So we can have war with bith Russia & China at the same time!?! Sheer insanity is all I can say about this Grumpy
Story by Timothy Bella • 4h ago
Category: A Victory!
The New York Post is reporting that nearly two dozen struggling homeless veterans have been booted from upstate hotels to make room for migrants, at least according to a nonprofit group that works with the vets.
The ex-military — including a 24-year-old man in desperate need of help after serving in Afghanistan — were told by the hotels at the beginning of the week that their temporary housing was getting pulled out from under them at the establishments and that they’d have to move on to another spot, according to the group and a sickened local pol.
We are forgetting out veterans and others who’ve served our country to cater to a bunch of criminal trespassers who have no right to be here at all. Explain that to me. I’ll wait over here.
Conservatives hail Daniel Penny as ‘hero’ after killing man on subway
Conservatives hail Daniel Penny as ‘hero’ after killing man on subway© David Dee Delgado/Reuters
In the nearly two weeks since Daniel Penny was recorded killing Jordan Neely on a New York City subway with a minutes-long chokehold, the 24-year-old Marine Corps veteran has faced calls to be arrested, been denounced as a vigilante by activists and been labeled a “murderer” by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.).
But in the lead-up to the Manhattan district attorney’s office charging him with second-degree manslaughter, Penny has found a groundswell of financial and online support from high-profile Republicans such as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Fox News personalities and conservatives on Elon Musk’s Twitter. Many of them have rallied around Penny and hailed the veteran as a “hero” and “good Samaritan.”
“We stand with Good Samaritans like Daniel Penny,” DeSantis tweeted Friday night. “Let’s show this Marine … America’s got his back.”
“The Marine who stepped in to protect others is a hero,” tweeted Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.).
A legal-defense fund set up by Penny’s attorneys on a crowdfunding site that has hosted fundraisers for defendants in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection and Kyle Rittenhouse had raised more than $1 million as of Saturday afternoon. Most of the money has come from anonymous donors thanking him for what he did and agreeing with his lawyers’ statement that Penny never intended to harm Neely, 30.
The right-wing response to the case suggests that Republican lawmakers and pundits could make Penny into the latest conservative talking point.
In the process, conservatives and right-leaning media outlets have described Neely — a Black homeless man who authorities say was described by witnesses as acting in a “hostile and erratic manner” — as “unhinged” and with “a long history of violent crime.” The political right has seized on police statements that Neely had 44 previous arrests for offenses such as assault, disorderly conduct and fare evasion. (Authorities have not confirmed Neely’s record for The Washington Post.) Fox News host Greg Gutfeld said the manslaughter charge against Penny was “pro-criminal” and “anti-hero.”
Greene went one step further.
“Jordan Neely was a violent criminal who should have been behind bars,” she wrote on Twitter on May 6. Her tweet was liked by Musk, who also liked a Twitter poll from another user asking, “Did Jordan Neely deserve what happened to him?” (More than two-thirds of those who voted in the poll said, “Yes, he had it coming.”)
Andre Zachery and Mildred Mahazu, father and aunt of Jordan Neely, a man whose death has been ruled a homicide by the city’s medical examiner after being placed in a chokehold on a subway train by Daniel Penny, walk on the day of a news conference in New York City on Friday. (REUTERS/Brendan McDermid)© Brendan Mcdermid/Reuters
The political right’s embrace of Penny — whose New York voter registration in 2016 listed his party affiliation as “Conservative” — is an attempt to take the legal case against him out of the courtroom and onto television, social media and the fundraising circuit, experts told The Washington Post.
“Penny’s case has been injected into the bloodstream of partisan politics,” said Matt Dallek, a professor of political management at George Washington University. “A lot of conservatives can point to vigilantes like him and say, ‘They’re standing between us and the mob.’ It fits into a political narrative, and people like Penny are appropriated, whether they want to be or not.”
Steven M. Raiser, one of Penny’s attorneys, did not immediately respond to a request for comment Saturday regarding the right-wing support his client has received.
Daniel Penny charged with manslaughter in Jordan Neely’s subway chokehold death
Penny, of Long Island, was arraigned Friday on a charge of second-degree manslaughter and was released on a $100,000 cash bond. His next court appearance is scheduled for July 17. If convicted, Penny could face five to 15 years in prison.
