Violence in Kenosha, WI, Drives Spike in Area Gun and Ammo Sales

Cam Edwards has the story over at Bearingarms.com.  And it appears that a lot of those folks are first time gun buyers who want to protect their homes.  Cam's piece quotes a TMZ report and a local gun shop owner, Joesph LaJoy, said he sold out of every handgun and shotgun as well as all of the ammo he had in his store.  LaJoy told TMZ that the majority of sales were to people who did not previously own firearms.

Fortunately for people in Wisconsin, there are no waiting periods.  In places like Illinois and New Jersey where you have to have a permit to own a firearm, you can't just go and buy your first firearm and walk out the same day.  You have to wait on your permit.  And in California, you have a 10 day waiting period for gun purchases.  The Governor of New Jersey has proposed new taxes and fees on gun permits and Firearms Identification Card (FID).  Governor Phil Murphy has proposed an increase of $48 on the fee people must pay to buy a handgun permit in the state and an increase of $95 on the fee for every firearms identification card, among other gun fee hikes.

It has never been more important to vote.  If Biden wins, and the Democrats take the Senate and hold the House, you can expect a push by the federal government to "incentivize" states to require a license to own guns among other extreme gun ban proposals.

Free Beacon: NRA Plans to Spend "Tens of Millions" in Battleground States

NRA-ILA's Jason Ouimet did an exclusive interview with Washington Free Beacon's Stephen Gutowski and that interview Ouimet said the NRA would be spending"Tens of Millions" in this election in key battleground states.  

Jason Ouimet, who runs the NRA's lobbying arm and political action committee, spoke exclusively with the Washington Free Beacon in his first in-depth interview on the gun-rights behemoth's 2020 electoral strategy. He said the group plans to spend heavily in battleground states to help reelect President Donald Trump over presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden, whom he described as "100 percent anti-gun." The group plans to focus much of its attention on Arizona, Colorado, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Wisconsin—swing states with traditionally strong support for gun rights.

"We'll be in those places at every level," Ouimet said. And the message will be simple: A President Joe Biden and Democratic Senate are a threat to gun owners.

"You are literally going to be dealing with the potential confiscation of firearms. You're literally going to be told you can't carry in certain places. You can't own certain things for self-defense," Ouimet said. "Folks need to understand that."

That article also noted that the NRA has been adding 1000 new members a day since June.

The coronavirus pandemic and social unrest may have hindered fundraising, but they have also led to historic gun sales. Ouimet said the NRA has added more than 1,000 new dues-paying members per day since June. The addition of some 60,000 new members and growing has helped swell NRA ranks to more than five million American adults.

"We've got a massive grassroots army, a massive grassroots army," he said. "They're not paid for by any one person or any group of billionaires. These are folks who joined on their own who got skin in the game, who go out to vote and who advocate for the issue."

The group expects those members will be motivated to vote due to the leftward swing that many Democrats at the national level—especially Biden—have made over the past several years.

Armed American Radio's Mark Walters and firearms trainer Rob Pincus talked about this new development on Walter's Facebook Live earlier today.

Democratic Party Platform All Out Assault on Second Amendment

While it is only two paragraphs, the Democratic Party Presidential Platform is an all out assault on our right to keep and bear arms.  Here is what it says:

A number of folks in the 2A community laid out what this means to our rights.  First let's look at the Op/Ed Larry Keane of the National Shooting Sports Foundation had at Ammoland on July 31st:

The DNC is listening to their radical base and not the rest of America. That’s why they continue to demonize the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, which denies activist politicians and lawyers from bringing frivolous lawsuits against the industry for the consequences of criminal activity by individuals. They would destroy an industry through litigation that would be akin to taking Ford to court for the crimes of drunk driving.

The platform wasn’t the product of Biden’s thinking, but those propping him up. They’re ramming through a radical agenda to disarm law-abiding Americans when they’re buying firearms in record numbers over concerns of personal safety. This is a platform that is far beyond being out of step with America. It’s tripping over itself.

Then there was this from the Second Amendment Foundation's Alan Gottlieb:

WE CAN’T WAIT FOR THE ELECTION RESULTS.

By then it will be too late. The gun confiscation movement funded by billionaires like Michael Bloomberg and George Soros will already be in full control of our government.

In record time they will transform our right to keep and bears arms into gun ban and confiscation laws like exist in England, New Zealand, Cuba and Venezuela.

Once our rights are lost we won’t get them back.

The time to act is now. Please share this email with every freedom loving friend and family member you have.

And finally, Bearingarms.com's Cam Edwards spent his show yesterday discussing the platform:

It’s only two paragraphs long, but the DNC manages to pack an awful lot of restrictions in just a few sentences. The proposal begins with a few lines paying lip service to the idea that violent crime should be addressed through “supporting evidence-based programs that prevent gun deaths from occurring in the first place, including by making mental health care more accessible, funding interventions to reduce homicides and gun violence in neighborhoods, and strengthening protections against domestic violence,” but glosses over any details of what those evidence-based programs actually look like, how they’d make mental health care more accessible, and what “interventions to reduce homicides and gun violence” they’re talking about.

