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01/20/2025 11:11 AM | Anonymous

More Good News

Last week, SCOPE wrote that bills have been introduced in Congress for Reciprocity between states on gun licenses and changing the law on Suppressors / Silencers.

More is happening.

NY Representative Claudia Tenney has introduced the “Second Amendment Guarantee Act” (SAGA).  It’s a bill that would prohibit states from banning the manufacture, sale, importation, or possession of rifles and shotguns that are lawfully permitted under federal law. One of the cosponsors is NY Representative Nick Langworthy.

Basically, it would preempt state-level firearm restrictions, including New York’s SAFE Act, which was signed into law by former Governor Andrew Cuomo.  Tenney described the SAFE Act as unconstitutional and said her proposed federal legislation would not only nullify the SAFE Act but would also block other states from passing similar gun bans.

On another front…

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) acknowledged that it has over 920 million firearms records, (920,664,765 records).  The ATF is not legally allowed to keep a registry but has played fast and loose with semantics to claim that its database is not a registry because it isn’t searchable.

2nd Amendment defenders have long worked against such record keeping as an aid to any gun confiscation efforts.

Texas Representative Michael Cloud and Idaho Senator Jim Risch introduced legislation to block the formation of any federal gun registry, the “No REGISTRY Rights Act.” (NRRA.)  It’s designed to protect 2nd Amendment rights while also addressing the overreach of the ATF, (which ran wild during the Biden administration.)  The NRRA would: require “the ATF to delete all existing firearm transaction records, dismantling the current database;” allow “FFLs to destroy transaction records when they go out of business, preventing further accumulation by the ATF;” prohibit “any federal agency from creating or maintaining a firearms registry in the future.”

Or, why not just get rid of the ATF…

Representative Eric Burlison of Missouri announced H.R. 221 to abolish the ATF.

Burlison is quoted as saying, “The ATF is emblematic of the deep-state bureaucracy that believes it can infringe on constitutional liberties without consequence. If this agency cannot uphold its duty to serve the people within the framework of the Constitution, it has no place in our government.”

The future of these proposed legislations is unknown but what is important is that the pro-2A Republicans are going on the offensive.  For too long, 2A has had to play defense.  It’s time the anti-2A’s spent their time on defense.

Hopefully, at some point, we will see the Constitutional balance returned.   

Not a proposed law but of interest to 2Aers…

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerburg announced that Facebook would be dropping its “fact-checking network” and move to a “community notes” style system similar to the system on X.

Facebook used to count on fact-checking partners to cut down on so-called “disinformation.”   That some of this disinformation was actually true was just an inconsequential casualty in their war on the political Right. 

Will the new policy apply to firearms?  Meta has said it will only ban illegal materials, and firearms are legal in the United States.  If Meta is to be believed, it will lift restrictions on gun content. 

Will social media platforms become neutral to guns, or is it just lip service?  We shall see…

After the election, Zuckerburg was one of the CEO’s that made the trip to Mar A Lago to kiss Trump’s feet (or perhaps kiss something anatomically higher.)

This is important since many people get their news from social media posts and, in the past, it has been a constant drumbeat of Democrat political propaganda.  When all you hear is that guns are bad without any response, you tend to believe it to be true. 

Many leftist political commentators are condemning Zuckerburg’s and Elon Musk’s moves to make their social media companies more neutral instead of far-left parrots.  It’s like complaining that the referees are enforcing the rules against both teams.

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