​The library open carry revenge bill returns! It has been proposed to add libraries to NRS 202.265 which prohibits firearms on school grounds. AB 354 wouldn’t exist except the stupid legislators, excluding Republican Robin Titus, decided to extend the deadline because two of the Democrats were scumbags who had to resign.
 
For those of you who don’t remember, the Las Vegas Clark County Library District illegally prohibited open carry. Only concealed carry was prohibited per state statute, but library rules prohibited weapons generically. Open carriers fought back, the corrupt board of leftists didn’t like it, and Mrs. Flores sued over it. The state Supreme Court made a bad decision—wholly based on politics rather than fact, law, and legislative intent—and decided that libraries weren’t bound by state preemption laws.
 
First off, the Flores v. LVCCLD decision makes this bill unnecessary. Under the principle of case law, libraries can use their general rule-making powers to make a rule banning firearms including open carry. It may not be logical or fit the statutes, but the Supreme Court can do whatever it wants and it did. Sorry, but it’s Chinatown.
 
Second, this bill already had a crack at passing in 2017. Sponsor Shannon Bilbray-Axlerod’s bill from 2017, SB 115, never left committee, so this year, with an anti-gun super-majority she’s taking another chance to give us the finger. Just remember Shannon, years from now the facts about what you and your cronies did will be public record. There is no covering up your petty tyranny and your inexcusable stupidity (nor your working for Saudi Arabia).
 
Anyhow, this bill is unnecessary and is just a personal slight against Nevada Carry, Mrs. Flores, and the Nevada armed citizen community. Libraries aren’t magic places that gun laws stop people from committing acts of violence. Shannon, we hope you end up a two-time loser on this one. 
 
Catch up on the history of the issue.

Jauregui’s Virtue Signaling Omnibus AB 291 BDR 15-759
Details are taken from the BDR language.

On the last day possible, Assemblywoman Sandra Jauregui of Clark County introduced this steaming pile of garbage meant to utterly upset the firearm landscape of Nevada and force imported California values on the entire Silver State. Any excuse relating to the Mandalay Bay massacre this woman makes is an utter excuse for her tyrannical leftist agenda meant to render you defenseless before a dictatorial state.
 
Anything you hear in support of this bill is a lie. This bill would gut the protections of state preemption that has been in existence since 1989. Lying Democrats and hoplopaths will say it was enacted by Republicans in 2015, but in reality the 2015 bill got rid of Clark County handgun registration and a few local ordinances that were grandfathered in.
 
Specifically, the bill contains:

• A bump fire stock ban;
• Lowers the carrying while intoxicated threshold from .10 BAC to .08 BAC
• Allows local ordinances to ban concealed firearms in public buildings
• Repeals state preemption of local firearm laws entirely

 
The bump fire ban is similar to the SB 261 ban, except this bill would change the definition of machine gun to the federal language and define “semi-automatic firearm” (not currently in Nevada law).

Current law defines carrying while intoxicated like the DUI law; obviously impaired or over .10 BAC. This law would lower the threshold to be in line with national DUI laws where .08 BAC is the maximum allowable limit regardless of impairment. Nevada was one of the last states to decrease it’s DUI law from .10 BAC, but never changed the level for carrying while armed. There is no basis for lower the law by two-tenths.
 
The bill would also amend NRS 202.3673, where concealed firearm permittees are prohibited from carrying, to allows local jurisdictions to ban concealed carry on the premises of public buildings if the jurisdiction has an ordinance to that effect. Clark and Washoe Counties would immediately ban concealed firearms in all public buildings if this passed. Every other county probably would not.
 
Worst of all, the state preemption laws, NRS 244.364, 268.418, and 269.222, would be repealed entirely. Counties, cities, and towns could do whatever they wanted. This could allow: 

• Total firearm registration;
• Assault weapon bans;
• Magazine capacity restrictions;
• Further carry prohibited areas; or
• Ban gun stores from cities entirely, etc.

 
Antiquated gun laws might make a comeback. 

• Reno could ban open carry like they did until 1999;
• You could go to jail for carrying a legal gun in a local park;
• Clark County could require blue cards once again.