Instead, the draft platform quickly shifts gears and demands “universal background checks,” bans on “assault weapons” and “large capacity” magazines, incentives for states to pass their own gun licensing and “red flag” laws, an end to online purchases of ammunition, and a federal gun storage law.

Make no mistake,  we have to get active now an make sure Joe Biden does not win the election.  Get involved in your local congressional election and find out what you can do to help re-elect President Trump.  If you are not registered to vote, you can do that here, then vote on November 3rd and make sure every gun owner you now votes.

Seventh Congressional District Nomination Process

For gun owners who live in the 7th Congressional District, the GOP nomination process to select a candidate to challenge anti-rights Abigail Spanberger will be a nominating convention.  While this is not the most optimum nominating process, limiting the process to party activists, gun owners can file to be delegates to the nominating convention.  You must prefile as a delegate prior to the meeting and each locality in the district has a different filing date.  There are several candidates from which to choose.  They are:

7th District Republican Candidates

• Mike Dickinson
• Craig Ennis
• Nick Freitas
• Pete Greenwald
• Andrew Knaggs
• John McGuire
• Tina Ramirez
• Jason Alexander Roberge
• Bridgette Williams

Two of the above are members of the House of Delegates - Delegate Nick Freitas and Delegate John McGuire.  They both have an excellent voting record on Second Amendment issues in the General Assembly. Gun owners when choosing a candidate should not only consider their record on our issue, but also the candidate that would stand the best chance of defeating Spanberger.  The 7th District leans GOP and Spanberger won in 2016 by only a small percentage of the vote.  Gun owners can't take a chance on nominating an individual that will give Spanberger an open path to re-election.  Delegates Freitas and McGuire likely offer the best chance of beating Spanberger.  Gun owners need to be active in the nominating process.  Click the links above to each candidate and make you own decision, then choose your locality below and file to be a delegate to the 7th District nominating convention.  Please note if you live in Louisa County, the prefiling deadline passed before VSSA received the below information.

STATUS OF COUNTIES (PREFILES AND CALLS)

Amelia N/A GOP Business Meeting date pending

Chesterfield PREFILE https://virginia.gop/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/2020-Delegate-Membership-Filing-Form.pdf DEADLINE, 5pm, Friday, March 20th (Postmarks do not apply)

CALL TO CANVAS https://virginia.gop/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Amended-Chesterfield-GOP-2020-Canvass-Call-Final.pdf

Culpeper PREFILE FORM https://virginia.gop/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/delegate-membership-filing.pdfilingcorrected.docx DEADLINE, 9pm, Saturday, MARCH 7th (Postmarks do not apply)

CALL TO CANVAS https://virginia.gop/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Canvass-call-2020.pdf

Goochland PREFILE https://goochland.gop/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/APPROVED_2020-Combined-Application-form.pdf DEADLINE, 8:30pm, Wednesday, March 18th (Postmarks do not apply)

CALL TO MASS MEETING https://goochland.gop/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/APPROVED_2020.3.28-GCRC-Mass-Meeting-Call.pdf

Henrico PREFILE https://www.henricogop.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Form-2020-Henrico-County-Republican-Committee-Mass-Meeting-For-Publication.pdf DEALINE, 5pm, Saturday, March 21st(Postmarks do not apply) CALL TO MASS MEETING https://www.henricogop.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/2020-HCRC-Reconstitution-Call-For-Publication.pdf

Louisa PREFILE FORM DEADLINE has passed

CALL TO MASS MEETING https://virginia.gop/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/final-Call-louisa-correct-info.pdf

Nottoway N/A GOP Business Meeting MARCH 5th

Orange PREFILE FORM https://virginia.gop/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/OFFICIAL-ROCC-pre-file-form-2020.pdf DEADLINE 6pm, Wednesday, March 4th(Postmarks do not apply)

CALL TO MASS MEETING https://virginia.gop/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/OFFICIAL-Call-for-2020-ROCC-Mass-Meeting.pdf

Powhatan PREFILE FORM https://virginia.gop/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/2020-PCRC-Convention-Canvass-Filing-Form-1-1.pdf DEADLINE, 5pm Wednesday, March 18th (Postmarks do not apply)

CALL TO CANVAS https://virginia.gop/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Powhatan-County-Republican-Committee-2020-Call-to-Canvass.pdf

Spotsylvania PREFILE FORM https://virginia.gop/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SCRC-2020-Prefiling-Form-1.pdf DEADLINE, 7pm Friday, March 20th (Postmarks do not apply)

CALL TO MASS MEETING https://virginia.gop/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SCRC_Official_Call.pdf