Michael Bloomberg, Everytown for Gun Safety, Giffords, Brady Campaign, Sandy Hook Promise and your caucus members are lying to you about the effectiveness of Universal Background Checks! 'Universal Background Checks' HR8 and S529 - better known as Universal Gun Registration - will not save any lives, or stop any violent criminals from finding firearms. In fact, they haven't stopped a mass murderer yet. Even though they are criminals, not every mass killer is stupid. If they know they won’t be able to pass a background checks, they’ll simply get their guns from other sources or steal them. At the same time, many of the killers who have carried out mass attacks over the last five years, did so after first PASSING the background check -- showing us how worthless they are at stopping crime! The only thing this bill will accomplish is force tens of millions of law-abiding gun owners to forfeit their personal information to the Federal Government that will be used for gun confiscation down the road after the next mass killer surfaces. Gun owners like me around the country are not going to sit idly by and let Joe Biden, Michael Bloomberg, and radical communists supporting these bills steamroll our gun rights into oblivion! I want you to think twice about co-sponsoring and supporting this bill, and do your own homework! Minnesota Gun Rights will be keeping me updated on your actions regarding these bills and my gun rights.

The ‘Universal Background Check’ legislation being pushed in D.C.(H.R.8/S.529) is nothing more than an attempt by crazed socialists to disarm Americans by first establishing a national gun owner registry. The very idea that I would have to add my name into this registry, like a convicted sex offender, to enjoy my Second Amendment freedoms, is disgusting to me. The radical left in Congress have made it clear that their goal is to disarm law abiding Americans like me. To seize these firearms, they first need to know where to find them. And a national gun registry is how they are going to do it. As my elected voice in Congress, I insist that you oppose this legislation in the committee as well as on the House/Senate floor. Minnesota Gun Rights will let me know where you stand on this legislation.

With the fake news media and Bloomberg-funded studies claiming that Americans are unified in their support of a national gun registry, by way of ‘Universal Background Checks,’ I wanted you to hear the truth from me. Law abiding gun owners are a proud and free people, and we are 100% opposed to any legislation that would force us to get government permission to buy a firearm! In fact, I don’t know of a single gun owner in America who supports adding our name to a government database before we are able to buy or sell a firearm. That’s because the Second Amendment wasn’t written to secure my right to hunt deer, or even to defend against criminals. Those things are assumed. Rather, our right to keep and bear arms is about making sure that Americans have the means to defend ourselves against a tyrannical government. So the last people we want knowing how many firearms we own, or what kind of firearms we own, is the very government that our forefathers wanted us to be able to defend ourselves against! That’s why I want you to vote no on any attempt to create a defacto registry of gun owners by way of this system! Please know that every gun owner I know considers this a bright red line, and that we will not support any lawmaker who supports this disastrous legislation. MGR assures me that they will keep me up to date on the status of this bill, whether it’s H.R.8, S.529, or similar legislation.