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rbell2915
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JAN 19, 08:04 PM
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Make sure you guys are spending time at the range for training.
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2.5
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JAN 20, 10:57 AM
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| quote | Originally posted by rbell2915:
Make sure you guys are spending time at the range for training. |
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For sure, a tool is only as good as the one using it and don't forget how important mindset is too.
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sourmash
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JAN 20, 11:38 AM
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*sigh confession time.
I never shoot.
I don't really enjoy shooting.
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2.5
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JAN 21, 09:37 AM
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| quote | Originally posted by sourmash:
*sigh confession time.
I never shoot.
I don't really enjoy shooting. |
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Maybe just not the right gun, right setting, or right people with / not with you at the time.
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2.5
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JAN 21, 09:44 AM
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Here is an example of how nuts things can quickly get.
“Requiring every gun owner in my city to carry liability insurance will better compensate unintentional shooting victims and their families for medical and related expenses,” Liccardo reasons in his Op-ed. “Imposing a modest annual fee on gun owners can support underfunded domestic violence and suicide prevention programs, gun-safety classes, mental health services and addiction intervention.”
San Jose, Calif., Mayor Sam Liccardo is reminding Californians the San Jose City Council is scheduled to vote Jan. 25 on two proposals he offered last summer that are sure to raise hackles, mandatory liability insurance and “the payment of annual fees to fund violence-reduction initiatives.”
It is not clear how much the fee will be, but Liccardo appears to be setting up the city for an expensive future in court, and not just in state courts, but in the federal court, since his plan may constitute placing a tax on the exercise of a constitutionally-protected fundamental right.
At least the mayor also admits, “These new laws won’t end all gun violence.”
This has become the standard operating caveat of any recent gun control crusade: “It won’t solve all of the problems.” Gun rights activists contend it won’t solve any of the problems.
“Failure to comply with the ordinance would constitute a civil violation rather than a criminal offense.” However, police officers could confiscate firearms from people who cannot provide proof of insurance, and they could be fined. Furthermore, according to the newspaper, “Refusal to hand over firearms upon a request from police could result in a misdemeanor charge.”
https://www.ammoland.com/20...ance-annual-gun-fee/[This message has been edited by 2.5 (edited 01-21-2022).]
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2.5
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FEB 02, 04:23 PM
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2.5
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FEB 15, 12:24 PM
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If you weren't aware, certain Banks are descriminating against 2nd amendment freedoms in the USA.
"Woke Bankers
When everyone started being “woke” that was all the excuse some executives needed to cut their firms’ ties with the firearms industry. They were “virtue signaling.”
After several major banks and investment groups began shunning the firearms industry by denying gun-related businesses access to banking services, the National Shooting Sports Foundation has been quietly working with primarily Republican-led, but pro-Second Amendment states to attach a penalty to the practice.
Texas has already passed anti-discrimination legislation. It prevents Bank of America Corp., Goldman Sachs Group and JP Morgan Chase & Co. from participation in the public-finance markets there.
GOP lawmakers in Arizona, Kentucky, Missouri, Ohio, South Dakota, and West Virginia have legislation pending that would restrict those same bankers from participating in the very lucrative public-finance business in their states.
As you imagine, the bankers are squawking- loudly- about being “discriminated against.”
But their lobbyists are finding it tougher to convince legislators in Frankfort, Kentucky than in Sacramento, California, that their practices are legitimate business decisions. Instead, they’re finding a different political reality in states that skew more red than blue.
The municipal finance market has always intertwined with politics. Bankers depend on relationships with officials to win business. I’ve covered more than one business story where those relationships got a bit too cozy, leading to city, county, and state officials finding themselves residents of correctional facilities they once governed.
Today, as Financial Advisor reports to its readers, as “the nation is increasingly divided on issues from vaccines to education, financial institutions that restrict their dealings with gunmakers- and in some states, oil and coal companies as well- now face blowback even in the normally staid world of public finance.”
The municipal market is a $4 trillion dollar business. If -or when – these states pass their legislation, it will have the potential to really shake that business up.
Texas, where the law went into effect on September 1st, 2021, writes around $50 billion in annual debt sales. Only California provides more business for bankers.
Opponents of the legislation say limiting the number of competitors for a state or municipality’s business is a “hidden cost to taxpayers.” Fewer lenders, they say, will lead to higher costs for access to capital.
The GOP Legislators’ Response?
They’re defending their constituents from “corporate America’s attack on their way of life.”
The NSSF’s Larry Keane has been involved in the NSSF efforts since their beginning. He says there’s a very simple solution: “banks,” he says, “can simply stop discriminating.”
At the SHOT Show governor’s roundtable, Keane continued to push the governors in attendance to push back against “woke banking.”
There’s no guarantee any of the proposed legislation will pass. Indiana’s legislation died in committee last month. We are, after all, talking about politics. And it seems politicians don’t always listen to their constituents once they get into office.
But these states are populated with plenty of staunch 2A supporters who are also voters.
Legislators tend to listen to them more closely when we’re approaching election years."
LINK[This message has been edited by 2.5 (edited 02-15-2022).]
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2.5
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MAR 25, 01:56 PM
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"Seattle is the home of Amazon’s corporate headquarters, employing more than 80,000 people. It is also one of the nation’s epicenters of crime, rioting, and looting
The online sales behemoth that embraces gun control and defunding police is now witnessing the effects of those policies.
Amazon is moving employees out of a downtown corporate building over concerns of rising crime.
“Given recent incidents…, we’re providing employees currently at that location with alternative office space elsewhere,” an Amazon spokesperson recently told media. “We are hopeful that conditions will improve and that we will be able to bring employees back to this location when it is safe to do so.”
To understand how the neighborhood became so violent as to force them to relocate their employees to safer confines, Amazon may want to look in the mirror..."
rest at link:
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*Cliff, we'll neeed to move this one to the new politics area.[This message has been edited by 2.5 (edited 03-25-2022).]
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