Grassroots Advocates Influencing Pro-Gun Caucus will be Key to Its Effectiveness
BY Herschel Smith
7 years, 4 months ago
True gains will depend on the effectiveness of the caucus. Much of that depends on who its members are, and if gun owners make their continued expectations known. To that end, the following table lists each member along with two important grades they’ve earned: one for gun owner rights as assigned by Gun Owners of America, and the other for their immigration rating by Numbers USA.
David’s done a very good job of outlining their views on two issues that will most affect the work on the second amendment. Go read his table for the context to the money quote.
Bottom line, it looks like a pretty good team (although team leader Massie could use some work on immigration). The task now is for them to actually do something so they continue earning those high marks. Let’s hope we don’t see preemptive true due-process surrenders on “mental health” and “no fly/no buy.” Let’s hope we see “Enforce existing gun laws” replaced with “Repeal existing gun laws.”
He took the words right out of my mouth. We need not words, but action. We’ve already outlined what it will take for starters: (1) national carry, (2) suppressors taken off of the NFA items list, (3) SBRs taken off of the NFA items list. That’s just for starters.
As for grass roots advocacy, I’ll leave that to you. While it may not seem like it, blogging like this – finding the interesting issue that doesn’t overlap with what everyone else is talking about, creating good analysis to assist the reader in understanding the context, advocating world view and framework of understanding, pushing the number of visits by pimping your articles to contacts – is all very exhausting and sometimes even embarrassing. Not all of your contacts want to be bothered by the constant pimping of your content.
There are good men to work with. I’ve known about Jeff Duncan and Dave Brat for a while now. They will listen to you. Get busy. If you do nothing else, you can send the URL of this article to them and recommend that the read and implement the ideas.
On December 15, 2016 at 7:47 am, Frank Clarke said:
If you see “suppressors off the NFA list” as a prelude to “everything off the NFA list”, I’m with you.
NFA delenda est! —Cato
On December 15, 2016 at 5:02 pm, Archer said:
RE: National carry.
When you’re contacting folks in the 2A Caucus, also point them to Alan Korwin’s article here.
The money quote: Instead of enacting, “A person may legally bear arms across state
lines,” which officials can violate without repercussion, the law must
say, “Anyone who interferes with a person legally bearing arms, shall go
to prison and pay a fine.”
The big sticking point is that the feds need to not impose training or licensing standards on the states for the state CCW permits. All they need to say is that a CCW permit from one state is valid in all U.S. states and territories, and that it is unlawful (with actual punishments) for local authorities to violate lawful carriers’ rights based on their out-of-state residency.