AB 286 Phone Blast

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AB 286, is pending in the Senate for a final floor vote. The casino gun ban may be added back in at the last minute. It would be illegal to carry a gun at a casino even without a specific warning from security. Major casinos are pushing this bill because of the crime on the Strip. This bill would disproportionately target minorities and make you a criminal for having a gun in you car, nevermind taking it into the casino.

We need to act now in order to kill it off. We're suggesting a coordinated phone blast Weds. 5/19 and Thurs. 5/18 to ring the Senator's phones off the hook. Focus on Democrats; make up a zip code in their area if they ask for one.

Don't bother with Republicans or the Assembly. Call ALL the Democrat senators, not just your own.

High points:

• Casinos can already trespass persons who refused to leave or disarm under existing law;
• The casino gun bans disproportionately affect minorities and would subject minorities to increased criminal penalties;
• Casino gun bans would have the effect of denying people the right to bear arms on the Strip, not just casino property;
• The bill would make older guns that were made before serialization illegal;
• By declaring legally owned unserialized guns contraband, the bill would violate the 4th Amendment;
• Homemade firearms have a long tradition of legal manufacture in the United States.

Or you could suggest that any gun control passed by Democrats this year will harm their chances for re-election next year.

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