{"id":1390,"date":"2021-08-28T12:00:46","date_gmt":"2021-08-28T12:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grnc.org\/wp\/index.php\/2021\/08\/28\/grnc-alert-8-10-21-action-vital-to-repeal-purchase-permits\/"},"modified":"2021-08-28T12:00:46","modified_gmt":"2021-08-28T12:00:46","slug":"grnc-alert-8-10-21-action-vital-to-repeal-purchase-permits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grnc.org\/wp\/2021\/08\/grnc-alert-8-10-21-action-vital-to-repeal-purchase-permits\/","title":{"rendered":"GRNC Alert 8\/10\/21: Action Vital to Repeal Purchase Permits"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today, HB 398, \u201cPistol Purchase Permit Repeal,\u201d passed the NC Senate Judiciary Committee despite vociferous objections by two committee Democrats, Natasha Marcus (D-Mecklenburg) and Mujtaba Mohammed (D-Mecklenburg).<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
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Eloquent defense of the bill was provided by Rep. Jay Adams (R-Catawba) and Sen. Chuck Edwards (R- Buncombe, Henderson, Transylvania), who pointed out that the NC Sheriffs Association supports the repeal<\/strong> and that under current law, potentially unqualified firearm buyers can bypass the NICS system by using purchase permits as old as five years. Thanks are also due to the sheriffs\u2019 association, whose representative testified that advances in mental health reporting have made the permit law \u201cduplicative.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n

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As usual, Marcus and representatives of North Carolinians \u201cAgainst Gun Violence\u201d (formerly North Carolinians for Gun Control) promulgated mistruths about guns being purchased without background checks at gun shows and online sales, blithely ignoring the reality that <\/span>the same laws apply in those venues as anywhere else.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n

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Amusingly enough, Marcus admitted the Jim Crow discriminatory origins of a law which is being used even now to disproportionately deny guns to minorities, meaning that in the interest of banning guns, <\/span>Democrats are now defending racism.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n

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Perhaps most ironic was Marcus\u2019 claim that she is \u201cnot anti-gun\u201d but merely \u201canti-violence,\u201d<\/strong> which not only belied the fact that she and others like her always support restrictions on gun ownership, <\/span>but also attempted to falsely cast gun rights supporters as <\/span>\u201cpro-violence.\u201d<\/span><\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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IMMEDIATE ACTION REQUIRED!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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