I just sent this to my Senators, courtesy of GOA:
"April 12, 2013
[recipient address was inserted here]
[recipient name was inserted here],
I was disappointed to see that 68 Senators did not support the
Paul-Cruz-Lee filibuster. Now that the Senate has moved to proceed to S.
649, several gun control issues will be coming up - including the
universal registry bill, the Feinstein gun ban, and the magazine ban.
As for the Toomey-Manchin-Schumer universal registry bill, don't believe
the press' efforts to sugar-coat it. If you have ever had an "Internet ...
posting" on (or related to) your gun, you can sell it only by going to a
dealer and filling out a 4473 and getting the government's approval. Only
a cave man would be exempt.
And once you have a 4473? Well, as Gun Owners of America has documented
on its website, ATF is going from dealer to dealer, copying the
information on these forms, and feeding it into a database. But, says
Toomey, he's against universal registries. This is where it would have
helped if Toomey had consulted someone who knew something about guns.
First of all, his anti-registry language prohibits photocopying the
4473's, but it doesn't prohibit going into the FFL with a laptop and
copying all the information. Second, ATF takes the position that the data
it's accumulating in a database is not a "registry," so Toomey's ban does
no good. Third, guess what the sanction is for violation of Toomey's
anti-registry language? Answer: Eric Holder has to choose to prosecute
himself and his own department.
But this isn't the only bad thing about Toomey-Schumer.
Section 107 of the sell-out also waives any federal privacy prohibitions
under HIPAA to sending the names of Americans with PTSD, ADHD, and post
partem depression to the gun ban database.
But that's not all. Because private shrinks will be able to add patients
names into a federal database of the mentally ill - WITHOUT DUE PROCESS -
you will be at their mercy.
As Red State editor, Erick Erickson says, "Activist mental health
providers will probably be overly aggressive in adding people to the list.
Give it five years in liberal areas and people who believe in the physical
resurrection of Christ will probably get automatic entry onto the list."
And as for veterans? Title I of Toomey-Schumer reinforces the proposition
that bureaucrats in the Department of Veterans Affairs can take away
veterans' rights without any due process. If a veteran has $30,000 to
spend getting back the rights Toomey-Schumer wrongly took from him, the
sell-out creates yet another redundant money-trap for restoration of
rights that shouldn't have been taken away in the first place.
What if you want to travel across the country? McClure-Volkmer allowed you
to do that with an unloaded gun in the trunk (18 U.S.C. 926A). But, under
the Toomey-Schumer sell-out, unless you can "demonstrate," to the
satisfaction of the New York police (1) where you came from, (2) where
you're going, (3) that you're legally entitled to possess the gun in the
place you can from, and (4) that you're legally entitled to possess the
gun in the place you're going, THEY WILL ARREST YOU in New York.
The Toomey-Schumer sell-out creates a Biden-like commission to insure that
the cries for gun control continue.
Like sprinkles on a pile of dung, Toomey and Schumer steal some of the
proposals we drafted and try to use them to get us to buy onto gun
control. But it won't work.
The gun movement is united against this disgusting pile of gun control.
So here is the new battlefield. In order for gun control to move forward,
Toomey and Schumer will have to get 60 votes for their gun control
abomination. And the entire Second amendment movement - GOA, NRA, etc. -
are against it.
Hence, what I'm asking you to do is vote against cloture on the
Toomey-Schumer sell-out. Please let me know your position on this issue.
Know that a vote in against cloture will be scored as a pro-gun vote by
Gun Owners of America.
Sincerely,
2hawk"
The call for universal background checks is nothing more than a way to achieve universal registration. It may be back door, and in violation of the spirit of the current law and the language of the proposal, but honestly, can we trust the Atty. General and the ATF not to violate our rights? I don't think so.
Please get involved, write your elected representatives, and keep the pressure on them! Without a strong pushback from us, the law abiding gun owners of this country, we are going to see the government setting up the framework that would make it possible for them to confiscate all privately held firearms. Don't give up without a fight!
If you are not on the GOA mailing list, you can go here to send the same letter to your Senators: take-action
Like Phil Knight says, "Just Do It!"
