H.R.1585 uses the Serious Issue of Domestic Violence as Smokescreen for Banning Guns

By Ammoland

Opinion

Washington, DC – -(AmmoLand.com)- The NRA opposes domestic violence and all violent crime, and spends millions of dollars teaching countless Americans how not to be a victim and how to safely use firearms for self-defense. It is a shame that some in the gun control community treat the severity of domestic violence so trivially that they are willing to use it as a tool to advance a political agenda.

H.R.1585 – Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2019

H.R. 1585 seeks to expand the list of misdemeanor crime convictions that result in permanent firearm prohibitions. Permanently losing a fundamental civil right for a misdemeanor conviction is virtually unheard of outside the Second Amendment context, so this bill is a clear attempt to treat the Second Amendment as a second-class right. H.R. 1585 uses the legitimate and serious issue of domestic violence as a smokescreen for its real goal — banning firearms ownership.

The NRA never commented on this Act before because it never included gun control.

The Violence Against Women Act could simply have been reauthorized as is, but Speaker Pelosi added gun control to the legislation.

• Under the Gun Control Act (GCA), …Read the Rest

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