GOA Action Alert

[hammAR]

Friday, September 7, 2007

Senator David Vitter (R-LA) pushed a pro-gun amendment through the
U.S. Senate last night on an 81-10 vote. GOA worked closely with
Vitter in getting the language just right, as Senate rules make it
difficult to attach certain amendments to spending bills.

The Vitter provision stipulates that no U.S. funds can be used by the
United Nations -- or organizations affiliated with the UN -- to
restrict or tax our gun rights. Hence, the amendment would give a
mildly pro-gun administration the excuse to stop sending US taxpayer
funds to the United Nations as soon as they adopt any policy to
restrict the Second Amendment rights of Americans. (The Vitter
amendment was added to HR 2764, the Department of State
appropriations bill.)

Interestingly, four of the Senators who opposed the pro-gun Vitter
amendment ALSO spoke in favor of the Veterans Disarmament Act during
a committee vote in July -- Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL), Dianne
Feinstein (D-CA), Ted Kennedy (D-MA) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY).

All four of these notoriously anti-gun Senators have now demonstrated
their support for INTERNATIONAL GUN CONTROL, even while they support
the Veterans Disarmament Bill here at home. The latter bill only has
a number in the House (HR 2640). This measure has been introduced by
the equally anti-gun Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY), and will expand
the Brady Law to deny firearms to hundreds of thousands of
law-abiding Americans. See http://www.gunowners.org/netb.htm for
more information on the Veterans Disarmament Bill.

ACTION: Please send Sen. Vitter a brief thank you for all the work
he has done for gun owners nationwide. You will remember that last
year, he succeeded in getting language passed (and signed by the
President) to ban the confiscation of firearms during a declared
emergency.

You can use the "Compose Your Own Letter" option at
http://capwiz.com/gunowners/mail/?id=69 ... O&state=LA to send a
message such as the one below to Senator Vitter.

Or, his fax number is 202-228-5061.

----- Pre-written letter -----

Dear Senator Vitter:

Thank you so much for your efforts to defend the U.S. Constitution
and the Second Amendment in particular. I agree that the United
Nations is filled with tons of gun-grabbing tyrants, and your
amendment is a great first step towards doing something about it.

Please keep up the good work!

Sincerely,

[Srigs]

Interesting bill. I wonder if it will make any difference but very good just the same.

[nyffman]

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&session=1&vote=00325

From the US Senate web page on voting records, it passsed 81 to 12 with 7 not voting. Both Coleman and Klobuchar voted for the actual bill. It looks like a very large, complicated bill dealing with funding. I would like to know how our Senators voted on that particular ammendment but haven't found that yet.

[hammAR]

Thanks for the followup.......................

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