Bloomberg, Anti-Gun Left’s ‘Gun Control’ Initiative is ‘Going to Cost Lives’

By Ammoland Editor Joe Evans

By Jeff Knox

USA -(Ammoland.com)- Suicide is a pervasive problem in our country. While the U.S. has a much lower suicide rate than many “gun-free utopias” like Japan, we still have far too many of our fellow citizens, particularly our veterans, taking their own lives each year.

New laws pushed by Mike Bloomberg and his cabal of nanny-state billionaires, don’t just make suicide prevention harder, they can make it illegal.

In Nevada, where Bloomberg and his minions spent over $16 million to eek out a narrow victory (winning by less than one half of one percent, and only achieving a majority in one county) on a “universal background check” initiative, proponents are now admitting that they made a mistake, and want to “tweak” the law to add additional exceptions for emergency firearm transfers in cases where someone might be suicidal, and some domestic violence situations.

But initiatives can’t be amended for 5 years.

Under the law as it was passed, it is illegal for anyone to transfer a firearm – even just temporarily for safe-keeping – except under very narrow exemptions. In all other cases, both the person transferring the guns, and the person receiving …Read the Rest

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