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Action needed!

PRO-GUN BILLS MAKE WAY TO HOUSE FLOOR!

The House of Representatives may act as early as next week on critical pro-Second Amendment reform bills. These bills need your support today:

H.R. 5092--the "Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (BATFE) Modernization and Reform Act of 2006," by Reps. Howard Coble (R-N.C.) and Bobby Scott (D-Va.) -- will curb the agency's efforts to revoke dealers' licenses for minor paperwork errors, improve the appeals process for dealers, and, establish new guidelines for BATFE investigations. This bill was drafted in large part to address recent, blatant BATFE abuses at Richmond, Virginia gun shows highlighted in hearings before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security. (See next story on Brady Center's blatant misrepresentation of this bill.)

H.R. 5005--the "Firearms Corrections and Improvements Act," by Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Tex.) -- will protect gun owners' privacy by creating a permanent version of the "Tiahrt Amendment," preventing disclosure of gun owner records outside of legitimate criminal investigations. The bill also includes a ban on BATFE retrieving out-of-business dealers' records by the gun owner's name-making permanent an appropriations restriction that's been in effect for the last 10 years. Among other reforms, H.R. 5005 will also permanently ban federal fees on instant background checks and roll back various restrictions on firearms industry activities.

With the legislative clock running out, this may be our last chance to pass these essential reforms before the November election--so please be sure to immediately contact your U.S. Representative at (202) 225-3121, and urge him or her to VOTE FOR H.R. 5092 and H.R. 5005 when they are brought to the House floor! Additional contact information can be found by visiting http://www.nraila.org/, clicking the "Take Action" icon, and then clicking the "Write Your Representatives" icon.

Please be sure to contact your Representative TODAY, and urge your family, friends, and fellow firearm owners to do the same!

Thank you for your continued support as we work to make these legislative reforms the law of the land!

How can it be??? The BradyGang emailed me just yesterday with the following B.S. filled propaganda fundraising letter:

""With Gun Crime Up, Why Would The House Protect Criminals?
Tell Your U.S. Representative to Oppose H.R. 5092 and 5005

Dear Dana,

Last week, the Justice Department released a report that found criminal gun violence grew by an alarming 49.4% between 2004 and 2005, and affected more than 477,000 victims, or 146,000 more than were affected just the year before. This number of victims was also the highest since 2001.

Yet, instead of taking action to make communities safer, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee approved two bills that would protect corrupt gun dealers. These bills could be voted on by the entire House very soon. Your past efforts have raised awareness about these dangerous bills. Let's keep up the pressure: tell Congress that you oppose these attacks on law enforcement and public safety.

CLICK HERE TO EMAIL YOUR REPRESENTATIVE TODAY
Tell him/her: "Don't Protect Corrupt Gun Dealers.
Stand with Law Enforcement and Oppose H.R. 5092 and 5005"

H.R. 5092 is the misnamed "Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives Modernization and Reform Act." Rather than modernizing or reforming ATF, H.R. 5092 would cripple the Bureau's enforcement powers and protect gun dealers who repeatedly violate federal law. This legislation would largely replace ATF's revocation powers with minimal fines and temporary license suspensions.

H.R. 5092 would make it virtually impossible for ATF to shut down rogue gun dealers, who repeatedly violate federal law. With gun violence and crime increasing across the nation, it is time to crack down on, not coddle, corrupt gun dealers.

Another unnecessary and counterproductive effort, H.R. 5005 would limit the information available to law enforcement, other government officials, and the public about crime guns, their connection to gun dealers, and the effectiveness of gun laws in disrupting the illegal market. Previous reports released by ATF, along with the efforts of state and local law enforcement, have helped shut down many corrupt gun dealers who were routinely violating federal law and supplying murderers, drug dealers, and other thugs with guns.

In addition, H.R. 5005 would undermine other federal firearm laws including: creating a loophole in the federal ban on importation of non-sporting firearms, including assault weapons, and reducing parental supervision of minors using handguns.

At a time when communities across the country are desperately seeking help against violent and deadly gun criminals, the backward proposals in H.R. 5092 and 5005 would actually make the situation worse. Congress should reject H.R. 5092 and 5005 and, instead, provide law enforcement with stronger tools and resources to fight gun crimes.

Here's What You Can Do Today to Help:

1. Email Your U.S. Representative Today.
Tell him or her: "Oppose H.R. 5092 and 5005. Stand with Law Enforcement, not Corrupt Gun Dealers." Click here to send your Representative an email.

2. Make a Donation of $25 or More.
Support our efforts to stop the NRA from weakening law enforcement by passing these egregious bills before the fall elections. Click here to contribute now.

3. Spread the Word.
Use our easy form to forward this email to everyone in your address book. Congress needs to hear loud and clear from those who support sensible gun laws. Click here to forward this email to friends.

Please tell your U.S. Representative today to stand with cops, not with corrupt gun dealers: don't make it easier for gun traffickers and criminals to get guns.

Sincerely,
Your Friends at StoptheNRA.com""

It is amazing that the Brady-losers and their ilk have the nads to send out letters like this in the face of cold, hard facts. They truly are stuck on stupid and just repeating the "Big Lie" enough times in the hope that it will stick in people's minds. If there is a god they are so screwed for trying to deny hundreds of millions of decent people of the right to self-defense.

P.S. I am the NRA!

"I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from liberal hell holes. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.
Go back to Massachusetts, go back to California, go back to Wisconsin, go back to New York, go back to Illinois, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.
I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "A well regulated militia, being neccessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Washington D.C. the sons of freedom loving gun owners and the sons of fascist democrats will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of New Jersey, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the caliber of their pistol but by the content of their bullseye.

I have a dream today."