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| DAILY ALERT FOR Friday, March 1, 2019 |
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| Anti-gun Democrats made good on their promises this week, advancing two extreme gun control bills through the U.S. House of Representatives. While there remains a slim pro-gun majority in the upper chamber, your U.S. Senators need to hear from you NOW to ensure the Second Amendment firewall stays intact and stops this treacherous legislation in its tracks. |
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| Wicomico County Sheriff Mike Lewis has a bold statement for Maryland legislators considering one proposed gun law. “I will not comply with that law. I will not send my deputies into harms way to remove any weapon from anyone that they lawfully and legally purchased. It’s wrong, it’s unjust and it’s unconstitutional. It’s fundamentally flawed and I can’t do it,” says Sheriff Lewis. Sheriff Lewis is talking about a proposed bill that he believes takes away the rights of law abiding citizens. Senate Bill 737 would add the heavy barreled AR-15 to the list of weapons that have been deemed dangerous in the state of Maryland. |
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| Nostalgia gripped gun owners this week as longtime foe the Brady Campaign managed to garner a few measly headlines in the media landscape they once commanded so ably. As it happens, the Brady Campaign has decided to go undergo another rebranding effort and will now go by simply “Brady.” For those counting, this is the fourth different name for the outmoded handgun prohibition organization. |
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| There are a lot of things Second Amendment supporters and gun control advocates disagree on, including history, constitutional interpretation, the frequency of armed self-defense, and the role of human agency in violent crime. |
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| According to the National Shooting Sports Foundation, which represents the gun industry, Americans own up to 16 million ARs and similar “modern sporting rifles,” as the foundation calls that class of gun. Production has exploded in the past few years, hitting an estimated 2.1 million in 2016, excluding exports. |
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| The Democratic-led House of Representatives passed gun control measures H.R. 8 and H.R. 1112 largely along party lines this week. However, a surprise procedural move by a Republican prior to the passage of H.R. 8 underscored the deep divisions in the Democratic Party along with the depth of the leadership’s deep disdain for gun owners. Moreover, the procedural wrangling around the bill further revealed that gun control efforts are not about confronting criminal conduct involving firearms, but rather about burdening gun owners. |
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| Yesterday, the Wyoming Legislature adjourned from its short 2019 Legislative Session. |
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| A bill allowing permitless concealed carry in the state of Kentucky passed the House Friday by a 60 to 37 vote. Senate Bill 150, backed by the NRA, was debated heavily with several legislators attempting to add amendments that ultimately failed. |
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| On Thursday, anti-gun Rep. Carla Piluso introduced a draconian gun ban bill, House Bill 3223,that would impose California-style gun control in Oregon by banning many commonly owned semi-automatic firearms used by countless gun owners for target shooting, hunting, and self-defense. HB 3223 has not yet been referred to a committee for consideration at this time. |
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| Gov. Gina Raimondo’s attempt to levy a 10-percent surcharge on the price of guns and ammunition drew hundreds of opponents in matching yellow T-shirts to the Rhode Island State House on Thursday to whoop and cheer each time a lawmaker likened the governor’s move to an unconstitutional “assault on the Second Amendment.″ |
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| The House on Thursday passed a bill that would extend the time for conducting background checks for gun purchases. The legislation passed 228-198 and would provide up to 20 days for background checks to be completed, up from the current three days. The measure was sponsored by Majority Whip James Clyburn, D-S.C., who authored the bill years ago following a mass shooting at a historic black church in Charleston. |
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| PITTSBURGH — The mayor of this city, Bill Peduto, in relatively short order will likely pass an anti-gun bill with the support of most of city council. It is a Democratic city in a Democratic county run overwhelmingly by Democratic machine politics, so that part is not noteworthy. What is noteworthy is that it is blatantly against the law. Peduto knows it, Councilman Corey O’Connor, who introduced the legislation knows it, and they have bluntly said to anyone in shouting distance they don’t care. Why? Because they believe they have the moral authority to break the law. So they will. |
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| Speaker Nancy Pelosi indicated Thursday that Democrats could change House rules in a way that would make it harder for Republicans to make last-minute tweaks to legislation, a move that the GOP warned would amount to a suppression of their rights as the minority party. Pelosi, D-Calif., said a bipartisan panel reviewing how the House operates may also examine a floor procedure known as the “motion to recommit.” The MTR, as it is known, effectively gives the minority party a chance to amend legislation just before it’s about to be passed. Normally, those amendments are easily blocked by the majority. But Republicans have scored two victories so far with MTR measures by luring in Democrats from swing districts, and Democratic leaders aren’t happy about it. |
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| House Democrats exploded in recriminations Thursday over moderates bucking the party, with liberal Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez threatening to put those voting with Republicans “on a list” for a primary challenge. |
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| On Wednesday, March 6, the Texas House Homeland Security & Public Safety Committee will consider House Bill 1177, |
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| The NRA Collegiate Coalition (NRA CC) at East Carolina University (Greenville, North Carolina) is off to another great start this semester. The group, founded by Giovanni Triana in 2017, is among the most active in the nation. Giovanni took the initiative to start this group “to bridge the gap between staunch supporters of the Second Amendment and skeptical students with minimal exposure to the gun community.” They have in fact lived up to this mission, and embrace the full gamut of what it means to be Second Amendment advocates on campus. |
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| On March 1st, the Kentucky state House of Representatives voted 60-37 to pass Senate Bill 150, clearing the way for it to go to Governor Matt Bevin’s desk for his signature. |
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| House Democrats held an emotional debate behind closed doors Thursday over how to stop losing embarrassing procedural battles with Republicans — a clash that exposed the divide between moderates and progressives. |
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| In 2014, Shayna Lopez Rivas was raped on her college campus. “I had pepper spray, but he had a knife,” she told reporters on Capitol Hill Tuesday. “And I knew my fight was over the moment he pulled it out.” “After that vicious attack, I promised myself I would never, ever be a victim again,” she continued. “Had I been armed that night that stole so much from me, I am confident things would have been different.” In a one-on-one interview with Blaze Media after a press conference against a new House gun control bill, Lopez Rivas explained how she became a Second Amendment supporter after her horrific experience. After the attack, she said, a friend of hers invited her to the shooting range to learn about gun safety. |
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| Tomorrow, the House Judiciary Committee and the Senate Public Affairs Committee have scheduled hearings on multiple gun control bills. |
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