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In reply to the discussion: Another mayor dumps Bloomberg MAIG group [View all]premium
(3,731 posts)5. Anti gunners and Dem's. should thank MAIG and Bloomberg
for the defeat of UBC in Nevada.
BTW, before you come up with your usual snarky replies, the bill barely passed in both chambers of our legislature, the calls for Gov. Sandoval to veto it were running appox. 3-1 against signing the bill.
Since the legislative session adjourned June 4, more than 100,000 people have called Sandovals Carson City office to urge him to vote for or against the bill. The National Rifle Association had advised its members to call and make their views know. By better than a 3-to-1 margin, callers wanted the veto, a veto Sandoval had promised for weeks.
http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/nevada-legislature/sandoval-vetoes-gun-background-check-bill
Also, those that poll that was conducted that said that 86% of Nevadans wanted this bill?
The Mayors Against Illegal Guns, an anti-gun violence organization created by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, released a poll in early March that found 86 percent of Nevadans support expanding gun background checks to all buyers. The poll of 800 voters was conducted Feb. 10-14 by Schoen LLC.
http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/nevada-legislature/sandoval-vetoes-gun-background-check-bill
False, the majority of the 800 people surveyed were in Clark County, ie: Las Vegas, which is heavily Democrat. The rest of the state, which is mostly rural, opposed this bill.
But what else are we to expect of MAIG?
You notice that only 2 LE chiefs supported this bill?
ProgressNevada Now leader Brian Fadie blasted Sandoval for the veto, noting that the Metropolitan Police Department and the Washoe County Sheriffs Department supported the bill.
http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/nevada-legislature/sandoval-vetoes-gun-background-check-bill
The rest of the state's Sheriff's opposed it.
This statement right here,
With this veto Sandoval has kept it legal for criminals, domestic abusers and the dangerously mentally ill to easily and legally buy as many guns as they want with no background check, Fadie said. Think about that. Right now in Nevada someone convicted of robbery or assault with a deadly weapon can go to a gun show and buy as many guns as they want from an unlicensed dealer
http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/nevada-legislature/sandoval-vetoes-gun-background-check-bill
is pure bullshit, every gun show I've ever been to has been heavily patrolled by ATF agents and plain clothes local cops looking for just this kind of thing, criminals, as a rule, don't go where LE are to buy guns.
Even Sen. Reid D-NV, was against this bill.
Reid said the gun control bill just wont work. He said that California has had legislation similar to SB221 for decades, and still criminals find a way to operate. During hearings, Reid said most of the bills supporters came from other states, while the opponents were almost exclusively Nevadans.
http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/nevada-legislature/sandoval-vetoes-gun-background-check-bill
Oh and one last little gem.
Sandovals veto will hurt him in securing moderate Republican and independent votes in his 2014 re-election campaign, according to Fred Lokken, a political science professor at Truckee Meadows Community College in Reno.
http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/nevada-legislature/sandoval-vetoes-gun-background-check-bill
This guy is wrong, Gov.Sandoval's base in the rural areas of Nevada, not the two large cities, he will, unfortunately, be re-elected again if he so chooses to run.
And before you say that it sounds like I supported the veto, I am on record here several time saying that I supported the UBC, I and my lovely wife called the Gov.'s office in support of him signing it, I talked to people in my town urging them to call in support of SB 221.
We may very well have gotten it but for the interference of outsiders, mainly MAIG/Bloomberg.
I've said time and time again, we Nevadans are fiercely independent and we don't like outsiders coming in and telling us what's good for us.
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Gungeoneers and NH Republican Party thank Republican Mayor Lozeau for quitting MAIG
rdharma
Jun 2013
#2
While gun control "fans" applaud GOP mayor Dean Trefethen for staying with Bloomberg's MAIG
DonP
Jun 2013
#3
NO. The "thanks" for the failure of passage of the UBC in NV should go to Republican Gov. Sandoval
rdharma
Jun 2013
#6
Fact is..... the bill passed..... and was VETOED BY THE REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR.....
rdharma
Jun 2013
#9
What would my residency or non-residency have to do with the price of tomatoes in NV?
rdharma
Jun 2013
#15
No different from the Minnesotan that 'knows' how Chicagoans think...
friendly_iconoclast
Jun 2013
#20
You could translate "A Recherche du Temps Perdu" into Sanskrit while you're waiting.
friendly_iconoclast
Jun 2013
#22