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VICTORY: Court Rules a Bump Stock is NOT a Machine Gun

Springfield, VA – Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit reversed the district court’s decision, which had denied GOA’s motion for a preliminary injunction on bump stocks. Gun Owners of America is seeking an injunction to prevent ATF from implementing a final rule incorrectly classifying bump stocks as machineguns under federal law.

This case was brought by Gun Owners of America (GOA), Gun Owners Foundation (GOF), the Virginia Citizens Defense League (VCDL), Matt Watkins, Tim Harmsen of the Military Arms Channel, and GOA’s Texas Director, Rachel Malone.

“Today’s court decision is great news and told gun owners what they already knew,” said GOA Senior Vice President Erich Pratt. “We are glad the court applied the statute accurately, and struck down the ATF’s illegal overreach and infringement of gun owners’ rights.”

Gun Control in Colorado Fails to Stop Evil Killer

Springfield, VA – On Monday, an unchecked Mass Public Murderer claimed the lives of at least ten Americans, including one police officer, at a King Soopers, a store whose corporate policy restricts the rights of law-abiding citizens to bear arms in Boulder, Colorado.

Unsurprisingly, anti-gun politicians and lobbyists such as Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America politicized the tragedy — calling for more gun control laws, saying:

Our leaders owe Americans #MoreThanThoughtsAndPrayers. Send your senators a message and tell them to take action NOW.

They also promoted Senate Democrats’ calls for gun control:

As we prepare for tomorrow’s hearing on gun violence prevention, gun violence is once again ravaging our nation—from the two mass shootings in the past week, to the daily toll of homicides, suicides, and accidental deaths.

Thoughts & prayers aren’t enough. It’s time for action.

Aidan Johnston, Director of Federal Affairs, answered these reactions by stating, “Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America and Everytown for Gun Safety fail to recognize or apologize for their role in facilitating the present Mass Public Shooting.

“Both gun control groups spent years harassing Kroger Co. Family of Stores like King Soopers into banning the open carry of firearms. The corporation finally capitulated in 2019, ‘[a]fter five years of pressure from Everytown and Moms Demand Action.’”

By demanding law-abiding gun owners shop elsewhere, Moms Demand Action and Everytown practically turned King Soopers into a soft target ripe for exploitation by criminals like this mass murderer.

“Moms Demand Action and Everytown — not Second Amendment Advocates — should apologize for their role in advocating for gun control and disarming the victims of this tragedy,” Johnston continued. “Everytown and Moms Demand Action don’t want our thoughts and prayers, but they also refuse to empower Americans with the very tools used to end this tragic Mass Public Shooting: guns.”

Armed citizen engagement is a proven and effective tool [see page 5]. Gun owners like Stephen Willeford and Jack Wilson have used firearms successfully to save lives during active shooter incidents.

Johnston concluded:

Americans should have their right to carry firearms for self-defense restored by Congress with legislation like the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2021 and by state legislatures with Constitutional Carry.

Colorado’s Universal Background Checks, similar to H.R. 8 as recently passed by the House of Representatives, did not prevent this Mass Public Murderer from obtaining his firearm.

And an unconstitutional, so-called “Assault Weapons” Ban would not prevent this criminal from possessing an AR-15.

None of Colorado’s existing gun control prevented this Mass Public Shooting and no amount of gun control ever will.

Aidan Johnston, or another GOA spokesperson, is available for interviews. Gun Owners of America is a grassroots nonprofits dedicated to protecting the right to keep and bear arms without compromise. For more information, visit GOA’s Press Center.

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We need to take action before it’s too late.

Democrats are trying to pack the courts with anti-gun judges who would effectively destroy the Second Amendment.

Senator Tom Cotton introduced an amendment that would have made it impossible for anti-gun liberals to pack the courts — but with Kamala’s tie-breaking vote, Democrats struck it down and continued down the path to assuming absolute power.

