mauserme Posted March 17, 2024 at 08:24 PM Posted March 17, 2024 at 08:24 PM Call to Action Witness Slips Needed! Legislatures in blue states continue their attempts to ignore NYSRPA v Bruen, which requires them to base new gun legislation on law that existed at the time of America's founding. If analogous law cannot be found from circa 1791 or, to a lesser extent, circa 1868 when the 14th Amendment was adopted, the Supreme Court tells us those laws are presumptively unconstitutional. In an earlier Call to Action we brought to your attention HB5178 Elec Cd – Firearms Polling Place, a bill that duplicates existing laws prohibiting firearms in polling places. Seemingly embarrassed by his lack of understanding the sponsor, Bridge-Too-Far-Bob Morgan, has filed House Amendment 1 designed to punish gun owning voters by preventing firearm storage within their vehicle while voting. In doing so, by removing the endpoint of a voter's travels from legal firearm possession, it removes possession from the entirety of the journey. This will have a chilling effect on gun owners exercising their right to vote. It will create a choice between the fundamental right to vote and the fundamental right to keep and bear arms. Of course, for people like Mr. Morgan, reducing the number of pro-gun votes might be a desirable, if not intended consequence of this amendment. Another bill, HB4744 Voluntary Do Not Sell Firearms, is the height of anti-gun nonsense. It proposes to create a list to which a person choosing not to own a firearm, can add their name in order to prohibit ownership. As brilliant as the Founders were, in may ways they were simple men and women. Common sense in their day would tell them that if they didn't want to buy something, they simply wouldn't buy it. In their day it didn't need to be any more complicated than that. And it doesn't need to be more complicated now. People have been making choices for millennia without needing a law to compel the choice they made. We do not need this law now, and we certainly don't need a law that may eventually allow family members, law enforcement and “intimate partners” to add the names of gun owners as they can under similar law. And we don't need judges predicating pretrial release on your “voluntary” addition to the list. HB5595 Reporting Lost & Stolen Firearms proposes to increase penalties, including loss of rights, but only for law abiding FOID Card holders. Those illegally in possession of firearms, arguably the same people who are most likely to fail to report, are exempt. In the ultimate logical conundrum, losing one's rights by failing to report stolen firearms removes you from any further reporting requirement. Please help us oppose these bills. There is some light on the horizon, however, and from an unlikely source. Historically anti-gun Representative Kelly Cassidy has filed HB5037 Firearms Used to Commit Crime proposing to return some degree of sentencing control to the courts. Under current law, certain firearm violations require the addition of 15 years to life, to the offender's sentence. This is true even, in some cases, when the accused was not personally in possession of a firearm. HB5037 still allows the imposition of these sentencing enhancements when the court feels they are warranted, but only for offenders who were personally armed. We believe in the need to hold violent offenders accountable for their actions but we also believe in the need to respect a separation of powers between the Legislature and the Judiciary, a separation that requires allowing the Judiciary to weigh facts and sentence accordingly. We invite you to join us in supporting this bill. File Witness Slips Now! Detailed Witness Slip Instructions Log On to the ILGA Dashboard In order to avoid completing each field manually, at the top right Log on to your ILGA Dashboard or Create a New Account if you haven't already created one, then return to this email and click on the links for each witness slip. ### HB4744 Voluntary Do Not Sell Firearm OPPOSE! Read More About This Bill File an OPPONENT Witness Slip Track the Witness Slips HB5178 Elec Cd – Firearms Polling Place HCA 1 OPPOSE! Read More About This Amendment File an OPPONENT Witness Slip on HCA1 Track the Witness Slips HB5595 Reporting Lost & Stolen Firearms OPPOSE! Read More About This Bill File an OPPONENT Witness Slip Track the Witness Slips HB5037 Firearm Used To Commit Crime SUPPORT! Read More About This Bill File a SUPPORTING Witness Slip Track the Witness Slips
soundguy Posted March 17, 2024 at 09:06 PM Posted March 17, 2024 at 09:06 PM Sunday task done. Cheers, Tim
Double P Posted March 17, 2024 at 10:33 PM Posted March 17, 2024 at 10:33 PM The call to action needs a correction. The final listing is green for support and say we support the bill but the link says to file an opponent witness slip. Might cause some confusion.
fenris Posted March 17, 2024 at 10:44 PM Posted March 17, 2024 at 10:44 PM On 3/17/2024 at 5:33 PM, Double P said: The call to action needs a correction. The final listing is green for support and say we support the bill but the link says to file an opponent witness slip. Might cause some confusion. Double P beat me to it. I had to think k twice about that one. It does say file as opponent so some may be.
shawby1 Posted March 17, 2024 at 10:48 PM Posted March 17, 2024 at 10:48 PM I came here to find out about this too.^^^ 1st 3 done .
mauserme Posted March 17, 2024 at 10:50 PM Author Posted March 17, 2024 at 10:50 PM On 3/17/2024 at 5:33 PM, Double P said: The call to action needs a correction. The final listing is green for support and say we support the bill but the link says to file an opponent witness slip. Might cause some confusion. Thanks for spotting that. We do SUPPORT HB5037, and a corrected email clarifying that is on the way.
howie Posted March 18, 2024 at 12:54 AM Posted March 18, 2024 at 12:54 AM What a bunch of morons. DONE!!
Arch_Stanton Posted March 18, 2024 at 01:39 AM Posted March 18, 2024 at 01:39 AM Done. Thank you Mauserme!
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