 
On the other hand, repealing firearm preemption would give a green light for counties to enact pro firearm measures and give much moral, and perhaps legal, support to pro-Second Amendment ordinances. These resolutions in opposition of SB 143 and gun control might instead have teeth, like requiring sheriffs and district attorneys to refrain from prosecuting offenders. Wouldn’t that be nice?
 
Repealing state preemption is a bad idea. It re-creates the patchwork of gun laws that could put an innocent citizen in danger of a crime because they didn’t know the local laws. No one should be in danger of jail, fines, or being defenseless because some idiot politicians who belong in California want to virtue signal.
 
The real problem with these laws is that they will not and cannot be obeyed. Take the corrupt Las Vegas Clark County Library District. They didn’t like the fact that we took them to task over violating state law and got their cronies in the Supreme Court to contort and twist the law to say what they wanted it to say. Leftists cannot win honestly, so they must cheat. And cheating is all this bill is. The population must be disarmed and defenseless.
 
What these foolish Democrats don’t understand is that Nevadans will not honor or abide their shenanigans. Laws that are passed against the will of the people and in open defiance of the constitution will be ignored. Prohibition is the prime example of how that worked out. Of course, if New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. City of New York is decided by SCOTUS in our favor, gun laws will be analyzed by strict scrutiny. That will mean that “shall not be infringed” means what it says and pretty much every gun control law will die a grisly death.
 
So I say hell no to AB 291. Sandra, I’m really sorry that you were traumatized by some psycho shooting at you from the Mandalay Bay, but shame on you, you disgusting hypocritical tyrant, for proposing such an evil bill. I doubt she is capable of feeling shame, considering she is waving her bloody shirt around using her ‘survivor’ status as some sort of credence in want of an actual argument. I know plenty of Route 91 concert goers that don’t support gun control.
 
This bill must be stopped. On the bright side, there is just one sponsor of the bill. If the Legislature gets too stupid, the NSSF will pull SHOT Show from Las Vegas and take all that nice convention money with it. Caesars, Wynn, and MGM will want blood if that happens.
 
This is the time to get involved. If AB 291 gets a hearing, everyone who can must attend. From now until June, we must hammer the inboxes, mailboxes, and phone lines with opposition to this bill. Lookup and email your representatives now and give an opinion in opposition to this bill.

​​Don't play dead. Get up and run away if you can. Expect them to circle back. 

Having seen the footage, after shooting his victims in the mele, he shot them again in the head. He even left and came back to continue giving coup de grâce shots. There was plenty of time for a good guy with a gun to end the attack. These shootings are not as chaotic as one might think.

This is was a disturbingly competent shooter (compared to others). Plan and prepare for this guy. Not all spree killers will be as incompetent as we have seen. 

Put your head on a swivel. It would not be unexpected for retaliatory terrorist attacks against Christians and Europeans to happen as a result.

In 2016, 22,938 people killed themselves with a firearm. Suicides are by far the largest number of gun deaths in the United States. AB 255 would require suicide prevention to be added to the concealed firearm permit training class curriculum. The Nevada Sheriffs' and Chiefs' Association dictates the specifics of the class requirements. AB 255 is a joint Republican bill intended to save lives.

This would present and excellent opportunity to provide resources for those that might be unaware they exist. Not necessarily for themselves, but for others in their lives or one day in a dark future they can't see coming. We plan for the worst when carrying concealed, but do we ever plan ahead for our own mental health emergencies? You never know when information learned in the past might come to mind and save someone's life. 

Another problem this bill addresses is that in Nevada's two most populous counties, it is impossible to get a permit issued in 60 days. New residents in Nevada can carry on their former state's permit for only 60 days after they become a Nevada resident. This bill would remove that 60 day period. A lot can happen between then and the 120 day deadline; those that can't/won't open carry deserve protection too when they move here.

Contact your Assembly representative today and the Judiciary Committee and ask them to support this bill! Don't forget to voice your opinion in favor.

