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| NEWS NEWS URGENT! September 8 Deadline Last Chance to Submit Comments on Proposed Rule for Stabilizing Braces | |
| In June, ATF published a new notice of proposed rulemaking on its website entitled Factoring Criteria for Firearms with Attached “Stabilizing Braces.” If implemented, the new rule could impact millions of law-abiding gun owners. If you want to help stop the biggest gun grab in American history, submit your comments on or before this Wednesday, September 8. | |
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| NEWS NEWS Billions’ Worth of Equipment Left Behind, While Feds Purge Records on Afghanistan, Affirm Commitment to Gun Control | |
| As the Taliban celebrates the withdrawal of U.S. forces by parading their American-sourced tactical vehicles, aircraft, guns and other weapons, reports have emerged that the Biden Administration has ordered federal agencies to delete online information respecting the cost of this military equipment and related spending in Afghanistan, while proclaiming its support for more gun control. | |
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| NEWS NEWS Flailing CDC Abdicates Infectious Disease Role to Target Gun Owners | |
| Americans' trust in the federal government has been in a decades long decline. According to Pew Research polling data, in 1964 77 percent of Americans reported that they trusted the federal government to do what is right "just about always" or "most of the time." In April 2021, less than a quarter of Americans shared that trust. | |
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| NEWS NEWS Stopping Government Abuse During States of Emergency | |
| Most will remember the devastation that hit Louisiana, as well as several neighboring states, when Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005. New Orleans was dealt a particularly hard blow, and some may feel it will never completely recover. | |
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| NEWS NEWS Big Government Provides Some Data | |
| The FBI usually released crime data in September. Researchers and policy wonks would pour over the data, looking for any hint of a chance for a policy intervention or investigating long-term trends. This year will be different. | |
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| LEGAL & LEGISLATION NRA-ILA Files Friend of the Court Brief Urging the Supreme Court to Hear a Challenge to ATF’s Bump Stock Rule | |
| Today, NRA-ILA filed an amicus curiae (or friend of the court) brief in support of a petition to the United States Supreme Court challenging ATF’s 2018 rule that classified bump stocks as machine guns. This is the second time NRA-ILA has filed an amicus curiae brief in a case challenging this rule in as many months. | |
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