Gun Rights Groups Cheer NRA’s Obama Pushback
Gun rights groups are cheering the NRA for pushing back against President Barack Obama’s negative connotation of the word “absolutism” in his inaugural address. Yesterday NRA chief Wayne LaPierre went on the attack before a crowd of supporters, accusing Obama of trying to take away citizens’ constitutional right to own and bear firearms.
“Absolutes do exist, words do have specific meaning in language and in law,” LaPierre told members of the Weatherby Foundation, a hunting and wildlife conservation non-profit.
And to Chris Knox, communications director for the Firearms Coalition, LaPierre delivered the right message in the right way. Knox was particularly pleased with LaPierre’s tough talk, especially since the coalition has been less than happy at times with the NRA’s positions. As an example, Knox pointed to the NRA’s endorsement of a 1984 ban on armor-piercing “cop-killer” bullets.
But in Monday’s speech Obama warned that Americans shouldn’t “mistake absolutism for principle, or substitute spectacle for politics, or treat name-calling as reasoned debate.” The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms sees LaPierre as simply giving voice to gun rights advocates.
“Wayne LaPierre has a right to say what’s on his mind. I would hardly try to put words in Wayne’s mouth,” said communications director Dave Workman. “He expressed an opinion that I’m sure many hold.” Obama’s address was what Workman described to Newsmax as “pretty boilerplate stuff.”
“Mr. Obama said what he said. He raised quite a few eyebrows across different groups — not just the firearms groups,” Workman said.
Usually the Second Amendment Foundation doesn’t comment on NRA statements, because it focuses on legal and educational issues — not legislation and policy. The foundation’s Phil Watson, however, wasn’t surprised by the president’s remarks because they mirror his record on guns, dating from his years as an Illinois state legislator.
“You have to take major political figures by not just what they say on television but by what they say and do over their careers,” said Watson, who is SAF’s special projects director and executive director of the International Association for the Protection of Civilian Arms Rights.
“Go back to Obama’s past,” Watson added. “He has always been a pretty anti-Second Amendment politician.”
A spokesman for Gun Owners of America supports the NRA’s hard-line approach. According to Michael Hammond, the group’s legislative counsel, all media, have been right in their analysis of the president’s inaugural address. It was a defense of liberal principle — implicitly gun control. And he further added that they see it as “call to war”, and they are ready to rage that war.
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“Americans shouldn’t “ substitute spectacle for politics, or treat name-calling as reasoned debate.”
Guess obamanut considers that his own personal theater of operation! His speeches are full of both. Too bad he never considers truth as a personal virtue.
Oh the story of how insane the progressives are gets even better. Don’t let any of them sh** you, the plan all along is to take away the guns. Take this next story from a Missouri lawmaker:
A Missouri lawmaker has proposed a bill that would require parents to inform their children’s school if they possess a firearm. Not only that, it would criminalize parents that “[fail] to stop the possession [of a firearm] or report it to law enforcement” for children in the house under the age of 18.
There are 3 main components of the bill:
1. This act creates the offense of failing to stop illegal firearm possession. A person commits the offense if he or she is the parent or guardian of a child under the age of 18, he or she knows the child possesses a firearm in violation of the law, and he or she fails to stop the possession or report it to law enforcement.
2. This act also creates the offense of negligent storage of a firearm. A parent or guardian of a child under the age of 18 commits the offense by recklessly storing or leaving a firearm in a manner that is likely to result in the child accessing the firearm if the child obtains access to the firearm and unlawfully carries it to school, kills or injures another person with it, or commits a crime with it.
3. This act requires a parent or guardian to notify a school district, or the governing body of a private or charter school, that he or she owns a firearm within 30 days of enrolling the child in school or becoming the owner of a firearm. [Emphasis added]
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Furthermore, the 10 key points Dumocrats in NY wanted in the gun legislation and kept quiet but a Republican leaked:
1.Confiscation of “assault weapons”
2.Confiscation [of] ten round clips
3.Statewide database for ALL Guns
4.Continue to allow pistol permit holder’s information to be replaced to the public
5.Label semiautomatic shotguns with more than 5 rounds or pistol grips as “assault weapons”
6.Limit the number of rounds in a magazine to 5 and confiscation and forfeiture of banned magazines
7.Limit possession to no more than two (2) magazines
8.Limit purchase of guns to one gun per person per month
9.Require re-licensing of all pistol permit owners
10.Require renewal of all pistol permits every five years
11.State issued pistol permits
12.Micro-stamping of all guns in New York State
13.Require licensing of all gun ammo dealers
14.Mandatory locking of guns at home
15.Fee for licensing, registering weapons
Here’s the list of Feinstein’s gun ban bill:
The Democrats’ current gun-ban-list proposal may include most of the following firearms:
Rifles (or copies or duplicates):
M1 Carbine,
Sturm Ruger Mini-14,
AR-15,
Bushmaster XM15,
Armalite M15,
AR-10,
Thompson 1927,
Thompson M1;
AK,
AKM,
AKS,
AK-47,
AK-74,
ARM,
MAK90,
NHM 90,
NHM 91,
SA 85,
SA 93,
VEPR;
Olympic Arms PCR;
AR70,
Calico Liberty ,
Dragunov SVD Sniper Rifle or Dragunov SVU,
Fabrique National FN/FAL,
FN/LAR, or FNC,
Hi-Point20Carbine,
HK-91,
HK-93,
HK-94,
HK-PSG-1,
Thompson 1927 Commando,
Kel-Tec Sub Rifle;
Saiga,
SAR-8,
SAR-4800,
SKS with detachable magazine,
SLG 95,
SLR 95 or 96,
Steyr AU,
Tavor,
Uzi,
Galil and Uzi Sporter,
Galil Sporter, or Galil Sniper Rifle ( Galatz ).
Pistols (or copies or duplicates):
Calico M-110,
MAC-10,
MAC-11, or MPA3,
Olympic Arms OA,
TEC-9,
TEC-DC9,
TEC-22 Scorpion, or AB-10,
Uzi.
Shotguns (or copies or duplicates):
Armscor 30 BG,
SPAS 12 or LAW 12,
Striker 12
…and the list goes on!