Here’s the NRA-ILA’s press release announcing the suit:įAIRFAX, Va. While wait periods, equipment bans and ERPOs are already law in a variety of other states, arbitrarily denying Second Amendment rights to adults of a certain age would seem to be the most promising target for a constitutional challenge. – The creation of “extreme risk protection orders” to seize guns from suspect individualsīut the provision of the new law that the NRA chose to challenge in court is the new prohibition on long gun sales to anyone under 21 years old. – A three-day waiting period on long gun purchases
There’s much in the new bill - legislation the NRA’s Florida lobbyist calls “political eyewash” - that gun rights supporters will find anathema, among them: Less than an hour after Florida Governor Rick Scott - who also happens to be running for the US Senate - signed the “Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act” into law yesterday, the National Rifle Association announced that they had filed suit against the state over the one of the law’s provisions. In fact, Ellison attended multiple meetings with Farrakhan during. That includes Democratic National Committee (DNC) deputy chair Keith Ellison, who led the public to believe that his relationship with Farrakhan ended in 2006. Third, new reporting revealed that several House Democrats had closer relationships with Farrakhan than the public had been led to believe. As of this article, neither Mallory nor the Women’s March has denounced Farrakhan. When she faced a backlash from attending Farrakhan’s speech, Mallory suggested that Farrakhan’s anti-Semitism made him like Jesus. Mallory had already faced public scrutiny over her relationship with Farrakhan. The Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish civil rights organization, slammed Mallory and other Women’s March leaders for their closeness with Farrakhan. Second, Women’s March leaders have come out in support Farrakhan gave a rabidly anti-Semitic speech in February with Women’s March leader Tamika Mallory in attendance. Twenty-one current House Democrats were in the CBC when Farrakhan had his meeting with the caucus.
The CBC asked him to suppress the photo’s publication in order to protect Obama’s presidential aspirations, the photographer said. Barack Obama smiling with Farrakhan at a Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) meeting in 2005. Farrakahn’s close ties to the Democratic Party have re-emerged as a political issue after he was revealed to have been closer with several House Democrats than they let on.įour House Democrats revealed to have met with Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan during their time in Congress are now refusing Jewish civil rights groups’ pleas to denounce him.įarrakhan is a notorious racist and anti-Semite whose closeness with the Democratic Party has re-emerged as a political issue due to three recent developments.įirst, a Nation of Islam photographer revealed a 13-year-old photo of then-Illinois Sen.Four of those House Democrats now refuse to denounce Farrakhan (and two others have misled the public about their prior relationships with him).Eight House Democrats have met with notorious racist and anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan during their time in Congress.
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