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NRA-ILA GRASSROOTS VOLUME 32, NUMBER 20 |
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| The U.S. House of Representatives has another chance to amend the current Reconciliation Bill making its way through Congress. The Reconciliation Bill would currently rescind the unconstitutional tax on suppressors, but it doesn’t remove them from the National Firearms Act (NFA) completely. Thus, gun owners would continue to be subjected to the intrusive background check, government registry, extended wait times and required government permission slip. |
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| On Friday, May 16, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the settlement of several lawsuits arising from the Biden-Harris regime’s attempt to reclassify forced reset triggers (FRTs) as “machineguns.” DOJ’s announcement cited President Trump’s Executive Order Protecting Second Amendment Rights and the deliberations of the Attorney General’s Second Amendment Task Force as the impetus behind the government’s decision. The government also agreed to return seized FRTs, including from Rare Breed, a leading FRT manufacturer involved in the suits, and from Americans who had bought the triggers and surrendered them under allegations of illegal machinegun possession. FRTs will now likely return to the market, although the settlement contains terms that may limit their proliferation. |
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| Anyone reading the firearm-related news these days is reminded that anti-gun Democrats appear oblivious to the blunt message sent by millions of American voters last fall. Despite Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris blowing through a mountain of money in campaigning her way to a stunning defeat, Democrats continue to push the same tired gun control agenda that got roundly shown the door in November. Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), for instance, has lately introduced the so-called “Assault Weapons Ban of 2025,” while an Illinois Democrat has proposed a bill to ban semiautomatic “convertible pistols.” |
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| Last week, the Washington State Supreme Court upheld the state’s ban on magazines that hold over ten rounds, overturning a lower court order that had deemed it unconstitutional. The 7-2 decision in State v. Gator’s Custom Guns affirmed a state law enacted in 2022 that prevents the sale, manufacture and import of ammunition magazines that hold more than 10 rounds. The two- year legal challenge in which NRA filed an amicus brief stems from a Washington state gun shop that faced a civil lawsuit regarding the sale of the banned magazines. The shop later sued on constitutional grounds, with the lower Superior Court Judge siding with the gun store before the case ended up before the state Supreme Court for review. |
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| Today, the National Rifle Association of America (NRA) filed a Petition for Certiorari in NRA v. Glass, asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear its challenge to Florida’s prohibition on firearm purchases by adults under 21. |
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| The last time we mentioned David Hogg, he had been selected to be a vice chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), and wasted no time making some (many?) regret that choice. Why? Because one of his first actions as DNC vice chair—a position one presumes comes with the directive to raise funds for the DNC—was to use the DNC’s database to raise funds for his own Political Action Committee (PAC), Leaders We Deserve. |
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