USA – -(AmmoLand.com)- Gun Owners of America is proud to endorse Representative Mo Brooks’ upcoming legislation, the Lawful Interstate Transportation of Firearms Act which expands the transportation protections of the Firearm Owners’ Protection Act (FOPA).
Please ask your congressman to cosponsor this momentous legislation alongside Rep. Brooks.
Because repressive states outlawed “unlicensed guns,” Congress passed pro-gun legislation in 1986 to allow gun owners to transport firearms through these states without having to worry about being pulled over and arrested.
Currently, this provision of the Firearms Owners’ Protection Act requires:
- That the gun be unloaded and inaccessible to the passenger compartment
- That the travel through the repressive state be temporary, and
- That the trip originates in a state where it was lawful to possess the firearm and terminate in a state where it is also lawful.
However, it didn’t occur to the lawmakers that repressive states would begin to arrest people who traveled through those states with ammunition, but no guns.
Obviously, they underestimated the psychopathy of anti-gun crazies like New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, former Mayor Bloomberg, and so forth.
It has reached the point where someone who transits through New York while traveling from New Hampshire to Virginia—as I do—risks arrest due to state law criminalizing the possession of otherwise lawfully-owned magazines or ammunition.
Congressman Mo Brooks is about to introduce legislation to remedy that. Under the Brooks bill, ammunition and magazines would be added to the list of items protected by FOPA.
In addition, police would be prohibited from harassing transiting motorists on the basis of firearms ownership.
And even if police find some technical violation of FOPA, that nit-picking will not be enough to throw the gun owner in prison and ruin his or her life.
GOA has been looking, for some time, for a congressman who could navigate the extremely complex issues surrounding this problem. And Mo Brooks has done it.
So, we have a champion who has stuck his neck out to introduce pro-gun legislation.
And we need to recognize his efforts by reaching out to every member of Congress and by urging them to become an original cosponsor of this bill — before this legislation is officially introduced and assigned a number.
Regardless of who controls the House, it’s important to take action and to keep pushing our pro-gun agenda. You can be sure that if the tables were reversed — and if it were the GOP in control of the House — anti-gun Democrats would still be pushing their obnoxious, anti-rights agenda.
So we need to create momentum for the future pushing a pro-gun agenda now.
Thank you for your help!
In liberty,
Michael Hammond
Legislative Counsel
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Blah blah blah CAMPAIGN STUNT! Personally I am already tired of reading about all these great “pro-gun” bills that are suddenly being proposed now that Republicans are worrying about being reelected. Now that they know there isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell that the bill will pass or even make it out of committee. Where was Mo Brooks in 2017 and 2018 when a bill like this could have passed? Where were all the rest of these suddenly “Pro-gun” Republicans in 2017 and 2018? They were hiding under their desks scared shitless that they might have to actually make good… Read more »
Ok great it’s introduced but how do plan on getting it past the dem controlled house?
It’s bout as likely as the Dems gun control bills getting thru the senate.
Keep it real
Glad I have now joined GOA. Next on the agenda needs to be National Reciprocity.
By the way, look at the communist democrat debate tonight. SEE if there are any American flags on stage. Just as there were no American flags at the 2016 DNC Convention (but, there was a communist Chinese flag on stage), I doubt to see any American flags there.
After all, communist democrats, these totalitarian tyrants, despise the United States, the U.S. Constitution and the American people….those pesky freedom-loving Americans.
In New Jersey, the State Police are still following scum democrat Governor Florio’s directive: “Stop all persons travelling from any pro-gun state, especially if they are towing a trailer. Search their vehicle & trailer. If they have a (New Jersey) prohibited gun or magazines, arrest them, seize and sell their vehicle & trailer”. New Jersey has been at Dover Air Station and arrested veterans coming back from overseas deployment, because their spouse was travelling through the communist trash dump of New Jersey with legally-owned firearms, got stopped and arrested. New Jersey does not care that that interstate transportation of firearms… Read more »
Constitutional Carry across All 50 States…Enough is Enough…
This bill is a good idea, however FOPA protections are already ignored by states like NY and NJ. Until their noncompliance with Federal law is addressed in the courts, I don’t see how extending FOPA is going to accomplish much. The same states that are now arresting and prosecuting travelers for mags and ammo will simply ignore the new provisions. Nevertheless, I will support Rep. Brooks bill.
PAY ATTENTION: If they can “legalize it” they can also REVOKE that legalization whenever they want. This is just a back door to more gun control.
The only pro-gun legislation are bills passed to repeal current gun control laws.
@USA – Agreed but… See no reason to not pursue both paths simultaneously. Keep them off balance and overwhelmed on multiple fronts – it’s what they’ve been trying to do to us for decades.