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'U.S. has more gun dealers than McDonald’s and Starbucks combined': Project 2025 will make it worse -- [video, 11 min] (www.msnbc.com)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by tardigrada@beehaw.org to c/politics@beehaw.org

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The extreme right-wing blueprints of Project 2025 [by the Heritage Foundation] and Agenda 47 [by Donald Trump campaign team] call for radical changes to gun control laws-- making it harder to track illegal weapons, overturning state restrictions on deadly firearms, and even arming teachers.

These proposals check off the gun lobby’s wish list at the expense of public safety, despite most Americans supporting sound gun control measures, according to Kris Brown, president of Brady: United Against Gun Violence.

Together, Agenda 47 and Project 2025 aim "to sell as many guns to as many people as possible, and to remove every public safety measure to allow that to happen-- it's profit-seeking," Brown says, adding that Trump and the gun lobby "could care less" that gun violence is now the leading killer of American youth.

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[–] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Important to note that dealers != stores or sellers, it is a specific category of FFL holders.

[–] NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 months ago

I didn't realise McDonald's and Starbucks were also selling guns now

[–] tardigrada@beehaw.org 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

To whom it may concern:

How will Project 2025 affect you locally, in your community?

Our new Toolkit for Community Organizers is designed to help answer that question and support community organizers and stakeholders to facilitate community conversations about Project 2025’s impact. The toolkit consists of 13 modules on core topics of Project 2025’s plan and focuses on local impacts, but covers its global reach. [...] It will soon be available in Spanish and French.

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 1 points 2 months ago

its funny to me a site that wants to "spread the word" would be blank under no script.