New Zealand Fallout: Gun Groups Say ‘2A Not Negotiable’

By Dave Workman

Opinion

USA – -(AmmoLand.com)- Two national gun rights organizations headquartered in the Pacific Northwest came out swinging in the hours after worldwide attention turned to the mosque massacre in New Zealand, warning gun prohibition lobbying groups in the United States against trying to exploit the tragedy.

In a joint announcement, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms and Second Amendment Foundation were blunt: The Second Amendment is not up for grabs.

“Friday’s attack is an outrage against peaceful people everywhere,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb, who also founded SAF and serves as its executive vice president. “But rest assured, the acts of a madman halfway across the world and in a different hemisphere will not be allowed to provide this country’s gun prohibition lobby with yet another excuse to erode the cornerstone of our Bill of Rights.”

In an obvious effort to head off the kind of sensationalist exploitation of other mass shooting incidents, regardless where they happen, SAF and CCRKBA literally took off the gloves.

“We understand that in the …Read the Rest

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