Simon follows Morelle’s lead

In a follow-up to last month’s call by Joe Morelle for gun dealers to follow security standards, Assemblywoman Jo Anne Simon introduced a new bill A-6661 which requires (at a minimum) all firearms to be locked in a display case, safe or vault except when being shown to a customer one gun at a time.

No Senate companion yet.

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Not a left-right issue

I generally ignore stuff like this, but Jeff Knox‘s comment in this New York Times article is spot-on:

“… Last September, the National Rifle Association’s famously combative spokeswoman, Dana Loesch, provoked widespread outrage when she took to the gun group’s streaming service to mock ethnic diversity on the popular children’s program “Thomas & Friends,” portraying the show’s talking trains in Ku Klux Klan hoods. Now, growing unease over the site’s inflammatory rhetoric, and whether it has strayed too far from the N.R.A.’s core gun-rights mission, has put its future in doubt … Ms. Loesch has emerged as NRATV’s most visible host, deriding gun-control advocates as “tragedy-dry-humping whores” and vowing to combat the left with what she called the “clenched fist of truth” … Grant Stinchfield, a host, claimed that “all radicalized terrorists are Muslims,” overlooking mass shooters like Dylann Roof, who killed nine black churchgoers in Charleston, S.C., in 2015. Such far-ranging commentary has raised questions among some N.R.A. members about the scope of the organization’s messaging. “The N.R.A. shouldn’t be putting this out,” said Jeff Knox, an N.R.A. member who runs the Firearms Coalition, a smaller advocacy organization. “It’s not gun rights; it’s red meat for the hard right.” … “Why are we getting so involved in left-right politics instead of sticking close to our issue, the Second Amendment?” the younger Mr. Knox asked….”

Jeff is correct.

One of the best things NRA did was hiring Cam Edwards to host NRA News.  He presents a positive face of the organization to the public.  Loesch and Stinchfield do the exact opposite.  They are an embarrassment.  I am a big supporter of confrontational politics, but that is not synonymous with being an asshole.

From the 3rd Circuit Court


This could be good news for gun rights if any more New Jersey gun laws are challenged on 2A grounds.

Lock N Load radio

I was a guest on Bill Frady’s Lock N Load podcast Episode 29 and discussed passage of the recent gun control bills.

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His radio broadcast airs on WYSL in Rochester.

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Ortt v. Krueger on mandatory storage

Robert Orrt debating Liz Krueger on S-2450A.