“Jordan Neely should still be alive today, and my thoughts continue to be with his family and loved ones as they mourn his loss during this extremely painful time,” Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D) said in a statement.
The Neely family’s attorneys said they are seeking a grand jury indictment, telling reporters that Penny “didn’t care about Jordan” when he placed him in the fatal chokehold. Penny’s attorneys have argued that their client acted in self-defense and “could not have foreseen [Neely’s] untimely death.”
The conservative response to Penny’s actions has drawn comparisons to Rittenhouse, who was acquitted on all charges after killing two people and wounding a third during unrest related to a police shooting in Kenosha, Wis., in 2020, said Jon Marshall, an associate professor at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism who has studied the relationship between presidents and the press. Rittenhouse has been championed by conservatives, with Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk and others calling him a “hero.”
“What we’re seeing now for Daniel Penny after he killed Jordan Neely is that he fits within a long, ugly history of some media and politicians glorifying vigilante violence,” Marshall said. “There’s a history of the ‘us vs. them’ narrative, and the ‘us’ is besieged and under great threat, and that’s what justifies these acts of great violence.”
Experts say it’s a narrative among conservatives that has helped fuel the online fundraiser for Penny’s legal-defense fund. Penny’s attorneys set up the fundraiser on GiveSendGo, a Christian crowdfunding site created after the site GoFundMe removed far-right campaigns that went against its terms of service. GiveSendGo has hosted campaigns for Rittenhouse, Capitol riot defendants and the “Freedom Convoy” — a group of truckers in Ottawa in 2022 that protested a rule requiring cross-border drivers to be vaccinated.
When Penny was charged with manslaughter on Friday, the campaign raised about $600,000 on that day alone, Jacob Wells, the CEO and co-founder of GiveSendGo, told The Post. Donors are giving an average of about $700 per minute to the fundraiser, he added. Rittenhouse’s campaign raised about $630,000 between August and November 2020, Wells said, and the convoy campaign’s record campaign raised nearly $10 million.
Penny’s $1 million crowdfunding campaign is already among the highest totals in the history of GiveSendGo.
“Daniel Penny and his legal team came to GiveSendGo first because they know, as a platform, we stand for people’s right to a fair and due trial,” Wells said. “I think it’s appropriate in this moment in time when social media is amplifying people’s voices significantly, it’s all the more reason why defendants need access to a rigorous defense and funds to afford that rigorous defense.”
At least 20 donors had given $1,000 or more to Penny’s GiveSendGo campaign as of Saturday afternoon.
“Thank you for protecting the citizens that day,” wrote an anonymous donor who gave $10,000, the largest single donation.
Another anonymous high-dollar donor wrote that Penny “had the bravery to stand up and do the right thing,” adding of Neely’s death: “No tears for the [man] who died.”
The financial support Penny’s legal team has received is due, in part, to the coverage of right-leaning media outlets and Republican politicians using his case to score points on the latest front of the culture war, experts say.
The beginning of the conservative media response to Neely’s death and Penny, whose name was not immediately known to the public, came when the New York Post described Neely as “unhinged” in its first story on the May 1 killing. It continued during Fox host Sean Hannity’s show on May 4, when the Fox News host described Neely as “a mentally ill homeless guy with a long history of violent crime.” After saying the Marine Corps veteran had “subdued” Neely, a member of Hannity’s audience exclaimed, “Woo!”
When police said Penny, who is White, was initially taken in for questioning and released without charges, protesters filled the subway system and demanded that the man who killed Neely be arrested. Kayleigh McEnany, a White House press secretary in the Trump administration who is now a Fox News host, scoffed at the protesters’ chants for justice, saying on May 5, “Well, at least they have rhythm.” Her co-hosts laughed off-screen.
Other conservative outlets such as One America News have had segments asking whether Penny “should be prosecuted or honored.” The Wall Street Journal’s conservative-leaning editorial board made the case against charging Penny, describing him in a Friday headline as “the Subway Samaritan.” Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) gave Penny a similar nickname — “Subway Superman” — on former president Donald Trump’s Truth Social platform.
Marshall, the Northwestern professor, noted that Penny’s case pointed to a history in which U.S. politicians have used crime and fear of crime to their own advantage, capitalizing on moments of division to strike a chord with their bases. Experts cited Trump as a recent example. They also emphasized how DeSantis, who is expected to seek the 2024 Republican nomination for president, exemplified this practice when he tweeted his support of Penny, saying the country must “take back the streets for law-abiding citizens.”
