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DEMOCRATS INTRODUCE BILL TO BANKRUPT GUN INDUSTRY, REMOVE LEGAL IMMUNITYby S.H. BLANNELBERRY on JANUARY 27, 2016 Related Tags: Buzz, Gun Control, R2KBA
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), a hardcore anti-gun advocate. The gun-grabbing Democrats in Congress are at it again, this time attempting to repeal a common-sense bill that protects gun manufacturers from frivolous lawsuits. This week, US Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Chris Murphy (D-CT) and Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) introduced the “Equal Access to Justice for Victims of Gun Violence Act,” which would effectively repeal the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA), thus allowing shooting victims to “have their day in court” with gun manufacturers, sellers and interests groups. Criminals that use guns are the problem, not the guns or manufacturers. “Victims of law-breaking gun makers and dealers deserve a day in court – fair rights and remedies restored by this measure,” said Sen. Blumenthal, in a press release. “Alone among all industries, guns are protected by a near absolute wall of legal immunity that bars the courthouse doors to victims,” Blumenthal continued. “Our proposal would unlock the courthouse doors – holding gun makers and dealers accountable, and giving them a strong incentive to make safer, smarter products.” Passed in 2005, the PLCAA simply protects the gun industry from civil liability when criminals or negligent users cause harm to themselves or others with a product. Since its passage, the PLCAA has been a primary target for anti-gunners. This new bill would strip away that protection. “Making the gun industry immune from lawsuits effectively handed them a license to kill. Congress intentionally let gun makers and sellers off the hook for the murder and mayhem they knew would happen. And they looked the victims’ families in the eye and said ‘Tough luck. There’s nothing you can do about it’,” said Sen. Murphy. “The gun lobby doesn’t own Congress like it used to – this legislation is essential to ending the firearms industry’s grip on Washington,” added Murphy. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out what these gun-grabbers are trying to accomplish. They’re trying to bankrupt the industry, as Alan Gottlieb, founder of the Second Amendment Foundation, said in an email to GunsAmerica. “No one frivolously sues a car manufacturer because a drunk driver kills someone with a car. But anti-gun groups and gun prohibitionists have sued gun manufacturers and dealers because a criminal misused their product,” said Gottlieb. “They do it try to bankrupt the industry “Maybe we need a law to allow crime victims to sue democrats for passing laws that limit their means of self-defense,” Gottlieb quipped. Larry Keane, senior vice president, assistant secretary and general counsel to the National Shooting Sports Foundation, was also quick to point out the underlying agenda of this legislation. “The PLCAA only bars frivolous lawsuits that seek to blame gun manufacturers and dealers for the criminal misuse of lawfully sold, non-defective products,” explained Keane in an email to GunsAmerica. “The PLCAA exists because the Brady Center, greedy trial lawyers and big city mayors got together in the late 1990’s to circumvent Congress and impose gun control regulation through litigation through settlements or bankrupt the industry with massive judgment.” “They are lying about the PLCAA to advance the anti-Second Amendment agenda,” Keane continued. “They want to repeal the PLCAA so they can launch a new wave of frivolous lawsuits with the same objective. The gun control zealots badly underestimated the resolve of our industry then – and now – to stand and fight for truth and justice.” While it’s unlikely this new bill will clear a GOP-dominated Congress, it’s important to note that all three Democratic candidates for president have expressed an interest in repealing or modifying the PLCAA, that includes Bernie Sanders, who initially supported the PLCAA. IN REBUTTAL- What about the manufacturers of cars, trucks, planes, or ANY other item made and mis-used by a person on purpose! Are we going to let that happen also? NO WE CAN"T. People must be held responsible and accountable for their OWN ACTIONS! |
There are many LAWFUL MILITIAS in the USA that are being downtrodden and accused of being enemies or even traitors of the USA, for doing nothing more than acting as provided for by the CONSTITUTION and our Founding Fathers. These attacks are illegal and unconstitutional. IN fear of these rights the "government" decided that making NATIONAL GUARDS would take the place of the militias. This is a total government POWER GRAB from the lawful people who wish to defend this country from all enemies, both internal and external. The National Guard is filled with well meaning and patriotic American citizens and soldiers. They can not be blamed for a corrupt government that has decided that "THEY" know better than "WE" do and what is best for us.
The mere "fact" that they are elected by the REAL AMERICAN CITIZENS has been subverted by the previous and present administration and Congress that inhabits the hallowed halls of our government. The "good old boys clubs" that has taken over Congress and prevents well meaning elected official from being able to do the jobs they were elected for. THIS HAS GOT TO STOP! Don't elect lawyers to any office!