Assembly Judiciary Committee 
Lisa.Krasner@asm.state.nv.us; Tom.Roberts@asm.state.nv.us; Jill.Tolles@asm.state.nv.us; Steve.Yeager@asm.state.nv.us; Lesley.Cohen@asm.state.nv.us; Shea.Backus@asm.state.nv.us; Skip.Daly@asm.state.nv.us; Ozzie.Fumo@asm.state.nv.us; Brittney.Miller@asm.state.nv.us; rochelle.nguyen@asm.state.nv.us; Sarah.Peters@asm.state.nv.us; Selena.Torres@asm.state.nv.us; Howard.Watts@asm.state.nv.us; Chris.Edwards@asm.state.nv.us; Alexis.Hansen@asm.state.nv.us

SB 261 was just introduced and would have the effect of banning more than just bump fire stocks. This would ban rate increasing devices (bump fire stocks, binary triggers, trigger cranks) and potentially more depending on how broadly the language is interpreted. It's worse than the federal ban. 

This is an inappropriate reaction to the Mandalay Bay shootings and ignores the fact that the killer could have easily obtained a much more deadly belt-fed machine gun. It suffers from many of the same flaws of the federal bill and goes further to affect other devices. It may even be a precedent bill for banning semi-automatic weapons entirely. This Survival Blog article sums of many of the concerns of bump fire stock bans from the federal bill perspective. I will not be tackling each and every concern because multiple source over the past year and a half have examined the issue from every angle. 

If you think we should give in on bump fire, then you're not paying attention. You may think they're stupid, but I think they're fun and cool and I can't afford a machine gun. I still wish I had mine; you can bet if I did I wouldn't be turning it in. Now I'll just practice with my fingers. Hell, if you really hate your dog, don't want to own guns anymore, and need a couple years away from your wife, just drop a coat hanger into your AR.

The Nevada legislature is virtue signaling and forcing taxpayers to pay for a lawsuit over the uncompensated taking of personal property. You can't ban legally purchased property and make people destroy it or give it away without paying them for it. So Governor, un-esteemed Democrats, you can just go and f--- right off with your ban.

Don't forget to vote and voice your opinion in opposition.

Taking the lead in the fight against gun control, the Nye County Commissioners voted to oppose new laws that would weaken out Second Amendment protections.

Nevada thanks the Nevada Firearms Coalition and board member Brian Shoemake, resident of Nye County. If you live in everywhere but Clark and Washoe Counties, encourage your supervisors to do the same!

California is a sanctuary state for illegal aliens and many cities and counties across the county have made similar declarations. Montana revolted against the National Firearms Act by declaring that weapons made in the state are not subject to congressional regulation, but the courts disagreed. In New Mexico, which is also facing an onslaught of urban liberal led gun control, two-thirds of the counties voted to become Second Amendment sanctuaries.
 
Essentially, these sanctuary votes are symbolic votes of resolution to oppose state-level gun control being forced on rural areas by urban areas. In word, the counties are in opposition, and so are many sheriffs; some of which pledged to do more than just voice their opposition. It remains to be seen how non-compliance with gun control will actually go.
 
Fun fact: Red Dawn, filmed in New Mexico, contained a scene where ATF form 4473s were used by the KGB to confiscate guns.
 
So far, the sheriffs of Churchill, Douglas, Elko, Esmeralda, Eureka, Lyon, Nye, and Pershing counties have formally opposed SB 143. Several counties have proposed or discussed resolutions in support of Second Amendment Sanctuary status proposed by their commissioners. Rural Nevada is revolting against Las Vegas and Reno gun control, including Lander and White Pine.
 
Gov. Sleestak said in response to the opposition: “I look forward to working with Attorney General Ford and local law enforcement over the next several months to review ways to enforce this law, as is the case with all other Nevada laws that elected officers are sworn to uphold.”
 
The answer from the governor is basically “it’s a law, you have to obey it.” He has no moral argument, only the argument of “Obey or we will jail you up or kill you.” That’s a very poor argument for a governor to have and a great way to start an insurrection against tyranny.
 
