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1. NRA-ILA - keep the pressure up!
2. Correction on checking CHP renewal effective date
3. VCU doesn't trust its own "no guns" policy ;-)
4. Richmond Times-Dispatch editorial stomps on the imaginary "gun show
loophole"
5. Ammoland covers the National Reciprocity petition
6. Petition status update
1. NRA-ILA - keep the pressure up!
The NRA-ILA has heard from hundreds of us and there has been a response through
the state representative. Yes, the message has excuses for the NRA-ILA not to
help, but we can turn this around if enough of us make our voices heard! If
you haven't done this yet, please do so:
We have 13 days left to reach 100,000 signatures on the National Concealed
Carry Reciprocity petition. As of 3pm on August 4th there are right at 17,000
signatures. We have a long ways to go in those 17 days!
We need national groups to step up to the plate, including the NRA!
Here in Virginia there is a statewide NRA-ILA coordinator. I think he would be
a logical person to contact about this. I've met him in person and he's
excellent. Knowing the NRA, he can't make any decisions himself, but he should
be able to pass our message up the chain of command.
TIME IS SHORT: EVERYONE, please contact:
Patrick DeStefano
email: patr...@nrailafrontlines.com
Phone: 864-680-0399
and politely ask him to have the NRA join the fight to get those 100,000
signatures by August 17th!
**Tell friends and family outside of Virginia to call the NRA-ILA headquarters
about the petition! Spread the word!**
Contact GOA, CCRKBA, and SAF, too!
2. Correction on checking CHP renewal effective date
I came down with a bad case of type-o-itis in the last Update. Here is the
corrected item #4 with "90 to 100 days" changed to "90 to 180 days." Ugh.
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Member Leo Carling and others have caught a mistake on their renewed permits,
where the effective date is wrong.
If you put in your renewal application between 90 and 180 days before
expiration of your existing permit, the new permit should begin on the date
your existing permit expires. Warren County and others have made this mistake.
DO NOT LET THEM GET AWAY WITH IT. Talk to the Circuit Court Clerk directly and
demand a corrected permit ASAP.
3. VCU doesn't trust its own "no guns" policy ;-)
Thanks to member Clayton Rhoades for the link and his acute observation: "VCU
must not believe in their own gun ban very much to do exercises to simulate an
attack."
VCU knew their gun ban wouldn't make anyone safer from the beginning. As with
all gun bans, it only endangers those it purports to be protecting. More and
more states are allowing college/university carry and of which has been
successful. Here in Virginia, Liberty University is leading the way.
http://m.nbc12.com/nbc12/db/330650/content/rsoEyXE6
4. Richmond Times-Dispatch editorial stomps on the imaginary "gun show
loophole"
http://www.richmond.com/opinion/our-opinion/editorial-the-gun-show-loophole-seems-to-have-shrunk/article_de9cdcc4-48ea-5862-b1d7-75b1445fbb03.html
or
http://tinyurl.com/y9wbfv3q
Editorial: The gun-show loophole seems to have shrunk
If you follow debates in Virginia’s General Assembly, you might get the
impression that the state could sharply curtail the violent-crime rate if only
lawmakers would close the “gun-show loophole.” New data suggest the impression
is mistaken.
Federally licensed firearm dealers must conduct a background check on
prospective purchasers, but private sellers don’t have to. That’s true
regardless of whether the transaction takes place at a gun show or not. Yet to
hear advocates and some legislators talk, you’d think gun shows provide
hardened criminals with a steady stream of easy weapons.
In fact, the claim has never held up well. Most criminals get their guns
through other means, such as “sharing arrangements with fellow gang
