The National Rifle Association's Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA) is encouraging Delaware gun owners to make their voices heard Wednesday, May 8 at 2:30 p.m. in the state Senate chamber as the legislature considers a trio of gun control bills.
According to the NRA-ILA:
Senate Bill 68 seeks to ban the possession, purchase, manufacture, or sale of the most commonly-owned semi-automatic firearms in Delaware, with limited exceptions. These firearms are popularly owned and used for self-defense, target shooting and hunting. This legislation was also introduced last year at the behest of Governor Carney and relentlessly pushed by anti-gun legislators. Thankfully, it failed in 2018 after NRA Members and Second Amendment supporters continuously urged their lawmakers to oppose it. This year, NRA Members and Second Amendment supporters will need to continue contacting their legislators if they want to repeat the same success.
Senate Bill 70 would outright ban the possession, purchase, sale, and manufacture, of any magazine that can hold more than 15 rounds of ammunition. Further, all currently covered magazines would need to be relinquished by June 30, 2020. Legislation like this only affects law-abiding gun owners, because criminals will not abide by it.
Senate Bill 82 replaces the previously introduced gun control measure, Senate Bill 69. Like SB 69, this bill would impose a requirement that individuals obtain training and a permit in order to purchase a firearm in Delaware. Not only does this place another arbitrary hurdle on what is a Constitutionally-guaranteed right, it is a dangerous practice that could slow an individual’s ability to purchase a firearm for self-defense when they need it most. SB 82 is an egregious attempt to create more avenues to deny someone their Second Amendment rights, including discriminating against those who are financially less fortunate.
These are common measures that Democrat legislatures nationwide are moving to implement. They want to ban scary black rifles, they want to limit the number of rounds you can carry to defend yourself, and they want to make the cost to exercise your 2nd Amendment rights prohibitive, especially for the poor.
Delaware is also taking a page from California's book by requiring people to give up property (standard-capacity magazines) without compensation—a violation of the 5th Amendment.
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