Yes, however Akers Amendment from 3/6 was superseded by two other ones from Martin on 3/11 and according to local media coverage the bill that was ultimately signed into law doesn’t have Akers stuff in it.
That’s why I posted the full text of the legislation that was actually signed into law. There’s no “amendment” or text that I can find in that legislation that matches the stuff from Akers. It looks to me like Martin successfully killed Aker’s amendments on the 11th of March.
Here’s the text of the bill that was passed: https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Text_HTML/2025_SESSIONS/RS/bills/sb456 sub1 enr.pdf
Can someone please point out where this language is because I’m not finding it and it tracking the history of this bill, found here, it appears to me that it was removed.
So, is your stance that a leftwing armed resistance movement shooting CEOs wouldn’t cause the right-wing gun lobby to support gun control like they used to?
No group is a monolith, especially groups numbering in the tens of millions, so of course some number of right-wing gun owners would suddenly swing to supporting gun control however those folks would be in the minority. I simply can’t foresee the majority of right-wing gun owners suddenly regaining their appetite for gun control in anything less than literal decades.
With that answered what about the left-wing anti-gun lobby? Since essentially every politician to the the left of US Representative Brian Fitzpatrick has been on a decades long crusade for ever increasing gun control how would they react to more CEO shootings?
The NRA was suddenly in favor of gun control after the Black Panthers started patrolling with guns.
I despise the NRA but this kind of revisionist history needs to be called out.
First off prior to 1977 the NRA had an established history of supporting Gun Control. It didn’t suddenly pop into being because of the Black Panthers.
Second when the Mulford Act was passed in 1967 it started a sea change at the NRA that culminated with the “Revolt at Cincinnati” in 1977. The NRA as an organization supported Mulford, like it had other Gun Control legislation for at least 50 years, but it’s very clear that their membership did NOT and they took over the organization to keep it from continuing.
Today’s NRA is a completely different beast than the one that existed in 1967. It’s primary faults are that it got corrupt as fuck and that it’s entirely silent whenever there’s a conflict between lawful gun owners and law enforcement.
Regardless, the point stands. The NRA wasn’t “suddenly in favor of gun control after the Black Panthers”, it already had multi-decade history of supporting Gun Control.
It’s protectionism on China’s part and they’ve stopped beef imports from far more than just the United States.