“Politicians speak about them and promote them long before the cases go to trial,” Marshall said. “In a prior generation, it would have taken weeks to build up to this point. Now, it can build up to this point in a matter of minutes, and people can jump to conclusions quickly and can make assumptions before the facts are known.”
On Twitter, Musk’s paid verification program has boosted the reach of conservative and far-right voices, which have called for Penny to be given a medal and said the manslaughter charge amounted to “a travesty.” Musk has called protests of Neely’s killing “disingenuous,” and he liked a tweet calling Neely “worthless.”
Experts agree that the emotionally charged atmosphere surrounding Penny’s case will persist into the summer.
“It’s a drumbeat that has begun,” Dallek said. “The dynamic that suggests that Penny is a victim of some sort of injustice and being unfairly persecuted, those cries will only grow in volume.”
___________________________________________________ But then its from the The Washington Post. So what can I tell you?Grumpy
A video posted to Twitter this week by Mr.GunsNGear shows government agents making the rounds to confiscate forced reset triggers.
One of the individuals who was targeted recorded his interaction with the agents. It wasn’t immediately clear when the video was taken.
“So, the reason why we’re here is, as I’m sure you’re aware, the ATF recently classified FRTs — the forced reset triggers — as machineguns,” says the female agent.
“We are aware that you may have purchased some of these FRTs,” she continues. “So now basically the whole agency is reaching out to these purchasers and we have to pick ’em up. You know they’re evil.”
The citizen responds by saying he won’t be answering any questions regarding their inquiry nor will he be turning anything over.
“Are you refusing to give us the triggers,” asks the male agent.
“I’m not refusing anything and I won’t be answering any questions,” the citizen says.
“Again, we are aware that you did purchase FRTs,” says the female agent. “You wouldn’t be in trouble if you gave those up to us. Or, if you sold them, you can tell me you sold them.”
The citizen holds firm in his stance. He tells them that if he’s not being detained or if he’s not being placed under arrest he is going to leave.
“Just to be clear, so that now you know, that if you were to be in possession of these FRTs then you would be basically breaking the law,” she says.
In the United States, the possession of an unregistered machine gun is a federal offense under the National Firearms Act (NFA) of 1934 and the Gun Control Act of 1968. Penalties for violating these laws are no joke.
For possession of an unregistered machine gun, the potential penalties include:
- Imprisonment: Convicted individuals can face up to 10 years in federal prison.
- Fines: Fines for possessing an unregistered machine gun can be substantial, with amounts up to $250,000 for individuals and $500,000 for organizations.
- Forfeiture: Any machine guns and other firearms involved in the offense, as well as any property used to commit the crime or traceable to the crime, may be subject to seizure and forfeiture.
- Loss of gun rights: Convicted individuals may lose their right to own or possess firearms in the future.
Remember, not only are FRTs considered “machineguns,” but bump stocks fall under that classification as well.
It appears that Biden’s ATF is playing hardball. Sending agents door-to-door to confiscate forced reset triggers from law-abiding citizens is tantamount to declaring war on 2A advocates, not to mention a terrible use of limited government resources.
Seriously, there are hardened criminals terrorizing communities all across the country. Yet, the president believes the best use of ATF’s personnel is to send them out to seize aftermarket triggers from responsible gun owners and enthusiasts.
It’s insanity. Or, maybe, Mr.GunsNGear is right. It’s tyranny.
Update 5/10/22 — ATF Responds
GunsAmerica reached out to ATF to ask the following questions:
Is the ATF still actively doing this? How did it obtain the list of purchasers of FRTs? Also, does it plan to take a similar approach with respect to bump stocks, pistol braces, and/or unserialized frames and receivers?
Erik Longnecker, ATF’s Deputy Chief of the Public Affairs Division responded in the following manner:
We would direct you to this Open Letter in reference to certain unregistered machineguns: https://www.atf.gov/firearms/docs/open-letter/all-ffls-mar-2022-open-letter-forced-reset-triggers-frts/download.
Additional information about bump stocks, short barreled rifles and firearm frames and receivers can be found on our website at: https://www.atf.gov/rules-and-regulations/rulings.
