Posted on 11/30/2007 8:13:57 PM PST by neverdem
If that eery silence about H.R. 2640 (the Veteran Disarmament bill by Carolyn McCarthy) makes you uneasy, it should: the best time for our opponents to slip gun control through the legislative process is when it's quiet, and everyone's occupied by other business.
It's no coincidence that gun control often gains steam close to the Holiday season, when Americans are busy with filling that deer tag, going to Christmas plays, shopping and getting the basement room ready for Grandma.
Some good news:
- Sources at the Gun Rights Policy Conference reported that when NRA-ILA Federal Affair lobbyist Chuck Cunningham spoke, he was assaulted with questions about why the NRA was supporting McCarthy's bill. Immediately after that woodshedding, Wayne LaPierre canceled his speaking appearance at the event -- none of LaPierre's handlers wanted the "face of the NRA" to be caught on video defending their support of gun control.
Friends, that is encouraging: the NRA is feeling the heat on this issue, and if they back off of the bill, H.R. 2640's support on Capitol Hill will lose votes faster than Obama at a John Birch Society straw poll.
And though that is good news, we have bad news:
- Expert sources on the Hill are telling us that politicians took notice of the firestorm that struck their offices late this summer and early fall, but now believe the heat is off and are once again eyeing the passage of HR 2640.
- An NRA insider has told us that yet another deal is in the works between the NRA and Congressional offices, something designed to pass the bill while giving the NRA cover to continue their support.
This confirms what we know: there's a lot of deal-making happening in Washington on this issue, and it's very dangerous to our rights. These next few weeks -- until the end of 2007 -- are pivotal.
If history repeats itself (and it often does), this Holiday season is a likely spot for our rights to be ambushed.
What you can do:
Call (800) 392-8683 or e-mail the NRA’s federal lobbyist, Chuck Cunningham at and Federal-Affairs@nrahq.org.
For NAGR’s extensive analysis of H.R. 2640, click here.
Time to get those phone calls, emails, and faxes going—again!
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Bump for later.
Her instant switch to attack mode, and the prepared statement told me they had been getting quite a bit of grief about it. Since the NRA has become a fund raising operation the best way to get their attention is to dry up the money.
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It seems like an exact rule which states the less a gun group has actually accomplished, the more they have to mention the NRA in their news alerts.
Thanks for the ping!
I read the summarries on this bill over at govtrack.us. I don’t get what is so bad about this bill. What am I missing?
The most important right, the right to self defense, IMHO, is open to folks with many agendas. Search hr2640 as a keyword. This bill sounds goods until you understand all of its implications. It has the potential to deny any combat veteran who talks to a shrink to someone who was prescribed an antidepressant to stop smoking the right to buy a firearm, courtesy of the computerized NICS and computerized script ordering. If two docs in NY say that you are a threat to yourself or others, regardless of whether they have an agenda, that's it. It's over. That is enough for adjudication.
You have to look at it from the gun grabber's mindset. In the discussions to allow concealed carry privileges, many thought a DUI was sufficient to deny the privilege, a privilege that others think is a right. If you have a kid who was diagnosed as having attention deficit disorder, ADD, or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, ADHD, they can't enlist in the U.S. Armed Forces until they have been off their meds for a year. I looked it up. I confirmed it on a Department of Defense website for the qualifications to enlist.
The left in this country, not unlike the old Soviet Union, will exploit psychiatry to the max.
You’re right. This bill MUST be stopped.
BTT
Lets call and write to stop this POS!
Let’s try this, if a person commits a crime (let’s say littering) that is a misdomeanor in one state but a felony in another. Should that person be barred from owning firearms? The bill does not state how to handle such instances, but you can bet that they will side with the felony given the choice. Also, it would expand the list with names of those that have restraining orders which have become boiler-plate (regardless of need) for divorces in some states. If someone moves during a divorce, the restraing order would still affect them.
As neverdem said, look at it from the bad guys point of view. How could it be used against us if Hillary and the Dems are in charge? Where are the holes, where are the grey areas, etc. that can be twisted and reintereted?
If the bill was nothing to worry about, why do a voice vote the way they did? Why not let your name be on record on how you voted, if it a good bill? If it is a good bill, why is the Brady Bunch, McCarthy, Schumer, etc. for it?
It expands the Brady Law (which was considered gun control, isn’t it still?), why isn’t this bill considerd gun control?
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