Georgia Republicans Say NRA Told Them to Vote in Favor of Bloomberg Gun Ban [More]What did we just see?
While the rest of us are down here in the field, the Lairds of Fairfax, looking down from the hilltop, are cutting their own deals with Longshanks.
[Via Felix B]
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Beyond the NRA, another group, Georgia Carry.Org, has been accused of being in favor of SB 150. This is not true. Georgia Carry (of which I'm a member) has always been opposed to SB 150 because of the expanded definitions of domestic partners and due process violations regarding firearms confiscations. This is the same position taken by the NRA.
A third group, Georgia Gun Owners, has been spreading libelous statements against Georgia Carry and the NRA over SB 150 in an attempt to show that they were the impetus in getting SB 150 tabled. They weren't.
This article, and the one it links to, are completely erroneous.
Are you saying the article author made up lies about what the reps said, or that he quoted them accurately and the reps were all lying?
The "Big League Politics" article is based on the linked "Second Amendment Daily" article. The SAD article is the one with the original libelous statements that were generated by the Georgia Gun Owners group. BLP didn't vet the SAD article properly. And the authors of the SAD article didn't vet their source - Georgia Gun Owners - properly either.
The NRA and/or Georgia Carry had a poison pill amendment (dealing with the definition of antique firearms) put in SB 150 which effectively killed it. It wasn't killed because of anything Georgia Gun Owners did.
Nobody seems really sure why the handful of republicans voted for SB 150 but there's a lot of finger pointing going on right now.
Georgia Carry has sponsored nearly all the pro-RKBA legislation in GA since 2007. They've opposed the NRA's position on some bills because it wasn't best for the citizens.
Georgia Gun Owners, on the other hand, hasn't sponsored any legislation that's made it out of committee and into law. Personally, I think their front man has a lot of sour grapes toward Georgia Carry.
That may well be, but either the Republican reps said what they were quoted on or they didn't. Did they?
Look, I like GC. I like Jerry, I like the good folks I met there -- they need to clear this up with the lawmakers.
Totally agree. This has been going on for a while with no clarification.
Similar legislation was passed here in FL after THEY perpetrated the Parkland shooting. I get NRA alerts from Marion Hammer and I'm not so sure about the NRA actually backing these bills, at least not in FL. But the FL Republicans caved as did our so-called pro-gun Governor and AG. And one of our so-called pro-gun FL Senator is pushing this crap through the US Senate.
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