The Mossberg 940 series is Mossberg’s attempt to fix some of the flaws with the 930 series. It’s their latest line of semi-auto shotguns. The 940 series started with 3-Gun in mind but has moved to the hunting and now the tactical world. The 940 Pro Tactical shotgun has hit the market and is aiming at the premium market of defensive shotguns. The Pro Tactical takes aim at guns like the Beretta 1301 and the Benelli M4. with an MSRP of $1,154.
Like the original 930 series, the gun is a gas-operated gun. The main improvements over the 930 included better ergonomics and a gas system that’s a lot less finicky. It doesn’t need to be cleaned nearly as often as the 930 series. The maintenance-heavy 930s required cleaning quite often for them to run reliably.
With tactical in the name, it’s easy to assume that the 940 Pro Tactical is aimed at the duty and home defense market. It’s a tactical shotgun with a lot of whizbangs and doo-dads. Unlike most of its competition, the 940 Pro Tactical is American-made and doesn’t have to deal with 922R and import restrictions which gives it an edge over the standard imported shotgun.
Features and Specs
Unlike the Italian selections of shotguns, the 940 Pro Tactical comes ready with a seven-round magazine tube. It’s ready to go and loaded for bear. The barrel tops out at 18.5 inches, and the gun weighs 7.5 pounds. The overall length is 37.5 inches. Mossberg wisely implemented a stock design that allows the user to adjust the length of pull.
Shooters can use inserts and spacers to take the shotgun’s length of pull from 12.5 to 14.25 inches. Included with the gun are two butt pads that give you either a recoil pad or a short flat plastic option. Shooters can swap chokes if they so choose, and the gun comes with a cylinder bore choke.
On top of the gun sits a high-visibility fiber optic sight. It sits low, but the barrel is much thicker at the end and provides a bit of a higher bead for ensuring the point of aim & point of impact. One of my favorite features is the optic cut. From the factory, it comes ready for you to attach a Shield footprint optic. The optics attaches directly to the receiver and sits low enough to co-witness with the bead.
The 940 Pro Tactical is a well-put-together gun that comes with a number of features worth mentioning.
Ergonomics
“Make it bigger” seemed to be the mantra behind the ergonomics of the 940. Outside of the safety, everything is bigger. The 940 uses the same tang-style safety we all know and love. It’s easy to access and ambidextrous to use. Our charging handles and bolt release are massive. They are much bigger than a standard bolt release and outperform the competition.
They are massive, easy to grab, and easy to engage. On top of that, the loading port is large and easy to shove a round into, and so is the ejection port. You can easily reload the weapon on the fly, and that’s a smart feature for a weapon that only holds seven rounds.
The length of pull adjustments is a godsend for shotguns. Most shotguns come with some crazy long length of pull set in excess of 14 inches. It’s absurd, and while it works for wing shooting, it doesn’t work well with most shooters in a squared-up shooting position. The spacers and adjustments make it easy to fit the gun to you. A lot of times, shooters have to purchase special stocks like the Magpul SGA to get this feature.
At the front of the gun sits a magazine clamp that has two M-LOK slots. This allows you to run a light fairly easily with a pressure switch to the handguard.
At the Range
I really liked the Mossberg 940 Pro Tactical at first glance, but taking it to the range is what made me fall in love with the gun. At the range, the gun performed extremely well with a wide variety of rounds. The majority of my ammo is the cheap Federal birdshot you can get anywhere and everywhere for a good price. It ate through 300 rounds of that stuff without a single malfunction.
Birdshot worked fine, and so did the cheapest buckshot in my armory. My cheapest buckshot is the Monarch brand from Academy. It has high brass but can be finicky when it comes to feeding. A 100 rounds of Monarch didn’t provide the 940 Pro Tactical or me with any issues. Neither did a little Rio, Federal, or Hornady. The gun cycles low recoil tactical loads, including my favorite Federal Flitecontrol loads.
All in all, I hit 200 rounds of problem-free buckshot. It’s a gas-operated semi-auto, so it doesn’t cycle mini shells because I know someone will ask in the comments section. It will cycle the 2.5-inch shells, at least the Nobel Sport buckshot cycles. The 1.75 and 2-inch stuff is a no-go.
