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GreyGeek:
I  just got the following email from the GOA:

Sen. Reid Beefs up “Base Bill” to
Destroy Gun Ownership
"Unholy alliances" could become a concern
We now know a lot more about what's going to happen with gun control legislation than we did a few days ago.

First, the number of the bill we are fighting is S. 649. Harry Reid introduced it on Thursday and brought it directly onto the Senate calendar. This means the bill can now come up at any time — probably soon after the Easter recess is over.

Second, the bill is a lot worse than even we anticipated.

We expected it to contain the Veterans Gun Ban, which would mean that you would sell, gift, or raffle a gun in America at the risk of a 15-year prison sentence because of something you didn't know about the veteran/buyer.

But, surprisingly to us, the Far Left has convinced Reid to include the original Schumer version of the Universal Registry Bill. This would ban private sales of firearms, unless purchasers first get the permission from the government. If Senators can pass this de facto registration bill, they will be well on the way to confiscation (see, for example, Governor Andrew Cuomo in New York, who has a gun owner registry and has called for gun confiscation). If this bill is passed, Senators will claim that they "broke the back" of gun owners in America.

Third, there is still every evidence that Reid will move to proceed to the bill under "regular order," which means he will need 60 votes to advance to the "gun control buffet."

GOA has been talking and making our case with a host of Senate Republicans, and we would hope that everyone in the Senate understands the importance of stopping the "motion to proceed" to Reid's gun control legislation.

Fourth, as we predicted, anti-gun zealots have begun to use the "ObamaCare Paradigm" to threaten, bribe, and coerce senators into submission on the most far-reaching aspects of gun control, including Feinstein's proposal to ban shotguns, rifles and handguns that millions of Americans legally own. So if the "motion to proceed" to S. 649 is adopted with 60 votes, then Feinstein's ban could be passed in the Senate with only 50 votes (plus Biden). Click here for a more technical explanation as to how this would occur.

Already, articles are being published to intimidate any Democratic Senator who votes against any gun control and threatening them with the prospect of facing an anti-gun primary challenger — just like we saw on ObamaCare.

Fifth, there may be unholy alliances at work which could succeed in achieving a dangerous gun control compromise. One Capitol Hill newspaper is now reporting that "Sen. Joe Manchin and the National Rifle Association are quietly engaged in private talks on a proposal to broaden background checks on purchasers of firearms." We hope this is not true, however you should be aware of this report and use whatever contacts you have to prevent this from happening. Be assured, you can rely on Gun Owners of America to never engage in any compromises!

ACTION: The strategy remains: We need to defeat this bill by filibustering and voting down the "motion to proceed" to S. 649. Please contact your senators and distribute this alert far and wide.

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Show up at their offices with a delegation during the congressional recess. Rally and conduct demonstrations and call-a-thons and writing campaigns. Know that the anti-gun Left will be doing the same.

farmerbob:
My E-mails are on the way.

GreyGeek:
We often refer to many  of the anti-Constitution crowd as "Far Left".   This makes them sound less dangerous than they are.  They may claim to love freedom, individualism, small government and support for the Constitution... until they vote.   The vote against freedom, for group think, bigger government and against the liberties expressed in the Constitution.

The "Far Left" are Marxists, plain and simple.  In Congress they hide their true allegiance behind their favorite designation "progressive", which implies that everyone else is regressive.  There are 88 of them in the Congressional Progressive Caucus.   Their aim is to nationalize all infrastructure and the means of production and distribution.  They've said so repeatedly, mostly in private but sometimes they blurt it out:

That explains why they are so adamant against the 2A AND the Constitution in general, and everything they do focuses on increasing the number of Americans who are dependent on government handouts or are employed (thus controlled) by the government.

They believe that most Americans are "not smart enough" to understand the issues, but they are the ones who have been flooding the schools with political correctness and turning TV into a wasteland of Socialist propaganda masquerading as "entertainment", always ridiculing God, County and the  Constitution.    Marxist always carry an air of superiority about them, they are always condescending and self-righteous.  Their favorite weapon is ridicule, especially when they have no valid arguments to responses that defeat their arguments.  Their hand book is Saul D Alinksky's "Rules For Radicals".

The Marxists hijacked the Democrat party in Chicago in 1968, the year I graduated from grad  school.  I remember it well.  They've infiltrated the Republican party, creating a large number of RINOs, who  are easily detected by their votes infringing the 2A.

Many Americans, like myself, are disgusted at the lobbying abuse by corporations and want it to stop.  Marxists want to use that situation to destroy both the corporations and our Constitutional government.

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