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  • oldag

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    House, Dems with some defecting or uneducated R's, passed funding bill containing gun control. Contact your senators ASAP.

    Gun Control Was Introduced and Passed Yesterday

    Yesterday under the cover of darkness, Congressional Democrats released a 2,741 page government funding bill at 1:30 AM.

    GOA rushed to analyze the bill, found the gun control buried on pages 2207-2213, and alerted our grassroots activists to take action.

    Despite our best efforts, the gun control passed 260-171 with the support of 39 Republicans later that same day at 10PM.

    Government funding will likely be extended until March 15th, so we have five days maximum to defeat this gun control in the Senate.

    Background Checks Made Worse


    This year’s government appropriations bill includes two major gun control restrictions.

    Sections 1101-1102 of the bill are known as the NICS Denial Notification Act to make the existing background check system even WORSE.

    As you well know, the current NICS background check system is broken beyond belief.

    Nine out of ten times, when someone is denied a gun purchase by the NICS system, it’s a law-abiding citizen who was wrongly denied their right to purchase a firearm.

    Because the vast majority of NICS denials each year are false positives, the government gets less than a few dozen convictions of prohibited persons stupid enough to try to buy a gun at a gun store.

    Even so, Congress seems intent on passing the NICS Denial Notification Act which instructs ATF to help local law enforcement launch CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS into each NICS denial—including all false-positive denials.

    So, if this passes, you better hope the NICS system doesn’t falsely deny you your next gun purchase!

    Please, take action to help us prevent this from becoming law!

    Local Police to Enforce ATF Gun Control

    Additionally, the government spending bill’s Section 1103 also contains funding for ATF to begin deputizing local law enforcement officers to enforce federal gun control laws. ATF can also appoint local government attorneys to help prosecute the enforcement of this gun control as well.

    This runs in direct contradiction to the Second Amendment Sanctuary laws that GOA has been pushing around the country at the state and local level.

    States like Missouri and Idaho have passed the STRONGEST Second Amendment Protection laws which prohibit funding for gun control and/or include criminal or civil penalties for government agents and/or agencies that enforce unconstitutional gun control. More than a dozen other states have similar statutes.

    And yet, Congress is facilitating the enforcement of federal gun laws with local ATF deputies!

    Take action and tell Congress to STRIP this anti-Second Amendment section from the appropriations bill.
     

    RoadRunner

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    House, Dems with some defecting or uneducated R's, passed funding bill containing gun control. Contact your senators ASAP.

    Gun Control Was Introduced and Passed Yesterday

    Yesterday under the cover of darkness, Congressional Democrats released a 2,741 page government funding bill at 1:30 AM.

    GOA rushed to analyze the bill, found the gun control buried on pages 2207-2213, and alerted our grassroots activists to take action.

    Despite our best efforts, the gun control passed 260-171 with the support of 39 Republicans later that same day at 10PM.

    Government funding will likely be extended until March 15th, so we have five days maximum to defeat this gun control in the Senate.

    Background Checks Made Worse


    This year’s government appropriations bill includes two major gun control restrictions.

    Sections 1101-1102 of the bill are known as the NICS Denial Notification Act to make the existing background check system even WORSE.

    As you well know, the current NICS background check system is broken beyond belief.

    Nine out of ten times, when someone is denied a gun purchase by the NICS system, it’s a law-abiding citizen who was wrongly denied their right to purchase a firearm.

    Because the vast majority of NICS denials each year are false positives, the government gets less than a few dozen convictions of prohibited persons stupid enough to try to buy a gun at a gun store.

    Even so, Congress seems intent on passing the NICS Denial Notification Act which instructs ATF to help local law enforcement launch CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS into each NICS denial—including all false-positive denials.

    So, if this passes, you better hope the NICS system doesn’t falsely deny you your next gun purchase!

    Please, take action to help us prevent this from becoming law!

    Local Police to Enforce ATF Gun Control

    Additionally, the government spending bill’s Section 1103 also contains funding for ATF to begin deputizing local law enforcement officers to enforce federal gun control laws. ATF can also appoint local government attorneys to help prosecute the enforcement of this gun control as well.

    This runs in direct contradiction to the Second Amendment Sanctuary laws that GOA has been pushing around the country at the state and local level.

    States like Missouri and Idaho have passed the STRONGEST Second Amendment Protection laws which prohibit funding for gun control and/or include criminal or civil penalties for government agents and/or agencies that enforce unconstitutional gun control. More than a dozen other states have similar statutes.

