Gilbert AZ –-(Ammoland.com)- Knife Rights is pleased to announce that it has engaged the bipartisan government relations firm Capitol Hill Consulting Group (CHCG) to lobby in Washington, D.C. They will be working with Knife Rights’ friends and allies in the capital to help pass Knife Rights’ Knife Owners’ Protection Act including repeal of the Federal Switchblade Act (KOPA – H.R. 84)
Knife Rights Chairman Doug Ritter said, “A few weeks ago Todd Rathner, our Director of Legislative Affairs, and I were in D.C. meeting with Members of Congress and others. Those meetings were as successful as we might have hoped and we are making significant progress.”
Ritter explained, “for all involved, there is a sense of urgency. Now is our best chance of getting rid of the archaic Federal Switchblade Act. It may well be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Nobody knows what the midterm elections will bring, so we really must plan to get it done in the next 15 months.”
Ritter concluded, “hiring CHCG gives us the edge we need to slice through the quagmire on Capitol Hill and finally repeal the absurd Federal Switchblade Act.”
D.C. lobbyists don’t come cheap. This is going to be a real stretch for us. We need everyone’s help now more than ever! There’s only a few weeks left to donate in our our BIGGEST EVER Ultimate Steel fundraiser and Tail End Bonus. Please Donate TODAY!
You can also help by contacting your members of Congress about KOPA. Click here to find our Legislative Action Center links at the bottom of the page that make it easy to do so.
ABOUT KNIFE RIGHTS
Knife Rights (www.KnifeRights.org) is America’s grassroots knife owners organization, forging a Sharper Future™ for all knife owners. Knife Rights is dedicated to providing knife owners an effective voice to influence public policy. In the past seven and a half years, Knife Rights has passed pro-knife legislation repealing knife bans in 17 states and stopped anti-knife legislation in 6 states. Knife Rights also leads a federal civil rights lawsuit against New York City and the New York District Attorney over their persecution of over 70,000 knife owners.