Huge majorities of Americans favor gun regulation.

[AndyS]

Why don't we get it?

Georgia Gov. Kemp took $50,000 in donations from CEO of maker of Uvalde shooter's gun

Marty Daniel's donations to Republican Gov. Brian Kemp include $25,000 just before Kemp signed a bill weakening gun laws in the state.

Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp has received tens of thousands of dollars in donations from the CEO of Daniel Defense, a gun manufacturing company that made the rifle used by the shooter in the massacre at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24.

Kemp has taken $50,200 from the Georgia-based company's founder and CEO, Marty Daniel, so far in his two bids for governor, in 2018 and 2022, according to campaign finance records accessed by the American Independent Foundation. Half of that, or $25,000, was a single donation to Kemp's Georgians First Leadership Committee, a political action committee he formed immediately after signing a law a year ago that permits some state legislative leaders to receive unlimited campaign donations at any time during an election cycle.

That $25,000 contribution came in on March 17, according to campaign disclosure reports, less than a month before Kemp signed a permitless carry law that allows Georgians to carry firearms without a license or a background check. A poll conducted for the Atlanta Journal Constitution in January by the University of Georgia's School of Public and International Affairs found that permitless carry is widely unpopular in the state, with 70% of registered voters opposed to it and 28% in favor.

Federal Election Commission records show that Georgia Republican Senate nominee Herschel Walker has taken $5,800 from Daniel for his 2022 bid against incumbent Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock.

There are two options; give more money than the gun lobby does or vote on this issue like your life depends on it because it just might.

[kacekwl]

1. You'd never know it

by the proposed legislation being put forth by the bipartisan congressional committee.

[AndyS]

2. By the time the NRA gets finished I'll wager that the final bill

will be as watered down as everything we've seen in the past. All the bull shit about 'due process' will destroy the red flag provisions as well as the boyfriend loophole, we all know how useless police in schools are and while the mental health $$ are much needed it will do very little for the real problem.

Should anything actually positive come out of the 'negotiations' I will be very surprised. Happy, but surprised.

[Ninga]

3. Truth of the matter is that the huge number of people who favor gun regulations will not

make a dent unless the huge number of Americans vote. The GOP knows that gun nuts and religious nuts vote, the GOP also knows that scores of opinionated people who favor regulation don’t vote.

Getting out the vote is a heavy lift, and in my view, overwhelming.

[hack89]

4. We don't get it because of the Senate

as long as Wyoming and Montana have as many Senators as California and New York then it doesn't matter what national polls say.