{"id":71205,"date":"2021-08-23T17:24:38","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T22:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=71205"},"modified":"2021-08-23T17:44:31","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T22:44:31","slug":"71205","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=71205","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/naacp-racist-north-carolina-gun-control-law-isnt-racist-any-more\/\">NAACP: Racist North Carolina Gun Control Law Isn\u2019t Racist Any More.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-48 Component-p-0-2-39\"><em>\u201cThis bill would remove one of the few protections that we currently have in place to stop dangerous people from buying handguns,\u201d said Sen. Natasha Marcus, a Mecklenburg County Democrat.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-48 Component-p-0-2-39\"><em>[Governor Roy] Cooper\u2019s office didn\u2019t immediately respond to an email seeking comment on the bill. Attorney General Josh Stein, also a Democrat, asked legislators earlier this week to consider \u201dthe serious threat to public safety this legislation carries and reject it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-48 Component-p-0-2-39\"><em>The bill, if it were to become law, wouldn\u2019t end the requirement that sheriffs issue concealed weapons permits. \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-48 Component-p-0-2-39\"><em>The <strong>local pistol permit requirement began in 1919<\/strong> during the Jim Crow era, and some bill supporters argue it\u2019s still preventing law-abiding black residents from obtaining weapons. But a local NAACP leader spoke against the bill earlier Wednesday, and Marcus said such opposition is evidence to her that the current permitting system isn\u2019t racist.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Gary D. Robertson in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/lifestyle-health-coronavirus-pandemic-bills-gun-politics-11b4abbc5d98479c79beafb248ac1ecd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bill repealing NC pistol purchase permit heading to governor<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAACP: Racist North Carolina Gun Control Law Isn\u2019t Racist Any More. \u201cThis bill would remove one of the few protections that we currently have in place to stop dangerous people from buying handguns,\u201d said Sen. Natasha Marcus, a Mecklenburg County Democrat. [Governor Roy] Cooper\u2019s office didn\u2019t immediately respond to an email seeking comment on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=71205\" 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":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crap-for-brains","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71205","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=71205"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71208,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71205\/revisions\/71208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}