Sam Stein reports at HuffPo: "Gun Control Advocates Win A Rare Victory In Budget Deal."
Gun-control advocates won a rare victory this past Friday when congressional negotiators removed a provision from the final budget deal that would have made it much harder for the government to regulate firearm sales along the Mexico border.
The amendment, offered by Reps. Dan Boren (D-Okla.) and Denny Rehberg (R-Mont.), would have prevented federal funds from being used by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) to track bulk sales of long guns in southwestern states. Up until late moments in the negotiations, sources familiar with the discussions say, it remained in the text of the final continuing resolution.
But sometime before the final deal was announced on Friday night, lawmakers stripped the rider from the bill. The move came after concerned lawmakers and even Mexico's Ambassador to the United States lobbied congressional leadership and the White House to strip the language from the bill.
"ATF is already chronically underfunded and has been without a confirmed director since 2006 as a result of inaction by past sessions of Congress," New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a co-chair of the coalition Mayors Against Illegal Guns, said in a statement. "We welcome this sign that leaders in Washington may be ready to step up and help law enforcement save lives."
Privately, gun-control advocates acknowledge that the simple removal of the Boren-Rehberg Amendment was a minor victory. To wildly cheer such a development could give off the impression of that longer-term objectives are hopelessly unreachable.
Yet, as one operative in the gun control community notes, "it's hard to recall the last time the NRA didn't get a priority," which the Boren-Rehberg Amendment was. And the amendment's defenders were notably silent after it was stripped from the final budget deal.
NRA spokesman Andrew Arulanandam said the gun-rights lobby did not put out a statement on the rider being stripped. Rehberg's office did not have a statement either. A call to Boren's office was not immediately returned.
Ask yourself this question: what is it about ATF funding in general -- and the Boren-Rehberg amendment in particular -- that is so important to the Democrats?
Here's another: Why is "sellout" the default position for the GOP?
And why is silence the order of the day for the NRA when their poltical allies decide to sell out the Second Amendment?
This has been another drive-by on your liberties by the NRA weinermobile.
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Well, I'll take a stab at it.
There maybe circumstances wherein certain members of the DC branch of the Gang Of Puss*es, have discovered that they are now owned by persons who have "sensitive" information, which might cause them personal and legal problems. (this could only happen in a socialist country I'm told, or one converting to that "system")
Those who hold said information have to be careful how they use it but if done correctly, very important votes would be won, by the smallest of margins, when it truly counted, thus husbanding a scarce and reliable resource, for the future.
Using roughly the same format, much dirty or "wet" work could be accomplished. Imagine the volume of information available to the media, who's "job" it is to dig it up and imagine that said media were to conspire, with a national political party that calls it's self one name, when in actual fact they wholly represent the latest incarnation of communist revolutionaries.
How's that for theory.
The commies, Soviet bloc and others, used this format for decades.
Oh yeah. I'm told that it couldn't happen here even though evidence is readily available to prove otherwise.
"Ask yourself this question: what is it about ATF funding in general -- and the Boren-Rehberg amendment in particular -- that is so important to the Democrats?
Here's another: Why is "sellout" the default position for the GOP?
And why is silence the order of the day for the NRA when their poltical allies decide to sell out the Second Amendment?"
Why? Because both the Republican and Democrat Parties are just the two arms of the same Tyranical beast, and the NRA is their lap dog.
Will the people ever learn?
If you vote either party you are voting your own imprisonment.
Vote Constitition Party, Libertarian Party, whatever, but don't vote Republican or Democrat! Don't support their lap dog either! Join Gun Owners of America, they represent you!
WarriorClass
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Slightly OT
Good advice on stocking the larder and keeping quiet about it:
http://mises.org/daily/5200/Guerrilla-Hoarding
Meh.
Frankly, I'm getting to the point where I'm finding it difficult to GAFF.
It's beyond question where we're headed, and I'm just about worn out with trying (in vain) to get people's attention.
Bring it on - let's get it over with.
In the meantime, I'm hoping to add to my stores as much as possible -- any hints on good deals in that direction would be greatly appreciated!
"Ask yourself this question: what is it about ATF funding in general -- and the Boren-Rehberg amendment in particular -- that is so important to the Democrats?"
Because without a reasonably functional and well funded ATF, they will not have a usable means to round up the guns when they have the rest of their ducks lined up.
"Here's another: Why is "sellout" the default position for the GOP?"
Because they are carrying neuticles in their scrota in place of the real things. Neuticles are testicular implants for pets. Neuticles allows a pet to retain his natural look, self esteem and aids in the trauma associated with altering. "With Neuticles it's like nothing ever changed"
Bad Cyborg X
Hey! I calls 'em as I sees 'em.
This wasn't the only GOP sellout in the bill. Read this: http://www.zerohedge.com/article/38-billion-cuts-make-353-million
There's no meaningful difference. We have a left wing and a right wing, but it's the same bird. And it's the bird that shits.
I'm also getting damn tired of Bloomberg. Time for a new group: Patriots Against Illegal Mayors.
When they start doing multiple long gun monitoring (more than they've been doing anyway in a roundabout way when they do compliance checks on bound books) maybe I'll move to Mexico and see what kind of multiple purchase for resale deals my local SAC can get me. Could be lucrative. Don't rain on my parade, guys.
I have news for you. The NRA is politically a single-issue organization. It is NOT the NRA's job to critique (look it up) a budget!
By the way Hoss, the NRA has protected our right to possess and carry guns a helluvalot more than we 3 percenters have, so far. The NRA has a lot more political clout than any other gun owners' organization, and we all would do well to support it. By the way, "Anonymous" is no more unidentified than any of you who use a made-up name! GROW UP! They are not perfect, but you are doing no good in the political fight by not fully supporting the NRA!
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