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| NEWS NEWS “Smart Guns,” Dumb Policy | |
| In 2002, Democrat lawmakers in New Jersey passed a first-of-its-kind bill to restrict the handguns that could be sold at retail in that state to “smart guns” (called “personalized guns” in the bill). The law would take effect once the state’s attorney general determined that “at least one manufacturer had delivered at least one production model of a personalized handgun to a registered or licensed wholesale or retail dealer” anywhere in the country. Among other things, the attorney general was required to set standards, determine whether a handgun met the statutory definition of “personalized handgun,” and compile a list of qualifying guns which could be sold in the state. (Manufacturers seeking to have a gun approved would have to provide a handgun for testing, pay an application fee, and pay the costs associated with testing the gun to ensure it was a “personalized handgun.”) Wholesale and retail gun dealers would be prohibited from importing into and offering for sale any handgun that wasn’t a “personalized handgun,” but this did not apply to handguns sold or transferred to law enforcement officials in New Jersey. | |
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| NEWS NEWS St. Louis and D.C. Show Gun Control Isn’t About Public Safety | |
| With many prominent government officials exhibiting a flagrant indifference to violent crime, it’s getting harder for anti-gun politicians to pretend that their gun control schemes are anything other than a means to harass law-abiding gun owners. Recent incidents from anti-gun jurisdictions St. Louis and the District of Columbia further illustrate this point. | |
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| NEWS NEWS Examples of Truth and Sanity Slip Past Editorial Process at The Trace | |
| Last month we reported on a surprising fact check by CNN that sought to hold Joe Biden accountable for several false statements he made during an anti-gun speech in Connecticut. Yet perhaps even more shocking were recent articles at the anti-gun propaganda site The Trace that managed to deliver accurate and relevant information on firearm-related crime in America. At this point, it is too early to say whether the latter examples were editorial slip-ups or actual instances of journalistic integrity. | |
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| NEWS NEWS Media, Academics Tout Eddie Eagle-Like Safety Program | |
| On July 17, CNN ran a story with the headline, “A one-minute video reduced kids’ unsafe behavior around guns, study finds.” The item summarized the findings of study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Pediatrics titled, “Effect of a Gun Safety Video on Children’s Behavior Around Real Guns.” | |
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Grassroots Spotlight: NRA 2A Day at The Gun Shop & Range in Florida! | |
| Your NRA-ILA Grassroots Florida team has been in full-swing with new volunteer opportunities across the state! | |
| STATE GRASSROOTS ROUND-UP |
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Massachusetts Massachusetts: Update on Proposed Sweeping Gun Control |
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Minnesota Minnesota: Department of Natural Resources Bans Use of Traditional Ammunition on Designated Public Lands |
