The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) that passed out of the House earlier this year (H.R. 1620) is full of gun control legislation, and with notorious gun-grabbers like Dianne Feinstein and Dick Durbin drafting the Senate version, I’m very concerned that this bill is going to become a major threat to my gun rights! The House version of this legislation has at least four areas of gun control in it. First, Section 1201/1202 of the bill requires that the FBI send an incident report to local law enforcement every time a gun owner fails a NICS check, setting the stage for a criminal investigation, even though 94% of NICS denials are false positives! And while 6% of these denials are legitimate, the fact of the matter is that the feds simply don’t prosecute these. In 2010, 76,000 people were stopped by NICS. 44 of those were deemed prosecutable by the feds, and a mere 13 of those cases resulted in convictions. In 2017, the NICS system stopped 112,090 transactions. And after the false positives were subtracted, the government successfully prosecuted just 12 people! That’s .0009% of the people flagged by NICS! Clearly using the NICS system to spawn off criminal investigation is a total waste of time. More than that, it will lead to gun owners being harassed for nothing! Second, Section 801 of the bill would add stalking to the list of misdemeanors that would result in a lifetime gun ban. And while I’m not defending stalking, this is a disaster waiting to happen. Felonies have long been the threshold for when someone is added to the ‘prohibited persons’ list. But if Republicans in Congress give in to Dianne Feinstein and agree to disarm gun owners for misdemeanor stalking, you’ll be opening Pandora’s Box. Over time, dozens of additional misdemeanors will be added to this list, resulting in millions of gun owners being disarmed. Third, Section 1203 of the bill would allow the feds to deputize state/local prosecutors to serve as assistant United States Attorneys, and state/local police officers to serve as ATF agents, to aid in the prosecutions of violations of this legislation. Let me be very clear, the LAST THING I want is to have Merrick Garland weaponize local law enforcement against gun owners. If a gun owner commits a crime, he should be prosecuted. But this is a nothing more than a partisan witch hunt by a tyrannical White House against gun owners. Fourth, Section 801 of this bill would dramatically change the definition of which Americans could be prosecuted for domestic violence. H.R. 1620 specifies that sexual contact is NOT required for these cases and that a mere ‘social relationship’ with someone would leave you subject to this section. This is absurd. If a co-worker doesn’t like me, could he file a domestic violence allegation against me? How about a liberal school board member who is mad that I’m opposing the CRT filth that is being taught to my kids in school? ‘Social relationships’ is deliberately written to be as broad as possible, to ensnare as many people as possible. The impact of these four sections of the bill could result in MILLIONS of gun owners being disarmed over time. Of course, this is exactly what Joe Biden and Congressional Democrats are trying to do. The fact that Republicans like Joni Ernst and Lisa Murkowski are helping Feinstein push this legislation doesn’t allay my concerns in the least, it only makes it clear that there are a growing number of Republicans who are ready and willing to stab gun owners in the back. That’s why I am emailing you today, to insist that you REFUSE to support the Violence Against Women Act until each of the four sections above are removed from the bill. Our gun rights are under severe attack. Republicans in the Senate should be doing everything they can to hold the line until ‘We the People’ have a chance to vote in November and flip control of Congress. Under no circumstances do I want you to make a deal with Dianne Feinstein when it comes to my Second Amendment freedoms. The Idaho Second Amendment Alliance will keep me informed about the status of this bill.

