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| NRA-ILA GRASSROOTS VOLUME 22, NUMBER 29 |
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| Following
the murder of four U.S. Marines and a U.S. Navy sailor by a terrorist
in Chattanooga, presidential candidates, including former Florida
governor Jeb Bush (R), Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), former Hewlett-Packard CEO
Carly Fiorina, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee (R), businessman
Donald Trump, Wisconsin governor Scott Walker (R), and former U.S. Sen.
Jim Webb (D-Va.), have called for a change in federal law to allow
stateside military personnel to carry firearms for protection. In
addition, the governors of Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Louisiana,
Oklahoma and Texas have directed the adjutants general of their National
Guards to authorize Guardsmen to be armed in their states. |
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| Support for
allowing military personnel to carry firearms for self-protection
following the terrorist attack upon military personnel in Chattanooga
last week has been strongly declared by several presidential candidates,
is building in Congress, and has already taken shape for National
Guardsmen in several states. However, the same can’t be said for the
usual and not-so-usual suspects.
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| As
if misguided anti-gun policies that leave our fighting men and women
defenseless stateside weren’t enough, some gun control advocates are
intent on reviving a Clinton-era gun control tactic that would pose a
danger to our military in the field. In an opinion piece for the
Saturday edition of the New York Times, several representatives of
the Metro Industrial Areas Foundation, described as a group “aimed at
building power for social change,” encouraged President Obama to inject
gun control politics into federal firearms acquisition procedure. |
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| As
the L.A. Times reported on July 18, the Social Security Administration
(SSA) is currently developing a program to strip the Second Amendment
rights of over four million Americans currently receiving SSA benefits
through a “representative payee.” Not only would this amount to the
largest gun grab in American history, but according to the published
report, would take place without any due process protections for
recipients, amounting to a nullification of Second Amendment rights for
millions of Americans who don’t pose a threat to themselves or anyone
else.
This new program appears to have been instigated by the SSA in response
to a memorandum issued by Obama in January of 2013 which directed all
federal agency executives to “improve the availability of records to the
National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS).” This
memorandum required all agency heads to submit to the Department of
Justice (DOJ) a plan for “sharing all relevant Federal records” for
submission to the NICS.
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| The
National Rifle Association’s Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA)
lauded Congressman Sam Johnson (R-TX), Chairman of the House Ways and
Means Subcommittee on Social Security, for his swift action urging the
Social Security Administration (SSA) to stop developing a system to
enter social security beneficiaries into the National Instant Criminal
Background Check System (NICS), which, as we reported last weekend, is
the Obama Administration's latest effort to deny millions of Americans
their Second Amendment rights without due process. |
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| As
the saying goes, "you can't make this stuff up." A lawsuit has been
filed in Manhattan against a multi-millionaire and his activist wife,
over the profits—if there are any—from the sale, by Everytown and Moms
Demand Action, of the "Everytown X Urban Zen" bracelet, basically an
ugly leather wrist-belt imprinted with a gun control slogan. The New
York Post reports that former Goldman Sachs executive J. Michael Evans
and his activist wife are being sued for $5 million by a woman who
claims she designed the bracelets and that the Evanses "hijacked" her
idea out of "sheer greed or malice." |
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| It
doesn't get much easier than this. By going to
www.LuckyGunner.com/Brady-v-Lucky-Gunner, then scrolling down to click
on "National Rifle Association - ILA (Lobbying Arm)," and "Submit Your
Vote" at the bottom, you can help NRA-ILA win money from gun control
supporters, which will help ILA fight for the Right to Keep and Bear
Arms. The gun control supporters have been ordered by a federal judge to
pay nearly $112,000 to Tennessee ammunition vendor Lucky Gunner, one of
several businesses against which the anti-gunners filed a frivolous
lawsuit backed by the Brady Campaign’s legal arm, the Brady Center.
Lucky Gunner has promised to donate the anti-gunners’ cash to the
pro-gun organization receiving the most votes from the public. |
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| On
Monday, following the release of Cargo Policy and Procedures Advisory
No. 278, South African Airways (SAA) effectively lifted their embargo on
transporting legally-harvested African wildlife. |
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| In
this News Minute from the NRA Institute for Legislative Action,
Jennifer Zahrn reports that, in what would be the largest gun grab in
American history, the Obama Administration is seeking to disarm millions
of elderly Americans and others who receive Social Security benefits
through a representative payee. |
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| STATE GRASSROOTS ROUND-UP |
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| ©
2014 National Rifle Association of America, Institute For Legislative
Action. To contact NRA-ILA call 800-555-5555. Address: 11250 Waples Mill
Road Fairfax, Virginia 22030. |
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