Tag: Secure Firearms Ownership

On April 19th, the state House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives and Sen­ate came to an agree­ment on mutu­al­ly accept­able final lan­guage for House Bill 1240, which pro­hibits the man­u­fac­ture, impor­ta­tion, dis­tri­b­u­tion, sell­ing, and offer­ing for sale of assault weapons. 

For firearm fanat­ics, those “unalien­able Rights” of peo­ple are a sec­ondary con­cern. More impor­tant to them than lives, lib­er­ty, or the pur­suit of hap­pi­ness is the man­u­fac­ture, sale, import, and avail­abil­i­ty of guns. It’s as if the guns are alive. The con­cern these firearm fanat­ics have for guns is real­ly something. 

Read NPI founder Andrew Vil­leneu­ve’s writ­ten tes­ti­mo­ny in sup­port of House Bill 1240, which would pro­hib­it the man­u­fac­ture, impor­ta­tion, dis­tri­b­u­tion, sale, or offer for sale of any assault weapon, sub­ject to var­i­ous excep­tions for licensed firearm man­u­fac­tur­ers and deal­ers, and for indi­vid­u­als who inher­it an assault weapon.

The hor­rif­ic attack, which author­i­ties are inves­ti­gat­ing, remind­ed many of the slaugh­ter at Orlan­do’s Pulse night­club in 2016, which remains the dead­liest inci­dent in the his­to­ry of vio­lence against LGBTQ+ peo­ple in the Unit­ed States and one of the worst mass shoot­ings in Amer­i­can history.