Question 1 passed only in Clark County, by a fraction of a percent, after a campaign of tens of millions of dollars using questionable tactics primarily only because of demographics. SB 143 was passed after they tried to secretly introduce it, rushed it out of committee despite overwhelming pro-gun public attendance and opposition, and exploited their supermajority status to push it virtually unopposed through the Legislature. Half of the electorate opposed the original initiative; that’s not a mandate.
 
The moral high ground does not belong to our governor nor his corrupt cronies in the statehouse. The moral high ground belongs to the gun owners and will remain with them as they defy and oppose the law. Sheriffs and other officials who fail to enforce a bad law are only engaging in a American long tradition of resisting tyrannical edits from despots and autocratic legislatures. Might does not make right.
 
Despite all this, the simple fact that “it’s illegal” will deter many people from innocent private sales and transfers in counties they would never be molested by the government for it. In urban areas, anyone involved in technically illegal activity like a boyfriend giving his girlfriend a gun, will live in fear that the DA will prosecute them if he finds out. I’d rather not trust Steve Wolfson’s prosecutorial discretion.

​We need to fight the ban on private sales if only to show resistance on the home front. County commissioners need to tell Gov. Sleestak and the urban area controlled Legislature to pound sand by passing these ordinances opposing gun control. If liberal counties can pass symbolic anti-war and pro-illegal immigration ordinances and resolutions, our red counties can do the same back.
 
More than just letters or public declarations to defy the law is required from Nevada sheriffs. In Washington, several sheriffs pledged not to enforce the state’s new assault weapon ban, but after the Attorney General sent them a letter “reminding” sheriffs of their duty to enforce all laws, many of them cucked out. Nye County Sheriff Wehrly had a good point about ignoring unconstitutional laws.
 
Nevada sheriffs need to instruct their deputies not to make arrests for private sales and to ignore requests for assistance from other agencies or the Attorney General to investigate banned private sales. Sheriffs should refuse to accept booked suspects in jail or at least immediately release them on their own recognizance. Going further to totally stymie the law, local district attorneys, judges, and juries would need to agree not to prosecute/convict those accused of otherwise innocent private gun sales to truly be effective. If only Clark and Washoe counties are enforcing it and the rest of the state refuses, that would add weight to the moral argument if not more.
 
Background checks is the start of the battle, not the hill to die on. Our best chances winning a case against background checks is to challenge it if the Supreme Court finds that the Second Amendment requires strict scrutiny. We need to be grassroots guerillas harassing the enemies until it’s time for the D-Day invasion with the big boys, not trying a frontal assault on our own.
 
New Mexico governor Michelle Lujan Grisham threw a hissy fit and said on Twitter “La la la, I don’t care. Courts say background checks are constitutional.” The courts once upheld slavery and racial discrimination, so purely political decisions from courts are no defense.
 
Universal background check schemes could be considered constitutional as the courts would certainly find them minimally intrusive and the government’s interest in public safety overrides the minimal intrusion. They would argue that most people are approved, most delays are cleared up quickly with the three-day safety failsafe (that Democrats want to eliminate), and prohibited persons shouldn’t be buying guns anyway. That background checks laws, especially ones that ban private sales, are ineffective at controlling crime to a laughable degree would be immaterial to them.
 
I would argue that background checks are a form of prior restraint on a constitutional right and applying them to all forms of gun purchases, retail and private, that it eliminates any way to exercise the right of acquiring a gun without prior government permission. We might win that one, if sanity prevails on the court, or if Democrats go full retard (must read).
 
Registration could be thorny, as the dangers of registration are from an abusive government that hasn’t gone that far yet. Our perfect court might see the danger and agree that registration is unconstitutional because, among other things, also amounts to prior restraint from above.
 
In 2020 or later, depending on how much the NSSF’s money from SHOT Show talks, we might see standard capacity magazines banned, “assault” weapons, etc. Hopefully, the knowledge that NSSF will not do business in an anti-gun state and will promptly move SHOT Show to Nevada has caused enough money makers in the casino industry to wave of the Democrats. They’re stupid, just not California stupid. But my own prediction is that we’ll see stuff on the federal level first; in 2021 if Trump loses, in 2025 if he wins (a Democrat will for sure win in 2024).
 
