S.C.O.P.E., Inc. Shooters Committee on Political Education Volume XXX, Issue II Firing Lines March/April 2021 Fighting for your Second Amendment Rights since 1965 INSIDE THIS ISSUE: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, SCOPE Chapter and the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. BoD Information 2 ————————————————————————— Newsletter Deadlines 2 ————————————————————————— Protecting the Constitution 4 ————————————————————————— Court packing 4 ————————————————————————— Things Change Quickly Member Clubs 5 ————————————————————————— By Tom Reynold One of the 2 nd Amendment’s great- Civics education 6 ————————————————————————— est enemies in Washington, Joe Biden, hid in We the people 8 nd ————————————————————————— Just before Christmas, when we his cellar or on the 2 floor of the White Defensive use of guns 9 were all feeling down after the election, I House for the past year. The left-wing media ————————————————————————— Ghost guns 10 emailed members to remind them of the was his shield from anything negative. But ————————————————————————— Legalizing suppressers 11 story about Washington’s crossing of the yesterday, there was an internet article that ————————————————————————— Delaware. Washington was starting from a headlined, “ Media Fact Checkers Finally A time for choosing 12 ————————————————————————— position much worse than now and the mes- Come for Joe Biden ” and the article high- Proposed bills 14 ————————————————————————— sage I was conveying was that things can lighted the many times Biden has had prob- NYS Assembly & Senate 18 change quickly. lems with the facts. Could it be that the 2 nd ————————————————————————— Business members 23 This article is being written on the Amendment’s enemy in the White House is ————————————————————————— SCOPE application 24 Ides of March. (The anniversary of some- no longer on a honeymoon with the media? ————————————————————————— thing history changing that suddenly hap- Can you imagine the results if he has to start pened.) A month or so earlier, gun owners’ answering questions about his multiple posi- greatest enemy in New York, Andrew tions on the 2 nd Amendment, instead of at- Join SCOPE Cuomo, was riding high and probably plan- tacking 2A? Today! ning more attacks on 2A. Cuomo was being Things can change quickly. SCOPEny2A.org hailed for his supposed leadership in the Most of you have probably heard of fight against the China Virus. He got an Murphy’s Law, “ Anything that can go wrong Emmy for his spin about his anti-virus ef- will go wrong ”. But what should be added is “Guns are our forts and he had written a book praising him- that “ Anything that go right will also go friends because self. The media was writing stories about right ”. The difference is that it takes no him as a presidential candidate in 2024. And preparation for things to go wrong but it re- in a country with- then, how quickly it changed. He is now quires preparation to take advantage of out guns, I'm under investigation on multiple fronts for things when they go right. Without that what's known as sexual harassment and, more importantly, for preparation, good things get lost, and we the lies about the Nursing Home deaths in only see Murphy’s Law. "prey." All fe- New York. His book publisher has since Make no mistake, while the gun males are.” stopped promoting his book. There were grabbers control both Congress and the calls for him to lose his Emmy but since TV White House, these will be very difficult Ann Coulter is fantasy and his spin was fantasy, that’s not times. But their control of the Senate hinges going to happen. Even Democrats are dis- on every Democrat remaining in place. cussing resignation and impeachment. 2022 elections are only nineteen months The mission of Cuomo may or may not survive this and you away and just a minor swing in elections will S.C.O.P.E. is to may know more about the outcome by the put the gun grabbers out of power in both Protect, Restore time Firing Lines is published. But an im- houses of Congress. If even one Senate De- portant point is that our greatest enemy in mocrat loses a seat before the 2022 election and Expand the NY is damaged and will have to spend most due to unexpected things like scandal, ill- gun rights of all of his time defending against attacks against ness, death or resignation, the power imme- himself rather than him attacking the 2 nd diately changes. New Yorkers. Amendment. 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