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| LEGAL & LEGISLATION NEWS Big Loss for Big Brother: Federal Appeals Court Rules Against Government on Mass Surveillance | |
| On May 7, 2015, in a significant victory for Americans’ right to privacy and the rule of law, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled in favor of the plaintiffs in the case of ACLU v. Clapper, which challenged the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of telephone metadata under Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act. While the plaintiffs raised various claims, the court ultimately ruled that the provision of law the government claimed enabled the mass surveillance program did not confer that authority. According to the court’s opinion, “the text of § 215 cannot bear the weight the government asks us to assign to it, and … it does not authorize the telephone metadata program.” Your NRA had participated in the case by filing friend of the court briefs at different stages of the proceedings. We have also supported legislation to curtail the NSA’s dragnet surveillance of American citizens. | |
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| NEWS Guns vs. Cars Comparison is No Accident | |
| In the Art of War, Chinese military theoretician Sun Tzu advised, “appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”Since gun control supporters are trying to make guns look bad by comparing the number of gun-related deaths to those due to motor vehicle accidents, they’re apparently applying the second part of Sun Tzu’s advice. | |
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| NEWS Newspaper: "40% No-Check Claim is "Mostly False" | |
| As one of our great national leaders once said when repeatedly confronted with specious and insubstantial arguments, There you go again." We could cite plenty of examples used by proponents of gun control in this regard, but for the moment we’re talking about the claim that 40 percent of firearms are sold without a background check. Readers may recall that two years ago, FactCheck.org discredited the claim in depth and the Washington Post Fact Checker thereafter gave President Obama “Three Pinocchios” for using it in a White House speech. | |
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| TAKE ACTION Seeking Nominations for 2014 NRA-ILA Volunteer Awards | |
| The NRA-ILA "Jay M. Littlefield Memorial Volunteer of the Year Award" is an annual honor that recognizes an NRA member who demonstrates exceptionally meritorious activism in defense of our Second Amendment rights. Similarly, the "NRA-ILA Volunteer Organization of the Year Award" is bestowed upon a group that has gone above and beyond in defending and promoting our rights over the past year. | |
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| LEGAL & LEGISLATION Your Help Needed on Pending National Right-to-Carry Legislation | |
| Thanks to your continued calls and emails, NRA supported National Right-to-Carry bills have seen increases in cosponsorships over the past few weeks. Please continue to contact your elected officials and urge them to cosponsor and support these important bills: | |
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In this news minute from the NRA Institute for Legislative Action, Jennifer Zahrn shares that, in honor of Mother’s Day, we are giving away a firearm plus eight hours of firearm safety training. We encourage mothers to discuss firearm safety with their children. |
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