Notes from the Resistance
“Remember in November” candidate evaluations estimate where candidates stand on gun issues by comparing their views with those of a control group of gun owners. As noted below, a “4-STAR” candidate agrees with control group on at least 90% of gun issues, a 3-STAR agrees on least 80%, a 2-STAR on at least 70%, a 1-STAR on at least 60%, and a 0-STAR candidate agrees on less than 60% of gun issues. [More]
If you’re from there, use this as a guide and do your own due diligence.
Rather than grousing about the cost of red books, the correct solution is to seek legislative redress from the General Assembly by allocating funding for the program. [More]
Me, I’d just get rid of permits.
But you need them for reciprocity to carry in other states?
Like I said, I’d just get rid of permits.
More to come… the most important takeaway for now:
[T]he GRNC Political Victory Fund recommends you vote AGAINST Bill Graham.
It has come to our attention that some Mental Health Companies have been billing individuals that are renewing permit a fee for doing a records check. [More]
You know, just like the Founders used to do…
“Stein’s NCDOJ gives wrong address for meeting. An accident? We think not.” [More]
So I guess they can unplug the “Applause” signs…
GRNC Alert: Concealed handgun training still not resolved [More]
If you’re from there, you’ve got some stuff to do.
You don’t think these hoops should be required?
Then you’ve got a LOT of stuff to do.
WHEN SECONDS COUNT, SALVATION LIES IN A DISTANT PARKING LOT [More]
Grassroots North Carolina’s Paul Valone tells of one of his volunteers who could not have done anything because of the “law.”
Judge allows suit against McFadden to move forward [More]
There’s not much of a sense of urgency when you’ve got 24/7 tax-funded protection…
Error, my a$$. Stein and his loser bureaucrat of a director, Jeffrey Smythe, intended to quietly ram it through with only token input. And but for YOUR emails and calls, they would have gotten away with it. [More]
Dealing with gun-grabbing politicians is like dealing with malevolent adolescents, which is essentially what they are.
GRNC needs the adults to step up.
Stop AG Stein from Gutting Concealed Carry Training [More]
Burden instructors and create a registration list of trainees– what’s not for a politically ambitious Democrat to love?
…until the paperwork is no longer required.
We have some good news to announce, in that Minnesota and Nevada added North Carolina permit reciprocity. [More]
That’s a good first step. Now on to permitless…
Of course, that requires involvement…
Will you let politicians decide what rights you “need?” [More]
Tell NC Republicans the job won’t be done until freedom is achieved, we’re still a hell of a long way off from that, and now is no time for anyone who wants to be taken seriously to quit.
From GRNC, via email:
Many of you have asked how you can help, even from home and on an as-available basis. Well, our Facebook crew has a suggestion. We need “Social Media Ambassadors” to help extend GRNC’s reach on Facebook. All that is required is that from time-to-time social you will be asked via email to 1). invite people to follow the GRNC page and to 2). like, comment and share targeted posts. In terms of how many people we need, the more the merrier.
If you are interested in being a GRNC Social Media Ambassador, please reply with full contact into to DirectorOfDevelopment@GRNC.org using the subject “Social Media Ambassador.”
Think of it as “Advocacy Media.”
NRA TRASHES ‘FREEDOM TO CARRY NC’ BILL [More]
I didn’t see this posted in GRNC Alerts or Press Releases at this time so I copied and pasted their email on my WOG Placeholder blog.
The bit about NRA refusing to compromise is rich.
With the General Assembly’s May 4 “crossover deadline” looming, we need a hearing for House Bill 189 (“NC Constitutional Carry Act”) ASAP. If the bill doesn’t clear at least the NC House, it will be dead for the two year session, effectively meaning it can’t be re-introduced until 2025. You helped us pass SB 41. Now help us pass constitutional carry, eliminating the need for a governmental “permission slip” to exercise your Second Amendment rights. With recent passage in Florida, NC is now among a minority of states which have failed to pass constitutional carry. [More]
If you’re a North Carolina gun owner worth a damn you will sign the petition and contact the Republican leadership and Judiciary Committee members. GRNC couldn’t make it easier. If you’re a North Carolina gun owner NOT worth a damn, I doubt if you’re over here reading this.
