Chris Cox of NRA-ILA and Alan Gottlieb of SAF discuss mostly national reciprocity, but also the Hearing Protection Act and the actions they are lobbying for in Congress. One of the only times I have ever heard the mainstream big name Second Amendment rights advocates actually single out Hawaii as the worst outlier for denial of rights (most particularly regarding "bear").
Gun-Rights Leaders Say It’s No Time for Complacency'We're on the attack and on the offensive, not just legislatively but also in the courts.'http://freebeacon.com/issues/gun-rights-leaders-no-time-complacency/Excerpts:
At the National Rifle Association's annual meeting in Atlanta, Chris Cox, executive director of the NRA's Institute for Legislative Action, and Alan Gottlieb, founder and vice president of the Second Amendment Foundation, spoke with the Washington Free Beacon in exclusive interviews, the first part of which you can read here.
Both men spoke of the road ahead—there's still plenty the gun-rights movement wants to do. The NRA's biggest legislative priorities are still sitting in Congress without having hearings scheduled yet.
"Our number-one legislative priority remains right to carry reciprocity," said Chris Cox. "We still have a serious focus and a priority on the Hearing Protection Act and how that moves forward whether it's free-standing, whether it's part of a larger package, a sportsman package, a larger piece of legislation or a combination of legislation, that's what we're in the process of working through. So, certainly Congress has not done their job but the president, by any measurement, when it comes to gun rights and the Second Amendment, is fulfilling his promises, and that's ultimately how we judge any politician whether it's the president or a city councilman."
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As in his speech introducing Trump at the annual meeting, Cox guaranteed that the NRA would eventually get national gun-carry reciprocity passed into law. "I'm not guaranteeing that this Congress is going to do anything this week or next week," he said. "All I'm guaranteeing is that the National Rifle Association is committed to seeing this through. We don't care how long it takes. We don't care how many politicians have to be defeated in elections. This is not our first uphill fight. We have been preparing for this fight for decades.
As we've succeeded in passing right to carry laws in state after state, where we've gone from a handful 35 years ago to virtually the entire country—with obvious exceptions of Hawaii and others
who continue to undermine freedom. This is a fight that we've been preparing for decades."