Your Help Urgently Needed! Comment Period Open on Biden’s Illegal Background Check Rulemaking

Read this week's Grassroots Alert! view the web version of this email NRA-ILA GRASSROOTS VOLUME 30, NUMBER 34   NEWS   Your Help Urgently Needed! Comment Period Open on Biden's Illegal Background Check Rulemaking Your help is urgently needed, as the official comment period on ATF's rulemaking, "Definition of 'Engaged in the Business' as a Dealer in Firearms," began on Friday, September 8. Comments on the rule will be accepted for 90 days, until December 7, 2023. The more comments ATF receives exposing the flaws, false premises, and overreaching nature of the rule, the more ATF will have to answer for if the agency persists in this ill-conceived effort. While it might be true that no amount of well-reasoned opposition will cause the Biden Administration to discontinue its persecution of gun-owning America, thoughtful comments exposing the proposal's true nature may embarrass ATF into rewriting some of its worst provisions. And if that doesn't happen, judges will be on notice that ATF was warned of the proposal's problems when the final rule is, inevitably, challenged in court.   NEWS   Government Continues to Downplay, Distort Data on Defensive Gun Use In 2021, John R. Lott, Jr., the president of the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) released a paper on the "serious errors" he found in Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) reports purporting to track "active shooter incidents" (ASIs). The FBI's annual or biannual reports – which aim "to provide federal, state and local law enforcement with data so they can better understand how to prevent, prepare for, respond to, and recover from these incidents" – contained, according to Dr. Lott, critical errors. In one instance, the failure to include "many major missed cases" meant that once those cases were accounted for, what the FBI had presented as a drastic increase in ASIs between 2000 and 2013 was actually a "slight, statistically insignificant upward trend over the 38 years from 1977 through 2014," and one that was, moreover, attributable to high numbers in a single year (2012).   NEWS   Biden Admin Continues to Terrorize Gun Owners In the legal world there is a Latin term in terrorem. The term is used to describe actions designed to intimidate or terrorize someone into a certain course of conduct, often in cases where the actual legal ability or willingness to demand that course of conduct are dubious. In short, rule through fear rather than legitimacy or the law.   FOX NEWS NRA slams Democratic governor's gun order, issues harsh advice FIRST ON FOX: The National Rifle Association slammed Democratic New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham for "ignoring" the Constitution and temporarily suspending open and concealed carry across Albuquerque and the surrounding Bernalillo County under an emergency public health order.   TAKE ACTION   Grassroots Spotlight: What is NRA Freedom Fest? The strength of NRA-ILA Grassroots is based largely on the important networking relationships built within Second Amendment communities nationwide. For the last several years, your NRA-ILA Grassroots Team has been working closely with community partners to elevate that critical outreach and build signature NRA-ILA Grassroots events celebrating freedom and firearms including an exciting opportunity called NRA Freedom Fest. STATE GRASSROOTS ROUND-UP California California: Legislature Passes 11% Gun & Ammo Tax Kansas Kansas: Former Kansas State Rifle Association President Patricia Stoneking Presented with NRA-ILA Distinguished Advocate Award New Mexico Governor Lujan Grisham Attempting Unconstitutional Gun Ban in Bernalillo County! SHARE THIS EMAIL FOLLOW NRA-ILA © 2023 National Rifle Association of America, Institute For Legislative Action. To contact NRA-ILA call 800-392-8683. Address: 11250 Waples Mill Road Fairfax, Virginia 22030.  Please do not reply to this email.  Unsubscribe from this email list | Manage your email preferences   Thank you!