"April 12, 2013
[recipient address was inserted here]
[recipient name was inserted here],
I was disappointed to see that 68 Senators did not support the
Paul-Cruz-Lee filibuster. Now that the Senate has moved to proceed to S.
649, several gun control issues will be coming up - including the
universal registry bill, the Feinstein gun ban, and the magazine ban.
As for the Toomey-Manchin-Schumer universal registry bill, don't believe
the press' efforts to sugar-coat it. If you have ever had an "Internet ...
posting" on (or related to) your gun, you can sell it only by going to a
dealer and filling out a 4473 and getting the government's approval. Only
a cave man would be exempt.
And once you have a 4473? Well, as Gun Owners of America has documented
on its website, ATF is going from dealer to dealer, copying the
information on these forms, and feeding it into a database. But, says
Toomey, he's against universal registries. This is where it would have
helped if Toomey had consulted someone who knew something about guns.
First of all, his anti-registry language prohibits photocopying the
4473's, but it doesn't prohibit going into the FFL with a laptop and
copying all the information. Second, ATF takes the position that the data
it's accumulating in a database is not a "registry," so Toomey's ban does
no good. Third, guess what the sanction is for violation of Toomey's
anti-registry language? Answer: Eric Holder has to choose to prosecute
himself and his own department.
But this isn't the only bad thing about Toomey-Schumer.
Section 107 of the sell-out also waives any federal privacy prohibitions
under HIPAA to sending the names of Americans with PTSD, ADHD, and post
partem depression to the gun ban database.
But that's not all. Because private shrinks will be able to add patients
names into a federal database of the mentally ill - WITHOUT DUE PROCESS -
you will be at their mercy.
As Red State editor, Erick Erickson says, "Activist mental health
providers will probably be overly aggressive in adding people to the list.
Give it five years in liberal areas and people who believe in the physical
resurrection of Christ will probably get automatic entry onto the list."
And as for veterans? Title I of Toomey-Schumer reinforces the proposition
that bureaucrats in the Department of Veterans Affairs can take away
veterans' rights without any due process. If a veteran has $30,000 to
spend getting back the rights Toomey-Schumer wrongly took from him, the
sell-out creates yet another redundant money-trap for restoration of
rights that shouldn't have been taken away in the first place.
What if you want to travel across the country? McClure-Volkmer allowed you
to do that with an unloaded gun in the trunk (18 U.S.C. 926A). But, under
the Toomey-Schumer sell-out, unless you can "demonstrate," to the
satisfaction of the New York police (1) where you came from, (2) where
you're going, (3) that you're legally entitled to possess the gun in the
place you can from, and (4) that you're legally entitled to possess the
gun in the place you're going, THEY WILL ARREST YOU in New York.
The Toomey-Schumer sell-out creates a Biden-like commission to insure that
the cries for gun control continue.
Like sprinkles on a pile of dung, Toomey and Schumer steal some of the
proposals we drafted and try to use them to get us to buy onto gun
control. But it won't work.
The gun movement is united against this disgusting pile of gun control.
So here is the new battlefield. In order for gun control to move forward,
Toomey and Schumer will have to get 60 votes for their gun control
abomination. And the entire Second amendment movement - GOA, NRA, etc. -
are against it.
Hence, what I'm asking you to do is vote against cloture on the
Toomey-Schumer sell-out. Please let me know your position on this issue.
Know that a vote in against cloture will be scored as a pro-gun vote by
Gun Owners of America.
Sincerely,
2hawk"
The call for universal background checks is nothing more than a way to achieve universal registration. It may be back door, and in violation of the spirit of the current law and the language of the proposal, but honestly, can we trust the Atty. General and the ATF not to violate our rights? I don't think so.
Please get involved, write your elected representatives, and keep the pressure on them! Without a strong pushback from us, the law abiding gun owners of this country, we are going to see the government setting up the framework that would make it possible for them to confiscate all privately held firearms. Don't give up without a fight!
If you are not on the GOA mailing list, you can go here to send the same letter to your Senators: take-action
Like Phil Knight says, "Just Do It!"
