Gun Owners Enter The Fight Of Our Lives

By Chris W. Cox

NRA-ILA's Chris W. Cox
NRA-ILA’s Chris W. Cox

FAIRFAX, Va. –-(Ammoland.com)-The NRA has been saying all along that Barack Obama would unleash an assault on our Second Amendment freedoms if he won a second term.

It sure didn’t take long for him to prove us right.

Just hours after Obama won re-election last Tuesday, his administration endorsed a new effort by the global gun grabbers at the United Nations to draft a gun ban treaty early next year. The official starting point for the new talks is last year’s failed draft, which contains provisions that threaten our sovereign right to keep and bear arms through an international gun registration scheme.

And not long after Obama floated the idea of banning semi-automatic firearms, we learned that California Senator Dianne Feinstein was working with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives to draft new legislation that would ban semi-automatic rifles, shotguns and handguns, so-called “high capacity” magazines, and rifles and shotguns with pistol grips. Reportedly, Feinstein wants to make it illegal not just to sell your guns and magazines, but to leave them behind in your will.

Not surprisingly, the lights had hardly gone out at Obama’s victory celebration last week when gun-hating New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, along with his pollster, Frank Luntz, were conducting push polls to promote government control over every firearm transfer — including between fathers and sons, and grandfathers and grandsons.

In Bloomberg’s world, a child wouldn’t be able to tear the wrapping paper off his first .22 rifle on Christmas morning unless Santa Claus had first cleared it with Obama’s bureaucrats.

I know a lot of folks are still down about last week’s presidential election. It’s puzzling how so many Americans can tell pollsters that the country is on the wrong track, then vote to keep the same guy driving the train.

But this isn’t the first time in history when gun owners and NRA members have faced a difficult challenge, and it won’t be the first time we’ve risen to the occasion and come out victorious. The Second Amendment wouldn’t be alive today if it wasn’t for the courage of tens of millions of gun owners and freedom-loving Americans across our nation, and throughout our history.

As long as dedicated patriots continue to band together and fight as though freedom itself is on the line — because it is — we will defend the Second Amendment in Obama’s second term and save it for generations to come.

For gun owners, the next four years won’t just be the fight of our lives, it will be a fight for the future of our nation. We’re ready to lead the charge.

Chris W. Cox is the Executive Director of the National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA) and serves as the organization’s chief lobbyist.

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Established in 1871, the National Rifle Association is America’s oldest civil rights and sportsmen’s group. Four million members strong, NRA continues its mission to uphold Second Amendment rights and to advocate enforcement of existing laws against violent offenders to reduce crime. The Association remains the nation’s leader in firearm education and training for law-abiding gun owners, law enforcement and the military. Visit: www.nra.org

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Mary

I don't think Americans are, or will let go of their fire arms, not even to the Obama's law, expect RIOTS, AMERICANS UP IN ARMS to deffend their Right on the SECOND AMMENDMENT.

Bearbones

Take my guns ? The joke will be on anyone who try s. Not only from my cold dead fingers, but from yours too ! obama, America s enemy with in.

mac44reasons

if you believe this clown in office has zero intentions of infringing on "ALL" your basic rights , not just the 2nd amendment , boy are you going to have many of those days "MOMMA" didnt tell you about ! if you would bother "fact checking" actual progress directed toward bypassing the constitution, ignoring congress , and blowing the united nations daily for approval , then maybe you would educate yourselves beyond the scope of msnbc ! the simple arrogance displayed of barry , weinstein , the brady bunch and bloomberg themselves, should obviously be one of many signs !… Read more »

sparkysparky

This is a total lie. Go out and read an unbiased report. There is no truth to the UN charge, and has nothing to do with the USA, Lies lies lies.

The NRA said the same thing after Obama got elected the first time. The only people that made out are the thousands of gun shop owners and gun and ammo mfgs that have seen record profits in the past 4 years and it will continue when people believe all the scare tactics of the NRA.

Jimmy

You and the NRA made similar threats four years ago, and that's all it was. Threats.

To say Romney was a friend of guns is just not even remotely true.

Obama has done nothing to infringe, yet you endorse a guy that was against, was for, was against, was for.

Jimmy

This is all such crap.