The untenable fact that a REAL SOCIALIST or COMMUNIST is even running for a high political office in this country is abhorrent to say the least.
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One of the biggest mistakes ever made was to allow ATTORNEYS to run for any political office. This is the most self serving and self perpetuating unrecognized WHITE COLLAR CRIME that could ever happen to this country and something needs to be done about it AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
Stop and think of the ramifications that it has brought to bare on "WE THE PEOPLE"! They write self serving laws, in terms that no one can understand, amend them so often that no one can actually read a law without having to reference many other places in the law to see what has changed, even it is it so marked. Lawmakers (attorneys) rarely ever repeal a law, all they do is amend and distort them until the original law, that may have been good, is so bastardized that no one can interpret it. This is not only in CIVIL LAW but also in CRIMINAL LAWS! I dare you...read just the CRIMINAL LAWS of your state. Don't forget to read the traffic laws also, as now most of them are CRIMINAL OFFENSES, not "just a ticket or moving violation anymore. Even Federal and Supreme Court Judges can't agree on what is legal or Constitutional anymore. Judges are SUPPOSED to be IMPARIAL. If it was then why are so many court decisions appealed, over ruled, over turned and by the time they reach the so-called SUPREME COURT, even then they are split along "party lines". This is not impartial application or decision of the law for anyone! Worst yet, they have chosen to self impose laws on us. This is NOT their job, it is the job of the LEGISLATIVE arm of our government, not the Judicial. Then you have the "King" Obama, a lawyer, who specializes in CONSTITUTIONAL LAW as a professor no less. Another lawyer telling us what is good for us and what we MUST do. He knowingly subverts the very Constitution that he has worn to uphold, and does it almost on a daily basis now that he is a lame duck. Worst yet NO ONE is doing anything about it. Why hasn't he been Impeached and removed from office as a TRAITOR TO OUR COUNTRY???? Like Ted Cruz, there is still a very good possibility that OBAMA CAN NOT HOLD THE OFFICE OF PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA! I predict that this will be recorded in history that it's the biggest blunder ever made in our Country. Think of the legal ramifications that will go on for DECADES if anyone should PROVE that he is not eligible to be PRESIDENT! Thank and blame the blind liberal sheep that can't think for themselves and just follow the lead...whoever has the "bell" at the time. |
Anti-gun and anti- SECOND AMENDMENT legislation is introduced by legislatures across the country on a daily basis. This is and has been a SETTLED ISSUE since the very inception of this great country! American owing gun are a constitutional RIGHT not a "privilege", for ALL LAWFUL AMERICAN CITIZENS. Demand your RIGHTS to be upheld by everyone in our government.
AMERICA needs to wake up, take an active interest in politics and stop just following party lines! About a century ago the KKK was the most powerful political party in the USA, that doesn't speak well of us as a nation does it? AMERICA was founded on Judaeo Christian values as attested to by our founding fathers. We can not allow the Muslim immigrants and ILLEGAL aliens to subvert our laws by replacing them with their own, in private as they do now. They hold their own courts among their own people right here in the USA and other western countries and NO ONE is doing anything about it in the interest of fanatical POLITICAL CORRECTNESS being shoved down our throats my the unknowing, uneducated far LEFT WING with political agendas to overtake and ruin the very country that countless lives have died to defend, even to this very day.
NO MORE! NO MORE ATTORNEYS CAN BE ALLOWED TO RUN FOR PUBLIC OFFICE! Stop the self-serving insanity!
AMERICA needs to wake up, take an active interest in politics and stop just following party lines! About a century ago the KKK was the most powerful political party in the USA, that doesn't speak well of us as a nation does it? AMERICA was founded on Judaeo Christian values as attested to by our founding fathers. We can not allow the Muslim immigrants and ILLEGAL aliens to subvert our laws by replacing them with their own, in private as they do now. They hold their own courts among their own people right here in the USA and other western countries and NO ONE is doing anything about it in the interest of fanatical POLITICAL CORRECTNESS being shoved down our throats my the unknowing, uneducated far LEFT WING with political agendas to overtake and ruin the very country that countless lives have died to defend, even to this very day.
NO MORE! NO MORE ATTORNEYS CAN BE ALLOWED TO RUN FOR PUBLIC OFFICE! Stop the self-serving insanity!
NOTE: Many people, including myself, do not agree with the assertions here and do not believe that our RIGHT to BEAR ARMS is limited in type scope or reason. PLEASE let your lawmakers know this!
