by Dave Funk | Feb 27, 2024
WHO YOU GONNA CALL…
FOR 2A LEGAL HELP?
Who you gonna call for 2A legal help? Hopefully, you have enrolled in the IFC Trusted Partner: Firearms Legal Protection Plan. IFC members get a significant discount when enrolling in FLP. Just login to your IFC member account, and click on the “Trusted Partners” page from the Menu across the top of the page, select your coverage, enter the Savings Code and enroll in the plan of your choice (your-state-only, all states, individual or family coverage). To remind you about the particulars and benefits of this coverage, and why it is SO important, here is a replay of the Warrior Wednesday interview by IFC Board Chairman, John McLaughlin with FLP attorney, Bill Grammar.
If you haven’t enrolled in FLP, and you need 2A legal assistance, did you know that the NRA has Civil Rights Grants available? I can’t do it justice, but here are the details straight from NRA HQ:
NOTICE: AVAILABILITY OF LITIGATION FUNDING
We are contacting your organization to notify lawyers about available funds for certain Second Amendment-related cases and to encourage lawyers to apply for funding assistance from the NRA Civil Rights Defense Fund.
Each funding application will be assessed individually on its merits by the board of trustees of the NRA Civil Rights Defense Fund, with priority given to cases that address issues of importance relating to the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution, state constitutional equivalents, the right to keep and bear arms, and the right to self-defense.
Please find a flyer with the information, below. Further information can be found at www.nradefensefund.org or by submitting questions to this email: nracrdf@nrahq.org.
Remember, as the official NRA State Association here in Iowa, our members have access to these services.
Help us defend all Iowan’s rights 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
Iowa Firearms Coalition
by Dave Funk | Feb 20, 2024
WHAT BILLS HAS IFC HELPED TO KILL SO FAR THIS LEGISLATIVE SESSION?
What bills has IFC helped to kill so far this legislative session you ask? Here’s the shortlist:
- HF2297 – Gun confiscation (“Red Flag”) bill
- HF2129 – Money for a study on “Prevention of Weapons Violence”
- HF488 – State registration requirement for personally made Firearms and “unfinished frames and receivers”
- SF2085 – Required private transfers of pistols and revolvers to go through FFLs and NICS
- SF2080 – Ban on standard capacity magazines
- SF2253 – Would have created a “Mental Health Firearm Safety Fund”
This is just a sprinkling of what the anti-gun Dangerous Quacks on the left have introduced this session, reminding people that the other side is continually trying this stuff — and we’re continually working to stop it. The anti-gun Dangerous Quacks also forgot to read the Iowa Constitution and its newest Amendment: #49 – The Freedom Amendment, which prohibits any of the proposals outlined above. That Amendment would not have happened if it were not for the combined efforts of IFC, our members, and ultimately over 65% of Iowa voters.
Students First Safety Act update
IFC is hard at work trying to bring some urgency and economic reality improvements to the Students First Safety Act, Iowa HSB 675. Although its introduction is a step in the right direction, Iowa does not need another government empire-building program, which will take years to implement, to create an armed defense for all Iowa schools. Instead, as you know, Time and Math mandate an immediate response to an armed attacker to minimize the casualties.
Brownells’ National 2A Day — 2/22/2024!
National 2A Day is coming up rapidly and Iowa’s own Brownells.com/2ADay is not just hosting events around the country, but is donating 4% of all sales the week of February 20-25th to several organizations, including IFC!
There are lots of sponsors to National 2A Day, make sure you support them and IFC this whole week. Check out our new video interview with Cody Hinton of Brownells about this event!
Help us defend all of Iowa’s rights 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
Iowa Firearms Coalition
by Dave Funk | Feb 13, 2024
STUDENTS FIRST SAFETY ACT
The Students First Safety Act / Iowa House Study Bill 675 has been rolled out. By the time this President’s Message Blog has been published, it’s had its first hearing up at the Iowa State House.
HSB675 needs some work before IFC can fully support it. You can find more details here about the bill by IFC past Chairman Michael Ware. But I’d like to point out to you how the Iowa State Education Association feels about your kid’s safety, time, and math.
“Melissa Peterson from the Iowa State Education Association says firearms in the schoolhouse is a risky idea. “Accidents always happen when you’re around students regardless of what age they might be, and we think that quite frankly the stakes are just too high. We should not take the risk. More firearms does not equal more safety,” Peterson said.
Peterson says school resource officers can negatively impact the learning environment for students who have adverse relationships or perceptions of law enforcement. Some school districts have done away with SROs for that reason.”
That quote is from a February 9th, 2024 KCRG story, and my hat is off to reporter Conner Hendricks for presenting both sides of the issue.
My concern is that our statewide teachers union does not live in real-ville. Most thinking adults know the fastest way to stop an attacker is to shoot them right now. Not in ten minutes, but right now. Reducing the potential number of victims by terminating the attacker’s ability to continue immediately beats calling 911 and waiting several minutes or more for a police response.
