National Right To Carry Reciprocity Act. HR 822

I have received several emails, mainly from NAGR, urging the house judiciary committee not to approve this legislation. It seems like a good idea at first, but once passed it will allow congress and Obama to approve amendments to it willy nilly. This seems like a correct anylization of the bill, but I would like some FReeper input.

1 posted on 10/14/2011 3:29:44 PM PDT by GunPkrBkr

Only if it was guaranteed via the federal government that the right to bear arms couldn't and mustn't be infringed could the federal government possibly be trusted with such a wide scope of power over the states.

Oh, wait a minute....

2 posted on 10/14/2011 3:36:44 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)

Here is an interesting link. Seems there may a better alternative (H.R. 2900) which doesn’t usurp State’s rights (not as much anyway).

http://www.ammoland.com/2011/10/13/house-committee-to-vote-on-concealed-carry-weapon-reciprocity/

3 posted on 10/14/2011 3:54:04 PM PDT by Toadman (To piss off a conservative, tell a lie. To piss off a liberal, tell the truth.)

I am also dubious about this legislation. Reciprocity is between States, not for the federal government to horn in.

Right now, America has to break the mindset of “What can the federal government do for me?” The truth is that it was *never* the intent of the founding fathers that there would be *any* direct encounters between the people and the federal government, outside of the election of members of the House of Representatives and the census.

The election of the president by the Electoral College was part of this, as was the appointment of US senators.

They realized that the door swung both ways. If the people can influence the federal government directly, then the federal government can horn in to people’s personal lives. And “once the camel has its nose in the tent”, and the federal government is in our lives, nothing short of a revolution, peaceful or violent, can get it back OUT of our lives.

Right now, over 60% of the federal budget is to do things that the federal government is not authorized to do. We can thank the “progressives” for making the federal government “progressively” more powerful, at the expense of the states and the people, until the federal government wants to be all things to all people, and the states and the people are reduced to its servants.

4 posted on 10/14/2011 4:02:01 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy

SO glad to see my fellow Freepers not falling for this one. Think the Fed cares about state’s rights? Just ask those states that have approved medical marijuana.

5 posted on 10/14/2011 4:05:43 PM PDT by RIghtwardHo

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6 posted on 10/14/2011 6:51:23 PM PDT by Joe Brower (Sheep have three speeds: "graze", "stampede" and "cower".)

National Association for Gun Rights has been warning you that H.R. 822 is a Trojan Horse.

Just today, Republicans helped pass an amendment that orders the Feds to investigate the “safety” of mail-in CCW permits from states like Florida, Utah and New Hampshire.

If you possess a NH, FL or UT permit, the Feds are going to investigate if these permits are “safe.”

So-called “pro-gun” Republicans even KILLED an amendment that would have allowed permit holders to defend themselves in the District of Columbia, one of the most dangerous cities in the country.

Over the past two days, amendments have been offered to require REAL ID-type government requirements on state CCW permits as well as giving Eric Holder the power to classify even more gun owners as “terrorists.”

And while these amendments may have failed in the House, Harry Reid’s Senate is sure to put the screws to gun owners.

The Senate DOES have the votes to impose a HOST of anti-gun amendments to H.R. 822 much like they have done with legislation in the past.

While the institutional gun lobby has put its full support behind H.R. 822, gun owners just cannot afford for them to play poker with our gun rights.

I have listed the phone numbers for every Republican on the Judiciary Committee below. Please make as many calls as you can expressing your displeasure with H.R. 822, but do it quickly before this monster gets even worse.

— Dudley

Please call these numbers and demand that H.R. 822 be defeated at all costs:

Rep. Lamar Smith R-TX 202-225-4236
Rep. Trent Franks R-AZ 202-225-4576
Rep. Darrell Issa R-CA 202-225-3906
Rep. Benjamin Quayle R-AZ 202-225-3361
Rep. Tim Griffin R-AZ 202-225-2506
Rep. Dan Lungren R-CA 202-225-5716
Rep. Elton Gallegly R-CA 202-225-5811
Rep. Dennis Ross R-FL 202-225-1252
Rep. Sandy Adams R-FL 202-225-2706
Rep. Mike Pence R-IN 202-225-3021
Rep. Steve King R-IA 202-225-4426
Rep. Howard Coble R-NC 202-225-3065
Rep. Jim Jordan R-OH 202-225-2676
Rep. Steve Chabot R-OH 202-225-2216
Rep. Tom Marino R-PA 202-225-3731
Rep. Trey Gowdy R-SC 202-225-6030
Rep. Louie Gohmert R-TX 202-225-3035
Rep. Ted Poe R-TX 202-225-6565
Rep. Jason Chaffetz R-UT 202-225-7751
Rep. Bob Goodlatte R-VA 202-225-5431
Rep. Randy Forbes R-VA 202-225-6365
Rep. James Sensenbrenner, Jr. R-WI 202-225-5101

7 posted on 10/15/2011 8:15:31 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB (See ya later, debt inflator ! Gone in 4 (2012))

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