Second Amendment to the United States Constitution From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article is part of a series on the Constitution of the United States of America
The Second Amendment (Amendment II) to the United States Constitution protects the right of the people to keep and bear arms and was adopted on December 15, 1791, as part of the first ten amendments contained in the Bill of Rights. The Supreme Court of the United States has ruled that the right belongs to individuals, while also ruling that the right is not unlimited and does not prohibit all regulation of either firearms or similar devices. State and local governments are limited to the same extent as the federal government from infringing this right per the incorporation of the Bill of Rights.
The Second Amendment was based partially on the right to keep and bear arms in English common-law and was influenced by the English Bill of Rights of 1689. Sir William Blackstone described this right as an auxiliary right, supporting the natural rights of self-defense, resistance to oppression, and the civic duty to act in concert in defense of the state.
In United States v. Cruikshank (1876), the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that, "The right to bear arms is not granted by the Constitution; neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence" and limited the applicability of the Second Amendment to the federal government. In United States v. Miller (1939), the Supreme Court ruled that the federal government and the states could limit any weapon types not having a "reasonable relationship to the preservation or efficiency of a well regulated militia".
In the twenty-first century, the amendment has been subjected to renewed academic inquiry and judicial interest. In District of Columbia v. Heller (2008), the Supreme Court handed down a landmark decision that held the amendment protects an individual right to possess and carry firearms. In McDonald v. Chicago (2010), the Court clarified its earlier decisions that limited the amendment's impact to a restriction on the federal government, expressly holding that the Fourteenth Amendment applies the Second Amendment to state and local governments to the same extent that the Second Amendment applies to the federal government. Despite these decisions, the debate between various organizations regarding gun control and gun rights continues.
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Second Amendment to the United States Constitution From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article is part of a series on the Constitution of the United States of America
The Second Amendment (Amendment II) to the United States Constitution protects the right of the people to keep and bear arms and was adopted on December 15, 1791, as part of the first ten amendments contained in the Bill of Rights. The Supreme Court of the United States has ruled that the right belongs to individuals, while also ruling that the right is not unlimited and does not prohibit all regulation of either firearms or similar devices. State and local governments are limited to the same extent as the federal government from infringing this right per the incorporation of the Bill of Rights.
The Second Amendment was based partially on the right to keep and bear arms in English common-law and was influenced by the English Bill of Rights of 1689. Sir William Blackstone described this right as an auxiliary right, supporting the natural rights of self-defense, resistance to oppression, and the civic duty to act in concert in defense of the state.
In United States v. Cruikshank (1876), the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that, "The right to bear arms is not granted by the Constitution; neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence" and limited the applicability of the Second Amendment to the federal government. In United States v. Miller (1939), the Supreme Court ruled that the federal government and the states could limit any weapon types not having a "reasonable relationship to the preservation or efficiency of a well regulated militia".
In the twenty-first century, the amendment has been subjected to renewed academic inquiry and judicial interest. In District of Columbia v. Heller (2008), the Supreme Court handed down a landmark decision that held the amendment protects an individual right to possess and carry firearms. In McDonald v. Chicago (2010), the Court clarified its earlier decisions that limited the amendment's impact to a restriction on the federal government, expressly holding that the Fourteenth Amendment applies the Second Amendment to state and local governments to the same extent that the Second Amendment applies to the federal government. Despite these decisions, the debate between various organizations regarding gun control and gun rights continues.
*Active hyperlinks have been removed from above.
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NRA-ILA GRASSROOTS VOLUME 23, NUMBER 6
NEWS
Remember Justice Scalia this November
If Barack Obama and those like him fail in their goal of “fundamentally transforming the United States of America,” it will be in large part because of United States Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Antonin Gregory Scalia. Sadly, Justice Scalia passed away over the weekend. Since his nomination to the Court by President Ronald Reagan in 1986, Justice Scalia championed the view that the U.S. Constitution should be interpreted according to the intent of those who wrote it, not according to shifting social conventions or judicial preferences. The Constitution, Justice Scalia once said, “means today not what current society, much less the court, thinks it ought to mean, but what it meant when it was adopted.” As William Murchison of the Dallas Morning News wrote on Tuesday, Scalia’s understanding of the constitution “came from his respect for the wisdom of the document, which was tailored to preserve freedom.”
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia 1936-2016
Longtime U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, a stalwart defender of the U.S. Constitution and author of the critically important majority opinion in the District of Columbia v. Heller case, passed away on Feb. 13 at the age of 79. When Justice Elena Kagan was dean of Harvard Law School, she explained Justice Scalia’s monumental influence: “His views on textualism and originalism, his views on the role of judges in our society, on the practice of judging, have really transformed the terms of legal debate in this country.” In short, “He is the justice who has had the most important impact over the years on how we think and talk about law.”
