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We’ve got bad news… we were right.
Just a few weeks ago we told you the anti-freedom DISCLOSE Act wasn’t dead, and we were right.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and arch anti-gunner Chuck Schumer (D-NY) have been twisting the
arms of a handful of short-on-principle Republicans in order to gain passage of the outrageous DISCLOSE Act.
CongressDaily, a Capitol Hill publication, reports that Republican Senators Scott Brown (MA), Olympia Snowe (ME)
and Susan Collins (ME) are under pressure from Reid, Schumer and their anti-gun cabal to vote for the DISCLOSE Act.
In the name of “openness” Reid and Schumer want to silence grassroots activists like you.
They say they want to “shine light” on our “dealings” in order to restrain our “undue” influence on politics.
In reality, they’re only interested in protecting their reelections and hiding their anti-freedom voting
records.
We cannot let them succeed in these dirty tricks.
We know you saw what happened during the health care debate — you can be sure the same kind of underhanded,
backroom deals are going on RIGHT NOW.
Without a doubt Reid and Schumer will do whatever it takes to buy the vote from RINO’s (Republicans-In-Name
-Only) like Brown, Snowe and Collins.
Remember, the DISCLOSE Act was written to silence YOU…
…and the National Association for Gun Rights.
The truth is this legislation was written to silence any group that talks about the voting records of politicians — from
the National Association for Gun Rights to your local state group or gun club.
The DISCLOSE Act should really be called the “Establishment Protection Act.”
To make matters worse, while we are silenced, anti-gun liberal special interests and labor unions
are exempt from the outrageous provisions of this bill.
We might expect this sort of election year payoff for labor unions and liberal special interest groups, but gun owners
have been shocked to learn that the “pro-freedom” NRA has also negotiated a special exemption.
That’s right, because they agreed to sit on the sidelines in this fight, President Obama and Majority Leader Harry
Reid granted the NRA a special exemption to the onerous restrictions that will be put on the rest of us.
Here’s what you can do to join the fight against the DISCLOSE Act.
- Call Senators Scott Brown (202-224-4543), Olympia Snowe (202-224-5344) and Susan
Collins (202-224-2523) and demand that the stand up to Harry Reid’s malicious manipulation and
publicly oppose the DISCLOSE Act in any form.
- Call your U.S. Senators at (202) 224-3121 and demand that they publicly oppose the anti-free speech
DISCLOSE Act.
- Forward this e-mail to all your gun rights supporting and freedom loving friends and family.
- Chip in $10 or $15 to help the National Association for Gun Rights fight against the DISCLOSE Act.
We know we don’t have to tell you that time is of the essence.
Please call Senators Scott Brown, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins TODAY. Demand that they stand
up to Harry Reid and oppose the anti-freedom DISCLOSE Act.
President Obama has banned the importation of more than 100,000 M1 Garand rifles from from South Korea.
According to a South Korean official, “The U.S. insisted that imports of the aging rifles could cause problems
such as firearm accidents. It was also worried the weapons could be smuggled to terrorists, gangs or other
people with bad intentions.”
Although the number of guns in the U.S. has increased over the years, the number of gun accidents has
steadily dropped. Furthermore, these rifles would have been sold by federally licensed dealers that are required
to run a background check for every sale. The Obama administration’s excuse for the ban doesn’t hold any
water.
The U.S. military employed the M1 Garand in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. These antiques are pieces of
history. This move clearly demonstrates Obama’s hostility toward the Second Amendment and his lack of
appreciation for our history.
Click here for the full article.
Anti-gun activists like Sarah Brady and BILLIONAIRE New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg want your guns.
But they can read the writing on the wall.
With the shift in political winds and the November elections rapidly approaching, they know time is running out
for a friendly Congress to enact their anti-gun agenda.
We’ve already alerted you to the multi-million dollar media and TV ad blitz that Michael Bloomberg and his gun
control group, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, aimed at setting the stage for a TOTAL ban on private firearm sales
this year!
And you know about the Brady Campaign’s recent “Press Briefing” where they announced they’ll be throwing
millions more behind the war against private firearms sales.
The Brady Campaign teaming up with Mayors Against Illegal Guns means this fight will happen this summer.
NAGR members contributed nearly $100,000 to launch our Internet Blast against targeted Senators whose
votes are key to victory on this issue.
