{"id":17006,"date":"2017-09-08T15:09:20","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T22:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calitics.com\/?p=17006"},"modified":"2017-09-08T15:16:02","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T22:16:02","slug":"the-nra-sues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2017\/09\/08\/the-nra-sues\/","title":{"rendered":"The NRA comes up with new excuses to keep weapons on our streets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/53384435@N06\/4979252760\/in\/photolist-8zZYnw-8ihrqE-dFHKBa-avBvPp-b6pqBe-dFP8GQ-9558m1-DpUBr-cYE6LU-o5NzYE-dk8iq5-9Sp5Hw-89pfBE-csB7EC-z8pU6-avEaFf-avEaFU-caUnY3-aRCU-dh6ejA-5mA79p-X7UQD-89m4Uv-89pgH1-89m1hD-qDye71-dh6ewc-fRNPUJ-7hCH6c-qwZP5f-oqG3F-7hGCNd-4XveDH-cCDDZE-csBdUj-7hCEfT-o8j8M-JGRFBX-avBvUi-89pgDQ-avEaKQ-7hCHCp-6geJ8E-dgtf3C-cCDEjC-b6pqSz-cYE6PU-89m52k-7hGBC3-89m2ur\" title=\"Gun\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4151\/4979252760_84ac0019db.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Gun\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/><em>National group funded by gun manufacturers files suit against assault weapons regulations<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Brian Leubitz<\/p>\n<p>The NRA has a problem in California. They don&#8217;t have their normal power here, but they are still awash in money. So, the money goes to the lawyers instead of the politicians, because it is pretty tough to get Democrats to touch the stuff these days. The lawyers are getting quite creative too:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The new lawsuit, filed Thursday in Fresno Superior Court, seeks to block the new regulations, arguing that new rules requiring registration of existing assault weapons \u201cgo far beyond\u201d the allowed registration process, and \u201cunlawfully expand the scope\u201d of the state\u2019s registration requirement. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/politics\/essential\/la-pol-ca-essential-politics-updates-nra-files-another-lawsuit-challenging-1504887910-htmlstory.html\">LA Times<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Long story short, the legislation banned guns with a &#8220;bullet button&#8221; that allowed for easy clip transfer. The NRA already sued on that one. But the guns that were out in circulation get to stay in their owners possession, but they have to be registered. The NRA likes neither of these, and sued on both aspects.<\/p>\n<p>It will be a while before we get a final ruling on these cases, but we may see some sort of short term action in the interim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National group funded by gun manufacturers files suit against assault weapons regulations by Brian Leubitz The NRA has a problem in California. They don&#8217;t have their normal power here, but they are still awash in money. So, the money goes to the lawyers instead of the politicians, because it is pretty tough to get Democrats &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2017\/09\/08\/the-nra-sues\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The NRA comes up with new excuses to keep weapons on our streets<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-87"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-4qi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17006"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17008,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17006\/revisions\/17008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}