Gun safety LWV 
https://www.lwv.org/blog/lwvs-work-urgent-social-justice-issues

People who were on the LWVNM board when I was state president may recall LWVSFC member and LWV Minnesota Firearms leader Mary Lewis Grow making a presentation about the LWVUS Gun Safety Interest Group ( which she still leads) and the study committee updating LWVMN’s Firearms Position. After their revision was adopted in 2022, I recommended that we concur with parts of it. Our board decided that it was too detailed and that LWV’s and our very general positions were sufficient for advocacy.  


Meredith Ross Machen
505-577-6337
Meredith.machen@gmail.com



On Thu, Jan 2, 2025 at 4:42 PM Akkana Peck via Action <action@mailman.swcp.com> wrote:
Thanks, Meredith, I like the LWVOR position. Los Alamos also has a Digital Privacy position:
https://my.lwv.org/new-mexico/los-alamos/lwvla-privacy-study-2020
but it's not as relevant to Immigration information-sharing issues as the LWVOR position.

In another email you mentioned gun safety. Do you or does anyone have a copy of the LWVUS position on that? I know there is one, but as usual with the national league, I've been completely unable to find it. I have to say I'm reluctant to support gun safety as one of our top priorities because a lot of the bills that get proposed on that topic are poorly written and poorly researched, and I've been told that not all our local Leagues are united on the issue. We do have a state position but it's extremely vague: "The LWVNM supports regulation of firearms for public safety."

        ...Akkana

Meredith Machen via Action writes:
> In the Immigration advocacy discussion, Barbara asked whether we can
> support state legislation that calls for limiting sharing of information
> with federal authorities. I believe the League's Individual Liberties
> position covers us well. Also attached is a portion of LWVOR's position on
> Privacy and Cybersecurity.
>
> Meredith Machen
> meredith.machen@gmail.com
> 505 577-6337
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 2, 2025 at 1:43 PM Richard Mason via Action <
> action@mailman.swcp.com> wrote:
>
> > We actually decided on Elections & Good Government and Environment as
> > priorities. We need to decide on others. We do not have to actually decide
> > until January 10th. We need to submit to the Board for approval. They meet
> > on January 13.
> >
> > I am attaching the latest tracking sheet, but will probably have an
> > updated after I check the pre-filed tomorrow morning.
> >
> > Dick Mason
> >
> > On Thursday, January 2, 2025 at 12:35:51 PM MST, Akkana Peck via Action <
> > action@mailman.swcp.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Happy new year, everybody!
> >
> > Tomorrow night at 6pm is our meeting to choose priorities for this year's
> > legislative session.
> >
> > Zoom link:
> > https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82088967453?pwd=MU1RKys2dytYMWFVYW40YjJQdDRkZz09
> >
> > There hasn't been much discussion here on the action list, and I'd like to
> > keep the meeting to an hour. So think about which priorities you want to
> > advocate for, and why.
> >
> > At our last meeting, the candidates were:
> > Affordable Housing
> > Health Care
> > Immigration
> > Environment (including water)
> > Education
> >
> > Ideally, we'd choose three, but from what Dick was saying it sounded like
> > we could choose four if we really wanted to. And remember, we can still
> > advocate for areas that aren't in the top three or four! And they'll still
> > show up in our tracking sheet. The top priorities are mostly so that we can
> > fit them on a 1-page printed sheet to give to legislators.
> >
> > Personally, I'd like to see Health Care and Environment make the top list,
> > because we expect important bills to be proposed in both of these areas,
> > and neither one has made the top three in recent years. But of course, all
> > five topics are important and we expect legislation in all of the areas.
> > And all five topics are under threat from the upcoming federal regime
> > change.
> >
> > See you tomorrow night,
> >
> >         ...Akkana
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