GOA Issues ‘State Of The Second Amendment’

By Tom Knighton

The Gun Owners of America issued their version of the State of the Union yesterday via a press release.

GOA’s State of the Second Amendment

Springfield, VA – In light of the traditional State of the Union address, Gun Owners of America (GOA) has issued the “State of the Second Amendment” in 2018.

According to Erich Pratt, executive director of GOA, “The State of our Union is … 1,000% better than it was almost 13 months ago under Barack Obama. But not nearly good enough.”

“Under Barack Obama, we were fighting a new rule that would troll Social Security disability rolls for names to send to the NICS gun-ban list,” Pratt said. “That anti-gun rule has been repealed, thanks to [pro-gun] activists!”

And while President Trump has certainly been more gun friendly than Obama, there are still battles for gun rights under his administration.

“Even under Donald Trump, the ATF is considering, by executive fiat, banning any device that [allegedly] ‘accelerates the rate of fire’ of a semi-automatic firearm,” Pratt said. Furthermore, the dangerous “Traffic Ticket Gun Ban” is still looming in Congress.

However, on the state level, Pratt is very optimistic that many states will adopt pro-gun measures such as Constitutional Carry and …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms