Obama's gun-free America

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I'm sure there's plenty out there that think this is a good thing, and I probably can't say much to change your mind, but for all those who know it's not, please read, and fill out the survey.

October 7, 2009


Dear Concerned American,

The great pay-back has begun, and it's going to be ugly.

The gun grabbers in Congress are paying back the anti-gun extremists who put them and Barack Obama in office.

Hi, this is Congressman Paul Broun from Georgia. I wish I had better news, but you and I are facing an assault on our gun rights like we’ve never seen before.

You see, H.R. 45 is Barack Obama’s gun control package, and it includes the most vile anti-gun measures he’s supported over the years.

It's only the first step...

...but it's a HUGE step.

H.R. 45 establishes a NATIONAL gun registry database of every gun and its owner -- for the whole county! Your private information and every gun you own would be in the system.

But that’s only if you succeed in buying a gun in the first place!

And since H.R. 45 dramatically increases requirements for firearms purchases far beyond those ever proposed, you just might find youself incapable of buying a firearm once this bill takes effect.

And it gets worse too.

The National Association for Gun Rights has a survey ready for you to complete, but I want you to understand just how dangerous this bill is before I give you the link. Please bear with me for a moment.

You see, H.R. 45 would establish a national gun registry database which would:


  • Increase requirements for firearms purchases, far beyond those ever proposed.
  • Create a national firearms registry overseen by the Federal Government.
  • Invoke Draconian penalties for bookkeeping errors related to the Federal Firearms Database.
It gets worse though.


Sarah Brady and her allies in Congress want to force you to take a written exam to prove that you are "fit" to exercise your Constitutionally protected right to keep and bear arms.

I'm outraged by this, and I know you are too.



I'm sure I don't have to tell you that gun registration has historically laid the groundwork for total firearm confiscation. Citizen disarmament is the watchword of tyrants everywhere.

In fact, the most brutal dictators of the last century were famous for their gun registration and confiscation schemes.

But H.R. 45, Obama's National Gun Registry and Citizen Disarmament Act, is more than just a forced registration of all firearms in America.

The bill also makes it increasingly difficult to buy a gun in the first place.



Taken right out of Sarah Brady's Christmas wish list, H.R. 45 includes a laundry list of new restrictions on firearms purchases.

In addition to the outrageous national gun registration requirement, H.R. 45 also requires you to:


  • Pass a written examination to purchase a firearm.
  • Release your medical records -- including confidential mental health records -- to the government to get your "fitness" to own a firearm approved.
  • Observe a two-day waiting period before all firearms purchases.
  • Pay a gun tax of $25 or more on all firearm purchases.
Moreover, H.R. 45 bans all private firearms sales and maximizes penalties for minor clerical errors in dealing with the national gun registry.


The list goes on and on. It's enough to turn your stomach.

I know I don't have to tell you, but these restrictions make a mockery of the Constitution. "The Right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed" might as well say: "You have no rights."

If a two-day waiting period, a written exam and a gun tax aren't infringing our rights, I don't know what is!



Even the Supreme Court’s recent Heller decision guaranteeing an individual’s right to own a firearm doesn’t hamper Barack Obama’s agenda one bit.

In fact, it emboldens gun grabbers to pass legislation taxing ammunition, increasing registration requirements, and drastically limiting when, how and where you can use your firearm.

That’s why I’ve decided to stand with the National Association for Gun Rights fight back against this radical scheme.

They're fully committed to stopping the efforts of the gun grabbers, but they need the help of grassroots gun owners like you.

With liberals calling the shots in Washington, all supporters of the Second Amendment must join together, draw a line in the sand, and fight this battle to the end.

We must make this gun-grab expensive and politically painful for the enemies of freedom. If we do, they'll flinch ... and LOSE.

By mobilizing hundreds of thousands of grassroots gun owners across the country, the National Association for Gun Rights can put anti-gun politicians on the hot seat.

Are you opposed to national gun registration?

Are you opposed to a written examination to buy a gun?

Are you opposed to a new $25 gun tax?

Are you opposed to a total ban on private firearm sales?

