Guns.com:
Gabby Giffords’s super PAC is dropping six-figures into an ad buy in an effort to keep would be gun owners in North Carolina buying gun permits beforehand.
The group, Americans for Responsible Solutions, is coming out swinging with its television ad against a gun reform bill, HB 562, currently in the state House’s Rules, Calendar, and Operations committee that would end the current process of obtaining a Pistol Purchase Permit (PPP), from their local sheriff before one could buy a handgun.
Critics of the scheme contend that it is an outdated process and that current federal background checks more than replace the antiquated system. They further argue that the permit law has racist origins from the Jim Crow-era and was originally designed to deprive African Americans of the right to keep and bear arms.
However, gun control groups would disagree, calling the proposed change dangerous.
They have joined with the North Carolina Sheriffs’ Association, a former member of which appears in the ARS ad.
“As a sheriff for 28 years, I fought to keep our communities safe. But right now, some in the legislature want to repeal background checks on handguns. This will make it easier for criminals and the mentally ill to get guns,” says former Sheriff Wayne Gay of Wilson County. “When Missouri repealed their background check system, homicides shot up. I need your help. Tell the folks in Raleigh we need to keep background checks.”
Besides the ad buy from the Giffords group, former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety group and Moms Demand Action have done polling and purchased their own set of ad as well as hosted legislative lobby days and reached out through social media to keep North Carolina from repealing the background check requirement.
There is more at Fox8:
Instead buyers would only have to go through a federal background check.
It’s a type of screening local sheriffs say should be left to local government.
“It’s a more efficient and more thorough way to check,” said Rockingham County Sheriff Sam Page.
It’s always best when collectivists self-identify. It prevents us from having to do the hard labor of proving the point. Congratulations to the Sheriffs of North Carolina, who have apparently sided with the likes of Michael Bloomberg and Jennifer Mascia (see here and here for Jennifer). How does that make you feel? You and Jennifer, common sympathies, world view and interests.
Good grief. Just good grief.
