GOA’s Grassroots at Work Around the Country

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GOA Working to Thwart Gun Confiscation Plans

Dear John,

Virginia is Ground Zero in the fight against gun control this year. And gun owners are rising to the challenge.

Over 100 counties, cities and towns have declared themselves to be Second Amendment sanctuaries in Virginia. And more are expected to join them very soon.

GOA representative Val Finnell (right) is working with Judge-Executive Kevin Neal to make Marshall County, KY, a 2A Sanctuary.

Gun Owners of America has been assisting the state gun rights group -- Virginia Citizens Defense League (VCDL) -- in promoting these sanctuaries throughout the state.

In county after county, thousands of concerned Virginians have been showing up to county Board of Supervisor meetings to demand protection from the Governor’s gun confiscation plans -- and the crowds are breaking attendance records in the process.

The threat of gun confiscation is real.

At a November 6, 2019 press conference, a Washington Post reporter asked Governor Northam whether he supported confiscating “assault” weapons from gun owners. “That’s something I’m working [on] with our secretary of public safety,” he said.

GOA has also been actively pushing sanctuary counties in the nearby states of Pennsylvania and Kentucky.

To read more on the efforts in these two states, please read the full alert here.

GOA lays out a vigorous defense of sanctuary counties

The anti-gun left has not taken kindly to the outpouring of opposition to gun control in Virginia.

Incredibly, Democrat lawmakers are bullying police and county supervisors in the Old Dominion with all kinds of threats -- including arrest and prosecution if they support 2A sanctuary counties.

GOA responded by penning an oped column in one of the largest papers in the state. The editorial, which ran in the Roanoke Times, succinctly shows why sanctuary counties do NOT violate state law:

The real undermining of the “Rule of Law” is the effort by Gov. Northam and his administration supporting bogus laws that would imprison Virginians for simply possessing common firearms that are still legal to own and possess in all 50 states!

You can click here to read the entire GOA column.

Share the article with your pro-gun community, and if you live in Northern Virginia, please share this with your county Board of Supervisors. (You can download a listing of their names and email addresses here.)

GOA shoots down calls for more gun control

In other news, no one was shocked when the anti-gun left called for more gun control in the wake of the recent Naval base shooting in Pensacola, Florida.

GOA’s Michael Hammond responded by penning the “Opposing View” for a gun control debate in USA Today.

Hammond forcefully challenged the ineffectiveness of gun-free zones in his column which found over 80% of readers agreeing with his position.

Go here to read Hammond’s article and to vote “Strongly Agree” with his position in the USA Today poll.

Pro-gun Dickey amendment is preserved,
but there’s a catch

More recently, GOA alerted you about the liberal push to fund anti-gun studies with your money.

As of Tuesday morning, every Leftist news outlet in Washington was trumpeting the death of the pro-gun Dickey amendment -- which prevents taxpayers’ funds for gun control advocacy -- and the defeat of the gun lobby.

MSNBC ran a banner headline “U.S. to fund gun-violence research after 20-year freeze.”

But as GOA’s Legislative Counsel Michael Hammond reports, the truth, as usual, was much more nuanced. And thanks to the untiring work of Representative Kay Granger (R-TX) and Representative Tom Cole (R-OK), the Dickey Amendment remains in law, at least on paper.

Read the rest of Hammond’s report on the Dickey amendment by clicking here for the full article.

In Liberty,

Erich Pratt
Senior Vice President
Gun Owners of America
Follow me on Twitter: @erichmpratt

P.S. To read this alert online, please go here.