Joe Biden’s handlers in Washington, D.C. are pushing the most radical gun control agenda that America has seen in decades, introducing gun control bills that would do irreparable damage to my right to keep and bear arms if passed into law. But while Biden and Congressional Democrats would love to simply ban our AR-15’s or pass a national ‘Red Flag Gun Seizure’ law, they don’t have the 60 votes they need to get this done. In the meantime, they are working hard to pass the ‘Violence Against Women Act’ (VAWA) which is full of bureaucratic and administrative gun control. One of most egregious sections of the House’s version of the VAWA (H.R. 1620) would allow the federal government to deputize local cops to act as temporary agents of the ATF, while deputizing local prosecutors to work as Assistant US Attorneys, with the goal of prosecuting violations of VAWA in federal court! This is all a part of the radical left’s war on gun owners. Biden knows that his gun control agenda isn’t popular in ‘red’ America and that trying to get a jury to convict gun owners of the types of new ‘crimes’ detailed in the VAWA would likely be impossible. And that’s why they want these cases tried in federal court. I don’t want local cops to be mere appendages of the corrupt ATF. And I certainly don’t want our local prosecutors to become mere appendages of the Merrick Garland Department of InJustice! Democrats at all levels of government are trying to force every man, woman, and child in the country to submit to their vision for America. And part of that vision includes disarming as many Americans as they possibly can, so that we’re unable to resist their tyrannical agenda. Federalizing and weaponizing local authorities against gun owners is all part of that agenda. While some Republicans in the Senate like Joni Ernst and Lisa Murkowski have already betrayed gun owners and have agreed to jointly sponsor this legislation with Dianne Feinstein and Dick Durbin, I wanted to make sure you knew that I expect you to dig in your heels and do everything you can to STOP the VAWA until every piece of gun control is stricken from the bill. The Idaho Second Amendment Alliance will keep me informed about the status of this bill.

The radical left is determined to do anything and everything they can to harass law abiding gun owners like me. The ‘Violence Against Women Act’ (VAWA) that passed out of the House (H.R. 1620) and that is being unveiled in the Senate by Dianne Feinstein and backstabber Joni Ernst is just the latest example of this. One key provision of this language is a requirement that the FBI send an incident report to local law enforcement any time a gun owner fails a NICS check, encouraging local authorities to open a criminal investigation. But the NICS system is a joke, and an estimated 94% of NICS denials are false positives, meaning that tens of thousands of gun owners will be harassed for nothing if this language remains in the VAWA! But that’s not all. The VAWA would also weaponize local law enforcement by making local cops into ATF agents and local prosecutors into deputy US Attorneys to be able to prosecute violations of this bill. VAWA also allows gun owners to be declared a ‘prohibited person’ and disarmed for life for a misdemeanor conviction of stalking. Of course, no one is defending stalking. But if we allow the left to start designating misdemeanors as grounds for being declared a prohibited person, we are opening the flood gates and eventually we’ll see dozens of misdemeanors added to this list! This could disarm a massive number of gun owners! The VAWA also changes the definitions of who can be prosecuted under federal domestic violence statues by clarifying that ‘sexual contact’ is not required between the parties and that anyone in a ‘social relationship’ would meet these parameters. This standard is wide open for abuse. I’m tired of the gun grabbers doing everything they can to demonize, threaten, and harass law abiding gun owners. And I’m especially tired of seeing RINO Republicans like Joni Ernst join in these efforts. That’s why I’m writing to urge you to ‘VOTE NO’ on the Violence Against Women Act until every single piece of gun control is removed from this bill! The Idaho Second Amendment Alliance will keep me informed about the status of this bill.

Gun owners have stood tall all year and fought back against every single piece of Joe Biden’s attack on the Second Amendment. And while some gun control bills have passed the House, these bills have died in the Senate as Chuck Schumer simply doesn’t have the 60 votes he needs to pass them. That’s why I was so disgusted to see a recent press release from Dianne Feinstein, bragging about how Republican Senators Joni Ernst and Lisa Murkowski are jointly sponsoring Feinstein’s version of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA!) When the VAWA passed out of the House it opened up the domestic violence definitions to include all ‘social relationships,’ urged local authorities to prosecute all NICS rejections even though 94% of them are false positives, increased the number of misdemeanors than can put gun owners into the prohibited persons database, and federalized local cops and prosecutors to bring all of these new criminal charges into federal court! And while the Feinstein/Ernst version of this bill hasn’t been released, insiders tell me that it has the same type of gun control language in it. The fact of the matter is that I don’t want to see ANY deals between notorious gun grabbers like Dianne Feinstein and Dick Durbin and the Republicans in your conference. Your ONLY job right now in the Senate is to hold the line on Biden’s gun control agenda and buy time for the American people to get to the polls in November where we will hopefully wrest control of Congress away from Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer! And to be clear, I want you to oppose the VAWA until each of the gun control items I mentioned above are removed from the bill. The Idaho Second Amendment Alliance will keep me informed about the status of this bill.