{"id":14563,"date":"2017-05-27T11:01:38","date_gmt":"2017-05-27T15:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=14563"},"modified":"2017-05-27T11:01:38","modified_gmt":"2017-05-27T15:01:38","slug":"h-r-2620","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=14563","title":{"rendered":"H.R. 2620"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nra.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NRA<\/a> just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nraila.org\/articles\/20170526\/rep-rob-bishop-introduces-the-lawful-purpose-and-self-defense-act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sent out an alert<\/a> over the introduction of <a href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>H.R.2620<\/strong><\/a> which removes the <em>&#8220;sporting purposes&#8221;<\/em> clauses in federal firearms law.\u00a0 It has 38 original sponsors including <a href=\"https:\/\/chriscollins.house.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rep. Chris Collins<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Collins has a mixed record on guns starting out years ago as a member of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikebloomberg.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bloomberg<\/a>-proxy County Executives Against Illegal Guns, but has shifted more towards the 2A side as his political career progressed.\u00a0 I still don&#8217;t trust him on the issue, but at least he is point in the right direction now.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ssb_list_wrapper\"><li class=\"fb2\" style=\"width:135px\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gunpoliticsny.com%2F%3Fp%3D14563&amp;layout=button_count&amp;action=like&amp;show_faces=false&amp;share=true&amp;width=135&amp;height=21&amp;appId=307091639398582\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden;  width:150px; height:21px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/li><li class=\"twtr\" style=\"width:90px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=14563\">&nbsp;<\/a><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');<\/script><\/li><li class=\"gplus\" style=\"width:68px\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=14563\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"ssb_linkedin\" style=\"width:64px\"><script src=\"\/\/platform.linkedin.com\/in.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">lang: en_US<\/script><script type=\"IN\/Share\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=14563\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NRA just sent out an alert over the introduction of H.R.2620 which removes the &#8220;sporting purposes&#8221; clauses in federal firearms law.\u00a0 It has 38 original sponsors including Rep. 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