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Thursday, March 22, 2018

YouTube Enters The Censorship Era

YouTube Bans All Gun Demonstration Videos

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by AWR HAWKINS21 Mar 20189,178

YouTube is entering the gun control debate with a new ban on videos which demo firearms or link to websites selling firearms or firearm accessories.

The move to ban firearm demos dovetails with the media platform’s desire to “prohibit videos with instructions on how to assemble firearms.”

Ironically, guns built at home have not been part of the mass public attacks that have drawn national attention over the past months and years, but guns acquired at retail via background checks have been.

Bloomberg reports that YouTube issued a statement in coordination with new prohibitions, saying, “We routinely make updates and adjustments to our enforcement guidelines across all of our policies. While we’ve long prohibited the sale of firearms, we recently notified creators of updates we will be making around content promoting the sale or manufacture of firearms and their accessories.”

The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) said YouTube’s policy shift is “worrisome.” They fear that “educational content” may now be lumped in with prohibited firearm videos and everything lost together.

NSSF observed:

We suspect it will be interpreted to block much more content than the stated goal of firearms and certain accessory sales. We see the real potential for the blocking of educational content that serves instructional, skill-building and even safety purposes. Much like Facebook, YouTube now acts as a virtual public square. The exercise of what amounts to censorship, then, can legitimately be viewed as the stifling of commercial free speech.

YouTube’s new prohibitions come just days before students around the nation convene for the march for gun control.

Monday, January 30, 2017

Lead Free Ammo And Fishing Tackle Now Illegal. Trump Should Undo It

Trump needs to undo this last minute Obama attack on the 2nd Amendment now

Posted on January 23, 2017 by Sam Rolley

Just before President Barack Obama’s last day in office, he quietly took one last jab at American 2nd Amendment supporters and sportsmen with an order that would make it illegal to use traditional lead ammunition.

The action, Director’s Order No. 219 from the Fish and Wildlife Service, would “[r]equire the use of nontoxic ammunition and fishing tackle to the fullest extent practicable for all activities on Service lands, waters, and facilities by January 2022, except as needed for law enforcement or health and safety uses.”

According to the government’s reasoning, the ban would protect the health of humans, fish and wildlife.

But there’s virtually no scientific research to prove that the use of lead ammunition and fishing tackle negatively affects the health of outdoorsmen or wildlife.

While it isn’t likely that the ban will improve wildlife health, it will certainly make it more expensive for hunters and fisherman forced to purchase more expensive ammunition and fishing equipment.

Unsurprisingly, the administration pushed the action through without consulting the nation’s sporting community.

“This directive is irresponsible and driven not out of sound science but unchecked politics,” said Lawrence Keane, senior vice president and general counsel of the National Shooting Sports Foundation.

“The timing alone is suspect. This directive was published without dialogue with industry, sportsmen and conservationists. The next director should immediately rescind this, and instead create policy based upon scientific evidence of population impacts with regard to the use of traditional ammunition.”

The Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies said the Obama administration’s decision to push the order through without consulting state wildlife agencies “flies squarely in the face of a long and constructive tradition of states working in partnership with the Service to effectively manage fish and wildlife resources.”

“This is unacceptable federal overreach into the states’ authority to regulate the methods of take for sport fish as well as complete disregard for the states’ concurrent jurisdiction with the Service for the management of migratory birds. Further, the economic impacts of this action, which likely will be felt most by rural Americans, is likely to be hundreds of millions of dollars,” said Association President Nick Wiley.

The National Rifle Association, meanwhile, predicts that the ban will be “short lived.”

“Like so much of what Barack Obama claimed as ‘accomplishments,’ it will hopefully amount to little more than a symbolic act of defiance by a president with little of substance to show for his eight years in office,” the NRA said in a statement.

Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Left Has A Weak Argument With Its Attempt To Allow Gun Manufacturers And Seller Lawsuits

Survey: Majority of Americans Oppose Lawsuits Against Gun Makers, Dealers

An employee shows handguns to customers at the RTSP shooting range in Randolph, NJ. (Photo credit Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images)

By Jason Devaney | Monday, 25 Apr 2016 07:35 PM

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Nearly three-quarters of Americans support the rights of gun makers and retailers when it comes to victims of crimes and their desire to file a lawsuit.

According to the results of a poll released Monday by the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), 72 percent of those surveyed do not think victims of crimes involving firearms should be able to sue gun manufacturers or stores because of what happened to them.

The Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA) of 2005 protects gun makers and dealers from lawsuits stemming from crimes in which their products are used.

The percentage of various groups that support the PLCAA, according to the survey results: