NRA-ILA 3/13/2020
National Alert: Champaign Illinois First Locality to Cite “Emergency Powers†to Ban Gun Transfers
As uncertainty about the COVID-19 outbreak continues to swirl, it is clear that anti-gun extremists and elected officials will use fear of the unknown to advance their agenda to undermine our firearms freedom. Not surprisingly, it didn’t take them long to try and quietly pass and implement gun control schemes while Americans are focused on ensuring the health, safety and welfare of themselves and their families. ​
Today, an ordinance has passed in Champaign, IL, to empower the mayor to “order the discontinuance of selling, distributing, dispensing or giving away of … firearms or ammunition of any character whatsoever.†This action must be swiftly opposed and NRA members in the area have been alerted and are responding to the threat.
The ordinance in Champaign serves as a warning bell to law-abiding gun owners nationwide. We must be on high alert for any attempts to destroy the Second Amendment in jurisdictions throughout the country.
We don’t have to guess that when emotions are running high, some politicians will exploit the situation to overstep their bounds. We know this. We’ve seen it time and time again, including in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, more recently in the U.S. Virgin Islands, and even in a North Carolina city in the face of unusually harsh winter weather. This is hardly an exhaustive list of such abuses.
More:
https://www.nraila.org/articles/20200313/national-alert-champaign-illinois-first-locality-to-cite-emergency-powers-to-ban-gun-transfers
