Posted on 04/15/2013 6:36:41 AM PDT by EXCH54FE
Over the weekend, in a move that may shock the gun community, one of the most powerful and influential pro-gun organizations publicly endorsed the universal background check amendment drafted by Sens. Pat Toomey (R-PA) and Joe Manchin (D-WV).
The Citizens Committee for the Right To Keep and Bear Arms announced that it would back the Manchin-Toomey UBC legislation; a bipartisan amendment that expands background checks to gun purchases made over the Internet and eliminates the so-called ‘gun-show’ loophole.
“We decided to back it because we believe it is the right thing to do,” Julianne Versnel, director of operations for the CCRKBA, told the Washington Post.
Alan Gottlieb, the chairman of the CCRKBA, blasted out an email to the group’s 650,000 members on Sunday explaining in greater detail why they opted to support the Manchin-Toomey compromise.
“If you read the Manchin-Toomey substitute amendment, you can see all the advances for our cause that it contains,” Gottlieb wrote.
Gottlieb then pitched the specific perks the amendment contains: “interstate sales of handguns, veteran gun rights restoration, travel with firearms protection, civil and criminal immunity lawsuit protection, and most important of all, the guarantee that people, including federal officers, will go to federal prison for up to 15 years if they attempt to use any gun sales records to set up a gun registry.”
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Schummer is against it now.
ROTFL! Never heard of them.
“Citizens Committee for the Right To Keep and Bear Arms”??
Never heard of them.
I am a member of the NRA and GOA.
that sob
Saw this in another article, color me skeptical, sounds like Gottlieb is blowing his own horn/speaking too soon.
I get emails from this group all the time. Usually just read them and trash. I’m putting them on my block list.
I started receiving emails from CCRKBA after getting on the mailing list of the Tea Party patriots.
It’s been around for a while, but Gottlieb is out of line with his boastful comments.
Get emails from him all the time (Gotlieb)...I think a gun seller gave them my email address.....I’d always suspected he was a scammer - based out of Washington State. I’ve now blocked emails from him....
Never trust a Citizens Committee.
Dude, this bill actually looks good. I think they beat the liberals at their own game. IT IS NOT UBC. That is a huge win.
I’d like to see what SAF and NRA have to say about this bill. (life member of both organizations)
This is a FAKE liberal gun rights group!
Sounds like a Soros-backed false-flag operation to me.
Which they will ignore with impunity.
Who's going to prosecute? Holder?
No, a ‘win’ is NO bill, period. The thing most people fail to recognize is this government, our government under Obama, are effing liars and they break the law consistently.
I don’t have to tell you about the myriad of cases where they have done so.
It is fantasy to think this is a win, in my opinion.
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