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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.
Actually, I don't see getting the truth out there as an insult... I see it as a necessity.
They did it, we know it, you know it... so lets move along to more serious topics such as expanding the 2A... the NRA got a black eye over its actions and so did their groupies, so lets bury the hatchet that the NRA planted in our backs and get back in the fight.
Angle wasn't endorsed either, but she had an 'A' rating. Reid got a 'B', IIRC. You can check the link in comment# 36.
Come back to reality. Read the linked excerpt in comment# 38, if you don't want to look at the link from the National Rifle Association's Political Victory Fund that I posted to you. No sitting rat senator was endorsed by the NRA this year. Only rat members in the House received their endorsements.
I don’t think it’s because of the NRA. Other gun groups move commando style into the void left by the NRA. That said the NRA needs to expand its horizons.
The problem isn’t defending the 2nd Amendment. The problem is big government. It’s what allows the attack to begin. It’s a continuum.
If we let them box out one right, they’ll come for the next one and so on.
You're free to have your opinion. Many rat senators voted for concealed carry in national parks, Coburn Amendment, and concealed carry reciprocity, Thune Amendment, hoping that would get them in the good graces of the NRA and the voters. All rat senators voted to confirm Sotomayor and Kagan. None were endorsed by the NRA.
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