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NRA Joins Dems to Push Gun Control
From: Virginia Gun Owners Coalition <president>
To: Undisclosed-Recipient:;
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 10:01 AM
NRA joins Democrats to push gun control
Do you know a combat veteran who’s been diagnosed with Post-traumatic stress disorder?
Was your son, niece, or grandchild prematurely diagnosed with ADHD as a child?
If Rep. Carolyn McCarthy and Senator Pat Leahy have their way, your active and enthusiastic nephew and our military veterans would be prohibited from owning firearms -- ever. Their bill, H.R. 2640, is a massive expansion of the NICS check, otherwise know as the Brady Registration Act, an unconstitutional and immoral infringement on the Second Amendment. The gun grabbers in Congress have been working to sneak this gun control into law, and now they’re moving quickly.
This bill could pass the Senate as early as tomorrow.
H.R. 2640 was passed out of the House on a voice vote, and was forced through the Senate Committee process on a series of un-recorded voice votes. The bill is currently waiting for anti-gun liberals like Hillary Clinton and Harry Reid to call for a vote.
The only reason this gun control bill has sailed through Congress is because the NRA is supporting it – and anti-gun activists are using the NRA’s support to force this bill into law.
The NRA, who claims to be the voice of American gun owners, has betrayed these same gun owners and the constitutional rights they claim to support by joining with the Brady Campaign to pass the first major gun control legislation since the assault weapons ban.
Maybe you’ve seen some of the stories; The Denver Post, Seattle Times, Washington Post have all reported on the NRA’s betrayal of gun owners. The NRA itself, in the September issue of the American Rifleman, has even bragged that it is supporting this legislation. (Go here
http://www.nationalgunrights.org/othershr2640.shtml to see the evidence of the NRA support for the first major piece of gun control legislation in over a decade.)
Why is the NRA trying to pass more gun control laws, when gun owners -- like you and me – think we need to be repealing these unconstitutional gun control laws altogether? In the wake of the Virginia Tech tragedy the NRA felt compelled to support gun control in exactly the same manner Charlton Heston (then President of the NRA) supported gun control after Columbine.
The NRA’s rationale is to fashion the chains that bind us. They believe any gun-related legislation must have their fingerprints all over it, even if that legislation is vehemently opposed by their members and is an infringement of our rights. They talk tough to raise money (such as LaPierre calling the BATFE “jack-booted thugs” while supporting BATFE budget increases), but their actions are quite the opposite: they usually cut a backroom deal before the battle even begins. After all, you can’t be thought of as a “political player” if you don’t follow the insider’s rules. Wayne LaPierre’s worst nightmare is losing his invitation to the GOP cocktail circuit.
With the NRA’s support, Senate Democrats are just waiting for the right moment – when gun owners are distracted -- before they pass the first major gun-control legislation since Bill Clinton was President. They can call the vote at any moment.
There may still be time to stop this outrageous attack on our gun rights. You can help protect our right to keep and bear arms by doing these four things.
1) Call Senator Jim Webb again and demand to know if he is going to filibuster H.R. 2640, the Psychiatrist Empowerment and Citizens Disarmament Act. Call 202 224 4024.
2) Call Wayne LaPierre, Executive Vice-President of the NRA, at (800) 392-8683 and tell him to stop supporting gun control. This is very important. This is how we got the NRA to back off supporting the renewal of the hated Clinton Gun Ban in 2004 in a backroom exchange for the gun manufacturers liability bill.
3) Email the NRA’s federal lobbyist, Chuck Cunningham at
[email protected] and
[email protected]. Tell him and NRA to stop supporting gun control.
4) Help VGOC fight gun control. Go here
https://va.eftsecure.net/eftcart/pro...d=467112673452 to donate to NAGR.
For Liberty
Mike McHugh
President, VGOC,
www.vgoc.org
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