The Briefing Room
General Category => National/Breaking News => Second Amendment => Topic started by: Elderberry on August 22, 2022, 11:31:02 pm
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NRA-ILA 8/22/2022
Gun control advocates have renewed a longstanding plan to have the Federal Trade Commission (which regulates commercial speech) punish firearms manufacturers for how they advertise firearms. A petition filed with the FTC by several large firearm prohibition organizations claims that any suggestion firearms provide protection to their owners or make their homes safer is tantamount to false advertising. The petition also suggests that the use of patriotic, militaristic, or macho images and languages in firearm advertising – the same themes used to sell everything from beer to vehicles to sun glasses – is deliberately being used to appeal to insurrectionists and mass shooters.
While both accusations are so outlandish as to defy serious rebuttal – even the CDC has substantiated the pervasive reality of defensive gun use against crime – it remains to be seen if the FTC will nevertheless take the bait. Anti-gun members of Congress certainly have and recently held a hearing to try to give impetus to this political narrative of “illegal” firearm advertising.
It takes a very tortured reading of the First and Second Amendments to conclude that the Second guarantees the right of Americans to protect themselves from victimization, but the First doesn’t protect the right of firearm manufactures to tell law-abiding Americans about their right to do so.
More: https://www.nraila.org/articles/20220822/gun-control-groups-target-firearm-related-speech-again (https://www.nraila.org/articles/20220822/gun-control-groups-target-firearm-related-speech-again)
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:facepalm2:
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Well shoot.
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Death by a thousand cuts.