If you said "Yes" to these questions, click here to fill out a special survey the National Association for Gun Rights has prepared for you.

Your survey will put you squarely on the record AGAINST Barack Obama’s gun control package.

Stopping un-Constitutional gun control bills like H.R. 45 may be NAGR’s top priority, but they need your help.

Along with your signed survey, please send the National Association for Gun Rights a generous contribution to help finance this battle. You will have the opportunity to donate right after you fill out the survey.



The truth is, H.R. 45 is just the tip of the iceberg.

Sarah Brady and her cohorts in Congress now have the support of a willing White House and won't stop until they've reached their ultimate goal: A virtual ban on private, individual firearm ownership.

That is why NAGR simply must hear from you immediately.

Please take a moment to fill out NAGR's H.R. 45 survey, and, if at all possible, send a contribution of $200, $150, $100 or maybe just $25 to help the National Association for Gun Rights fight H.R. 45 and Sarah Brady's gun control wish list.

I know this is a lot to ask, but inaction could very well lead to defeat and the loss of our right to keep and bear arms.

Whether you can afford $200 or a lesser amount of $50 or $25, please contribute what you can.



It's critical we do all we can.

Thank you in advance for contributing your time and money towards defending our Second Amendment rights.

For Freedom and Liberty,
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Paul Broun
U.S. Congressman (R-GA)
National Association for Gun Rights

P.S. The anti-gun extremists who helped put Obama in power are itching for pay-back -- and here it comes.

H.R. 45 is the most sweeping gun control proposal ever offered in America. And under this administration, it might just pass -- so please act today!

Please join NAGR in the fight to stop this gun grab by clicking here to fill out your special H.R. 45 survey, and making a generous contribution of $200, $150, $100 or even just $25 -- immediately.




The National Association for Gun Rights, Inc. is approved as a non-profit tax-exempt advocacy organization under section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code. Contributions or gifts to NAGR are not tax deductible for IRS purposes.

Not paid for at taxpayer expense.
 
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Well I'm a Dem(does it matter? Dems like guns too), and I do believe a person should be able to own a gun. I do think that not everyone in the US should be able to get one tho, and those private sales are kinda scary to me. I can go to any gun show pay cash, and have a un-marked gun to kill someone with. Who is to say that crazy people don't do that to buy un-marked guns?

written examination, well that takes some more of the crazy people from buying them too. I'm not against this, but I would like to understand what kind of written exam they to impose.

The tax, well 25 dollars is peas in the pot if you are buying a nice gun. Taxes make the world go round, and so I don't have a problem with this. MOST people are not buying 100s of guns, and so that will not really affect people.

national gun registration, I'm all for this one. I don't know why people would be against it. It helps them hunt down people that use them in poor ways.


As for right to own a gun in the first place.

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

If you look up every word in the dictionary, and then look at this it could mean different things. Now most people will not take the time to do this, but I have in the past walking away with a broader view point on it.
 

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If you want a gun you should be able to have one. But I think that felons, crazy people shoukld not be alowed to have one. A test is a good idea because you need to know how to use a gun safely. Guns will always be around but they need to be out of the hands of the people who should not have them. I was walking home one day and was shoot at in a drive by. My friend was shoot by her ex husband, who was crazy and should have not been sold a gun. guns are fine but they can kill so we do need to be sure the ones who get them should have them.
 

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It's interesting from a Brit's point of view, I grew up in a country without guns and have never even thought about wanting to have one. In fact I would think it was absolute madness if anyone wanted to make guns legal here.

Yet I bet if I grew up in America I would be just the opposite and fight against anyone trying to take my freedom to own a gun taken away... I guess it's just what you grow up with.
 

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Hi, I’m Ron, the other half of jj2. Jan was nice to post the original message because I don’t post here much but here is how I feel.
Our forefathers fought for our freedom and in their wisdom, they came up with the constitution of the United States and certain basic laws.
I fought for my country and don’t break the law, at least not in any major way and I have every right to own my guns without being taxed to high heaven: Or without the federal government knowing my entire medical history.

Neither do I think they need a data base filled with who owns what and how many guns. Really, what is this going to do? They may know John Doe owns a gun and at the time he purchased said gun, he was sane. Then a few days/years later, he flips out and shots someone. What the government wants here is a list of where they will have to go to collect weapons when do start confiscating them.

Most crimes committed with guns are not committed by the law biding citizen. Sure they may own a legal gun, but they also probably own more illegal guns. Generally, most criminals don’t own legal weapons and I don’t care how many laws you come up with, there will always be the Saturday night special.

Just think, a world where criminals and cops are the only one carrying, and you, who are defenseless, waiting for that cops come save you.
I for one would like to have the option of defending myself. Those places that concealed carry is legal HAVE LESS CRIME.

I do think everyone should take a course in how to handle and respect the gun. Both of my kids took a course like this.

Basically the FDA is saying your PV might kill you or someone else so they want to ban it. The next step is to make it illegal to own because at some point some idiot is going to do something with it that will kill him. Or he could even blow vapor filled ....... into someone face. Is it right that you lose an option that may very well save your life because of that idiot?

One finale note here. I use my guns to shoot at targets or for hunting.
 
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All this hysteria is absurd. No president is going to outlaw guns. It simply isn't going to happen. At most all that Obama or any president can do is increase the regulations surrounding guns so that certain types are harder to get and so that guns are barred in certain situations. I have no problem with such regulation. In fact, I think that the gun lobby hurts its position by demanding absolutely unregulated gun ownership. Just as guns will never be outlawed, there'll never be a situation in which they're completely unregulated.
 

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I sent Ron away so it's me again.;)

I'm 60 years old and if you told me, when I was twenty, that smoking in restaurants and bars would be banned, I would have said you were nuts—it’d never happen.
If you told me the tobacco companies would no longer be the king of the hill in Washington, I would have said you were nuts—it’d never happen.

Government is trying to take over and when anyone says, “Hey, it's okay to take this right because I personally think it's for the greater good”, loses any right to complain when they are in danger of losing out on something. And, right now, that something is our PVs.
 

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i don't agree with removing all ability to have/buy guns. but i do agree with a test, with no private sales allowed, and a gun registration. it makes sense, but then again... people who buy guns legally statistically arent the ones we should be afraid of misuing guns. its the illegal gun trade.


everything in this will increase the illegal gun trade, and honestly.. while i agree with the test and whatnot... it'll only promote more illegal buying/selling of black market firearms.
 

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Government is trying to take over and when anyone says, “Hey, it's okay to take this right because I personally think it's for the greater good”, loses any right to complain when they are in danger of losing out on something. And, right now, that something is our PVs.

Trying to take over what? It's the government. They're already in control.

Let's be realistic here. There isn't a situation where guns are going to go unregulated. This is not a guns or no guns situation. Painting it as such is disingenuous and rhetorical. The real discussion isn't if we're going to continue to have legal fire arms or not, the real discussion is how closely regulated they're going to be. Personally, I think they're far too loosely regulated. Others feel they're already regulated too tightly. There's validity on both sides of that coin.
 

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Just enforce current laws,these additional laws only punish honest people.
What criminal buys his gun at the gun store? what criminal obeys laws?
Criminals hope this gets passed,makes their job of ripping you off that much safer and easier. Gun free zone=thief safe zone.

Too many absolutes.

I agree that the current laws should be more strictly enforced rather than adding new laws that may be neglected just as badly. But the assertion that criminals don't buy guns at gun stores strikes me as silly. Unless you can support that idea with some kind of evidence, I don't think it's relevant. Guns enter society through a number of channels. People who become criminals may or may not acquire them through legitimate channels and may or may not acquire them with the intent of perpetrating criminal activity.

As far as your question "what criminal obeys laws?" I'd respond that LOTS of criminals obey the laws. Just because a person breaks the law in one area doesn't mean that he/she will beak the laws in ALL areas. People are more subtle than that. Furthermore, you'd be hard pressed to find anyone who hasn't broken the law at one time or another. Does the fact that I drive over the speed limit mean that I don't obey any laws? After all, I'm technically a criminal, right?

Too many absolutes.
 
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