I do have a nit to pick with my friends at GRNC: I reject the notion that “some gun rights advocates have objected to the lack of a training requirement.” If they do, that makes them gun CONTROL advocates. And you know how I feel about trainers who put the thin green line over principles.
Recently, Fred Edgecomb, who has been affiliated with both the NRA and its state affiliate, the NC Rifle & Pistol Assoc., was heard claiming credit for passing Senate Bill 41 to repeal NC purchase permits and expand concealed carry into churches sponsoring schools. GRNC members should understand that neither NRA nor NCRPA had any apparent role in passing SB 41. NRA lobbyist DJ Spiker only showed up at the last minute, and we are unaware of any significant action by NCRPA. In truth, it was GRNC volunteers who sent alerts, packed committee meetings, walked legislative hallways, and deluged legislators with input. [More]
The latest GRNC alert requesting support to pass permitless carry is out. All I have is their email and my WoG Placeholder blog didn’t display html right. If I see a working link from GRNC anytime soon I will update this post so those interested can go to where they can see and click on action items.
UPDATE
‘THEN THEY CAME FOR ME…’ [More]
Paul Valone detects a pattern.
“I’m not a huge fan of it, personally,” Stucker said of the move. “As a gun store owner, it puts a little bit more liability on us.” [More]
Is this guy really that stupid, first for talking to the media like they’re honest brokers, and then for throwing his customers under the bus? I want to be careful here because it would have been easy to make assumptions about another gun guy until Herschel took the time to put things in context.
I’ll put out some feelers to our friends at Grassroots North Carolina and see if they can shed any light. Because without finding mitigating circumstances, my kneejerk reaction is to urge gun owners to find somewhere else to go and let this business die.
[Via Steve T]
HOW A RAGTAG BUNCH OF VOLUNTEERS BEAT A SITTING GOVERNOR [More]
Grass Roots North Carolina and gun rights supporters made history today. Senate Bill 41 cleared its final hurdle and will become law after both chambers of the North Carolina General Assembly voted to override Governor Roy Cooper’s veto. SB 41 is the first override of a Cooper veto since 2018 and the first-ever override of a vetoed gun bill in North Carolina. [More]
Now on to the next step…
Grass Roots North Carolina / Forum For Firearms Education
Post Office Box 10665, Raleigh, NC 27605
877.282.0939 (Phone) 919.573.0354 (Fax) www.GRNC.org
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Press Contact: 704.907.9206
E-mail: President@GRNC.org
Release date: March 24, 2023
Link to release: https://www.grnc.org/defend-your-rights/press-releases
Overriding Governor Roy Cooper’s Veto
Today, Governor Roy Cooper vetoed Senate Bill 41, to repeal our Jim Crow-era pistol purchase permit law and to facilitate parishioners in defending churches against violent sociopaths.
Said GRNC president Paul Valone:
“As we predicted, anti-freedom Governor Roy Cooper wasted no time attacking the rights of gun owners. Worse, he attacked the ability of church-goers to protect themselves from attacks on religious institutions that are becoming all too common.
“It will be with great pleasure that GRNC will work to over-ride his veto of SB 41. Given that the bill passed by veto-proof supermajorities in both chambers of the legislature, we have every confidence that we will deliver defeat to his doorstep.”
STOP ANTI-GUN TAKEOVER OF FORSYTH GOP [More]
If this applies to you they need you. No one else will take your place.
Explain the consequences of not being needed, and worse, being perceived as a partner with the Democrats in oppression.
Grass Roots North Carolina won a major legislative victory today, as Senate Bill 41 – including both the church carry and pistol purchase permit repeal – passed in the NC House by a veto-proof majority. The bill now goes to the anti-gun Governor Roy Cooper, who will likely veto the bill within the 10 days allotted. [More]
It’ll be interesting to see how he spins opposing the representatives of the people.
Act Now – Repeal Purchase Permits/Close Church Carry Loophole! [More]
I didn’t see this email posted to their “Alerts” page yet so went ahead and pasted it on my WoG Placeholder site.
You will never go broke betting on the hypocrisy of the left. In this case, the NAACP, NC Black Alliance and other advocacy groups claiming to represent Black Americans are backing (if you can believe this) a Jim Crow law. [More]
That’s because leftist advocacy issues will always take a back seat to the greater goal of securing a totalitarian monopoly of violence.
Besides, remember who the drivers were.