Thanks to our program, the gun-grabbers’ scheme against private sales has been stalled in the current session.
But, the gun grabbers don’t quit easily. And you can guarantee they’re preparing to launch another assault when
Congress reconvenes this September.
We must be prepared for this renewed assault.
And that’s why it’s vital you sign the Protect Private Firearms petition we’ve created for you.
Your petition demands that Majority Leader Harry Reid and your Senators kill S. 843 — the gun grabbers’ bill to
close the so-called “gun show loophole” — and any other bill that would infringe on private gun sales.
You see, despite his election year claims, Senator Harry Reid is NOT a solid supporter of your Constitutional
right to keep and bear arms.
And as Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid has the power to completely control the legislative agenda in the Senate.
When he likes a bill, it gets voted on. When he wants to kill a bill, it dies a slow, bitter death.
And now we have the perfect opportunity to force him to take a position while facing a tough reelection campaign.
If we put enough pressure on Harry Reid and our Senators, the gun grabbers’ schemes to ban private gun sales
before November will be destroyed.
The fact is, we simply cannot afford to lose the fight for private firearms sales.
Should we, it’ll just be the tip of the iceberg.
Continue reading They’re preparing their final assault
“…we lost. President Obama won.”
According to turncoat Senator Lindsey Graham, that means your voice doesn’t matter.
According to Lindsey Graham, that means we shouldn’t defend gun rights.
Just a few days ago, Senator Graham (R – SC) voted with the gun-grabbers on
the Judiciary committee for confirmation of Elena “not sympathetic to your
gun rights” Kagan to the Supreme Court.
That kind of defeatist pandering makes us sick, especially when it’s clear that Kagan will
bring an ardently anti-gun agenda to the Supreme Court.
Elena Kagan will be a solid vote against the Second Amendment if confirmed, but they
don’t want the public to see that for themselves.
We know that:
- Kagan said she is “not sympathetic” to the right to keep and bear arms.
- Kagan supports gun licensing and registration.
- Kagan dismisses the notion that the Second Amendment deserves “unlimited
protection against governmental regulation.”
- Kagan worked as an associate White House counsel from 1995-1996 and as a deputy
assistant for domestic policy from 1997 to 1999 in the anti-gun Clinton administration.
- Kagan personally drafted an executive order for Bill Clinton that banned
the importation of semi-automatic firearms.
And on top of another Graham betrayal of conservatives, Indiana Republican Richard Lugar
is planning to join Graham in support of Kagan’s nomination.
Make no mistake Lugar and Graham are complicit in selling out YOUR Second
Amendment rights.
Members of the National Association for Gun Rights — like you — have been actively opposing
Kagan’s nomination for weeks now and we’re calling on you to make your voice heard again.
You’ve signed thousands of Firearms Filibuster Petitions against Kagan’s nomination, now
it’s time to turn up the heat on Lindsey Graham and Richard Lugar.
Here’s what you can do to help:
- Call Senator Graham at (202) 224-5972 and Senator Lugar at (202) 224-4814.
Tell them that their votes will have consequences when they’re up for re-election and that
unless they publicly pledge to oppose Kagan’s confirmation gun owners will hold them
responsible for their betrayal.
- You can also send Graham (click here) and Lugar (click here) an e-mail. Tell them
enough is enough, and it’s time for them to stand up for the Constitution and the Second
Amendment.
- And if you can, please chip in just $10 or $15 to help us continue to fight against
Kagan’s nomination and for the right to keep and bear arms.
Even if you’ve called two or three times already, if you don’t keep calling as Kagan’s
confirmation nears, they’ll think you have changed your mind.
So let’s keep up the pressure and demand Congress respect our gun rights.
Thanks for your continued dedication to our cause.
The anti-free speech DISCLOSE Act stalled in the Senate yesterday, thanks to your phone calls and emails.
Don’t let some punk Senate staffer tell you differently; your phone calls and e-mails are making a difference.
Keep them up!
Because of pressure from you and thousands of other members of the National Association for Gun Rights,
anti-gun Democrats were unable to muster the votes necessary to begin the final debate on the DISCLOSE Act.
But, the battle is far from over.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid continues to play the despicable Beltway games he’s famous for.
At the last minute, Reid voted against cloture.
That means he can bring it up for a vote at any time.
