Dan Ashe, former President Barack Obama’s Fish and Wildlife Service director, is proposing that Washington pass a package of gun control restrictions far stricter than Hillary Clinton ever proposed or that her husband’s 1994 assault weapons ban imposed.
Under his outline, backed by some outdoors writers, AR-15s and most semi-automatic weapons would be banned, nobody under age 21 would be able to buy a gun, and those on the “no-fly” list would be outlawed from owning guns.
The National Rifle Association and the industry’s representative, the National Shooting Sports Association, are pushing back, with the shooting sports group saying those restrictions would kill the tradition of fathers showing their kids how to shoot and hunt.
• Sinclair Broadcasting political analyst Boris Epshteyn is expanding his operation as he readies for the November elections. He just hired his first executive producer, former White House aide Kaelan Dorr, who helped with the team that videos President Trump’s weekly address. Dorr will work with the daily newsfeed sent to Sinclair stations, “Bottom Line with Boris Epshteyn.”
• American painter Jon McNaughton has started to rack up his positive images of President Trump, and that’s because he believes the administration is fixing the problems he saw under former President Barack Obama. An associate told us, “He painted many times about Obama and the direction he was taking our country, didn’t agree. Jon follows and believes in the Constitution. He believes President Trump is doing the right things to get our country back to the way our Founders set it up.”
• At the Federal Election Commission, Republican Chairwoman Caroline Hunter called out Democratic Commissioner Ellen Weintraub’s bid to question the loyalty of Americans working for foreign companies in the U.S. and her targeting of electioneering of overseas businesses but not that of international labor unions.
