Multiple wins for gun rights in Congress

The NRA-ILA is reporting on recent wins for gun rights in the U.S. Congress.

First was a House of Representatives Appropriations Committee amendment to the 2012 Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies appropriations bill to block an attempt by the Obama Justice Department to require firearms dealers in southern border states to report any person who purchased more than one semi-automatic rifle with a detachable magazine to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives. This would have enabled the BATFE to create the first phase of a national gun registration database.

Rep. Denny Rehberg (R-Mont.), sponsor of the amendment, noted: “For more than a decade, efforts to track rifle purchases and create a national gun registry have failed to gain support in Congress, so the ATF is working to implement these regulations using rules written by unelected bureaucrats.”

In addition to the infringement on Second Amendment rights, the affected firearms dealers worried about the increased workload and potential unintentional technical violations that could result in large fines or loss of their Federal Firearms License.

The Appropriations Committee also passed another amendment to kill a BATFE plan to prohibit the import of shotguns with "dangerous" features such as adjustable stocks and extended magazine tubes, features that are favored by sportsman and improve suitability for home defense.

Another win was the defeat of yet another attempt to deny gun ownership based soley on the FBI's "terrorist watch list." Not only has that list been proven arbitrary and too often mistaken, the U.S. Constitution does not allow any civil rights to be denied by bureaucratic order with no due process of law.

Also defeated was another attempt to overturn the Tiahrt Amendment, which is universally hated by gun control groups for prohibiting them access to the BATFE firearms trace database to be misused to further their gun control agenda.

Next, Rep. Bob Gibbs (R-Ohio) teamed up with two other representatives to get an amendment passed to counter an Army Corps of Engineers regulation to ban firearms posession on 11 million acres of land and water managed by the Corp which would deny self defense rights to thousands of sportsman.

The NRA-ILA warned that these committee victories are not the final word on the matter as the anti-gun Obama administration will get the opportunity to try to prevail in the full House and recommends contacting your U.S. representatives to ensure freedom is protected.

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ATF chief: Response to gun-tracking inquiry a “disaster”: "he acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said the Justice Department has been withholding key information from congressional officials and that the department sought to protect its political appointees from criticism over a failed anti-gun trafficking operation that allowed hundreds of weapons to be smuggled to Mexico."


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