And insider sources tell us Harry Reid and his allies plan to bring it up again in September to use as a campaign
issue in the elections.
Continue reading You did it! DISCLOSE Act stalled
URGENT UPDATE
DISCLOSE Act on the move
Dear gun rights ally,
The fate of free speech is being debated in the U.S. Senate RIGHT NOW.
Harry Reid’s midnight skulduggery has the DISCLOSE Act on the fast track to passage TOMORROW afternoon.
That’s right; Harry Reid and his anti-gun allies in the Senate are scheduled to shred the First Amendment tomorrow at 2:45pm EST.
And unless the American people stand up and say NO, they will succeed.
I need you to call your senators immediately and demand that they vote AGAINST and publicly oppose the DISCLOSE Act.
As you know, the DISCLOSE Act was written to protect the anti-gun Establishment in Washington, D.C.
If passed into law, it could silence virtually every state and national conservative organization in the country, including the
National Association for Gun Rights and any state level gun rights organization you belong to.
The DISCLOSE Act is a direct attack on your First Amendment right to petition Congress and mention legislation or voting
records during the election season.
You and I both know that election season is the best time to hold politicians accountable for their anti-gun votes.
The DISCLOSE Act is designed to silence grassroots activists LIKE YOU and protect the Establishment politicians in Washington.
The DISCLOSE Act will affect every political organization you belong to, on any and every issue.
To make matters even worse, the National Rifle Association (NRA) has joined an unholy cabal of liberal special interests like the
Sierra Club, the AARP and countless labor unions.
Together they’ve managed to gain exemptions from the onerous restrictions the DISCLOSE Act would lay on the rest of us.
I strongly encourage you to contact the NRA at 800-672-3888 and demand that they stop the backroom deals and come out
strongly in opposition to the DISCLOSE ACT.
In fact, Capitol insiders say that a special relationship between Harry Reid and the NRA may be the driving force behind their exemption.
Reid is facing a very tough re-election race in Nevada and is relying on the NRA to paint him as a pro-gun candidate. If he’s held
accountable for his anti-gun votes, he will almost certainly lose.
So making a deal with the NRA while simultaneously silencing all of the pro-gun groups who would take him to task is Harry Reid’s
perfect political move.
And it seems to be working. The NRA has all but endorsed him (see the June 2010 issue of the NRA magazine, with flattering pictures
and flowery praise of Harry Reid) and he’s scheduled a final vote on DISCLOSE for tomorrow.
We are right in the middle of this battle! Reid’s pulled every trick in the book to ram through the DISCLOSE Act.
But there is a chance we can stop this monstrous violation of our Constitutional Rights — if you ACT right now.
Please, call your senators and demand that they vote against and publicly oppose the DISCLOSE Act.
Tell them that any vote to restrict free-speech will be considered a vote against gun owners.
You can also help the National Association for Gun Rights by chipping in $5 or $10 to help keep up the fight against the DISCLOSE ACT.
Click here to contribute.
For Liberty,
Dudley Brown
Executive Director
National Association for Gun Rights
Simple: they both want Gun Owners in jail!
Jane Norton (R – CO) claims to be pro-gun.
And though we’ve been skeptical of Jane Norton — especially considering she was recruited by one of the leading anti-gun Senators in the U.S. Senate — we decided to give her the benefit of the doubt.
She even joined her opponent, Ken Buck, in filling out the National Association for Gun Rights 2010 Federal Candidate Survey 100% pro-gun.
But right now, Jane Norton is acting more like radical gun-banner Sarah Brady.
In her radio and TV advertisements, Jane Norton is vocally advocating for the legal persecution of law-abiding gun owners – against an active member of Colorado’s largest gun rights group, Rocky Mountain Gun Owners (RMGO).
To prop up her faltering campaign, Jane Norton’s operatives have been pushing the liberal media to talk about the malicious prosecution of a gun owner in a positive light.
Norton is trying to curry favor with the media elite and the anti-gun Establishment types, since it plays on their anti-gun sentiments.
Really, she’s just using the anti-gun hysteria of those who hate freedom to attack her opponent.
It’s desperate, for certain.
It’s also flat-out wrong.
Continue reading NAGR-PAC: What do Jane Norton & Sarah Brady have in common?
