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The Trace
The Trace is an American independent non-profit journalism outlet devoted to gun-related news in the United States. It was established in 2015 with seed money from the gun control advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety, which was founded by former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, and went live on June 19 of that year.
John Feinblatt said the idea for The Trace stemmed from the difficulties faced by Everytown for Gun Safety, where he serves as President, to obtain "information about gun violence".
The editorial news director, James Burnett said, "We do bring a point of view to the issue of gun violence: We believe there is too much of it. But our focus is on a related problem: the shortage of information on the subject at large."
The Trace (website) - Wikipedia
The Trace is an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit newsroom dedicated to shining a light on America's gun violence crisis.
"An emboldened NRA has operated largely in secrecy, while actively promoting misinformation."
"While collaborating with the Guardian on an widely cited series documenting the rise of fear-based gun ownership, we began to explore whether the increased carry of guns might be leading to more gun theft, and more weapons entering the criminal market."
Support for The Trace comes from these groups, among others:
Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund
I'd agree, that said keep your friends close and your enemy closer...I'd be careful when reading anything from "The Trace". They are pro-gun control.
I don't, I wanted to see how they were approaching it. Please read from the top of the thread.I'm confused.
If "The Trace" is anti-gun biased why trust what they have to state about anything...?
Before 2001, there was something called a "target permit" that would allow New York City residents to carry a handgun to shooting ranges and shooting competitions outside the city. But there was concern that the target permitting policy was being used to avoid other public carry restrictions. A person with a target permit caught with a gun in public could say they were traveling to a shooting range outside the city lawfully. In other words, the concern at the time — and of course, this was before Heller — was that the ability to carry a gun to a shooting range could be used as a pretext to skirt the rest of the regulations. And that permit was then scrapped by the NYPD. A negative ruling in this case would in essence force the city to revisit that determination.
... The court actually said to Plaintiffs that they could buy or borrow other firearms in other jurisdictions rather than use the one the already paid for that couldn't be transported from NYC. ....
Licensed gun owners in New York City will soon be able to legally transport their firearm to a second home, business or any other place gun possession is permitted as a result of a rules change the NYPD announced Friday, The New York Daily News reported.
New York City Changes Firearms Transport Policy Before SCOTUS Review
"New York City has the toughest gun laws in the country, and this rule change will ultimately help protect these laws from being rolled back," a city official said Friday.
NYC gun owners to get looser rules on moving firearms as NYPD changes policy
Respondents ask this Court to put this case on indefinite hold merely because the New York City Police Department has initiated a rulemaking process involving proposed amendments that they maintain, if adopted in their current form after public comment, may moot this case. To state the obvious, a proposed amendment is not law. ... This Court routinely grants certiorari despite the possibility that subsequent government action could move the proverbial goalposts or otherwise shape the issues being reviewed. ... What is more, the timing and circumstances of respondents' efforts raise serious voluntary cessation concerns, as the proposed rulemaking appears to be an effort to frustrate this Court's review, rather than a serious effort to bring the City's regulatory regime into alignment with this Court's decisions in District of Columbia v. Heller ... Put simply, the proposed rulemaking appears to be the product not of a change of heart, but rather of a carefully calculated effort to frustrate this Court's review.
http://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/18/18-280/97080/20190419134132164_2019-04-19 NYSRPA response letter - FINAL.pdf