While no one condones the mindless violence of those who looted a helpless city or attacked their fellow citizens and rescuers, Congress can, and should, act to protect the self-defense rights of citizens at the times when those rights are most vital.
The Vitter Amendment would:
Prohibit using federal funds to seize firearms or restrict firearms possession, except in the circumstances allowed by current federal or state law.
Not prevent gun confiscation from convicted felons and other “prohibited persons,” and would have no effect on law enforcement operations outside of disaster relief situations.
Emergency powers legislation prohibiting government officials from restricting the rights of law-abiding gun owners during declared states of emergency has already been enacted into law this year in Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida, South Carolina, Virginia, Alaska, Idaho, Kentucky, New Hampshire, and Oklahoma.
Since the unconstitutional, forcible confiscation of firearms from law-abiding citizens strikes at the fundamental Second Amendment rights of all law-abiding Americans, votes on this amendment will be used in our future candidate ratings and evaluations. For more information on this issue, please call NRA Federal Affairs at (202) 651-2560.
Stop Gun Confiscation in Citizens’ Hour of Need
The National Rifle Association Urges You to Vote for the Vitter Amendment.
The Fifty Caliber Institute (FCI) supports this bill and is asking the entire fifty caliber community to get involved to pass this much needed amendment along with the appropriations bill. For more info go to the FCI web site at:
www.fiftycal.org.
Her letter is couched more as an effort at 'arm twisting' US Customs and Border
Patrol into establishing a policy statement on an issue they would never had contemplated.
In the past Senator Feinstein and her anti-gun crowd have been frustrated by
agencies in the federal government not supporting her outrageous comments and
claims about the dangers of law abiding citizens owning the 50 BMG. FCI has
consistently pointed out to law makers across the country that no federal
agency involved in any aspect of the threat against terrorism has singled
out any firearm as a "threat to national security" and has carefully
refuted her claims and exaggerations.
FCI wants to inform everyone about this latest attack on your right to own firearms.
Don't be fooled by Senator Feinstein's charade of words. She is intent on disarming
you of every firearm you own. Her using the smoke screen of the 'secure our borders'
issue is ludicrous, because it has been politicians like her who have created the
problem in the first place and allowed our border patrol agents to now be in
harm's way. For her position on that issue alone she needs to be fired.
Write to your own US Senator asking them to write their own letters to the
US Border Patrol and for them to focus on the real issue of how best to
secure America's borders and to not support the anti-gun agenda of
politicians like Dianne Feinstein.