As we previously mentioned, the McDonald decision changes very little about the legal landscape facing gun owners. Your right to keep and bear arms is fundamentally guaranteed so long as you abide by the state and federal laws which restrict those same rights. Make no mistake, the McDonald decision is not a magic bullet that will reverse generations of gun control legislation.
Case in point: It’s unlawful for gun shop owner Joe Franzese to open any gun shops in the City of Chicago. Franzese and a former U.S. marine have filed suit against the City of Chicago, as well as city officials, for this absurd and unconstitutional ordinance.
“I filed the lawsuit because I want to sell a legal product and you can’t outlaw a legal product,” said Franzese.
The ordinance that bans gun shops in Chicago, as well as other recently passed ordinances, essentially maintains a gun ban in all but name.
“By banning gun shops and the sale (of) handguns, Chicago and Mayor Daley currently maintain and actively enforce a set of laws, customs, practices and policies under color of state law which deprive individuals, including the plaintiffs, of their right to keep and bear arms, and engage in commerce by selling them, lawful products, in violation of the Second and 14th Amendments to the United States Constitution,” the lawsuit alleges.
Franzese would like to open five gun shops before the end of the year.
“I have unlimited financial backing, unlimited time and I’m not going anywhere anytime soon,” said Franzese. “The ball’s in (Mayor Daley’s) court. We haven’t heard anything yet, but all odds of this going through are few and far between, I guess.
“I’m not going anywhere,” he added. “I’ve got 15, 20, 30 years. It doesn’t matter to me.”
Franzese is seeking monetary damages through the lawsuit, including loss of profits and attorney fees.
Click here for the Libertyville Review article.
In Iowa, Osceola County Sheriff Douglas Weber was reprimanded by a federal judge for refusing to issue a concealed weapons permit to conservative activist Paul Dorr. The reason? Many Osceola County residents were putt off by Mr. Dorr’s conservative opinions.
Sheriffs should be upholding the Constitution, not passing judgment on political free speech. It’s outrageous that Sheriff Weber denied Mr. Dorr’s right to self-defense for exercising his First Amendment rights.
It was wrong for Osceola County Sheriff Douglas Weber to deny Paul Dorr of Ocheyedan a permit to carry a concealed weapon three years ago, according to a court ruling issued Wednesday.
U.S. District Judge Mark Bennett also ordered Weber to successfully complete a court-approved course on the U.S. Constitution within five months.
“In denying (Dorr) a concealed weapons permit, Sheriff Weber single-handedly hijacked the First Amendment and nullified its freedoms and protections,” Bennett wrote in the ruling.
Anger over the sheriff’s denial of the gun permit was a factor in inspiring some grass-roots activists to push for changes to Iowa’s weapons law. Starting Jan. 1, a new law requires sheriffs to issue gun permits except under a narrow set of circumstances.
Bennett ruled that Weber’s denial of Dorr’s gun permit in 2007 trampled his free speech rights because the sheriff was retaliating against Dorr for publicly protesting, passing out leaflets and writing letters to newspaper editors on a variety of topics.
“The court finds a tsunami, a maelstrom, an avalanche, of direct uncontroverted evidence in Sheriff Weber’s own testimony to conclude beyond all doubt that he unquestionably violated the First Amendment rights of … Paul Dorr,” Bennett wrote in the decision.
“This is a great reminder that the First Amendment protects the sole individual who may be a gadfly, kook, weirdo, nut job, whacko and spook, with the same force of protection as folks with more majoritarian and popular views,” he added.
Click here for the full article.
Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan is a serious threat to our gun rights. Call your senators ASAP and urge them to filibuster Kagan.
From examiner.com:
Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan should be filibustered.
We have learned a lot more about Elena Kagan and her views on the right to bear arms since the last time she appeared in this column, and what we have learned is not pretty.
A nominee who does not believe that the right to bear arms is a fundamental right, like free speech and the free exercise of religion, should not be permitted to sit on the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court has declared rights to be “fundamental” that are not even mentioned in the Constitution, like abortion, travel, and procreation. A right expressly written into the Bill of Rights that has been described as the very “palladium of liberty” cannot possibly occupy a lesser status.
Yesterday, when asked by Sen. Grassley whether the Constitutional right to bear arms created a right or merely protected a right that pre-existed the Constitution, Elena Kagan looked puzzled and answered,
“Senator Grassely, I’ve, uh, I’ve never really considered that question.”
Click here to read the full article.
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