Election Year & the NRA
Seems with all the yammering about flag burning, gay marriage, and other pointless issues making the floor of congress, that we are hot and heavy in the election season. Now, some are trying to energize the gun base:
The National Rifle Association is pleased by Tuesday’s announcement by House Congressional leaders to include gun ownership rights as part of their 2006 “American Values Agenda”.
“On behalf of our four million NRA members nationwide, we deeply appreciate the House Republican leadership for recognizing the fundamental importance of protecting law-abiding Americans’ Second Amendment rights,” said Chris W. Cox, NRA’s chief lobbyist. “We strongly encourage and endorse these pro-gun bills as part of the their “American Values Agenda.’”
“Family, faith, patriotism and hard work bind us together as Americans. Our laws should reflect those priorities, and House Republicans are committed to the American Values Agenda, policies that stress the core values on which our nation was built,” said House Majority Whip Roy Blunt.
House Republican leaders have put together a package of “pro-freedom” bills slated for votes this summer and fall. Two of those measures are H.R. 5092 and H.R. 5013, bills that are also among NRA’s top legislative priorities.
These bills are the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (BATFE) Modernization and Reform Act of 2006 and the Disaster Recovery Personal Protection Act. Hate to break it to you guys, but we gunnies don’t want more gun laws. We want less. In fact, here’s an informal poll of what we want. Most items in that poll involve repealing something. So, get on that NRA, if you want me to get behind you. Start with the sporting purposes language, as it would probably be the easiest.
Then try the Hughes Amendment. This one could be easy as the majority of folks incorrectly think that, since the assault weapons ban expired, machine guns are legal any way. The media and anti-gun groups shot their was on that so it should be easy to market.
June 30th, 2006 at 11:18 am
Recycling the “Contract with America” thingy, I see. Well, I fell for that, once.
Seconded.
June 30th, 2006 at 11:57 am
Fair enough, but aren’t parts of the various gun bills actually repeals of part of GCA 1968? E.g. the one that allows interstate purchases of handguns is a repeal of part of GCA 1968, just like FOPA 1986’s elimination of having to register ammo sales was a repeal of part of the GCA.
June 30th, 2006 at 6:45 pm
I want to see the BATFE completely dismantled and its activities discontinued entirely, not just shifted to another agency. The BATF***Everybody is the only agency whose only reason for exisence is to violate the constitution. That is their charter and their only reason for existence, violation of the supreme law of the land and commission of crimes against citizens.
I don’t want it reformed, I want it gone.