Blooming assault on Nevada gun rights

wnd.com ^ | 11/28/2014 | Jeff Knox

[rktman]

Everytown’s Washington, D.C., attorney reserved the Nevadans for Background Checks name with the Nevada Secretary of State’s office earlier this year. Filing information for the PAC and nonprofit corporation formed to push for the initiative, which significantly changes the state’s firearm transfer laws, lists Tara Paone as “director, president” of the nonprofit and as “director” of the PAC. Tara Paone is elsewhere listed as treasurer for Everytown for Gun Safety in New York, and was listed as the director of the Everytown fund in support of I-594 in Washington. Ms. Paone’s LinkedIn profile says she is a professional manager for nonprofits and that she resides in New York City. The address listed for her on the Nevada paperwork appears to be a street address, but is actually a post office box. The other person listed on the PAC and incorporation paperwork, as treasurer and director respectively, is an attorney and lobbyist named Matt Griffin, who appears to be an actual resident of the state.

[rktman]

Don't ya just love when out of staters take an interest in your state? They sold the NV initiative petition fairly easily and if we don't have any more success in countering it like in Washington State, they'll be pumping truck loads of cash to place mis-leading ads once again. And NV gun owners will be the next ones in line for "Did you hand the firearm to someone else?" flow chart insanity.

[Shimmer1]

NV news ping

[Sasparilla]

Guns are on sale almost everywhere today. Last years black Friday sales were about 150,000. Thats about two every second. In light of Ferguson, that record will probably be broken today.

[rktman]

Here’s a link for NV supporters of our constitutional rights. Those in NV, if you can, you/we need to get on board early on this. I don’t know if the Washingtonians got on board early enough or not but being outspent 8 to 1 is a tough row to hoe.

http://nevadansforstategunrights.com/

[MileHi]

Don't ya just love when out of staters take an interest in your state?

Yeah, been great for Colorado /s

[rktman]

There’s a whiny butt article in the reno gazette urinal today about how many gun sales are “slipping” through the cracks on days like today due to the volume of checks requested. Quoted some fbi “supervisor”. If their system is broke, might as well take it out on law abiding citizens right? Wait, WTH?

[rktman]

Yup. I saw the same “gatherer” that had the anti gun petition was doing double duty near the post office. On one clip board she had the anti gun petition and on another one a petition to “regulate and tax” marijuana in NV. Basically legalize recreational use. Of course that wasn’t the way it came across. An anecdotal letter to the editor stated that a “gatherer” on the UNR campus told a potential signer that he needed his sig since he was getting paid by the signature. Apparently the person declined to sign either petition.

[rellimpank]

----live in the state and are true grass roots volunteers – say this looks like a violation of Nevada law. They point out that, while paying signature gatherers on an hourly basis is acceptable, paying them commissions per signature makes the gatherers commission sales people, which is forbidden because it provides incentive for them to distort the intent of the petition. They also point out that Nevada law identifies any door-to-door sales activity – including commissioned signature gathering – as sales, requiring both a business license and a solicitor’s license. Neither the Bloomberg front group nor the “volunteers” had such licenses.

--would hope this gives us a legal basis to throw out the petitions?

[rktman]

Sadly, the only mention of the “pay per signature” was a letter to the editor. Hopefully someone has actual proof of them doing that. There was also a “tweet” soliciting folks to be flown to NV and put up for week while “gathering” signatures. I guess that’s okay. Regardless, the sales pitch was “Keep criminals from getting guns by the ‘loophole’.” meme that they constantly use. Didn’t bother to go into any detail and I’m pretty sure that even if the potential signer bothered to read the petition didn’t see the ramification of it. The petition was pretty vague like I’m sure it was in WA.

[rellimpank]

—there was someone doing the same “signature gathering” in Pahrump but enough of a crowd when I voted that I didn’t pay any attention—also noted in the local newspaper that the “gatherer’ was doing both the pot and Bloomberg signature gathering—

[Shimmer1]

Please post this to Null and Void, he lives in NV. I live in GA. ;D

[rktman]

I know redreno and a couple of others live in NV so hopefully nullandvoid will see it as well. Hope things are going well in GA. Looks like GA has neither initiative or referendum process. I guess it looked good on paper to a lot states but what a load of crap it turns out to be. Basically whoever has the biggest truck load of cash usually wins their desired initiative via lies and mis-representing the facts. First lie out of the gate usually wins.

[Shimmer1]

from rktman:
Here’s a link for NV supporters of our constitutional rights. Those in NV, if you can, you/we need to get on board early on this. I don’t know if the Washingtonians got on board early enough or not but being outspent 8 to 1 is a tough row to hoe.

http://nevadansforstategunrights.com/

[Trailerpark Badass]

Ms. Paone

[ConservingFreedom]

a petition to “regulate and tax” marijuana in NV. Basically legalize recreational use. Of course that wasn’t the way it came across.

Only legal products can be effectively regulated or taxed.

[rktman]

Petition signers were most likely misled to think that this would apply to the medical dispensaries being cobbled together currently in NV. And, you are correct that legal products are the ones reg’d and taxed. Of course that is unless the corner drug dealer, out of the kindness of his heart, charges sales tax and submits it the state. :>} Probably not huh?

[ConservingFreedom]

you are correct that legal products are the ones reg’d and taxed. Of course that is unless the corner drug dealer, out of the kindness of his heart, charges sales tax and submits it the state. :>} Probably not huh?

Oh, sure ... right after he's made his wares available to quality inspectors.

[rktman]

Gotta have the USDA seal of approval. :>}

[Jack Hammer]

Nationwide, the antis are shifting their tactics in an ORGANIZED way.

Running up against constitutional restrictions on their BS, they’re now going after so-called backgrounbd checks as a way in which to restrict firearms ownership.

They will not stop, they’ll be harping on this all year long, and pushing it hard in every state that doesn’t have it.

[rktman]

Any state with an initiative/referendum would be at risk. See link:

http://www.iandrinstitute.org/statewide_i&r.htm