Everytown Vows $25 Million To Fight National Concealed Carry
BY Herschel Smith
7 years, 8 months ago
Preparing for life with Donald Trump as president and Republican majorities in Congress, Michael Bloomberg’s gun control group is threatening to spend more than $25 million in 2018 races.
Everytown for Gun Safety, founded and funded by the billionaire former New York City mayor, is hiring several new top staffers and turning much of its attention to state legislatures, while moving to a defensive posture in Washington as it tries to stop what’s known as “concealed carry reciprocity” from becoming law. That will include starting to score congressional votes, like the National Rifle Association does, to guide spending decisions more directly.
We knew that collectivists never give up, and neither can we. Unfortunately, Bloomberg has been moderately successful at the state level in blue states at infringing more on gun rights. That’s why as I’ve recommended to nice people that you can’t be nice with Everytown. You have go to war with them. They are at war with you and your rights, and war is interested in you whether you’re interested or not. It remains a bright spot in my blogging history that Jennifer Mascia came into my back yard on behalf of Everytown and tried to run with the big dogs (my commenters) and got chewed up.
As for what Trump has or hasn’t done on our behalf, while I’m disappointed in the degree of control that McMaster seems to have over him and his entry into the war to topple Syria, there are bright spots in Trump’s brief history of appointments.
Jesse Panuccio, the third-highest ranking official at the Department of Justice, has argued to allow firearms sales to people under age 21 and in defense of a Florida law that prohibited doctors from asking patients if they owned guns.
Noel Francisco, Donald Trump’s nominee for solicitor general, has described the Second Amendment as “a structural protection that’s intended to protect all other rights.”
And Tom Wheeler, now a senior lawyer in the DOJ’s civil rights division, once gave a speech with the title: “Arming Teachers to Prevent Tragedies, Responding to Sandy Hook.”
Forget for a moment that Sandy Hook was a false flag. These are good appointments (go read the entire article). On the other hand, I hold out very little hope that national carry reciprocity or the hearing protection act will get traction (much less amending or outright undoing the NFA). The gaggle of gargoyles and demons that inhabits the House and Senate has no interest in your rights, and even if they did, trying to get anything useful done is like trying to herd cats.
So I can only recommend that you don’t wait on national carry, and if you wanted to suppressor or SBR, go ahead and get it and file the paperwork. If there is success on the horizon, I just don’t see it. Perhaps I’m just being pessimistic.
What do my readers think?
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On April 11, 2017 at 11:07 am, John Taylor said:
I could not agree more. There is no one with the resources and will (yes, NRA-ILA, I am looking straight at you!) to influence the Repugnicans (much less the Demonrats) in CONgress.
What is needed is not new legislation, but massive repeal of old legislation, all the way back to NFA34. And given the national political climate the last, oh, 55 years or so, I have a better chance of winning the lottery three times than of seeing any rollback of state control of my liberty.
And no, we are not ‘perhaps just being pessimistic’.
On April 15, 2017 at 9:37 am, Ned Weatherby said:
Agree Sandy Hook never passed the session test. I agree that most restrictive laws will likely not be rolled back. But – despite the DC swamp inhabitants, I tend to blame the results on gun owners who never do any heavy lifting much less even join a state or national organization and keep current on federal and state issues.
Re: Jennifer Mascia – if memory serves, it seems the Blog owner here tore some big chunks off of as well.