    And yet, Congress is facilitating the enforcement of federal gun laws with local ATF deputies!

    Take action and tell Congress to STRIP this anti-Second Amendment section from the appropriations bill.

    Thanks for posting this. It is good to see that the GOA is on top of things.
     

    crystalphoto

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    House Republicans Who Voted FOR Gun Control

    Here is a list of the 39 Republicans in the House of Representatives who voted FOR criminal investigations into 100% of false-positive background check denials and FOR your local police to be deputized as ATF agents:

    Representative Party State Vote
    Amodei Republican Nevada Yea
    Bice (OK) Republican Oklahoma Yea
    Brady Republican Texas Yea
    Calvert Republican California Yea
    Carl Republican Alabama Yea
    Carter (TX) Republican Texas Yea
    Cole Republican Oklahoma Yea
    Diaz-Balart Republican Florida Yea
    Fitzpatrick Republican Pennsylvania Yea
    Fleischmann Republican Tennessee Yea
    Garcia (CA) Republican California Yea
    Gimenez Republican Florida Yea
    Gonzales, Tony Republican Texas Yea
    Gonzalez (OH) Republican Ohio Yea
    Granger Republican Texas Yea
    Herrera Beutler Republican Washington Yea
    Hinson Republican Iowa Yea
    Joyce (OH) Republican Ohio Yea
    Katko Republican New York Yea
    Kim (CA) Republican California Yea
    Kinzinger Republican Illinois Yea
    Malliotakis Republican New York Yea
    McCaul Republican Texas Yea
    Meijer Republican Michigan Yea
    Miller-Meeks Republican Iowa Yea
    Newhouse Republican Washington Yea
    Reed Republican New York Yea
    Reschenthaler Republican Pennsylvania Yea
    Rogers (KY) Republican Kentucky Yea
    Rutherford Republican Florida Yea
    Salazar Republican Florida Yea
    Sessions Republican Texas Yea
    Simpson Republican Idaho Yea
    Steel Republican California Yea
    Turner Republican Ohio Yea
    Upton Republican Michigan Yea
    Valadao Republican California Yea
    Womack Republican Arkansas Yea
    Young Republican Alaska Yea
    If any of these pro-gun control GOP represent you in Congress, our action alert will send them a special message to scold them for their opposition to the Second Amendment.

    Help Us Hold Congress Accountable!

    As we mentioned earlier, the Senate will vote on the government funding bill before Wednesday of next week—so there isn’t much time.

    But, just yesterday a few Representatives were loud enough and fought hard enough that Biden’s updated COVID relief was struck from the bill.

    In the Senate, earmarks and all sorts of nonsense are being negotiated as we speak!

    There is still time for Congress to strip the gun control from this funding bill.

    That’s why its critical for you and every gun owner you know to take action to oppose this bill.

    Thank you for helping GOA hold Congress accountable.

    And if you have time, please call your two Senators and encourage them to oppose this anti-gun spending bill. You can be directed to their offices by calling the Senate Switchboard at 202-224-3121.
     

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    ETA:
    Looks like we are to late to stop this one. It was passed by the Senate yesterday.
     
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    oldag

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    By Thursday night, gun control passed the Senate with the support of all Democrat Senators present and 18 Republicans. Sadly, the bill could have been stopped entirely had Republicans opposed the bill in unison, because anti-gunners were short a Senator.

    These eighteen Republican senators voted with anti-gun Democrats in favor of the gun control’s final passage: 

    Barrasso (R-WY)

    Blunt (R-MO)

    Capito (R-WV)

    Collins (R-ME)

    Cornyn (R-TX)

    Ernst (R-IA)

    Graham (R-SC)

    Grassley (R-IA)

    Hyde-Smith (R-MS)

    McConnell (R-KY)

    Moran (R-KS)

    Murkowski (R-AK)

    Portman (R-OH)

    Shelby (R-AL)

    Thune (R-SD)

    Tuberville (R-AL)

    Wicker (R-MS)

    Young (R-IN)
     

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    The problem is that the bill dropped at 1:30am on Wed and NOBODY read the thousands of pages. This late drop gave gun owners no time to even get wind of this, let alone starting a grassroots campaign to stop the bill. The corrupt f***ers knew this, and it gives me pause to think what other shit is in the bill. :mad:
     

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