GOA Sends: Senators May Resurrect Defeated Gun Control

[Colonel Dan, SASS #24025]

There was never a doubt in my mind that they'd bring this back. It's critically important that we remain vigilent and resolute! Soldier on!

Colonel Dan

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Senators may
resurrect defeated gun control
after making cosmetic
changes

"A source close to the Senate negotiations [says] that two senators who voted against the background check bill would vote for it after minor, superficial changes." —
Lawrence O’Donnell on MSNBC, May 6, 2013

ACTION: Senators who voted pro-gun last month are under
intense pressure by Senate Democrats and Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s hit ads to
switch their votes. We need to keep applying the heat and let them know that
gun owners are ready to help in any Senate campaign, no matter which state, to
defeat ANY SENATOR who votes for gun control.

LEGISLATIVE UPDATE FROM WASHINGTON, DC. It’s not over yet.
We can’t give up.

We won a dramatic victory last month. But the Left has not raised the white
flag yet, and they are using out-of-state rabble rousers to harass Senators who
voted against the Toomey-Schumer-Manchin national gun registry just a couple of
weeks ago.

It is a national gun registry because the Obama administration is copying the
names of gun purchasers from 4473's when it conducts its annual inspections of
gun shops. If everyone has to have a 4473 when they buy a gun — even through
most private sales — then everyone will be in the Obama administration's
database.

Few things are more hypocritical than the spectacle of
gun-grabbers whining that they don't support national gun registries just as
they get off Air Force One on a trip from Hartford, Connecticut where they
cheered the enactment of a state gun registry.

THE BULLYING IS CONTINUING. Senate Democrats are bullying
the Senators who voted correctly on Toomey-Manchin-Schumer. Those who are under
the most pressure to switch their votes are:

Alaska
Mark Begich (202)
224-3004
Lisa Murkowski (202)
224-6665

Arizona
Jeff
Flake (202) 224-4521

Georgia
Saxby
Chambliss (202) 224-3521
Johnny Isakson (202)
224-3643

Montana
Max Baucus (202)
224-2651

North Dakota
Heidi Heitkamp (202)
224-2043

New Hampshire
Kelly Ayotte (202) 224-3324

Nevada
Dean Heller (202)
224-6244

Ohio
Rob Portman
(202) 224-3353

Tennessee
Lamar Alexander (202)
224-4944
Bob Corker (202)
224-3344

If your Senator is a Republican, or is mentioned in the list above, it is
imperative that you contact them again!

Right now, there are several Public Policy Polling surveys that claim
Senators who voted pro-gun have lost public support. It’s hogwash!

Gun owners can click
here to read GOA’s analysis of why these PPP polls are fiction.
These polls are nothing more than a ploy to sway weak-knee Senators into
reversing their votes.

Some Senators are even beginning to wonder if they are going to be punished
at the polls for voting pro-gun. And that’s why we need you right now to stay
active and engaged in this fight.

CONTACT INFO: Contact
your Senators, if possible, at 202-224-3121. Jam their phone lines. If it is
not possible for you to call, then use the prewritten letter we have provided to
e-mail them.

Tellthem to vote against the expansion of background checks as they will allow for the registration of gun owners. And let them know that gun owners are ready to help in any Senate campaign, no matter which state, to defeat ANY SENATOR who votes for gun control.

Click
here to send your Senators a pre-written email message.

[Madd Mike #8595]

GOA is also concerned about abomb-A and the un treaty deal

yes I know congress has to agree for it to (really) matter

but obomb-a is the range boss of the guncontrol herd

if he (himself) signs it, that is pointing the herd in a certain direction

[Texas John Ringo, SASS #10138]

Received this today, don't know if it correct. but if it is........................

Date: Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 3:18 PM
Yesterday in meeting with Congressman Tom Reed, he mentioned that the one big reason the gun bill was defeated was that there was "Much in it, not reported by the main stream media, that many congressmen and senators did not like."This forwarded memo below might explain at least part of the problems---Once again the main stream media selectively reports what serves their agenda. Because they use the terms common sense and reasonable doesn�t make it so.

Background checks reasonable, I think not.

The "most popular" part of the defeated-but-sure-to-come back Senate gun control bill (background checks) sounds like a good idea at first but is more restrictive than anyone anticipated and will have significant unintended consequences.

There is a huge push to get it through Congress before the public has a chance to consider its contents.

Common activities that we take for granted will become federal crimes. These are not irresponsible exaggerations. Please take a moment to review the requirements of the bill.

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Here are a few examples of the restrictions in the bill:

EXAMPLE #1

Loaning your buddy a shotgun for a duck hunting trip will be considered a transfer. If the following requirements are not met, YOU HAVE BOTH COMMITTED A FEDERAL CRIME.

1. He must have already purchased his hunting license

2. Season is already open (and will not close before he returns it)

3. He cannot travel with the firearm through a county where season is not yet open or any area where hunting is prohibited and certainly not across a state line.

He CANNOT stop by your house on the day before season opens, pick up the shot gun, go to the sporting goods store to buy a license and shells then drive out to the hunting lease. In this scenario, YOU BOTH WOULD HAVE COMMITTED MULTIPLE FEDERAL CRIMES, YOUR WEAPONS WILL BE FORFEITED AND YOU WILL LOOSE YOUR RIGHT TO BUY OR OWN A FIREARM.

EXAMPLE #2

It appears that only you may relocate your weapons. If your weapon leaves your home without you, the new legislation considers it a transfer of possession. ALL transfers require going through a firearms dealer, paying the transfer fee and a background check for the transferee.

Putting the weapon, even temporarily in someone else's possession, requires a transfer through a dealer. There is no exception for putting them in a friend's truck while moving to your new house or packing them unloaded, locked in a gunsafe into a moving truck.

Any scenario in which your weapon leaves your home without you is considered a transfer. Failure to properly transfer the weapon is a federal crime which can result in a prison term AND WILL RESULT IN THE FORFEITURE OF YOUR WEAPON.

In the scenario above, your buddy's truck was used to commit a federal crime and WILL BE CONFISCATED just like with current Fish and Game violations.

EXAMPLE #3

Infractions as above which involve 2 guns of any type are considered weapons trafficking. You will be prosecuted under the same federal laws as a terrorist arms dealer.

EXAMPLE #4

Any of the infractions above (or hundreds of other routine scenarios) may result in federal charges, confiscation of ALL your weapons and being prohibited, like all felons, from ever owning a weapon again.

Please read the text of the bill yourself. Most of it is boring legalese but the sections on transfers and trafficking are critical.

Take a minute to think about all the routine activities like those above that will make you a federal criminal and result in prison time plus the confiscation of your weapons and other property.

A link to the bill is included below on the official Senate website. See Section 122 "Firearms Transfers".

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c113:S.649:

Read it and call your congressman's office. Talk to their staff. Tell them how you feel about this.

Keep in mind, none of the above would have stopped the tragedy in Columbine or Newtown . The proposed law makes you a criminal and opens the door for confiscation of your weapons and property for otherwise routine activities.

Think and act. Congress is hoping that you will do neither.

If you found the patience to read the entire text, you also learned that exactly $100 million per year of your tax money is set aside to enforce these restrictions.

Finally, please forward this to your friends who may be affected.

Failure to hit the bulls-eye is not the fault of the target.

[Six-Shot]

DONE!