NRA Statement on Fast & Furious

NRA Statement on Fast & Furious

FAIRFAX, Va. –-(Ammoland.com)- The following is a letter from Chris Cox of the NRA-ILA regarding the recent developments with Eric Holder and the Obama Administration’s attack on the second amendment called Fast & Furious.

The Hon. Darrell E. Issa, Chairman

The Hon. Elijah Cummings, Ranking Member Committee on Oversight and Government Reform United States House of Representatives Washington, DC 20515

Dear Chairman Issa and Ranking Member Cummings:

On behalf of the National Rifle Association of America, I am writing in support of the Committee’s resolution recommending that the House find Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr. in contempt of Congress.

Neither the Committee’s vote, nor the NRA’s support of the resolution, are undertaken lightly. The Committee’s report thoroughly details the immediate reasons for the resolution: the Justice Department’s open defiance of legitimate demands for documents that are needed for oversight and investigation of one of the most disastrous episodes in the history of federal law enforcement.

That episode, too, is now well documented. In the “Fast and Furious” program, agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives pressured reluctant firearms dealers to make sales to known straw purchasers, with the intention of allowing those firearms to be trafficked to Mexican drug cartels. The guns would only be traced after they were recovered by unwitting Mexican authorities, often after being used in violent crimes. And of course, one of those crimes—the murder of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry—took place not in Mexico, but in the United States. BATFE agents foresaw exactly this type of tragedy, but their warnings were disregarded by senior management.

Heightening the NRA’s concerns—and requiring our involvement—is the White House’s use of this program to advance its gun control agenda. The White House actively sought information from the operation to support its plan to demand reporting of multiple rifle sales by the nearly 9,000 federally licensed firearm dealers in border states.

It is no secret that the NRA does not admire Attorney General Holder. For years, we have pointed out his history of anti-Second Amendment advocacy and enforcement actions.

Since  taking office, Attorney General Holder has seized on the violence in Mexico to promote the lie that “90 percent” of firearms used in Mexican crime come from the U.S.; to call for bringing back the 1994 Clinton gun ban; and to justify the illegal multiple sales reporting scheme, which amounts to gun registration for honest Americans who buy long guns in southwest border states.

But our support of this contempt resolution is not about those issues—nor is it a partisan decision, for we have also expressed our strong policy disagreements with Attorney General Holder’s predecessors of both parties. The reason we support the contempt resolution is the same reason we first called for Attorney General Holder’s resignation more than a year ago: the Department’s obstruction of congressional oversight of a program that cost lives in support of an anti-gun agenda.

The American people—including millions of NRA members and tens of millions of NRA supporters—deserve the truth about these issues, and we will support any effort that leads us to that truth. This is an issue of the utmost seriousness and the NRA will consider this vote in our future candidate evaluations. If you have any questions about our position on this issue, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Sincerely,
Chris W. Cox
Executive Director

cc:   Speaker John Boehner
Majority Leader Eric Cantor
Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy
Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi
Minority Whip Steny Hoyer
Members of the House of Representatives


About NRA-ILA

Established in 1975, the Institute for Legislative Action (ILA) is the “lobbying” arm of the National Rifle Association of America. ILA is responsible for preserving the right of all law-abiding individuals in the legislative, political, and legal arenas, to purchase, possess and use firearms for legitimate purposes as guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Visit: www.nra.org

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Bill

The NRA are NOT kooks

But they do have a problem with compromise.

They need to work for the repeal of gun control like the 68 GCA and the Illinois FOID card.

harry

The people at the NRA are a dangerous bunch of Kooks.

David Hendrick Behrens

Leftists liberals won't acknowledge, any illegal activities by Eric Holder, so they still verbally support and defend him, they ignore that he is responsible for Fast and Furious, they deny he did a illegal gun running business with known terrorists, drug cartels, selling them 1400 semi auto guns and ammo, which they were able to keep and used them to kill hundreds of innocent mexicans and American agent, Brian Terry. That was a traitorous scheme and Holder and Obama are guilty of being both behind all of it and they planned to ban semi-auto guns and try to end the… Read more »