Rocking and Rolling
Gas operation bites some of the recoil down and makes the gun increasingly controllable. The 940 Pro Tactical handles well, especially when you get the right LOP and can really engage the push/pull into your shooting. The gun barely bucks when proper recoil mitigation is in effect. Seeing that red dot barely move between shots from a shotgun is quite nice.
Speaking of red dots, the front sight works great, but tossing a red dot on the gun makes it even better. The red dot sits nice and tight on the gun and low enough to co-witness with the fiber optic. A red dot makes it easier and faster to shoot and aids in accuracy when it comes to slug use.
With the soft controls and fast use red dot, my split times decreased consistently when compared to other semi-auto shotguns. The time to hit a target with multiple shots or multiple targets with multiple shots took a nose dive with the 940 Pro Tactical.
A nice crisp trigger greets your hands, and for slug use at longer ranges, it’s great. It won’t win an award, but it’s adequate and consistent. With slugs, I could ping a metal IPSC target at 100 yards easily with just the red dot and a decent shooting position.
The gun patterns are like any other standard shotgun. If you have a 590A1, it likely patterns well, but this is more akin to a standard 500. A cheap load patterns loosely, but a good load stays tight. A standard round of military Olin company buckshot will pattern at 8.5 inches at 12 yards. Flitecontrol looks like a slug out until you get beyond 15 yards.
The New Standard
The 940 Pro Tactical doesn’t have the reputation or user count like other competing shotguns, so I can’t say it’s the holy grail. In a few years and with a few thousand users, then we might be able to make that call. However, I can say it’s a dang fine gun. It’s ergonomic and features some real modern flair. Typically when I purchase a shotgun, I begin to look at what needs to be changed.
When I got my hands on the 940 Pro Tactical, the only thing I wanted to add was a red dot. That says a lot to me. Mossberg has knocked one out of the park with the 940 series.
—————————————————————————————-WTF would anybody outside of an active war zone want or need one of these!?!
Now I know that there are a lot of folks out there who are earnestly waiting for the end of the world, Race War or the start of the 2nd American Civil War or what ever to start. Plus let us not forget the Rambo / Fake Veterans wantabe’s. Who, I have some real issues with but thats for another day.
But lets get real folks!!!
Now if I was a cop and saw one of these outside of your house. If I had not SHOT you yet. I WOULD give you a REALLY intensive Field Interview that you would not forget real soon. Especially when one of your Karen type / Gun Fearing wussies neighbors turned you in during my lunch break.
Also if you took it hunting. I also would be willing to bet that the local Game Warden would also want to talk to you about it. ESPECIALLY if he or she could load it with more than 3 rounds. Can we say a huge ticket and maybe jail time depending where you are.
Bottom line – Guns like this are just fodder to our “Friends” on the other side who want to abolish the 2nd Amendment. Grumpy
Nearly two years ago, an errant spark inside a mill caused an explosion so big it destroyed all the building’s equipment and blew a corrugated fiberglass wall 100 feet, this incident was suddenly mentioned by the Wall Street Journal on April, 27.
It also shut down the sole domestic source of an explosive the Department of Defense relies on to produce bullets, mortar shells, artillery rounds and Tomahawk missiles.
The ramshackle facility makes the original form of gunpowder, known today as black powder, a highly combustible material with hundreds of military applications. The product, for which there is no substitute, is used in small quantities in munitions to ignite more powerful explosives.
No one was hurt in the June 2021 blast. But the factory remains offline, unable to deliver its single vital component to either commercial or Pentagon customers.
Military suppliers consolidated at the Cold War’s end, under pressure to reduce defense costs and streamline the nation’s industrial base.
Over the past three decades, the number of fixed wing aircraft suppliers in the U.S. has declined from eight to three. During the same period, major surface ship producers fell from eight to two, and today, only three American companies supply over 90% of the Pentagon’s missile stockpile.
Lower-tier defense firms are often the sole maker of vital parts — such as black powder — and a single crisis can bring production to a standstill.
“Can you imagine what would happen to these supply chains if the U.S. were in an actual state of active war, or NATO was?” said Jeff Rhoads, executive director of the Purdue Institute for National Security, a defense-research institute at Purdue University. “They could be in trouble very quickly.”
The “incident,” as the Minden explosion has become known, is a pointed example of the risks facing America’s military. The blast that wrecked a World War II era building in a remote compound 30 miles from Shreveport has extinguished all production of black powder in North America.
