YOUR FREEDOM AMENDMENT VOTE MADE A DIFFERENCE

YOUR FREEDOM AMENDMENT VOTE MADE A DIFFERENCE

Your Freedom Amendment vote made a difference. Here’s an example:  Illinois versus Iowa.  On December 14, 2023, a couple dozen activists gathered in Davenport for an anti-gun protest. They somehow get a bit of press coverage, even though everyday Iowans are mostly ignored by the mainstream press.  You know the Iowans I’m talking about–the nearly 750,000 Iowa voters who voted for the Freedom Amendment.  The 750,000 voters we need to remind our legislators about.

Fortunately for all of us, we have honest journalists in Iowa, and even in Illinois. WQAD-TV ran a story on December 14th.  My hat is off to them for once again reaching out to IFC to give our view, and for correctly quoting me. From the story by Jonathan Fong: 

“…Also on Dec. 14, the U.S. Supreme Court decided to not immediately block the Protect Illinois Communities Act, a law that bans the sale of some semiautomatic weapons.

 

“Doesn’t mean the federal circuit appellate courts are not gonna hear it and rule on it; they’re just saying we’re not going to take it up right now,” Iowa Firearms Coalition president Dave Funk explained.

 

Funk is confident the Supreme Court will overturn the law. “With the makeup of the current court, and it’s gonna stay this way for probably, at least another decade, maybe two decades, where you have a majority of pro-constitution or originalists on the court … we’ll see it overturned, we won’t see any change.”

It’s important to understand the federal appellate process, in the case of the Protect Illinois Communities Act (PICA). The PICA act is unconstitutional on its face.  This is clear to anyone with any knowledge of the Second Amendment, its historical traditions, and the Bruen Decision. Jumping directly to the US Supreme Court, while similar cases from other states are working their way through the system, is not something SCOTUS likes.  We all want SCOTUS to rule in favor of the plaintiffs, but we have to let the legal process work its way through.

GRASPING AT STRAWS

We all know those Dangerous Quacks are grasping for straws. Let’s keep them grasping here in Iowa.  Help IFC fulfill its mission to you, and all Iowa gun owners, by purchasing your tickets to the IFC PAC Prime Rib Dinner on January 18th.  Hopefully, I’ll see you there, after meeting each and every one of you at IFC’s annual 2A Lobby Day that morning. 

Help us educate Iowans on the facts by joining or renewing your IFC membership here today. And please stay Ready at All Times. 

Shoot Straight, Speak The Truth, and Never Surrender Our Liberties.

Dave Funk
President, IFC