Posted on 02/12/2019 5:15:14 PM PST by yesthatjallen
The Los Angeles City Council voted on Tuesday to pass a law that requires companies seeking contracts with the city to disclose any ties to the National Rifle Association (NRA).
The Los Angeles Times reported that council member Mitch O'Farrell crafted the ordinance in response to the wave of mass shootings in the U.S. The councilman described the NRA as a "roadblock" to gun law reforms.
The measure passed on Tuesday with a 14-0 vote.
Attorneys for the NRA have threatened to sue over the ordinance, the Times reported. One lawyer for the organization told the news outlet that the law could prompt those with ties to the organization to drop their affiliation out of fear it could cost them business.
The NRA did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The Los Angeles Times reported that the city's attorney informed O'Farrell that the city is on "firm legal ground" with the ordinance.
The NRA has come under mounting scrutiny, particularly from Democratic lawmakers, in the wake of recent mass shootings, including one last year that left 12 people dead in a suburb of Los Angeles.
“One lawyer for the organization told the news outlet that the law could prompt those with ties to the organization to drop their affiliation out of fear it could cost them business.”
Call me crazy, but I think that may be the point of the law.
and if companies say stick your contracts
They can’t be forced to disclose their personal affiliations that are not illegal! The Nazis are running California. Pretty scary.
Sounds like discrimination based on freedom of speech and creed. These are the same goobers who bitch when the census asks if a person is in this country as a citizen.
The NRA kills NO ONE. Planned Parenthood has killed MILLIONS.
But the NRA is bad and PP is good.
What would prevent them from handing certain business to a closely-held third party? Government contracts go to a clean company, original entity retains association - or vice versa.
Make California play the shell game.
no, NRA isn’t much of a roadblock at all to gun-grabbers’ wet dreams
indeed, its a relatively innocuous organization that has capitulated, given away some of American citizens’ rights already
there are some real roadblocks to the gungrabbers, however, including the fact that we still (like to believe we) live in the USA...with our constitutionally-recognized rights...
and of course,
there are some 400 million firearms already owned by Americans, let the (pitiful) LA councilpeople just TRY grabbing them! ha!)
Which anti NRA company guns are they going to arm their cops with.
CA has been a third world dictatorship for a long time. This State will be so removed from the United States that it will become a Venezuela. Many of the middle class are getting out of this State. The communists Democrats are taxing us to hell. The next move will be to outlaw guns and will confiscate every gun. There fear is that eventually what is left of the people will pick up arms and bury them.
Discrimination, pure and simple.
The city attorney of Los Angeles is saying it’s on “firm legal ground” to discriminate against an organization that supports the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution of the USA.
The Los Angeles Times reported that council member Mitch O'Farrell crafted the ordinance in response to the wave of mass shootings baby murders in the U.S. The councilman described the NRA Planned Parenthood as a "roadblock" to gun law reform life.
Would that include every employee ?
Isn’t that a Fourth Amendment violation?
Please send that to him. councilmember.ofarrell@lacity.org
These people are just BEGGING for another Civil War. Just begging.
I take it the law specifically names the NRA? Switch to the GOA. (Gun Owners of America)
They are more aggressive anyway.
I wish Texas would pass a law requiring all companies who want to do business here disclose their contracts with leftist groups like PP, SPLC, etc., etc.
Texas should pass a law making it mandatory for companies to be a member of the NRA.
Watch the heads in California explode.
Yes!!!
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