For a millennium, black powder was a crucial material for both military and commercial uses. Today, it is a specialty commodity with few commercial applications — mostly for rocket hobbyists — but it’s still used in more than 300 munitions, from cruise missiles, to bullets for M16 rifles, to the vital 155 mm shells.
Sales volume is limited and that means profits can be too thin to support more than a single production facility. This type of vulnerability is so common, the Pentagon describes it as the “single source” problem. Only one foundry in the U.S. makes the titanium castings used in howitzers, and only one company makes the rocket motor used in the Javelin antitank weapon widely used in Ukraine.
Part of the problem is that the Pentagon can be a fickle customer. Orders can surge or plummet depending on inventory levels, the state of U.S. military engagements or budget priorities. This posed a challenge for the operators of the black powder mill, who also faced costly regulations.
The roots of the current crisis can be traced back three decades, to a 1993 dinner at the Pentagon often referred to as the “last supper,” when Secretary of Defense Les Aspin invited the CEOs of the top 15 defense companies and warned that the Pentagon couldn’t sustain them all. They would need to consolidate.
The number of major arms suppliers for the Pentagon went from dozens in the 1990s, down to just five, known as primes, who typically bid for major weapons programs today. A similar contraction took place among lower-tier suppliers.
Overall, the defense industrial base shrank to 55,000 vendors in 2021, down from 69,000 in 2016. Despite consolidation, the networks of companies remain large. The average American aerospace company relies on hundreds of first-tier subcontractors, according to Defense Department statistics, and thousands in the second and third tiers below that.
That scope presents its own problems. The network is so vast, the military has limited visibility, according to a Pentagon report, and “does not track these vulnerabilities as they impact weapons programs.” A failure down the supply chain can go unnoticed for months by prime contractors such as Boeing Co. or Lockheed Martin Corp., let alone the Pentagon.
Late last year, the Defense Department identified 27 critical chemicals that have no U.S. production and are sourced from places, including Russia and China, considered adversaries of the U.S. The Pentagon expects to spend more than $207 million to bring production of materials back to the U.S. as soon as possible, WSJ concludes.
The sales of firearms, especially AR-15-style rifles, unexpectedly turned up last month, apparently driven by efforts in several states to impose gun bans.
Industry officials reviewing the latest FBI background check information said that states planning gun bans or moving to change the rules governing firearms purchases saw massive jumps in April sales.
In Washington state, where the governor just signed a law banning the sale or transfer of AR-style rifles, background checks for April sales surged to 71,272 compared to 49,641 in April 2022, a 43.6% increase, said Mark Oliva, the spokesman for the National Shooting Sports Foundation.
The industry trade group found a surge in Illinois, where it recently won a federal court decision to block a ban on modern sporting rifles. There, Oliva said, sales background checks increased 11.7% in April.
(Image via the NSSF)
Ditto in Oregon, he said: “Oregon, a state with a legislature and governor’s office hostile to lawful firearm ownership, totaled 43,574 adjusted background checks in April 2023, compared to 27,921 a year ago, representing a 56.1% increase.”
Even states that moved to change the rules to buy guns saw a big sales uptick before any new regulations began to take effect.
“Notably, North Carolina’s legislature overrode Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of a bill that repealed the state’s antiquated Jim Crow-era permit-to-purchase a handgun scheme which immediately reverted the state to using the FBI NICS system to verify all handgun sales,” Oliva said. “North Carolina came in with 68,181 background checks in April 2023, compared to 18,967 in April 2022, a 238.4% increase.”
In recent months, concerns about safety drove sales highs, and that is continuing to add to the records. But Oliva said the difference in April was the threats from the government to take away gun rights.
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“April’s uptick of 1,369,296 FBI National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) verifications shows that there continues to be a steady appetite for lawful firearm ownership even as certain state governors and legislators are taking radical measures to infringe on the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens to possess firearms, especially the Modern Sporting Rifle,” Oliva said in a reference to AR- and AK-style rifles.
“These figures show that when Americans are concerned that government authorities will deny them the full spectrum of their Second Amendment rights, they will respond by exercising those rights. It also shows that when barriers to lawful firearm ownership are torn down, law-abiding citizens will exercise their right to lawfully purchase firearms,” he said.
