Who is Blair Holt, and Why Does He Want My Guns?

Another day, another challenge to our Constitutional rights. Or a tribute to a fallen, heroic child. You decide. Just when I thought it was safe to open my email, I read another message from the National Association for Gun Rights, warning me that HR45 was set to severely limit my Constitutional right to bear arms. The email came complete with a video message from U.S. Representative Paul Broun (R-GA), encouraging me to get involved to stop this bill from becoming law. Well, no duh! Only, we here at TTAG like to get ALL the facts before we go off, um, half-cocked. Think of us as the guy who doesn’t forward those chain emails that claim you’ll save some kid’s pancreas if you forward the pull tabs from soda cans to the American Cancer Foundation, but instead checks to make sure it’s not an urban myth BEFORE we hit the “forward” button.

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