{"id":50090,"date":"2020-04-13T05:29:40","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T10:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=50090"},"modified":"2020-04-13T05:32:06","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T10:32:06","slug":"50090","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=50090","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.libertyparkpress.com\/antis-talk-gun-safety-during-pandemic-nra-teaches-it-online\/\">Antis Talk \u2018Gun Safety\u2019 During Pandemic, NRA Teaches It Online<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even before the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic panic, when people began rushing to gun stores\u2014many for the first time\u2014gun prohibition lobbying groups have been preaching against allowing such businesses to operate, and against buying firearms, while the National Rifle Association has taken a different, and decidedly proactive approach.<\/p>\n<p>This NRA email says it all: \u201cIn response to the growing number of first-time gun buyers during the coronavirus outbreak, the National Rifle Association\u2019s Education &amp; Training Division is pleased to announce the launch of four new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrainstructors.org\/\">online gun safety courses.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the NRA message, the courses include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Gun Safety Seminar<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>NRA Basic Pistol Shooting Course \u2013 Distance Learning<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>NRA Basic Rifle Shooting Course \u2013 Distance Learning<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>NRA Basic Personal Protection In The Home Course \u2013 Distance Learning<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Each course, lasting from one to eight hours, is available at NRAInstructors.org.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent statement, Alan Gottlieb, chairman of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ccrkba.org\/\">Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms<\/a>, welcomed all the new gun owners to the shooting fraternity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe encourage all new gun owners to seek competent training,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ccrkba.org\/ccrkba-welcomes-new-gun-owners-be-safe-be-informed\/\">Gottlieb said<\/a>. \u201cLearn to handle your new firearms safely, and remember it\u2019s up to all of you to protect your rights. It\u2019s sad and at the same time uplifting that so many Americans will no longer be fence-sitters. They\u2019re joining the ranks of gun owners and will soon understand, if they don\u2019t already, why so many of their friends, neighbors and even family members have remained so zealous in their efforts to protect the rights you now hope to exercise and enjoy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, Joe DeBergalis, executive director of NRA General Operations, says in the NRA email, \u201cThe NRA recommends that all new gun owners seek professional training at the range, but that doesn\u2019t mean you can\u2019t get a head start on learning the basics of firearm safety at home. New gun owners, old gun owners, it doesn\u2019t really matter. Taking one of these classes moderated by a certified NRA instructor can only make you safer, and that\u2019s our primary goal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese courses will provide an option for first-time gun owners who don\u2019t have the ability to take an NRA certified instructor-led class at their local shooting range at this time,\u201d DeBergalis, continued. \u201cWhile there is no replacement for in-person, instructor-led training, our new online classes do provide the basics of firearm safety training for those self-isolating at home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>By contrast, the Michael Bloomberg-supported Everytown for Gun Safety lobbying group has been urging people to pressure the Trump administration and Department of Homeland Security to reverse course and declare gun stores \u201cnon-essential.\u201d This, even after admitting in an email blast, \u201cIt has been reported that gun sales have been going way up\u2026A flood of guns at this precarious moment compounds the risks of death and serious injury during this incredibly stressful time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the NRA is doing something about that, and CCRKBA has counseled all of these new gun owners to take advantage of available safety training.<\/p>\n<p>Second Amendment activists have frequently argued \u201cIf you\u2019re not teaching gun safety, you\u2019ve got no business preaching about gun safety.\u201d Translation: Firearms instructors provide genuine gun safety training, while so-called \u201cgun safety\u201d organizations are gun prohibition lobbying groups in disguise.<\/p>\n<p>There is a considerable difference between just telling people to lock up their firearms and support a ban on so-called \u201cassault weapons,\u201d and actually providing competent instruction on the safe handling of firearms, whether they are handguns, shotguns or semi-auto modern sporting rifles.<\/p>\n<p>It is important for new gun owners to be able to tell the difference between the two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antis Talk \u2018Gun Safety\u2019 During Pandemic, NRA Teaches It Online Even before the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic panic, when people began rushing to gun stores\u2014many for the first time\u2014gun prohibition lobbying groups have been preaching against allowing such businesses to operate, and against buying firearms, while the National Rifle Association has taken a different, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=50090\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rkba","category-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50090"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50140,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50090\/revisions\/50140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}