Motion passed Monday attempts to limit city funding ending up at the NRA
It’s time to call out the NRA for blocking gun control legislation

A Los Angeles City Council committee approved a motion Monday that would require all city contractors to disclose affiliations with the NRA.

Councilmember Mitch O’Farrell, the motion’s presenter, said that NRA lobbying has been one of the biggest roadblocks to gun safety legislation nationwide.

“With the increase in mass shootings in this country, more than 200 this year in 2018 so far, it’s really time to call them out for what they are responsible for,” said O’Ferrell in a statement to Annenberg Media.

So the City Council of America’s second largest city is now limiting contracts based upon ties to political groups that it doesn’t like.

While the motion passed Monday does not call for an outright ban on NRA-affiliated contractors, the language used indicates that such organizations will be unlikely to receive city business. A similar motion was passed last year requiring city contractors to disclose if they had placed bids on President Donald Trump’s border wall.

Or politics it doesn’t like.

Sam Paredes, executive director of Gun Owners of California, describes the proposed ordinance as legal discrimination on political grounds. “There’s no other justification for anything like this,” said Paredes. “Who or what a contractor supports has no bearing on the quality of work they do to provide a particular service.”

This goes right along with California limiting official travel after religious freedom or bathroom bills were passed.

I’m pretty sure these contract limitations are a violation of the First Amendment.  You know they are because you could just imagine the screaming that these people would be up to if a Red state were to deny contracts to businesses that support Planned Parenthood.

In March, Los Angeles passed a law requiring gun ranges and firearm sellers to post suicide-prevention information. As one of the original proponents of that law, Margot Bennett, executive director of Women Against Gun Violence, considers it a significant victory for gun-safety activism.

“We think that that legislation will end up going nationwide,” said Bennett. “Our organization has received a lot of calls from other gun-violence prevention organizations across the country asking for the language of the [suicide-prevention] ordinance.”

That from the largest city in America that has done more to legalize Marijuana than any other.  You can smoke your brain into oblivion without a warning label anywhere, but if you go to buy some plinking ammo, you are going to be bombarded with anti-gun messages.

The NRA-affiliation disclosure ordinance must pass the full Los Angeles City Council and be signed by the mayor before taking effect. Sam Paredes says that the political makeup of the L.A. City Council makes this likely. “It’s populated by arch anti-constitutional, anti-second amendment supporters, so I expect fully that it’s gonna pass,” said Paredes.

He’s not wrong.

This is the kind of case that I hope goes up to the Supreme Court.

These cities and states cannot be allowed to act as feudal lords, handing out contracts only to businesses and people that show fealty to their political persuasion.

It’s time that SCOTUS proceed to remind the Socialist Republic of California what freedom of speech and freedom of association really mean.