Your NRA-ILA Daily Alert 8-23-2016

NRA-ILA 2016Teen clerk fights off armed robber, PennLive, Harrisburg, Pa. 08/19/16 – A masked man armed with a gun entered Madera Bros. Mini Market in Harrisburg, Pa. and attempted to rob the store. The clerk on duty, 19-year-old Daneurys Santo, responded to the threat by retrieving a shotgun and firing at the criminal. The armed robber was struck by Santo’s gunfire and immediately fled the store. The scene was captured by the store’s surveillance system. Less than a year ago, the store was the target of another robbery, during which Santo’s mother was working at the market. Following the incident Santo had a warning for the robber, stating, “He come again, I do the same.”

 
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mega-donors plow money into Senate, Clinton bids
Another billionaire with his own super PAC, former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, gave $5 million in July. The group, called Independence USA, backs candidates who want stricter gun control measures.
 
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Massachusetts law at center of assault weapons clash
Eighteen years later, the law is at the center of a fierce public debate sparked by Attorney General Maura Healey’s decision to clamp down on the sale of what she calls copycat assault weapons.
 
SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE
California: Gun laws only burden those who obey laws
Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s perversely named “Safety for All” initiative will appear on November’s ballot as Proposition 63, and while he’s working feverishly to exploit tragedy to sway voters to support restrictions on ammunition and gun ownership, we don’t believe for a nanosecond that his rhetoric will sway one evil doer from committing some atrocity. Rather, Proposition 63 will simply further disadvantage those who want to protect themselves, their homes and their loved ones.
 
FRESNO BEE
Politicians protect rights of accused, not law-abiding gun owners
It was dismaying to see congressional Democrats, led by California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, demanding that anyone on the federal government’s “no-fly list” be denied the right to buy firearms.It was a double violation of Americans’ civil rights.
 
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Demand high in Pa. to exercise Right-to-Carry
Dee Thielman knew exactly what to tell her husband to get her for Christmas last year.“I want a gun,” the calm-mannered retiree from Moon recalled saying confidently to the military veteran who had been collecting firearms for years and had a concealed carry permit.
 
STANDARD EXAMINER
Utah Right-to-Carry permits, now numbering 663K, see surge in popularity
The state counted 662,720 valid concealed-carry permits as of June 30, the end of the most recent fiscal year, data from the Bureau of Criminal Identification shows. That’s an increase of 8.3 percent over the previous year, and 74.3 percent over five years ago.
 
INDIANAPOLIS STAR
More gun laws won’t cut violence
If people and the media are truly committed in decreasing gun deaths, they should be intellectually honest enough to push for gun safety classes in our schools and to help educate people about the safe handling of a firearm. We also must recognize where the majority of these gun crimes are occurring and who is committing them. Innocent, rational people are tired of being misled and vilified for exercising their constitutionally protected gun rights, and the continued crusade against our gun rights is based on fear mongering and deception, and definitely not the actual facts.
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