freebeacon
Stephen Gutowski
October 31, 2017 2:50 pm
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http://freebeacon.com/culture/gun-groups-slam-nfls-san-francisco-49ers-half-million-dollar-gun-control-donation/Gun-rights groups criticized the San Francisco 49ers this week for donating half-a-million dollars to a new gun-control effort.
In the lead up to the winless team's defeat at the hands of the best team in the National Football League, the 7-1 Philadelphia Eagles, the 49ers announced they would be making the donation to an effort to ban bump fire stocks, silencers, and "armor piercing bullets." The 49ers said they would be partnering with a number of police unions representing officers from cities like Oakland, Santa Clara, Los Angeles, New York City, and Portland in the new gun-control effort. The money donated by the 49ers will go towards an outreach campaign that will include public-service announcements.
"It seems insane to me that a citizen can buy something like that," 49ers CEO Jed York told the Mercury News of bump fire stocks. "I'm not anti-Second Amendment. This is something that is common sense."