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Florida Alert! NRA's Statement on Second Amendment Sanctuary Cities & Counties

Saturday, December 7, 2019

DATE:     December 7, 2019
TO:         USF & NRA Members and Friends
FROM:    Marion P. Hammer
  USF Executive Director
  NRA Past President

 

We know a lot of you don't cruise the Internet so we thought this message was important enough to send it directly to you. 

NRA's Statement on Second Amendment Sanctuaries

NRA-ILA

December 6, 2019 

https://www.nraila.org/articles/20191206/nras-statement-on-second-amendment-sanctuaries 

As the Nation’s oldest civil rights organization, we recognize civic engagement as a virtue not a vice. Liberty is reliant upon the participation of free people, and this includes the vast number of citizens and communities who are lawfully exercising their rights under the First Amendment to defend their freedoms under the Second. It is the tyrannical nature of politicians that triggers sanctuary, not the other way around. The NRA has steadfastly defended freedom for nearly 150 years, and we have no intention of suppressing virtuous voices against governmental oppression—censoring is what our opponents do…

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Established in 1975, the Institute for Legislative Action (ILA) is the "lobbying" arm of the National Rifle Association of America. ILA is responsible for preserving the right of all law-abiding individuals in the legislative, political, and legal arenas, to purchase, possess and use firearms for legitimate purposes as guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.