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Right to Self Defense
FOCUS GROUP
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Our friends at GOA have this to share…
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House of Representatives Passes Gun Control to Override State 2A Sanctuary Laws
Gun Control Was Introduced and Passed Yesterday
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On March 9, under the cover of darkness, Congressional Democrats released a
2,741 page government funding bill at 1:30 AM.
GOA rushed to analyze the bill, found the gun control buried on pages
2207-2213, and alerted our grassroots activists to take action.
Despite our best efforts, the gun control passed 260-171 with the support of 39
Republicans later that same day at 10PM.
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See the REPUBLICANS who voted FOR this!
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Background Checks Made Worse
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This year’s government appropriations bill includes two major gun control
restrictions.
Sections 1101-1102 of the bill are known as the NICS Denial Notification Act to
make the existing background check system even WORSE.
As you well know, the current NICS background check system is broken beyond
belief.
Nine out of ten times, when someone is denied a gun purchase by the NICS
system, it’s a law-abiding citizen who was wrongly denied their right to
purchase a firearm.
Because the vast majority of NICS denials each year are false positives, the
government gets less than a few dozen convictions of prohibited persons stupid
enough to try to buy a gun at a gun store.
Even so, Congress seems intent on passing the NICS Denial Notification Act
which instructs ATF to help local law enforcement launch CRIMINAL
INVESTIGATIONS into each NICS denial—including all false-positive denials.
So, if this passes, you better hope the NICS system doesn’t falsely deny you
your next gun purchase!
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Local Police to Enforce ATF Gun Control
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Additionally, the government spending bill’s Section 1103 also contains funding
for ATF to begin deputizing local law enforcement officers to enforce federal
gun control laws. ATF can also appoint local government attorneys to help
prosecute the enforcement of this gun control as well.
This runs in direct contradiction to the Second Amendment Sanctuary laws that
GOA has been pushing around the country at the state and local level.
States like Missouri and Idaho have passed the STRONGEST Second Amendment
Protection laws which prohibit funding for gun control and/or include criminal
or civil penalties for government agents and/or agencies that enforce
unconstitutional gun control. More than a dozen other states have similar
statutes.
And yet, Congress is facilitating the enforcement of federal gun laws with
local ATF deputies!
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Here is a list of the 39 Republicans in the House of Representatives who voted
FOR criminal investigations into 100% of false-positive background check
denials and FOR your local police to be deputized as ATF agents:
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See the REPUBLICANS who voted FOR this!
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By Thursday night, gun control passed the Senate!
This happened 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.
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See the REPUBLICAN Senators who voted FOR this!
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Why did this happen?
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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.
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What just passed?
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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.
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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:
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See the REPUBLICAN Senators who voted FOR this!
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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!
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Use the links above and our senators will be either scolded (Cornyn) for voting
in favor of this gun control, or thanked for being one of 31 senators who
fought alongside GOA and voted against the bill.
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In Liberty,
Aidan Johnston
Director of Federal Affairs for GOA
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PLEASE SHARE THIS WITH OTHERS
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In Liberty,
Brian McDowell
830-496-0722
secondamendment@xxxxxxxxx
We the People - Liberty in Action
Right to Self Defense Focus Group
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