As you know from yesterday’s alert, the NRA has cut a deal to exempt themselves from proposed legislation that is intended to greatly curtail the free speech and activism rights of other organizations.
Today the NRA issued a statement saying the bill “would have undermined or obliterated virtually all of the NRA’s right to free political speech and, therefore, jeopardized the Second Amendment rights of every law-abiding American.”
OFF has heard from some who claim the bill is not a problem because it does not mention guns. Others have claimed that groups like Gun Owners of America have sensationalized the bill “to raise money.” Well apparently the NRA had the same impression of the bill that GOA had. But NRA has cut a deal that protects them from a bill they claim creates “onerous restrictions on free speech.”
In their statement they note: “The most potent defense of the Second Amendment requires the most adamant exercise of the First Amendment.”
Now that they have been exempted they plan no opposition to the legislation.
You can read the NRA’s statement here
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