by The Firearms Policy Coalition, unlike the NRA, is refusing the cave to those who call for a ban on bump fire stocks. The FPC is a coalition of state level gun rights groups that is a 501(c)4 grassroots, non-partisan, public benefit organization. Being as they are based in California, they have seen first hand the various incremental attacks by the gun prohibitionists.
From the FPC:
Firearms Policy Coalition Statement Repudiating Proposed Bans on Semi-Automatic Firearms and Accessories, Including “Bump Fire” Stocks
SACRAMENTO, CA (October 6, 2017) — Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) has issued the following statement concerning calls for new bans and regulations on firearms and firearm accessories:
In depraved acts of self-centered posturing, politicians who do not respect our Constitution are leveraging the recent tragedy in Las Vegas to push for more unconstitutional bans and restrictions on common, semi-automatic firearms and their accessories. These important Second Amendment-protected instruments are purchased, possessed, and responsibly used for lawful purposes by millions of Americans across our great nation.
Just as blogs and websites are protected by the First Amendment, and the Fourth Amendment’s shield against unreasonable searches and seizures applies to advanced devices like an iPhone, so too are modern semi-automatic firearms like AR-15s and their appurtenances protected by the Second Amendment.
History shows that gun control is a one-way ratchet, with so-called “compromises” resulting only in more laws that affect law-abiding people and fewer ways to exercise Second Amendment rights. And there is no textual, circumstantial, or emotional exception to the Constitution’s guarantee that “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
Law-abiding gun owners will not be bullied by killers or politicians, nor will we give up fundamental individual liberties at the shrill cries of Marxist Democrats or unprincipled Republicans, wealthy Hollywood elitists, the alt-left news media, or billionaire-backed Astroturf groups.
All unconstitutional laws are unjust, illegitimate, and offensive to the rule of law—even if they are enacted in response to a very real tragedy. FPC opposes all restrictions on the acquisition, possession, carry, and use of common, semi-automatic firearms, ammunition, and accessories by law-abiding people.
Whatever the conversation our country might wish to have about the evils found in human nature, and whatever questions we as a society might have about how to better address those moral and cultural deficiencies, no legitimate answers will be found in additional emotion-driven gun control laws that undermine our American system of ordered liberty.
FPC calls on House Speaker Paul Ryan, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and every member of Congress to pass important legislation to protect and advance the Second Amendment rights of law abiding people without further obstruction or delay. That is the job they were elected to do.
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And this is why I give money to the FPC, and not to the NRA/NRA-ILA.
Consider the GOA, as well. They are a no-compromise group, too. This statement by the FPC is excellent. Reasoned, logical, accurate, and standing firm in the face of knee-jerk responses not only by the gun-control crowd, but even by Republicans, who were elected to protect our rights, not rush to give them away.
The NRA – much like the SLPC – exists simply to frighten people (Second Amendment folks in this instance) into donating and filling their pockets. They have given up so many of our rights, by helping to actually write gun control legislation, starting with the NFA in '34, continuing with the GCA in '68, and including the debacle of the Lautenberg Amendment.
Doubt me? Look for a copy of the March 1968 American Rifleman, where the NRA brags about NFA '34 and GCA '68, saying how they proved they could be "reasonable", were willing to compromise with the other side. But the NRA _never_ has gotten anything in return from the gun control crowd in exchange for whittling away at our Second Amendment rights.
"The National Rifle Association has been in support of
workable, enforceable gun control legislation since its very
inception in 1871."
NRA Executive Vice President Franklin L. Orth
NRA's /American Rifleman/ Magazine, March 1968, P. 22
"We think it's reasonable to support the federal Gun-Free School Zones Act. … We think it's reasonable to expect full enforcement of federal firearms laws by the federal government. … That's why we support Project Exile — the fierce prosecution of federal gun laws…we think it's reasonable because it works. … We only support what works and our list is proud."
NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre
Congressional Testimony, May 27, 1999
Hearing Before 106th Congress
House of Representatives
Committee On The Judiciary
Subcommittee On Crime
First Session