Taxpayer-Funded Anti-Gun College Study Blows Up In Democrats’ Face

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Taxpayer-Funded Anti-Gun College Study Blows Up In Democrats’ Face
Association of New Jersey Rifle & Pistol Clubs
Association of New Jersey Rifle & Pistol Clubs

USA –  -(Ammoland.com)- On Thursday, May 18 2017, legislation that would have created a taxpayer-funded anti-gun think tank at Rutgers University blew up on the launchpad amidst opposition from gun owners, legislators, and Rutgers itself!

S2830 was slammed at a hearing of the New Jersey Senate Higher Education Committee. Senators Tom Kean, Jr. (R21) and Ronald Singer (R30) railed on the bill’s selective focus on “gun violence” to the exclusion of other forms of violence, as well as the potential costs.

The bill was held from further consideration and no vote was taken after the Committee heard testimony from Rutgers University representatives who said that the legislature should not be telling the University what to research.

The legislation, sponsored by Senator Fred “one-gun-a-month” Madden (D4), was a transparent attempt to create an anti-gun think tank cloaked in the legitimacy of academia.

NJ Gun Banner, Democrat Senator Fred Madden

It also would have co-opted several state agencies to be at the beck and call of the think-tank to answer data requests, including the Motor Vehicle Commission, the Department of Health, the State Police, and the Department of Law and Public Safety.

Thank you for your efforts to defeat this legislation. This outcome is yet another example of how gun-owner involvement in the legislative process makes a difference in the Garden State.

About Association of New Jersey Rifle & Pistol Clubs:

The Association of New Jersey Rifle and Pistol Clubs, Inc. is the official NRA State Association in New Jersey. Our mission is to implement all of the programs and activities at the state level that the NRA does at the national level. This mission includes the following: To support and defend the constitutional rights of the people to keep and bear arms. To take immediate action against any legislation at the local, state and federal level that would infringe upon these rights. Visit: www.anjrpc.org

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Jacob Opperman

I do not want any of my tax dollars being spent on any anti-gun grants, bills, or funding at any institutions, schools, or companies. I carry cause I must in this day and age to protect my self, my family, and my friends. I have two friends who are police officers and they have stated quite well, “DO WHAT YOU NEED TO DO TO HELP PROTECT YOUR SELF AND FRIENDS AND FAMILY CAUSE WE CAN NOT BE EVERY WHERE 24/7 364 DAYS A YEAR.” So that is why I do what I do and do not want any one on… Read more »

Wild Bill

@JO, Yes, why should any of our tax dollars be spent on anti-Second Amendment Civil Rights propaganda.

Vanns40

Wild Bill: While the outcome is good I have to admit that I am surprised that, being NJ, they didn’t jump on this. Unless they’re protecting their own little fiefdoms I wonder what the rationale is?

By the way, if you want to contact me I set up a throwaway email to get started: [email protected]