Posted in gun rights, Politics, tagged Congress and gun control, Emily Ekins, gun control, gun rights, Reason on May 29, 2013| Leave a Comment »
A recent Reason-Rupe Poll found that 54% of Americans say Congress should cut spending from current levels and 62 percent say Congress should forget about gun control and move on to other issues.
You can hear Emily Ekins her talk about it below.
Hat Tip to Cam Edwards and NRANews
Posted in gun rights, Politics, tagged background checks, gun control, gun rights, Harry Reid, Jeff Flake, Kelly Ayotte, Mark Pryor, Michael Bloomberg on May 7, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Politico reports that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid warned New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg that targeting Democrats on gun votes could backfire and harm the party. Bloomberg decided to ignor the warning.
Ads from the Bloomberg-funded Mayors Against Illegal Guns are going up soon in Alaska, Arkansas and North Dakota — three states with Democratic senators who broke with the White House on last month’s background checks vote.
The group is also moving as many as 60 field organizers into about a dozen states where senators — Democrats and Republicans — voted against bill, with the goal of building infrastructure and countering gun rights groups like the National Rifle Association.
In Arkansas, Bloomberg is placing ads in markets in Black communities, a segment of the voters that Politico notes Democrat Mark Pryor must carry to win re-election. Senate Democrats want Bloomberg to focus on “flipping” Republicans who voted against the gun control legislation. Biden, in an Op/Ed in this past weekend’s Houston Chronicle wrote:
In the end, I believe we will prevail. And those who wrote off gun safety legislation last month will come to realize that moment wasn’t the end at all. It was the turning point.
Biden pointed to poll numbers that suggest those who stood with law abiding gun owners have seen their poll numbers sink and those who want to criminalize private transfers have seen their poll number hold or increase.
We will see if those numbers hold. In the end, it’s not about what the polls tell politicians, but what their constiuients tell them, and by most accounts, senators voting against Schumer, Manchin, Toomey heard from a lot more gun owners than they heard from gun ban supporters. So, keep holding their feet to the fire and make sure they know we are watching.
Posted in gun rights, tagged 2013 NRA Annual Meetings on May 2, 2013| Leave a Comment »
It’s that time of year again and this year’s NRA Annual Meetings and Exhibits promise to be one of the largest yet. There is even talk that as many as 100,000 people will file through the Exhibit Hall over the course of the weekend.
I will be posting live updates over the course of the next three days. You can also follow all of the speeches and important news on NRANews.com as well as live streaming on NRA.org. So even if you can’t be here, you can be part of the events. And Glenn Beck will be taping his televison show from the Convention Center this afternoon so if you are a subscriber, be sure to tune in.
Look for more about the event later this evening and throughout the day tomorrow and Saturday.
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