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12-11-2014, 06:57 PM
Gun groups differ on support for government funding bill
Posted on December 11, 2014 (http://personalliberty.com/gun-groups-differ-support-government-funding-bill/) by Sam Rolley (http://personalliberty.com/author/samrolleypl/)Views: 1,495
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http://plnami.blob.core.windows.net/media/2014/12/longgun121114-800x500.jpgGun rights advocates are calling on lawmakers to force a government shutdown because of a $1 billion provision included in the trillion-dollar government funding package that would advance President Barack Obama’s gun control agenda.
“On behalf of one million law-abiding gun owners, we are asking you, in the strongest terms, to vote against the anti-gun omnibus appropriations bill,” Gun Owners of America (GOA) said in a statement to lawmakers. “As a matter of process, this gigantic bill was hatched in secret and sprung on the American people less than the 72 hours before consideration, which was promised by Republicans when they asked us to elect them.”
“This is precisely what you said you would not do if we gave your party control of Congress,” the group added.
GOA chairman and executive director Tim Macy said that a provision which adds $53 million to the government’s budget for “fight[ing] gun violence is an extrajudicial attack on gun rights. The additional funding brings the government’s total gun violence budget to $1.1 trillion.
“We all know this is a euphemism for gun control, and there is nothing which prevents the administration from using this money to support its anti-gun ‘executive action’ agenda,” he said, according to The Hill.
GOA lists the following additional complaints about the government funding bill:
* The bill rewards ATF for its illegal Fast and Furious program with an extra $22 million. Eric Holder has thumbed his nose at you with respect to any accountability for this outrageous abuse, and yet the drafters have no problem rewarding him for his contempt of (and for) Congress.
* The bill also provides $73 million for states like New York to impose gun bans when psychiatrists, as a result of its anti-gun “SAFE” Act, are forced by state law to report their patients, based on subjective determinations with no real due process. Tens of thousands of people may experience unconstitutional gun bans in New York alone, thanks to this bill.
* Finally, the bill provides $3 million to encourage Americans to lock up their safety, so that their guns will not be available in connection with a burglary or armed home invasion.
Meanwhile, the National Rifle Association has supported the spending bill because of a provision that protects hunters’ rights to use traditional lead ammunition.
“For years, radical animal rights and environmental advocates have used all the tools at their disposal, including litigation, to attempt to ban lead ammunition,” the group wrote to house Speaker John Boehner. “A ban on traditional ammunition would affect hunters, sportsmen, law enforcement, military and target shooters — whether or not they hunt. There are currently no comparable alternatives to lead ammunition in terms of cost, ballistics and availability. This bill would prevent a traditional ammunition ban and protect not just hunters, but millions of American gun owners.”
You say What?
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http://plnami.blob.core.windows.net/media/2014/12/longgun121114-800x500.jpgGun rights advocates are calling on lawmakers to force a government shutdown because of a $1 billion provision included in the trillion-dollar government funding package that would advance President Barack Obama’s gun control agenda.
“On behalf of one million law-abiding gun owners, we are asking you, in the strongest terms, to vote against the anti-gun omnibus appropriations bill,” Gun Owners of America (GOA) said in a statement to lawmakers. “As a matter of process, this gigantic bill was hatched in secret and sprung on the American people less than the 72 hours before consideration, which was promised by Republicans when they asked us to elect them.”
“This is precisely what you said you would not do if we gave your party control of Congress,” the group added.
GOA chairman and executive director Tim Macy said that a provision which adds $53 million to the government’s budget for “fight[ing] gun violence is an extrajudicial attack on gun rights. The additional funding brings the government’s total gun violence budget to $1.1 trillion.
“We all know this is a euphemism for gun control, and there is nothing which prevents the administration from using this money to support its anti-gun ‘executive action’ agenda,” he said, according to The Hill.
GOA lists the following additional complaints about the government funding bill:
* The bill rewards ATF for its illegal Fast and Furious program with an extra $22 million. Eric Holder has thumbed his nose at you with respect to any accountability for this outrageous abuse, and yet the drafters have no problem rewarding him for his contempt of (and for) Congress.
* The bill also provides $73 million for states like New York to impose gun bans when psychiatrists, as a result of its anti-gun “SAFE” Act, are forced by state law to report their patients, based on subjective determinations with no real due process. Tens of thousands of people may experience unconstitutional gun bans in New York alone, thanks to this bill.
* Finally, the bill provides $3 million to encourage Americans to lock up their safety, so that their guns will not be available in connection with a burglary or armed home invasion.
Meanwhile, the National Rifle Association has supported the spending bill because of a provision that protects hunters’ rights to use traditional lead ammunition.
“For years, radical animal rights and environmental advocates have used all the tools at their disposal, including litigation, to attempt to ban lead ammunition,” the group wrote to house Speaker John Boehner. “A ban on traditional ammunition would affect hunters, sportsmen, law enforcement, military and target shooters — whether or not they hunt. There are currently no comparable alternatives to lead ammunition in terms of cost, ballistics and availability. This bill would prevent a traditional ammunition ban and protect not just hunters, but millions of American gun owners.”
You say What?