Posted on 03/11/2022 5:42:07 PM PST by Mount Athos
Congress just passed a law to deputize your local police as ATF agents and to fund criminal investigations into mistaken NICS denials of law-abiding citizens.
Biden is set to sign the law before midnight.
We need you to take action to help us hold those accountable for passing this gun control and to thank pro-gun allies who fought against this beside GOA.
What just happened? On Wednesday at 1:30 AM, the House of Representatives dropped a 2,700+ page, $1.5+ trillion spending bill containing the Violence Against Women Act Reauthorization Act (VAWA) and the NICS Denial Notification Act—both of which included gun control.
GOA analyzed the bill and got two action alerts out to the grassroots, but congressional leaders had already struck the anti-gun deal.
By Wednesday night, gun control had passed the House of Representatives with the support of Democrats and 39 GOP representatives.
By Thursday night, gun control passed the Senate with the support of all Democrat Senators present and 18 Republicans. Sadly, the bill could have been stopped entirely had Republicans opposed the bill in unison, because anti-gunners were short a Senator.
Demand accountability and ask your elected representatives why everything wasn’t done to defend your constitutionally-protected rights from infringement.
Why did this happen? GOA fought against the passage of gun control through the Violence Against Women Act since it was first proposed in 2019.
GOA’s members and grassroots activists iterated their opposition to these gun controls over the years, but a recent deal by Democrats and 11 anti-gun GOP put VAWA on the verge of passing.
When negotiations for an appropriations omnibus were suddenly realized, party leadership saw a way to pass the controversial legislation without all the difficulty of debate and a clean vote.
So instead, VAWA was tossed into the massive “must-pass” omnibus government funding bill.
Leaders of both parties routinely abuse the appropriations process, forcing massive bills through Congress in a matter of hours. In this case, it took less than 48 hours.
Contact your Senators and Representatives to tell them how outrageous it is to abuse the process like this to pass gun control!
What just passed? Because of three years of constant grassroots opposition, four gun control sections were removed from VAWA:
Sections 101 and 102: grant funding programs to train police to executive “red flag” gun confiscation orders. Section 801: an expansion of the Lautenberg Misdemeanor Gun Ban (a.k.a. Biden’s “Boyfriend Loophole”). Section 802: funding to turn state-level stalking laws into “red flag” gun confiscation laws. Alas, for all the horrible gun control removed from the bill, some gun control remained:
Sections 1101-1102: the NICS Denial Notification Act to launch criminal investigations into firearm transfer background check denials—even though 9 out of 10 times the system falsely denies a law-abiding citizen. Section 1103: funding for ATF to deputize local police to enforce federal gun laws, especially to undermine Second Amendment Protection Act (SAPA) states. Gun owners need to contact their Senators and HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE for the passage of this gun control.
Who is responsible? As it turns out, leadership and anti-gun Republicans fought hard to maintain these gun control provisions in the final bill.
These eighteen Republican senators voted with anti-gun Democrats in favor of the gun control’s final passage:
Barrasso (R-WY) Blunt (R-MO) Capito (R-WV) Collins (R-ME) Cornyn (R-TX) Ernst (R-IA) Graham (R-SC) Grassley (R-IA) Hyde-Smith (R-MS) McConnell (R-KY) Moran (R-KS) Murkowski (R-AK) Portman (R-OH) Shelby (R-AL) Thune (R-SD) Tuberville (R-AL) Wicker (R-MS) Young (R-IN)
These Senators believe they were given political “cover” as other ostensibly “pro-gun” groups backed the compromise by refusing to publicly oppose the language.
Anyone engaged in Second Amendment politics that is not talking about the gun control in the government funding bill knows exactly what just happened and is fully complicit in its passage.
Gun owners need to speak out and demand accountability!
If your senator or senators voted in favor of this gun control, our action alert will send them a severe scolding for selling out your rights.
On the other hand, 31 senators fought alongside GOA and voted against the bill—so if these pro-gun senators represent you, then our alert will send them a thank you.
Thank you for fighting alongside Gun Owners of America against these gun controls.
Demorats are smiling - nobody is paying attention.
Mitch the bitch, goin’ along to get along.
Never let a crisis go to waste.
If I were a senator, I would oppose EVERY omnibus bill simply because there is no way to know what is in it.
Its a uniparty
Barrasso (R-WY) Blunt (R-MO) Capito (R-WV) Collins (R-ME) Cornyn (R-TX) Ernst (R-IA) Graham (R-SC) Grassley (R-IA) Hyde-Smith (R-MS) McConnell (R-KY) Moran (R-KS) Murkowski (R-AK) Portman (R-OH) Shelby (R-AL) Thune (R-SD) Tuberville (R-AL) Wicker (R-MS) Young (R-IN)
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Capito, Collins, Cornyn, Ernst, Grahamnesty, Hyde-Smith, McConnell, Tuberville were all re-elected in 2020 with Trump’s endorsement.
Moran, Grassley, Thune, Murkowsky and Young are up for re-election in 2022.
Ignore Trump’s endorsement and primary them out along with Crapo, Lee, Scott, Boozman and Amnesty Sentors Rubio and Hoeven.
Wouldn’t anyone signing the bill without reading it be guilty of nonfeasance, at least?
THey also voted through a 21 percent raise for themselves.
I can hardly take anymore. Are there any non-corrupt people in DC ?
none of them read any omnibus bill.
They are huge
Eventually they’ll give ATF complete powers to confiscate all firearms and we won’t be able to do anything about it. We only have 3 conservatives on the Court so keep that in mind.
Them or US it appears..they play dirty, mass murderers no problem..more coming it appears
Too much potential for abuse. I think it’s too late too do anything about it other than to admit that the federal gocernment has grown too large to govern this country. I think this is like the Romans Empire.
Eventually they’ll give ATF complete powers to confiscate all firearms and then there will be only ONE way
for an American to respond.
I KNEW that the worthless sonovabitch John “Wayne” Cornyn would be backing this shit!! I am embarrassed as all Hell that he got re-elected!! I voted against his scumbag ass in the 2020 Primary race and refused to vote for him in the 2020 Election Theft! My conscience is as clear as can be. Those of you idiots who voted to keep this back-stabbing slug own this. I pary that you are happy.
The feds can confiscate guns based on violations of state laws? How is that constitutional?
and yet they are barred from talking to ICE...
Sections 1101-1102: the NICS Denial Notification Act to launch criminal investigations into firearm transfer background check denials—even though 9 out of 10 times the system falsely denies a law-abiding citizen.
I'm not sure if I'm too upset about the NICS Denial Notification Act. One of our pro-gun arguments have always been "enforce the laws already on the books before you pass new laws" and we've always pointed to the dismally low NICS denial prosecution rates as an example of not enforcing existing laws.
If the NICS denial was an error, that will come out in the investigation, but if the denial was because of the potential buyer is a bona fide Prohibited Person, then they need to be prosecuted.
https://www.nraila.org/get-the-facts/waiting-periods/
There are few prosecutions of prohibited persons who attempt to buy a firearm from a dealer. Out of 112,090 total federal denials in 2017, there were 12 prosecutions.[4]
Incremental,
Like a Frog in a Pot. We
Well. actually, the better way is to do unto others before they do unto you. Waiting to respond puts one at a serious disadvantage. Normalization bias will make one hesitate when one shouldn’t.
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