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| NEWS NEWS LEGAL & LEGISLATION Farcical “Assault Weapons” Ban Mark-up Showed Contempt for Facts, Law, and Dignity | |
| A recent Gallup poll asked Americans about their level of trust in various institutions. Of the 16 options, the one respondents identified as LEAST trustworthy – with only 7% expressing a “Great deal” or “Quite a lot” of confidence in it – was Congress. This was just below television news (at 11%) but also below such things as big business, large technology companies, banks, and small business. | |
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| NEWS NEWS “Assault Weapon”— The All Purpose Pejorative | |
| “Assault weapon” is a meaningless and politically elastic term. Demonstrating that the agenda drives the definition, President Biden’s nominees to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) both refused to commit to any intelligible definition. David Chipman, Biden’s initial and unsuccessful choice for ATF director, famously flubbed a straightforward request to define an “assault weapon” during his Senate confirmation hearing. After telling Sen. John Kennedy (R., La.) that he believed in banning “assault weapons,” Chipman was unable or unwilling to say what he meant by that phrase. | |
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| NEWS NEWS Another Good Guy with a Gun Stops the Bad Guy | |
| On July 19, 22-year-old Elisjsha Dicken was shopping with his girlfriend at the Greenwood Park Mall in Greenwood, Ind. when a gunman armed with a rifle opened fire in the food court. Upon witnessing the heinous crime, Dicken acted. The young man drew the Glock handgun he was concealed carrying and engaged the shooter as he gestured for others to flee. | |
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| TAKE ACTION Grassroots Spotlight: Missouri Frontlines Activist Leader Steve King | |
| NRA’s strength comes from its dedicated members and their commitment to personally support the Second Amendment. Nationwide, NRA-ILA works with the very best pro-gun grassroots leaders via our NRA-ILA FrontLines Activist Leader (FAL) program. | |
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| LEGAL & LEGISLATION NRA-ILA Backed Lawsuit Challenges Delaware’s Ban on So-Called “Assault Weapons” | |
| On the heels of our Supreme Court victory in NYSRPA v. Bruen, Governor Carney and his allies in the state legislatures decided to further infringe on the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding Delawareans by signing H.B. 450 into law. NRA-ILA partnered with the Delaware State Sportsmen’s Association and others and filed a lawsuit challenging H.B. 450 yesterday. | |
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Massachusetts Massachusetts: General Court to Vote on Permit Overhaul |
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South Carolina South Carolina: Lawmaker Wants Gun Ban & Confiscation |