Now it’s time to unleash the political wrath of American voters upon the Democrats and ensure Republicans keep standing united against the anti-gunners’ court-packing schemes.

Please add your name to our pre-written letter to either chastise your Senators for failing to vote for Sen. Cotton’s amendment or thank them for holding the line — our system will automatically select the correct letter for your Senator whether they voted correctly or incorrectly.

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Democrat Senators like Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema have been selling themselves as “middle-of-the-road” and “bipartisan” senators.

…Because they know that their constituents back home in West Virginia and Arizona would vote them out in a heartbeat if they fully embraced Kamala’s radically anti-gun agenda.

But with their recent vote to open the door to court packing, voters in those conservative states need to know just how similar to Kamala these “moderate” Democrats really are.

Court packing would allow the Democrats to appoint as many judges as they want to the Supreme Court.

If the current Supreme Court were to strike down a national handgun ban, all Democrats would have to do is appoint enough anti-gun justices until they call it “constitutional.”

The Constitution would effectively cease to exist — and YOUR rights would be completely decided by 10 or 12 unelected left-wing clones of Sotomayor and Kagan.

It’s time to turn up the heat on the Senate floor before our rights are gone.

Please add your name to our pre-written letter to either chastise your Senators for failing to vote for Sen. Cotton’s amendment or thank them for holding the line — our system will automatically select the correct letter for your Senator whether they voted correctly or incorrectly.

Take Action to Contact Your Senators and Save the Filibuster!

There’s no way to sugarcoat it.

With Joe Biden in the White House, and Senator Chuck Schumer ruling the Senate, we are in for a very rough two-to-four years.

And the very survival of America as we know it is at stake, especially if Democrats succeed in eliminating the Senate filibuster – a procedure which effectively requires legislators to first garner 60 votes (out of 100) before they can move legislation.

In an apocalyptic environment where the filibuster has been eradicated, you can expect to see a Democrat Congress ramming through gun bans, gun owner registration and more.

And to make sure that everything they do is ruled “legal,” anti-gun Democrats have threatened to pack the U.S. Supreme Court.

You must understand: The reason that we have been so successful in defeating gun control over the past decade is because of the Senate filibuster. But now, Democrats are threatening to nix it!

This is where you come in.

It is imperative that you contact your Senators using this link and urge them to STAND FOR THE FILIBUSTER!

It’s a tough road ahead, but we have to hold all 50 Republican senators and pick up one Democrat. Republicans should stand for the filibuster, just for their own survival against the onslaught from the Left.

But snatching a Democrat from Schumer’s clutches will be more difficult. The most likely possibility is Democrat Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia, who is considered a moderate and has promised to support the filibuster.

The radical Left has already started putting pressure on him – which led GOA to start mailing into his state. We started a “put the heat on Manchin” campaign earlier this month, and so far, the results have been encouraging.

Grassroots Activism is Already Working!

Three days after we began our push in Manchin’s state, he went on Fox News (on January 11) and said that he would not back Schumer’s efforts to eliminate the filibuster. Rather, he would encourage Schumer to sit down with Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and “work in a bipartisan fashion [and] find some compromise” on whatever issue they were debating.

This is why we tell you all the time that your activism makes a huge difference. Grassroots activism matters!

But our job is not done. I need you to contact your two Senators. It doesn’t matter to which Party they belong. Republicans will be bolstered in their determination if they hear from thousands of their constituents.

And as for the Democrats? Admittedly, it will be tougher to peel away a few more from Chuckie’s clutches, but it is possible.

National media is reporting that there are other Democrat Senators who might join Manchin, because they want to preserve the filibuster for themselves when the Republicans take control of the Senate, some day in the future.

Our efforts to kill gun control will rise and fall on whether we preserve the filibuster. We are clinging by our fingernails.  But the alternative is letting go and falling off the cliff.

So again, please contact your two Senators right away using this link and urge them to OPPOSE any changes or limitations to the filibuster.

This will be one of the most important battles that we fight this year!