Posted on 11/15/2012 11:56:37 AM PST by neverdem
The NRA has been saying all along that Barack Obama would unleash an assault on our Second Amendment freedoms if he won a second term. It sure didn’t take long for him to prove us right.
Just hours after Obama won re-election last Tuesday, his administration endorsed a new effort by the global gun grabbers at the United Nations to draft a gun ban treaty early next year. The official starting point for the new talks is last year’s failed draft, which contains provisions that threaten our sovereign right to keep and bear arms through an international gun registration scheme.
And not long after Obama floated the idea of banning semi-automatic firearms, we learned that California Senator Dianne Feinstein was working with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives to draft new legislation that would ban semi-automatic rifles, shotguns and handguns, so-called “high capacity” magazines, and rifles and shotguns with pistol grips. Reportedly, Feinstein wants to make it illegal not just to sell your guns and magazines, but to leave them behind in your will.
Not surprisingly, the lights had hardly gone out at Obama’s victory celebration last week when gun-hating New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, along with his pollster, Frank Luntz, were conducting push polls to promote government control over every firearm transfer — including between fathers and sons, and grandfathers and grandsons.
In Bloomberg’s world, a child wouldn’t be able to tear the wrapping paper off his first .22 rifle on Christmas morning unless Santa Claus had first cleared it with Obama’s bureaucrats.
I know a lot of folks are still down about last week’s presidential election. It’s puzzling how so many Americans can tell pollsters that the country is on the wrong track, then vote to keep the same guy driving the train.
But this isn’t the first time in history when gun owners and NRA members have faced a difficult challenge, and it won’t be the first time we’ve risen to the occasion and come out victorious. The Second Amendment wouldn’t be alive today if it wasn’t for the courage of tens of millions of gun owners and freedom-loving Americans across our nation, and throughout our history.
As long as dedicated patriots continue to band together and fight as though freedom itself is on the line — because it is — we will defend the Second Amendment in Obama’s second term and save it for generations to come.
For gun owners, the next four years won’t just be the fight of our lives, it will be a fight for the future of our nation. We’re ready to lead the charge.
Chris W. Cox is the Executive Director of the National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA) and serves as the organization’s chief lobbyist.
Obama, Romney, they’re both the same. Romney would have done this.
After checking our bank account, I believe we have enough to stop by for another case of ammo on the way home...
DOA in the House.
his administration endorsed a new effort by the global gun grabbers at the United Nations to draft a gun ban treaty early next year.
DOA.
DOA in the House.
his administration endorsed a new effort by the global gun grabbers at the United Nations to draft a gun ban treaty early next year.
DOA.
Does the NRA still support Harry Reid ?
The NRA needs to step back and see the forest, and delete any and every "D" from their contribution rolls.
It will be interesting to see how NRA A+ rated, NRA endorsed demonicRat Senator from West Virginia Joe "Rat-Bastard" Manchin will respond to this legislation.
The NRA has very little credibility.
Voters have unleashed a new beast on the political landscape. An America-hating radical activist ideologue that will not be held accountable by the media and is not accountable to the electorate. The tree of liberty is dying of thirst.
Dianne Feinstein was working with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.
“DOA in the House.”
Then he will do it by Executive order. Who’s going to stop him? The attorney general? The Supreme Court (who he will likely be able to stack with 2 more Marxists)?
“Obama, Romney, they’re both the same. Romney would have done this”.
You have just made things extremely difficult for me to treat you with any degree of respect, by the nature of your comment, which IMHO is the most blatantly stupid statement I have EVER seen on FreeRepublic
“Voter fraud has unleashed a new beast on the political landscape”
Fixed that for ya.
Illegal and it would be ignored by the vast majority.
Luckily we're well armed...;)
“The NRA has very little credibility.”
The NRA is the only reason that we can own anything more powerful than a pellet gun.
This will make a second American civil war likely.
Treaties go through the Senate. They have nothing to do with the House.
“You have just made things extremely difficult for me to treat you with any degree of respect, by the nature of your comment, which IMHO is the most blatantly stupid statement I have EVER seen on FreeRepublic”
I have to take you at your word, however, if you are a frequent reader of FR, I am suspicious of the accuracy of your statement.
Also, that’s sarcasm I posted. HEAVY sarcasm.
I said it was DOA and left it at that, and I did not say the UN treaty would go through the House. I said Feinstein’s gun grab legislation would go through the House where it is DOA.
I said back the day the “Brady Bill” passed that I would ignore it and all future gun laws. Since then I’ve “opted out” of the background check process, every gun I purchase is cash only from individuals. As far as the Government is concerned I own nothing. As long as you have cash, you will always find somebody willing to sell you what you want laws be damned (see the so called “war” on drugs for proof...”).
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