Donnelly Calls Newsom’s Gun Control Ballot Initiative “a Disaster”

By Jenn Jacques

In California, Former Republican Assemblyman Tim Donnelly is fired up over the Lt. Governor’s latest infringement on the Second Amendment.

On Friday, just hours after Gavin Newsom began submitting signatures to place on the fall ballot his gun-control measure, Donnelly savaged the effort as a “disaster,” and predicted it would cause a surge of GOP voters in November.

“This should be a warning to the left,” said Donnelly, who wore a National Rifle Association hat as he spoke at the state GOP convention.

“I am not going to call it anti-gun legislation,” he added. “What it is is anti-freedom legislation because, essentially, people have figured out that the government can’t and won’t protect us. So the only way we could do that is protect ourselves. That means we have to have the ability to keep and bear arms.”

Newsom on Friday began turning in about 600,000 signatures for his “Safety for All” initiative requiring background checks for ammunition, among several other provisions. On Thursday, Newsom said it would send a “potent and powerful message to the National Rifle Association.”

Donnelly, who was once cited for bringing a loaded gun to an airport, said in recent …Read the Rest

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