Oh, and the safest kids’ sports in the United States are shooting sports and archery, go figure. Even Time Magazine in a March 7, 2019 article about High School Clays in Minnesota:
“As for safety: more than 70,000 students have fired 42 million shots since 2008. No one has reported a single injury, according to the league.”
For those who think I might be picking on the ISEA because it’s a union, know this: As a retired member of the Airline Pilots Association (the Pilots Union) and an ALPA Security Coordinator, I fully support employees’ rights to organize. But let’s remember who led the charge to arm pilots with handguns after 9/11…it was the pilot unions in America.
I get that ISEA is a business, but my advice to Ms. Peterson is to get out of the woke propaganda business and back to doing what’s best for our kids.
Help us defend all Iowans’ rights 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
Iowa Firearms Coalition
by Dave Funk | Feb 6, 2024
RATE X TIME = DISTANCE
Rate x Time = Distance. It’s a simple equation that most of us learned in elementary school. Drive your car at sixty miles per hour, for one hour, and you will travel sixty miles. Those of us who are pilots or sailors use the exact same equation, whether at six miles per hour or 600 miles per hour.
What surprises me is that those anti-gun dangerous quacks ignore basic math and common sense and demand that kids be in total “gun-free” zones at school. Those same gun-free zones where 94% of mass shootings occur.
In the recent Perry, Iowa school shooting it took the police seven minutes to respond. Faster police response or better training is not making any difference.
As always after any school shooting, many are demanding “We do something”. The loudest are those dangerous quacks, as always demanding mass civilian disarmament. Regular readers of my weekly President’s Message know those quacks don’t care about the kids, they only want a total monopoly on power.
Yet we know what works. Every time an active shooter is confronted by someone else with a gun, they do one of three things: They run away, they get shot and are stopped, or kill themselves.
Time and Math
Time and Math. Six minutes that could save hundreds of future lives in our schools. If you are a parent, school board member, teacher, administrator, coach, cook, bus driver, or fan in the stands, please watch this short video and consider.
Six Minutes That Could Change Everything! Can We Protect Schools?
The shelter-in-place and “call 9-1-1” model that we have employed for over forty years in America is not working. It’s time to do what does work: an immediate armed response stopping the attacker in their tracks.
Please pass this video on to your friends, neighbors, School Board members, local elected officials, Iowa State Representatives, Iowa State Senators, and our Governor.
Let’s get rid of these dangerous and ineffective gun-free zones in Iowa.
The life you save may be someone you know and love.
Help us defend all of Iowa’s rights 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
Iowa Firearms Coalition
by Dave Funk | Jan 30, 2024
Knives, 2A & the NRA: What Do They Have In Common?
Knives, 2A, & the NRA; what do they have in common? These constitutionally protected arms and groups are all under attack by the dangerous quacks on the Left.
First: Knives
We all have heard of the problems in the United Kingdom. First, they banned guns — and gun crime did not go down. Then they banned knives, and knife attacks continue to rise — topping 48,700 in 2023! But what are the Brits proposing? Make “Zombie” Knives ILLEGAL! I’m sure that will solve the problem.
Instead, try enforcing the law and holding people accountable! Unlike in California, where a killer stabbed her boyfriend 108 times and was given 100 hours of community service and probation because she was under the influence of cannabis at the time.
Our friends over at KnifeRights.org point out very eloquently that knives, although slightly less dangerous than handguns, are protected “arms” under the Second Amendment even under an intermediate scrutiny test. (The PDF of their discussion is embedded in the linked article and can be downloaded.) A shout-out to IFC’s friends over at AmmoLand.com for inspiring this part of this week’s President’s Message.
The National Rifle Association
As you have no doubt heard, there is a widely reported lawsuit against the NRA by New York Attorney General Letitia James. In the suit, she demands not just the prosecution of Wayne LaPierre, but the dissolving of the NRA. It would be understandable that an attorney general would go after what they think are prosecutable financial crimes (unless your name is Clinton, Biden, or any of a bevy of other famous leftist groups like BLM). However, once you demand the dismantling of your political opposition, you’ve moved past protecting the public interest, to banana republic totalitarian tactics.
Even the ACLU has stepped up to protect the NRA’s free speech rights.
As reported in the New York Times:
The A.C.L.U. does not support the N.R.A. or its mission. We signed on as co-counsel because public officials shouldn’t be allowed to abuse the powers of the office to blacklist an organization just because they oppose an organization’s political views.
It’s not about the NRA, it’s about gun control and stomping out any opposition. This tweet on X, by Gene Wu, shows how the Left looks at us. (That’s the same Texas Democratic State Representative Gene Wu who fled Texas in 2021, to try to prevent a legally-required quorum from passing a voter integrity law). Now he wants the US Military to bomb gun owners.
It’s amazing to me how the leftists think that those drones and bombers fly themselves, or that American citizens who serve in the military or as law enforcement officers will blindly follow illegal orders to kill other Americans, “Because we said so”.
Those leftists might ask the US Border Patrol Union their opinion of this, based on what is happening at the Texas – Mexican border right now.
Help us defend all Iowan’s rights, 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
Iowa Firearms Coalition
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