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Speaker 1: Well, now it's time for our daily Bloomberg lab reef

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Speaker 1: exploring legal issues in the news, and today Bloomberg Law

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Speaker 1: host Joon Grosso and Greg Stuart discuss how gun control

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Speaker 1: advocates are quietly developing a plan to ship away at

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Speaker 1: the gun lobbies growing clout by teaming up with corporate

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Speaker 1: law firms. They speak with Joyce Malcolm, professor at George

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Speaker 1: Mason University Law School, and Mark Rayber, Professor at the

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Speaker 1: University of Maryland School of Law. Joyce, I hate to

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Speaker 1: use this word, but will the mere firepower of all

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Speaker 1: these law firms make a difference in in this issue?

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Speaker 1: Will they have success in there are some things they

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Speaker 1: want to challenge and things they want to help defend.

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Speaker 1: Will it matter? UM? I think they will have a

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Speaker 1: very difficult time because um, not only UM do we

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Speaker 1: have a Republican president coming in on a Republican House

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Speaker 1: in SENTA, but their approach is going to be two

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Speaker 1: regulators and courts across the states, and the states are

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Speaker 1: now much more under UM the control of the people

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Speaker 1: who want to support the Second Amendment have been moving

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Speaker 1: in that direction for some years. So I think that

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Speaker 1: you know, just applying UH and appealing to regulators, um

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Speaker 1: and courts is not going to be as successful as

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Speaker 1: they hope. Mark, do you agree with that? Is this

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Speaker 1: an uphill battle? I think I would praise things slightly differently.

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Speaker 1: But Professor Malcolm is absolutely right. Given that Republicans will

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Speaker 1: be making the appointees to the federal court, given that

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Speaker 1: more states houses are under Republican control. Unless we're talking

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Speaker 1: about Republican control in places like Massachusetts, where the Republicans

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Speaker 1: are almost as liberal on gun control as the Democrats,

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Speaker 1: were not likely to see a whole lot of luck.

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Speaker 1: For example, challenging a law in Florida that says basically

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Speaker 1: doctors cannot give certain advice about guns to patients and

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Speaker 1: maybe a bad law. From my perspective on Professor Malcolm

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Speaker 1: A well, disagree, but I think we both agree. Given

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Speaker 1: the likely people on the state and federal judici, serry

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Speaker 1: is going to be a very strong challenge. Remember when

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Speaker 1: law firms participated in the fight against segregation, they also

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Speaker 1: had presidents like Eisenhower, Kendy, and Johnson appointing anti segregation judges.

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Speaker 1: That is not the case now. That's Mark Graver, professor

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Speaker 1: at the University of Maryland School of Law and Joyce Malcolm,

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Speaker 1: professor at George Mason University Law School, speaking with Bloomberg

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Speaker 1: Law host Doing Grosso and Greg Stuart. You can listen

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