will introduce their proposal to require universal backgrounds checks for gun sales on Tuesday, the eighth anniversary of former Rep. Gabby Gifford’s shooting, according Democratic lawmakers and aides. Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Rep. Mike Thompson (Calif.) — who heads up a Democratic task force on gun violence — will join Giffords in introducing the bill, which will be dubbed “H.R. 8” in honor of the Arizona Democratic lawmaker.
Researchers Credit Right to Carry Law With Reduction in Chicago Property Crimes
NEWS
Researchers Credit Right to Carry Law With Reduction in Chicago Property Crimes
In July 2013, the Illinois legislature overrode the veto of then-Governor Patrick Quinn to eliminate the state’s status as the last holdout in refusing to issue concealed-carry permits. In moving from “no-issue” to “shall issue,” law-abiding citizens of the Land of Lincoln were finally able to enjoy the Second Amendment rights affirmed in D.C. v. Heller, McDonald v. Chicago, and Moore v. Madigan. Yet, even while benefiting from armed protection at the expense of taxpayers, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel maintained that “gun control is essential,” and that the new concealed carry law would result in an increase in crime.
Shocker: Focusing on Criminals Yields Public Safety Results
NEWS
Shocker: Focusing on Criminals Yields Public Safety Results
Anti-gun organizations want you to believe that the next law, the next restriction on gun rights, the next burden for law-abiding gun owners will be the game-changer.  Whenever gun control fails – and it always does – the answer is that the effort didn’t go far enough. Researchers grasp for an excuse when they find their preferred gun control laws have no effect on crime.
WSET 13
Gov. Northam announces gun control package to be introduced in next session external site
Governor Ralph Northam has announced a comprehensive package of legislation that he claims will prevent gun violence and improve the safety of Virginia’s citizens and communities. He said the package includes measures to require universal background checks; establish an Extreme Risk Protective Order; reinstate Virginia’s One Handgun a Month law; prohibit individuals subject to final protective orders from possessing firearms; ban assault firearms; prevent children from accessing firearms; and require individuals to report lost or stolen firearms to law enforcement.
BLOOMBERG
Pelosi Looks Beyond Investigating Trump to Set Democrats’ 2020 Agenda external site
With the House speaker’s gavel now in hand, Nancy Pelosi has a chance to sketch out a vision of how Democrats would govern if voters award them control of Congress and the White House in 2020. Addressing the House chamber on Thursday, Pelosi ticked off an agenda that was a ready-made campaign platform: mitigating income inequality, tackling the “existential threat” of climate change, protecting young undocumented immigrants, gun control and cracking down on lobbying in Washington.
THE HILL
Pelosi to make history with second Speakership external site
Rep. Nancy Pelosi is about to make history. Again.The California Democrat broke new ground in 2007 when she became the first woman ever to ascend to the House Speakership. On Thursday, twelve years later, she’s poised to take the gavel once more, following a midterm wave that will give Democrats control of the lower chamber for the first time in nearly a decade. The power shift at once distinguishes Pelosi as the most potent Democrat in the country, puts her in the driver’s seat of the Democrats’ delicate effort to be a check on President Trump and his administration and makes her the face of the party heading into the crucial 2020 election cycle — at least until a Democratic presidential nominee emerges.
USA TODAY
Don’t trample on the Second Amendment: Sen. John Kennedy external site
Too often overlooked in the push to rewrite our gun laws is the irony of expecting evil to be chastened by an erosion of law-abiding citizens’ rights.
2019 Mississippi Legislative Session Convenes on Tuesday, January 8
LEGAL & LEGISLATION
2019 Mississippi Legislative Session Convenes on Tuesday, January 8
On Tuesday, January 8th, the Mississippi legislature convenes for the 2019