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Posted on 11/22/2010 6:12:05 PM PST by neverdem
Statement from Chris W. Cox, executive director, NRA Institute for Legislative Action
The National Rifle Association of America strongly opposes President Obama's nomination of Andrew Traver as director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE). Traver has been deeply aligned with gun control advocates and anti-gun activities. This makes him the wrong choice to lead an enforcement agency that has almost exclusive oversight and control over the firearms industry, its retailers and consumers. Further, an important nomination such as BATFE director should not be made as a "recess appointment," in order to circumvent consent by the American people through their duly-elected U.S. Senators.
Traver served as an advisor to the International Association for Chiefs of Police's (IACP) "Gun Violence Reduction Project," a "partnership" with the Joyce Foundation. Both IACP and the Joyce Foundation are names synonymous with promoting a variety of gun control schemes at the federal and state levels. Most of the individuals involved in this project were prominent gun control activists and lobbyists.
The IACP report, generated with Traver's help, called on Congress to ban thousands of commonly owned firearms by misrepresenting them as “assault weapons,” as well as calling for bans on .50 caliber rifles and widely used types of ammunition. The report also suggests that Congress should regulate gun shows out of existence and should repeal the privacy protections of the Tiahrt Amendment -- all efforts strongly opposed by the NRA and its members.
Traver also participated in an extremely deceptive NBC Chicago report (http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local-beat/Assault-Weapons-Surge-in-City-69620227.html) in which he referred to "the growing frequency of gang members and drug dealers using heavy caliber military-type weapons" and described them as if they were machine guns: "Pull the trigger and you can mow people down." Traver and his agents provided the reporter with a fully automatic AK-47, with which she was unable to hit the target. He then said that stray bullets are "one of the main problems with having stuff like this available to the gangs."
As the Agent-in-Charge of Chicago’s BATFE office, Traver knows that fully automatic firearms are not available through normal retail channels -- the opposite of what was implied in the report.
An agency involved in the regulation of a fundamental, individual right guaranteed under the U.S. Constitution should not be led by an individual with a demonstrated hostility to that freedom. For that reason, the NRA strongly opposes Andrew Traver to head the BATFE and urges President Obama to withdraw this ill-advised nomination.
--NRA--
Established in 1871, the National Rifle Association is America’s oldest civil rights and sportsmen's group. Four million members strong, NRA continues its mission to uphold Second Amendment rights and to advocate enforcement of existing laws against violent offenders to reduce crime. The Association remains the nation's leader in firearm education and training for law-abiding gun owners, law enforcement and the military.
Well, there’s an agency that could use some defunding.
I might have been inclined to provide more than moral support, but unfortunately the NRA endorsed Boswell and Culver in Iowa. I understand their process, but as a life member, think they missed the forest for the trees.
Go NRA and good luck. My dollars are staying in my pocket for now but you have my moral support. Hope that is enough.
Eliminating it was a goal of Ronald Reagan’s. The ESTABLISHMENT GOP blocked him
We have the CIA and the FBI.
We don’t need any damn ATF and we sure as hell don’t need any “Department of Homely Security”!!!
I am right there with you. The NRA’s support of Boswell put me over the edge after they endorsed Culver. They won’t ever get a dime from me again. Sadly.
I don’t care what the NRA thinks anymore.
With their support of all the ‘Rats, including the King Rat of the Senate, I’m sure the NRA is certain to have this locked up the way they want. Why make a big deal of it?
Oldplayer
To which we should add Harry Reid.
I suspect that the NRA bigwigs realize that if the gun grabbers are totally defeated it is the end of much of their funding.
Maybe the NRA should have worked harder to elect a GOP Senate majority?
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I have one word for the ATF.
WACO!
Did Harry Reid approve their statement or are they going rogue?
I have the impression that you think Harry Reid was endorsed by the NRA. He wasn't.
The BATFE needs to be DE-FUNDED. Plain and simple. Read this:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2623044/posts
This could prove to be most important.
The House of Representatives “holds the purse strings” of this nation.
If they refuse to fund something, it withers and dies.
The members of the new House, our representatives, need to be told that we expect them to de-fund certain programs and agencies; they are, after all, our representatives.
No. I want them to protect the Second Amendment. Why do you think that there's been no significant gun grabbing since the rats took control of Congress in January 2007, or why Reid and Pelosi told Holder and Obama to pound sand when they started talking about renewing an improved version of the so called assault weapons ban?
You can do what other folks have done - quit the NRA (demand a refund, telling them why you’re quitting) and join GOA.
The NRA sucks; they need to understand this. When enough people vote with their feet, maybe they’ll “get it”.
The National Rifle Association of America strongly opposes President Obama's nomination of Andrew Traver as director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE). Traver has been deeply aligned with gun control advocates and anti-gun activities. This makes him the wrong choice to lead an enforcement agency that has almost exclusive oversight and control over the firearms industry, its retailers and consumers. Further, an important nomination such as BATFE director should not be made as a "recess appointment," in order to circumvent consent by the American people through their duly-elected U.S. Senators.Harry Reid, for example. Thanks neverdem.
The NRA endorsed Dem. Rep. Oberstar in Minnesota, a bleeding heart true blue socialist.
To make things worse, when I called and complained, they didn’t even give a rip that they were endorsing left wing socialists.
“Balance” you know, they kept saying.
To make things worse, when I called and complained, they didn’t even give a rip that they were endorsing left wing socialists.
“Balance” you know, they kept saying.
Please read comment# 16. Also, remember when GWB said he would sign a so called "assault weapons ban," if Congress sent him the legislation.
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