In the meantime before the inevitable future of socialism and government oppression, we need to fight the good fight. Encourage your (rural) county commissioners, judges, sheriffs, and city council members to support Second Amendment Sanctuaries and actually put teeth into their words.
 
And thanks to Asm. Skip Daly for being the last principled Democrat in Nevada.

Updated: 3/12/19

The Nevada firearms community lost someone valuable today. David Famiglietti, 39, owner of New Frontier Armory and Battlefield Vegas, passed away after a brief battle with cancer while undergoing treatment at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. What appeared to be a case of bronchitis turned out to be melanoma that had metastasized. “Guido” gave cancer the finger from his hospital bed, fighting it until the end.

An avid hunter, fisherman, and all around outdoorsman, David was one of Nevada’s staunchest supporters of the Second Amendment. As Vice President of the Nevada Firearms Coalition, he made large donations to support the Coalition both personally and gave support through his businesses. As an activist, he walked the walk and talked the talk.

A native of Waterbury, Connecticut, Famiglietti was an Air Force veteran, deploying to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom with the 820th "Red Horse" (Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operational Repair Squadron Engineers). As a entrepreneur in Nevada, he turned a small run-of-the-mill gun store into Southern Nevada’s premier firearms dealer and an innovating firearms manufacturer. Many of us have New Frontier products in our safes.

What began as an 800 square foot store dedicated to good pricing and quality customer service grew from a hobby into a large manufacturing concern. NFA makes lowers for 300 companies making it the third largest lower receiver manufacturing in the country. New Frontier products, including the C-5 PDW MP-5 magazine compatible lower, was a favorite at SHOT Show. More than just a gun store, Famiglietti built NFA into a true firearms powerhouse.

Even though he is gone, Guido has left a lasting mark on the Nevada gun community and the larger firearms world. He realized the dream that many of us have and was able to live out his own. A hard-working, lucky, and all around great guy is gone. He is survived by his wife Jessica and his two young children.​

Tuesday, Spurlocks Gun Shop in Henderson posted on Facebook that an unnamed highly placed source within the Republican Party:

To date, we have been unable to confirm this rumor. Assemblyman Jim Wheeler, who confirmed the "sneak attack" of SB 143-universal background checks-had no knowledge of such a proposed bill. No other sources in the know have been able to confirm this information with us at this time. The rumor remains unconfirmed. We will update you should more information become available. 

However, several vague Bill Draft Requests (BDRs) have been filed by anti-gun Democrats and promises have been made to ban "assault weapons." It is not clear if these were just campaign promises without the political will or capitol to be passed. However, should such a bill be passed, we have had warning since the primaries in 2018 and no one should caught with their pants down.

Now is the time to stock up on your rifles, receivers, and full capacity magazines. By all means, don't panic buy because of rumors, but don't put off for tomorrow what might be could be banned soon. You should preemptively politely contact your assemblyman and senator to tell them you don't support an assault weapon and magazine ban.

Interesting proposal from an anti-gun Democrat from the other day's article in The Nevada Independent:

This is not constitutional carry. This is just a Bill Draft Request (BDR) we don't have a copy of the proposed language, we don't know if it's an actual proposal or just an idea, and we don't know if it has a snowball's chance. It may never actually become a bill.

​It's a good idea and a good first step to other things. Also, it's a great sign our Democrats aren't totally against us, yet.

The potential problems with this bill is that it seems it is discretionary to allow police to choose who they don't arrest or don't recommend charges for. We need the language to determine it. However, for those who have applied and successfully completed the training course, it is a good first step in allowing those who feel they are in danger protect themselves, if they don't feel comfortable openly carrying.

Many legislators (and members of the public) feel gun-shy about letting people carry without training. This only seems to apply to concealed carry and not open carry, perhaps because concealed carry is still regulated and permitted, so legislators incorrectly feel responsible for what "might" happen if they decriminalize concealed carry. We believe that anyone who can possess a firearm should be able to carry in whatever method they choose without prior government restraint. 

Cannizzaro is chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Follow this link to her webpage and email/contact info.​