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M855 – A One-Year Retrospective
Remember a year ago – February 13, 2015, to be precise – when the Obama administration presented a convoluted rationale by which M855, the second most popular variety of ammunition used in the nation’s most popular rifle, was to be banned? At the time, Obama’s White House spokesman said that banning M855 would be a “common sense step” about which “everyone should agree.” Banning the ammunition would mean “greater gun safety,” proclaimed the New York Times. Failure to ban it would be “untenable” and “preposterous,” pontificated the Washington Post. Or, as the Los Angeles Times put it, “another loss for public safety.”
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Band Member Targeted in Paris Terror Attacks Stresses Importance of Armed Self-Defense
On Tuesday, heavy metal rock group Eagles of Death Metal made a triumphant return to Paris. The American band performed before a sold-out crowd at the city’s Olympia music hall only three months after terrorist gunmen attacked an Eagles of Death Metal concert at the Bataclan theater, killing 89. By all accounts the concert was an enormous success, but even before the band took the stage, Eagles of Death Metal frontman Jesse Hughes made international headlines with his impassioned statements on behalf of the right to armed self-defense.
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Has the VA Deprived You of Your Second Amendment Rights? NRA Wants to Hear From You!
As we have reported several times in the past (including here and here), the Veterans Administration (VA) has been reporting to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) the identities of its beneficiaries who have been assigned a “fiduciary” to manage their benefits. The VA claims that such determinations constitute an “adjudication of mental defectiveness” under federal law, thereby prohibiting the beneficiary (presumptively for life) from acquiring or possessing firearms. The NRA has for several years been supporting legislation to correct this unjustified infringement on Second Amendment rights, including the Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act (H.R. 2001, Rep. Jeff Miller, R-FL) and the Mental Health and Safe Communities Act of 2015 (S. 2002, Sen. John Cornyn, R-TX).
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Michael Bloomberg is ALL IN to strip away your Second Amendment Rights! Are you ALL IN to make sure he doesn't succeed?!
Billionaire Michael Bloomberg is in a spending freefall attacking our gun rights all across the U.S., on multiple fronts…in Congress, in state legislatures, and on the airwaves. Further, he’s gathering signatures and pouring money into anti-freedom ballot initiatives in states like WA, NV ME, and AZ. In the ’15 VA elections, he spent more than $2 million on a couple of state senate races! If he’s willing to invest that much in VA alone, imagine how much of his BILLIONS he will spend in ’16 all across the nation!
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Passing of Justice Scalia Marks Turning Point for Second Amendment
In this News Minute from the NRA Institute for Legislative Action, Jennifer Zahrn reports that the passing of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia marks a turning point for the Second Amendment.
STATE GRASSROOTS ROUND-UP
Florida
Florida Alert! Former Basin Board Member Confirms SWFWMD Abusive Conduct
Florida Alert! Republican Senator Explains His Reason for Killing Progun Bills
Georgia
Georgia: Important Campus Carry Legislation Passes House Committee
Kansas
Kansas: Right to Hunt and Fish Constitutional Amendment Headed to House Floor on Monday
Maine
Maine: Firearm Owners Protection Legislation to be Heard Next Week
Mississippi
Mississippi: Pro-Gun, Pro-Defense Measures on the Move in Jackson
New Mexico
New Mexico: NIAA Legislation Awaits Governor’s Signature as Legislature Adjourns
Oklahoma
Oklahoma: Suppressor Bill Unanimously Passes Out of Committee
Oregon
Oregon: House Postpones Vote on Anti-Gun Bill, Please Continue to Contact your State Representative in Opposition!
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania: Sunday Hunting Legislation Needs Your Help to Advance in the General Assembly
West Virginia
West Virginia: Important Permitless Carry Legislation Up for Final Senate Vote
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NRA-ILA GRASSROOTS VOLUME 23, NUMBER 6
NEWS
Remember Justice Scalia this November
If Barack Obama and those like him fail in their goal of “fundamentally transforming the United States of America,” it will be in large part because of United States Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Antonin Gregory Scalia. Sadly, Justice Scalia passed away over the weekend. Since his nomination to the Court by President Ronald Reagan in 1986, Justice Scalia championed the view that the U.S. Constitution should be interpreted according to the intent of those who wrote it, not according to shifting social conventions or judicial preferences. The Constitution, Justice Scalia once said, “means today not what current society, much less the court, thinks it ought to mean, but what it meant when it was adopted.” As William Murchison of the Dallas Morning News wrote on Tuesday, Scalia’s understanding of the constitution “came from his respect for the wisdom of the document, which was tailored to preserve freedom.”
