{"id":1604,"date":"2014-08-25T17:47:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T17:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2014\/08\/25\/if-you-want-to-donate-here-are-some\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:24:27","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:24:27","slug":"if-you-want-to-donate-here-are-some","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=1604","title":{"rendered":"If You Want To Donate, Here Are Some Better Groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:11570,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.subzin.com\\\/quotes\\\/M6778387a\\\/Blazing+Saddles\\\/Not+only+was+it+authentic+frontier+gibberish...&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.subzin.com\\\/quotes\\\/M6778387a\\\/Blazing%20Saddles\\\/Not%20only%20was%20it%20authentic%20frontier%20gibberish...&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11571,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/saf.org\\\/?page_id=66&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11572,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.mountainstateslegal.org\\\/contribute&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.mslegal.org\\\/contribute&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:215,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.nradefensefund.org&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260303073517\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.nradefensefund.org\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 01:27:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-30 15:49:02&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-30 15:49:02&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nJonathan Lowy of the Brady Center recently sent out the e-mail seen below crowing about going three for three in court cases involving certain semi-automatic rifles whose cosmetics horrify the gun prohibitionists. He is referring to cases that challenged new state laws that created a magazine ban, an &#8220;assault weapons&#8221; (sic) ban, or both. The states involved were Connecticut, Maryland, and New York.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>After the Sandy Hook tragedy where a gunman fatally shot 20 children and 6 adults, state lawmakers finally said \u2018ENOUGH IS ENOUGH\u2019 and took action.<\/i><br \/>\n<i><br \/><\/i><br \/>\n<i>New York, Connecticut, and Maryland made it more difficult to buy military-style assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines, so these weapons of war would never again threaten lives in our homes, schools and communities.<\/i><br \/>\n<i><br \/><\/i><br \/>\n<i>Unfortunately, the corporate gun lobby saw a threat to their profits and went to court to challenge these laws.<\/i><br \/>\n<i><br \/><\/i><br \/>\n<i>At the Brady Center\u2019s Legal Action Project, we didn\u2019t let these attacks on our public safety go unchallenged. We filed amicus briefs and worked closely with state officials to help them defend these life-saving laws. Law firms with our national pro bono alliance, Lawyers for a Safer America, were critical to these efforts.<\/i><br \/>\n<i><br \/><\/i><br \/>\n<i>WE ARE 3-for-3 SO FAR. Federal trial judges in ALL 3 STATES have upheld the new laws. Your support helped us win these victories.<\/i><br \/>\n<i><br \/><\/i><br \/>\n<i>But our work continues \u2014 the gun lobby is appealing the rulings, which means we\u2019re still working hard with states and filing amicus briefs to meet the challenge. On August 5, we filed a brief in the New York case. Next week we\u2019re filing in Connecticut.<\/i><br \/>\n<i><br \/><\/i><br \/>\n<i>These federal appeals cases are critically important \u2013 the rulings will set far-reaching precedents on the power of states to protect their communities from gun violence.<\/i><br \/>\n<i><br \/><\/i><br \/>\n<i>We need your support to preserve the victories we\u2019ve won so far and make sure the corporate gun lobby isn\u2019t allowed to put profits over people\u2019s lives.<\/i><br \/>\n<i><br \/><\/i><br \/>\n<i>Please support the Brady Center today to help us keep our winning streak going, and protect lives in our nation\u2019s homes, schools and communities.<\/i><br \/>\n<i><br \/><\/i><br \/>\n<i>With gratitude,<\/i><br \/>\n<i><br \/><\/i><br \/>\n<i>Jonathan Lowy<\/i><br \/>\n<i>Director, Brady Center Legal Action Project<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m surprised that Mr. Lowy didn&#8217;t include the nonsensical ruling out of Colorado which upheld the Hickenlooper mag ban.<\/p>\n<p>The recent decision out of Maryland does show that certain judges who are ignorant about firearms and who have a bias against them will listen to what the Brady Center puts into their amicus briefs. Even though those of us in the gun culture consider their arguments to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.subzin.com\/quotes\/M6778387a\/Blazing+Saddles\/Not+only+was+it+authentic+frontier+gibberish...\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;authentic frontier gibberish&#8221;<\/a> we still need to counter them. Thus I donate to groups like the <a href=\"https:\/\/saf.org\/?page_id=66\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Second Amendment Foundation<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainstateslegal.org\/contribute\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mountain States Legal Foundation<\/a>, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nradefensefund.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NRA Civil Rights Defense Fund<\/a> who will present the counter arguments to the Jonathan Lowy&#8217;s of the world.<\/p>\n<p>I would encourage you to do the same if you can.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Lowy of the Brady Center recently sent out the e-mail seen below crowing about going three for three&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[313,492,440,972,2519,384],"class_list":["post-1604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-brady-center","tag-gun-rights","tag-jonathan-lowy","tag-mountain-states-legal-foundation","tag-nra-civil-rights-defense-fund","tag-second-amendment-foundation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9978,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions\/9978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}