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This Isn't About Food. This is About the 2nd Amendment.

The media is all focused on SNAP and National Parks. They aren't talking about NICS—the National Instant Criminal Background Check System. NICS is run by the FBI. The FBI is shut down. I have 15 firearm sales pending in my shop. The customers have paid, but the FBI's system can't give me a "Proceed" or "Deny." By law, if I don't hear back in three days, I can legally release the firearm at my discretion. Guess what? I'm not doing it. If I release a gun to the wrong person, my license is gone. If I don't release it, my customers—all law-abiding—are threatening to sue me for violating their 2A rights. The shutdown has turned my business into a legal minefield. #2ndAmendment #NICS #Shutdown

Everyone, PLEASE get this straight: Funding #SNAP has *NOTHING* to do with the federal government #shutdown. They are two entirely different issues. • The emergency funds to pay SNAP benefits are ALREADY IN the USDA's current, eexistingbudget. The $5 Billion is there, in the #USDA account, ready to be distributed to states. Trump and Republicans refuse to authorize it. Trump even removed the text from the #OMB and USDA websites that say so. • #Georgia is sitting on $21.5 Billion OF OUR tax dollars in surplus and rainy day funds. Gov. Kemp refuses to use any of it to pay for the 1.4 Million Georgians who rely on SNAP to feed their families. His excuse is that if we use tax money to help the people who paid the taxes, it will lead to a chain reaction of other Georgians expecting our state government to help them. What gall! Taxpayers expecting their taxes to benefit taxpayers! #SNAPBenefits #SNAPLife #SNAPTalk