| DAILY ALERT FOR Thursday, March 21, 2019 |
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| The Utah Legislature has adjourned from its 2019 Legislative session. |
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| This week, the Senate Judiciary Committee passed House Bill 325 and 357 by a party line 6 to 4 vote. |
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| NRA applauds the Vermont Superior Court for allowing a lawsuit challenging the State’s ban on standard capacity magazines to proceed. |
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| Judge Mary Miles Teachout says attorneys arguing for and against a high-capacity magazine ban in Vermont need to fight it out in court before she decides on the constitutionality of a law passed last year. The state filed a motion to dismiss the case, arguing that the gun owners and sellers bringing the case did not have legal standing to challenge the constitutionality of the ban. Attorneys representing the gun owners were seeking a summary judgement, arguing that the facts of the case proved beyond debate that the ban is unconstitutional. |
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| New Zealand moved with relative light-speed political urgency to ban semiautomatic weapons in the wake of Friday’s massacre at two Christchurch mosques, sparking a discussion in Washington: If a ban could happen there, could it also happen here? Democrats looking for a similar path will face different obstacles in a country where gun rights enshrined in the Constitution have been impervious to a row of mass killings. New Zealand has a tradition of hunting and shooting as sport similar to the United States, but there is no legal provision to own weapons for self-defense. |
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| On March 20th, Senate Bill 119 was amended by the House Public Policy Committee and passed by a vote of 13-0 to include language that was originally in House Bill 1643. |
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| Savannah Lindquist desperately tried to remember what she’d learned in the women’s self-defense class. She jerked her wrists, fighting to break her attacker’s grasp. She couldn’t. |
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| Democratic Presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said late Wednesday the U.S. must follow New Zealand’s lead in banning assault weapons, and it should do so by taking on the National Rifle Association — which swiftly rejected the call. “This is what real action to stop gun violence looks like. We must follow New Zealand’s lead, take on the NRA and ban the sale and distribution of assault weapons in the United States” |
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| On March 20th, the Washington Superior Court rejected the defendant’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit filed by the NRA and Second Amendment Foundation against the City of Edmonds to invalidate the mandatory firearm storage ordinance passed by the City Council. The lawsuit can now proceed. |
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| Second Amendment rights in Oregon are under attack like never before and it is critical that every NRA member and Second Amendment supporter takes an active role to fight back. Local Oregon businesses Radian Weapons and Noveske Rifleworks hope you will join them in Salem for the Defend the 2nd rally where law-abiding citizens will remind their elected lawmakers who they work for and tell them to end this assault on our Constitutional rights. |
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