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view the web version of this email DAILY ALERT FOR Friday, April 12, 2019   NEWS NRA Statement on New York City's Desperate Attempt to Avoid Supreme Court Review NRA reacts to New York City's attempt to avoid having the NRA-supported Supreme Court case N.Y. State Rifle & Pistol Association, et al. v. City of N.Y., et al heard in DC.    NEWS LEGAL & LEGISLATION  Another Day, Another Hearing with Anti-Gun Democrats Grandstanding on Firearms On Wednesday, the House Financial Services Committee held a hearing it called, "Holding Megabanks Accountable: A Review of Global Systemically Important Banks 10 years after the Financial Crisis." If you are wondering what that could possibly have to do with the Second Amendment, let us remind you that Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is the Speaker of the House.   NEWS Canadian Senate Committee Rejects Handgun Ban Amendment; Issues Bill C-71 Report Early this week, Canada's Standing Senate Committee on National Security and Defence (SECD) met to review and vote on Bill C-71, the Liberal Government's gun control measure, section by section. This review follows several days of testimony that concluded on April 3, 2019.   HAWAII PUBLIC RADIO Hawaii Rifle Association, NRA Seek Injunction To Suspend Gun Carry Requirements Gun advocates filed a motion Thursday in U.S. District Court asking for an immediate injunction stopping enforcement of permit requirements that they say amount to a de facto ban on carrying guns. The request is part of an ongoing lawsuit against Honolulu Police Chief Susan Ballard and Hawaii Attorney General Clare Connors that is making its way through the courts. The suit, Livingston v. Ballard, seeks to invalidate state law that states a license to carry a gun can only be issued when "urgent" or "exceptional." The Hawaii Rifle Association, backed by the National Rifle Association, wants the district court to suspend enforcement of the law while the suit proceeds on.   FOX40.COM Gun Groups: Million-Plus Extended Magazines Flood California More than a million high-capacity ammunition magazines flooded into California during a one-week window created when a federal judge temporarily threw out the state's ban, gun owners' groups estimated Thursday.   NEWS Swiss to Vote on Implementation of EU Gun Controls On May 19, Swiss citizens will go to the polls to vote in a referendum that will determine whether the peaceful mountain nation will acquiesce to the mandates of the European Firearms Directive. The Swiss have a proud history of voting to protect their firearms heritage. In 2011, the Swiss electorate rejected a ballot measure that would have ended the tradition of militia members keeping their firearms at home and burdened law-abiding gun owners with federal gun registration and new acquisition requirements.   NEWS Get the Hect Outta Here: Police Chief Suspended After Students Complain About Pro-Gun "Likes" Smith and Mount Holyoke Colleges are two liberal arts institutions for women in the western part of Massachusetts. Both share a campus police department that until recently was overseen by Chief Daniel Hect, who took command February 18 of this year. Less than two months later, however, Hect finds himself on administrative leave after a wave of discontent following students' scrutiny of his social media accounts. The main complaints, at least according to the students themselves, center on Chief Hect having "liked" tweets that in some cases were issued by the National Rifle Association and in others were supportive of the president of the United States.    NEWS Identifying the Problem of Gun Control Research In 2017, anti-gun researcher John Donohue and his team released a study that purported to find that Right to Carry laws increase overall violent crime rates. The paper was updated six months later seemingly to address criticism of its methodology and produced the same conclusion. Readers may be familiar with the study as an anti-gun press fawned over the results without questioning the mechanism of the effect or the methodology itself.    NRA HUNTERS' LEADERSHIP FORUM Brain Science Shows How Hunters Win or Lose at Survival Why is someone who has everything he needs to survive being lost in the woods—including skills and supplies—found dead while someone else—with no gear or training—is found alive? Sure, some of it is chance, but survivors, no matter their nationality, religion or economic strata, share similar character traits and patterns of decision-making that increase their chances of making it out alive. If you've read Laurence Gonzales' "Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies and Why" then you already know that you need to practice this way of living long before you get off course in a blinding snow storm, your business fails or you're diagnosed with cancer. If you've followed up that book with "Surviving Survival: The Art and Science of Resilience" then you know even more about how the brain processes survival and how you can use hunting, for example, to help heal post-traumatic stress disorder.   NRA HUNTERS' LEADERSHIP FORUM "Snapshot Wisconsin" Uses Citizen Science to Aid Wildlife What do you do if you have more than 6,000 blocks of habitat to survey for wildlife management, but you don't have anywhere near the number of biologists or field technicians needed to accomplish the task? Answer: If you are a research scientist with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR), you come up with a wild idea. You ask the public if it would be willing to help. You ask if state residents would set up and monitor thousands of trail cameras in areas of suitable habitat across the state. And you'd call it Snapshot Wisconsin.   LEGAL & LEGISLATION Vermont: Your State Representative Needs to Hear From You Immediately! A couple weeks ago, the Vermont House Judiciary Committee held a public hearing on an anti-gun bill that ended with the committee chair gaveling down the waving of the American flag during the proceedings.   WASHINGTON EXAMINER Court Halts Public Housing Gun Ban, Big Win for Ill. Rape Victim A federal court on Thursday cleared the way for an Illinois rape victim to have a gun in her public housing apartment to protect herself from further domestic violence, the latest judicial victory for Second Amendment advocates.   PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE DA Says Not Yet to Private Criminal Complaints Against Gun-Controlling City Officials While some Pittsburgh residents are ready to file private criminal complaints over the city's recently passed gun-control laws, the Allegheny County district attorney's office on Thursday warned: Not so fast. 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