Hey .@SenateMajLdr McConnell: we know it can be hard to think of what the federal government can do to stop school shootings when you’ve taken $1.6 million in .@NRA money, so we made a simple thread. #NoRA
We know you like to say mental health is the problem. (It’s not the whole problem, but ok). Maybe stop gutting Medicaid and community health centers. Mental healthcare for the poor is a critical tool to stop many kinds of violence. #NoRA
Mandate trigger locks and safe storage. Properly stored and secured guns could have prevented any number of shootings, including Sandy Hook. #NoRA
Raise the age to legally purchase long guns to 21, and require waiting periods and background checks on ALL gun purchases or transfers. #NoRA
Require active confiscation and storage of weapons of those arrested for violent crimes until a judge rules otherwise. #NoRA
Add those convicted of misdemeanor animal cruelty to the federal list of prohibits possessors. #NoRA
Mandate live-fire training and firearm liability insurance before sale or transfer of firearms. #NoRA
Treat firearms like cars: require registration, inspection, training, and licensing for ALL firearm purchases. #NoRA
Nationalize red flag laws, like the #ERPO Republican Charlie Baker signed into law today, allowing those closest to people likely to hurt themselves or others to ask a judge to order temporary confiscation of their firearms. #NoRA
Ban bump stocks and limit magazine capacity. Amend federal law to prevent manufacturers who try to circumvent it from being able to.
And that’s just the easy stuff. Maybe turn off the .@NRATV, @SenateMajLdr. And the NRA money. And do your damn job. #NoRA
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The Gilboa Snake Double Barrel Assault Rifle is coming to a gun shop near you.
This Israeli gun is designed specifically to avoid laws against machine guns in the US, and to hold TWO 30-round magazines. Thread. #NoRA
US Law defines a machine gun as "...any weapon which shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily restored to shoot, automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger."
Pretty clear, right? Well this gun has TWO triggers. #NoRA
...So technically, it fires two rounds almost simultaneously, by a single function of each trigger. Much like bump stocks, it relies on a deadly technicality to legally exist.
What @Dloesch, @Benhowe and @NRATV are trying to do by breathlessly attacking @alyssa_milano because 1 event security guard she did not hire and we did not ask to be armed may have made a personal choice to carry a weapon is to distract you from the following things that matter:
1. The @NRA just appointed a man who sold arms to Iran, funded a dictator and a revolutionary group in Central America and destroyed evidence of the same, and who has a history of attacking LGBTQ and other comminities of Americans as their new president.
2. There is an ongoing and expanding investigation into the @NRA's Russian funding. In fact, during their convention, they hosted TulAmmo, a company with ties to the Kremlin and a recently-sanctioned Russian oligarch.