NEWS
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia 1936-2016
Longtime U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, a stalwart defender of the U.S. Constitution and author of the critically important majority opinion in the District of Columbia v. Heller case, passed away on Feb. 13 at the age of 79. When Justice Elena Kagan was dean of Harvard Law School, she explained Justice Scalia’s monumental influence: “His views on textualism and originalism, his views on the role of judges in our society, on the practice of judging, have really transformed the terms of legal debate in this country.” In short, “He is the justice who has had the most important impact over the years on how we think and talk about law.”
NEWS
M855 – A One-Year Retrospective
Remember a year ago – February 13, 2015, to be precise – when the Obama administration presented a convoluted rationale by which M855, the second most popular variety of ammunition used in the nation’s most popular rifle, was to be banned? At the time, Obama’s White House spokesman said that banning M855 would be a “common sense step” about which “everyone should agree.” Banning the ammunition would mean “greater gun safety,” proclaimed the New York Times. Failure to ban it would be “untenable” and “preposterous,” pontificated the Washington Post. Or, as the Los Angeles Times put it, “another loss for public safety.”
NEWS
Band Member Targeted in Paris Terror Attacks Stresses Importance of Armed Self-Defense
On Tuesday, heavy metal rock group Eagles of Death Metal made a triumphant return to Paris. The American band performed before a sold-out crowd at the city’s Olympia music hall only three months after terrorist gunmen attacked an Eagles of Death Metal concert at the Bataclan theater, killing 89. By all accounts the concert was an enormous success, but even before the band took the stage, Eagles of Death Metal frontman Jesse Hughes made international headlines with his impassioned statements on behalf of the right to armed self-defense.
NEWS
Has the VA Deprived You of Your Second Amendment Rights? NRA Wants to Hear From You!
As we have reported several times in the past (including here and here), the Veterans Administration (VA) has been reporting to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) the identities of its beneficiaries who have been assigned a “fiduciary” to manage their benefits. The VA claims that such determinations constitute an “adjudication of mental defectiveness” under federal law, thereby prohibiting the beneficiary (presumptively for life) from acquiring or possessing firearms. The NRA has for several years been supporting legislation to correct this unjustified infringement on Second Amendment rights, including the Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act (H.R. 2001, Rep. Jeff Miller, R-FL) and the Mental Health and Safe Communities Act of 2015 (S. 2002, Sen. John Cornyn, R-TX).
TAKE ACTION
Michael Bloomberg is ALL IN to strip away your Second Amendment Rights! Are you ALL IN to make sure he doesn't succeed?!
Billionaire Michael Bloomberg is in a spending freefall attacking our gun rights all across the U.S., on multiple fronts…in Congress, in state legislatures, and on the airwaves. Further, he’s gathering signatures and pouring money into anti-freedom ballot initiatives in states like WA, NV ME, and AZ. In the ’15 VA elections, he spent more than $2 million on a couple of state senate races! If he’s willing to invest that much in VA alone, imagine how much of his BILLIONS he will spend in ’16 all across the nation!
VIDEOS
Passing of Justice Scalia Marks Turning Point for Second Amendment
In this News Minute from the NRA Institute for Legislative Action, Jennifer Zahrn reports that the passing of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia marks a turning point for the Second Amendment.
STATE GRASSROOTS ROUND-UP
Florida
Florida Alert! Former Basin Board Member Confirms SWFWMD Abusive Conduct
Florida Alert! Republican Senator Explains His Reason for Killing Progun Bills
Georgia
Georgia: Important Campus Carry Legislation Passes House Committee
Kansas
Kansas: Right to Hunt and Fish Constitutional Amendment Headed to House Floor on Monday
Maine
Maine: Firearm Owners Protection Legislation to be Heard Next Week
Mississippi
Mississippi: Pro-Gun, Pro-Defense Measures on the Move in Jackson
New Mexico
New Mexico: NIAA Legislation Awaits Governor’s Signature as Legislature Adjourns
Oklahoma
Oklahoma: Suppressor Bill Unanimously Passes Out of Committee
Oregon
Oregon: House Postpones Vote on Anti-Gun Bill, Please Continue to Contact your State Representative in Opposition!
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania: Sunday Hunting Legislation Needs Your Help to Advance in the General Assembly
West Virginia
West Virginia: Important Permitless Carry Legislation Up for Final Senate Vote
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