Gun Owners of America tells me that House Democrats have concocted an anti-gun Commerce-Justice-Science bill with anti-gun riders (H.R. 3055). For starters, this bill removes prohibitions on programs like Fast & Furious. Instead, H.R. 3055 has some weasel words in Section 215, where the ATF can “facilitate” the transfer of guns to Mexican drug cartels, so long as it claims it can continuously monitor them, as it claimed in Fast & Furious. And then there is a huge financial increase for the federal agency that has been the nemesis to law-abiding gun owners -- the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). ATF’s budget of $1.439 billion in this bill would represent an increase of $122 million over last year and over $70 million above what ATF asked for. And no less than $27.5 million would go to disarm veterans under the Veterans Disarmament Act of 2007 and the Fix NICS provision (from 2018). These two laws now have a major pot of money set aside to take away guns from law-abiding veterans, simply based on a psychiatrists’ diagnosis. As if all this were not bad enough, the bill has removed pro-gun riders that were there in previous years. This includes provisions that allowed curios and relics and certain shotguns, which Obama disdained, from being imported. Should H.R. 3055 come before you in this form, I would urge you to vote AGAINST this anti-gun monstrosity. GOA will keep me informed on the progress of this bill.

Gun Owners of America tells me that House Democrats have concocted an anti-gun Commerce-Justice-Science bill with anti-gun riders (H.R. 3055). For starters, this bill removes prohibitions on programs like Fast & Furious. Instead, H.R. 3055 has some weasel words in Section 215, where the ATF can “facilitate” the transfer of guns to Mexican drug cartels, so long as it claims it can continuously monitor them, as it claimed in Fast & Furious. And then there is a huge financial increase for the federal agency that has been the nemesis to law-abiding gun owners -- the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). ATF’s budget of $1.439 billion in this bill would represent an increase of $122 million over last year and over $70 million above what ATF asked for. And no less than $27.5 million would go to disarm veterans under the Veterans Disarmament Act of 2007 and the Fix NICS provision (from 2018). These two laws now have a major pot of money set aside to take away guns from law-abiding veterans, simply based on a psychiatrists’ diagnosis. As if all this were not bad enough, the bill has removed pro-gun riders that were there in previous years. This includes provisions that allowed curios and relics and certain shotguns, which Obama disdained, from being imported. Should H.R. 3055 come before you in this form, I would urge you to vote AGAINST this anti-gun monstrosity. GOA will keep me informed on the progress of this bill.

Gun Owners of America tells me that House Democrats have concocted an anti-gun Commerce-Justice-Science bill with anti-gun riders (H.R. 3055). For starters, this bill removes prohibitions on programs like Fast & Furious. Instead, H.R. 3055 has some weasel words in Section 215, where the ATF can “facilitate” the transfer of guns to Mexican drug cartels, so long as it claims it can continuously monitor them, as it claimed in Fast & Furious. And then there is a huge financial increase for the federal agency that has been the nemesis to law-abiding gun owners -- the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). ATF’s budget of $1.439 billion in this bill would represent an increase of $122 million over last year and over $70 million above what ATF asked for. And no less than $27.5 million would go to disarm veterans under the Veterans Disarmament Act of 2007 and the Fix NICS provision (from 2018). These two laws now have a major pot of money set aside to take away guns from law-abiding veterans, simply based on a psychiatrists’ diagnosis. As if all this were not bad enough, the bill has removed pro-gun riders that were there in previous years. This includes provisions that allowed curios and relics and certain shotguns, which Obama disdained, from being imported. Should H.R. 3055 come before you in this form, I would urge you to vote AGAINST this anti-gun monstrosity. GOA will keep me informed on the progress of this bill.

Gun Owners of America tells me that House Democrats have concocted an anti-gun Commerce-Justice-Science bill with anti-gun riders (H.R. 3055). For starters, this bill removes prohibitions on programs like Fast & Furious. Instead, H.R. 3055 has some weasel words in Section 215, where the ATF can “facilitate” the transfer of guns to Mexican drug cartels, so long as it claims it can continuously monitor them, as it claimed in Fast & Furious. And then there is a huge financial increase for the federal agency that has been the nemesis to law-abiding gun owners -- the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). ATF’s budget of $1.439 billion in this bill would represent an increase of $122 million over last year and over $70 million above what ATF asked for. And no less than $27.5 million would go to disarm veterans under the Veterans Disarmament Act of 2007 and the Fix NICS provision (from 2018). These two laws now have a major pot of money set aside to take away guns from law-abiding veterans, simply based on a psychiatrists’ diagnosis. As if all this were not bad enough, the bill has removed pro-gun riders that were there in previous years. This includes provisions that allowed curios and relics and certain shotguns, which Obama disdained, from being imported. Should H.R. 3055 come before you in this form, I would urge you to vote AGAINST this anti-gun monstrosity. GOA will keep me informed on the progress of this bill.

Gun Owners of America tells me that House Democrats have concocted an anti-gun Commerce-Justice-Science bill with anti-gun riders (H.R. 3055). For starters, this bill removes prohibitions on programs like Fast & Furious. Instead, H.R. 3055 has some weasel words in Section 215, where the ATF can “facilitate” the transfer of guns to Mexican drug cartels, so long as it claims it can continuously monitor them, as it claimed in Fast & Furious. And then there is a huge financial increase for the federal agency that has been the nemesis to law-abiding gun owners -- the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). ATF’s budget of $1.439 billion in this bill would represent an increase of $122 million over last year and over $70 million above what ATF asked for. And no less than $27.5 million would go to disarm veterans under the Veterans Disarmament Act of 2007 and the Fix NICS provision (from 2018). These two laws now have a major pot of money set aside to take away guns from law-abiding veterans, simply based on a psychiatrists’ diagnosis. As if all this were not bad enough, the bill has removed pro-gun riders that were there in previous years. This includes provisions that allowed curios and relics and certain shotguns, which Obama disdained, from being imported. Should H.R. 3055 come before you in this form, I would urge you to vote AGAINST this anti-gun monstrosity. GOA will keep me informed on the progress of this bill.