Brooklyn Official Brags About Trying To Silence NRA Members

[txradioguy]

A city council member in Brooklyn, New York, giddy with the fact that a group that supported the NRA didn’t publicly advertise a meeting in Brooklyn, celebrated his and other officials’ efforts to discourage the NRA from assembling in Brooklyn:

Justin Brannan
@JustinBrannan

Looks like we've successfully chased the @NRA underground in #Brooklyn. Now they've gotta sneak around behind our backs and book catering halls under fake names just to have a meeting. Sounds about right.

http://brooklynreporter.com/story/breaking-brooklyn-friends-nra-hold-dinner-dyker-k-c-tonight/ â€¦

Brannan isn’t alone among Brooklyn officials who hate the NRA and want to keep them out of Brooklyn; according to the Brooklyn Reporter. The Reporter wrote that the Brooklyn Friends of the NRA had wanted to hold an event featuring a gun auction in Brooklyn, but two venues, Gargiulo’s in Coney Island and the Grand Prospect Hall in Park Slope, backed out after local residents and elected officials raised hell, so the group rescheduled their event at the Dyker Heights Knights of Columbus without publicizing the event.

Here are some examples of Brooklyn officials or candidates for office condemning the event once news leaked out that it was indeed going to take place:

Andrew Gounardes, one of two candidates for the Democratic nomination for State Senate: “I think this is absolutely outrageous. The NRA has absolutely no place in Brooklyn. They do not believe in common-sense gun laws. They do not believe in keeping our neighborhood safe and the fact that they have to sneak around our community just to hold a fundraiser shows how wrong they know they are and how unwelcome they are in our community.”

Ross Barkan, another Democratic candidate for State Senate in Bay Ridge/Dyker Heights: “The NRA is a disgraceful organization. After every mass shooting, the NRA proves it cares more about deadly assault weapons than human lives. It is, in every way, morally bankrupt. For the NRA to come to Brooklyn, to the place I call home, is unconscionable.”

https://www.dailywire.com/news/29963/disgusting-brooklyn-official-brags-about-trying-hank-berrien