Gun Owners of America tells me that H.R. 6395, the William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021, will be voted on very soon. I am opposed to this bill. The proposed language in §542 creates a Military Court Gun Confiscation Order (GCO) program—a disgusting violation of the Second, Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights of our armed service personnel who offer their lives to defend those same constitutional rights every day. These proposed Military Court Gun Confiscation Orders could be “issued on an ex parte basis” and therefore would “restrain a person from possessing, receiving, or otherwise accessing a firearm” without constitutional Due Process (§542(i)1(A)). In fact, the emergency Military Court GCOs are explicitly exempted from the “Protection of Due Process” provided for in 542(g)(1). Instead, “notice and opportunity to be heard [provided] after the order is issued,” is considered “sufficient to protect the respondent’s due process rights” (§542(g)(2)). Seizing firearms first and “getting the Due Process later” will never constitute sufficient Due Process, no matter how much anti-gunners in Congress may pretend it is. For these reasons, please vote against the passage of H.R. 6395 as it is an anti-gun bill. Gun Owners of America will score a vote in favor of this bill as an anti-gun vote.

Gun Owners of America tells me that H.R. 6395, the William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021, will be voted on very soon. I am opposed to this bill. The proposed language in §542 creates a Military Court Gun Confiscation Order (GCO) program—a disgusting violation of the Second, Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights of our armed service personnel who offer their lives to defend those same constitutional rights every day. These proposed Military Court Gun Confiscation Orders could be “issued on an ex parte basis” and therefore would “restrain a person from possessing, receiving, or otherwise accessing a firearm” without constitutional Due Process (§542(i)1(A)). In fact, the emergency Military Court GCOs are explicitly exempted from the “Protection of Due Process” provided for in 542(g)(1). Instead, “notice and opportunity to be heard [provided] after the order is issued,” is considered “sufficient to protect the respondent’s due process rights” (§542(g)(2)). Seizing firearms first and “getting the Due Process later” will never constitute sufficient Due Process, no matter how much anti-gunners in Congress may pretend it is. For these reasons, please vote against the passage of H.R. 6395 as it is an anti-gun bill. Gun Owners of America will score a vote in favor of this bill as an anti-gun vote.

Gun Owners of America tells me that H.R. 6395, the William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021, will be voted on very soon. I am opposed to this bill. The proposed language in §542 creates a Military Court Gun Confiscation Order (GCO) program—a disgusting violation of the Second, Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights of our armed service personnel who offer their lives to defend those same constitutional rights every day. These proposed Military Court Gun Confiscation Orders could be “issued on an ex parte basis” and therefore would “restrain a person from possessing, receiving, or otherwise accessing a firearm” without constitutional Due Process (§542(i)1(A)). In fact, the emergency Military Court GCOs are explicitly exempted from the “Protection of Due Process” provided for in 542(g)(1). Instead, “notice and opportunity to be heard [provided] after the order is issued,” is considered “sufficient to protect the respondent’s due process rights” (§542(g)(2)). Seizing firearms first and “getting the Due Process later” will never constitute sufficient Due Process, no matter how much anti-gunners in Congress may pretend it is. For these reasons, please vote against the passage of H.R. 6395 as it is an anti-gun bill. Gun Owners of America will score a vote in favor of this bill as an anti-gun vote.