“Growing up in a war, guns were everywhere. One of the first things Mugabe did was require people to turn in their guns. By us, most of the people’s guns ended up in the bottom of a lake. We had strict gun laws.”
Rep. Ben Cline led his colleagues in a letter to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives urging its acting director to make certain employees essential workers, warning current parameters are leaving gun owners’ applications for certain items in limbo.
The fact that this individual was a high-ranking official in The White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention under former President Biden tells you all you need to know about how serious that office was about reducing criminal firearm violence.
“Why would I have a problem with that any more than somebody who drinks alcohol?” Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) said
Joe Greenlee is the litigation director of the National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action.
The complaint asserts that, with the removal of the excise tax on constitutionally protected arms like suppressors and SBRs, the NFA registration regime can no longer be upheld as a legal exercise of Congress’s taxing power.
Investigators relied on a legal provision that allows only someone who meets the standard of a “fit and proper person” to hold a gun permit.
I can’t express how much I learned at GRPC. Not only from the presenters, but also by talking to people in the hallways and at the evening events.
When such “circuit splits” arise, the US Supreme Court will often take the case(s) to remedy these inconsistencies and make a single authoritative ruling that is applicable nationwide.
My take-away from the theme of Advocacy through Action is that being on the defensive and waiting for our God-given rights to be attacked is a loser’s strategy.
