Idaho –-(Ammoland.com)- On election night in 2016, gun owners saw their dreams come true as Hillary Clinton was defeated and President Trump was elected, thanks in no small measure to the tireless efforts of grassroots gun owners.
After eight years of fighting with President Obama’s Administration to defend our gun rights, many gun owners assumed that 2017-2020 would be our chance to go on the offense in Washington D.C.
And that is why the membership and leadership of the undersigned organizations are outraged about the recent merger of National Reciprocity legislation with Senator Diane Feinstein’s ‘Fix-NICS’ gun control legislation!
In it’s current form, we absolutely oppose HR 38.
More, we are calling upon our membership to contact their Senators and demand they oppose any gun bill that contains language being pushed by Senators’ Feinstein, Murphy, Schumer and others to ‘Fix-NICS,’ which is nothing more than a massive federal gun registry in the making.
NICS didn’t stop mass shooters in Orlando, FL, Ft. Hood, TX., Las Vegas, NV., Charleston, SC., and many others and expanding NICS will be no more successful.
But Senator Feinstein isn’t worried about that. She’s simply using the recent tragedies in Las Vegas and Texas to attempt to create the largest federal gun database this country has ever seen.
But she could never accomplish this on her own.
Spineless Congressional leaders like Speaker Paul Ryan, House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte, Senate Judiciary Chairman Charles Grassley and others have assisted Senator Feinstein in working to pass this gun control bill, a bill she couldn’t even pass under the Obama Administration.
Shame on them all!
The same goes for the National Rifle Association who have been working behind the scenes to orchestrate this entire thing.
At a time when gun owners needed them most, and trusted them to fight to expand our gun rights and stop Senator Feinstein and her allies, the National Rifle Association choked yet again.
Sadly, grassroots gun owners aren’t even surprised anymore after the National Rifle Association also called for a ban on ‘bump stocks’ via ATF administrative rules, in another feckless action trying to placate the D.C. Swamp.
Besides helping to enact bad policy, the National Rifle Association’s actions are just bad politics, as many anti-gun Democratic and weak-kneed Republican congressman can and will use this vote for political cover for years to come.
To reiterate, the undersigned organizations consider a “Yes” vote on HR38 as a vote in support of gun-control and will relay that to our members.
Thanks to state level gun rights organizations and social media, grassroots gun owners have never been more able to ‘look behind the curtain’ and see exactly how their gun rights are being betrayed by weak Republicans and the National Rifle Association.
To those gun owners who are angry about this betrayal, contact your Senators immediately, as this fight now moves to the Senate.
Then join a state and federal gun rights organization that won’t betray you.
If the gun rights organization in your state is hanging their head in guilty silence, and is too afraid to call this bill out for what it is, start a group of your own.
Signatories:
- Christopher Dorr, Executive Director, Ohio Gun Owners
- Aaron Dorr, Executive Director, Iowa Gun Owners
- Patrick Parsons, Executive Director, Georgia Gun Owners
- Greg Pruett, President, Idaho Second Amendment Alliance
- Benjamin Dorr, Political Director, Minnesota Gun Rights
- Alexandra Salsman, Political Director, Missouri Firearms Coalition
- David Ball, President, Wyoming Gun Owners
- Jason Storms, Chairman, Wisconsin Firearms Coalition
- Thomas Walker, Chairman, North Carolina Firearms Coalition
(If you are the leader of a state level gun rights Organization and would like to add your name to this document, please contact Greg Pruett using the information above.)
About Idaho Second Amendment Alliance:
The Idaho Second Amendment Alliance exists to fight for the 2nd Amendment rights of all Idaho citizens. Even in a gun friendly State like Idaho, the 2nd Amendment is under constant threat.
I do not understand this argument over the fix nics addition to this when hr38 was passed without the addition of fix nics under the number HR645, why is there no discussion of HR645?
To Vanns40 Right now it takes a YEAR to fix erroneous NICS data. Nothing in the FixNICS bill deals with no-fly lists or PTSD from last year or 50 years ago. Chif Justice Taney said that all citizens could travel and cross state lines, sojourn [stay] as long as they wanted, singly or in company bearing arms the whole time. They could also attend school, speak on political subjects, serve on juries. Then SCOTUS Chief Justice Taney said that Black people could not be citizens. The part of te Dred Scott decision that says that Black people and former slaves… Read more »
@John Dunlap Lewis: And Greg Pruett? What about him? Don’t try and connect him with NAGR because I know him and know he’s not. Be careful who your associating with what, it lends nothing to your credibility.
HR 38 merged with HR4477 is the most Pro 2A bill that has happened in a long time. I read both bills, and I’m calling my Senators to vote for it! The in-fighting is not productive. Please urge your Senators to vote for this. I think I will help sway enough Democrat to vote for it.
Look at the list of “gun rights” organizations at the end of this article and notice how they are dominated by the Dorr family. These are FAKE organizations associated with NAGR who collect donations from gullible gun owners and then work to DEFEAT real improvements in gun rights. For example: all of the advancements in gun rights in Ohio have been the results of tireless efforts by Buckeye Firearms Association who are the true representatives of gun owners in Ohio. The phony “Ohio Gun Owners” scam does NOT represent the majority of gun owners in Ohio but instead have been… Read more »
This is the Fix NICS bill as passed by the House. If you read it you should see that fixing errors is the meat. There is nothing bad, nothing like obama’s social security crap…it is all just to make it accurate. https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/38/text SEC. 202. Accountability for Federal departments and agencies. Section 103 of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (34 U.S.C. 40901) is amended— (1) in subsection (e)(1), by adding at the end the following: “(F) SEMIANNUAL CERTIFICATION AND REPORTING.— “(i) IN GENERAL.—The head of each Federal department or agency shall submit a semiannual written certification to the Attorney General… Read more »
Another article with lots of emotion and few facts. Be specific! What is the problem with the bill passed by the house?
Th GOP legislators are simply cowards who will not stand for our rights.
While I know the NRA works to advance gun rights, they have shown themselves to be ready to trade away rights as they see fit. This all or nothing approach does not help because we have lost many of our rights thanks to the GOP and the NRA.
If you have a pistol permit in your home state , you are in a data base. I think the fear of a Nat’l base is overblown.
We still have our long guns with no trail, and that’s what the grabbers really want to abolish.
Don’t give an inch and don’t try to find justification for it. Just stop, because they won’t.
The NRAs public announcement on Bump Stocks and their willingness to write off a small niche within our hobby shows their true backbone… (I became a GOA lifetime member that day)
Read the writing on the wall.