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Dec 23, 2022 12 tweets 7 min read Read on X
1️- Massive 14.1% ATF Budget Increase to Facilitate Biden’s Pistol Ban

By the time this bill is passed, @ATFHQ will have increased by nearly 25% since the Trump Administration. This money rewards the Biden Administration's tyranny over gun owners. 😠
2️- 50% Budget Increase for ATF’s Tracing Center that Maintains an Illegal Near-Billion Record Gun Registry

18 U.S.C. 926(a)(3) makes federal gun registration illegal yet @ATFHQ has nearly a billion firearms, serial numbers, & gun owners names in a digital searchable database🤔
3️- $700+ Million in Funding Available to Bribe States to Pass “Red Flag” Gun Confiscation Laws

A MASSIVE pool of grant money known as Byrne-Justice Assistance Grants are now available to fund state gun confiscation laws.

Thank @JohnCornyn for this #guncontrol!
4️- Directing VA Medical Centers to Utilize Confiscation Orders on Vulnerable Veterans

Vets deserve the best care our nation has to offer, not #gunconfiscation for going to the doctor! This will only serve to discourage veterans from going to get the care they need 😔
5️- Department of Education to Push “Safe Storage” of Parents’ Firearms

It is no ones business how a parent chooses to setup for home defense. It's certainly no business of @usedgov

Gun owners need ready access to firearms to defend their families from home invasions! 🛡️
6️ - Funding for @DeptVetAffairs to Maintain “Gun Storage Maps” to Keep Tabs on Where Veterans Keep Guns

So-called "safe storage" laws lead to outrageous invasions of privacy like this. Now, VA will keep MAPS of where vets keep their GUNS in their own HOME! 🏠
7️ - New Annual Compensation for Families of Deceased ATF Agents...

... could this be an indication of upcoming gun confiscation?🤔
8️- Gun Control Earmarks for “Orchid Healing Circles” and More!

Check out the MILLIONS in pork spending in this bill JUST for anti-gun Members of Congress' #guncontrol pet projects 🤯
9️- Dickey Violations Galore While CDC Suppresses Self-Defense Statistics

Get ready for more biased statistics for anti-gunners to use to support #guncontrol all while @CDCgov censors defensive gun use research that strongly supports the #SecondAmendment from its website 🗑️🔥
🔟- Programs Discouraging Women from Exercising their Second Amendment Rights

Even the name of this program blames guns not domestic abusers. If Congress wanted to help domestic violence victims, we would empower them to exercise their #SecondAmendment right to #selfdefense! 🏋️‍♀️
1️1️- Anti-Gun “Community Violence Intervention” Initiatives

@EricAdamsforNYC used these funds to “rebuild [NYC’s] anti-gun unit.” Who knows what your local anti-gunner has in store for your community with these grants! 👮
1️2️- “Violent Anti-Government Ideology” & “Domestic Radicalization Research”

The 2A was written to protect the right to keep & bear arms against infringement by a tyrannical government & empowers gun owners to resist tyranny. Perhaps lawmakers need a text & history lesson!

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Feb 10, 2023
Why is @LinkedIn censoring ME over MY OWN QUOTE from the front page of @FoxNews this morning? What about ANY of it is misinformation? Big tech is out of control attacking & censoring @GunOwners!🤬

#SecondAmendment #WeAreNoCompromise #Censorship #BigTech #Section230
Here is @ATFHQ's internal "Zero Tolerance" manual they are using to drive as many gun stores out of business as possible⤵️
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And here is @ATFHQ admitting they have 920,664,765 out-of-business records in a database⤵️
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Feb 8, 2023
The federal gun ban for #marijuana users is absurdly unconstitutional considering the legality & decriminalization of both medical & recreational marijuana at the state level

No one should go to jail for engaging in lawful activity & also choosing to exercise their #2A rights
Similarly, the lifetime gun ban for "domestic abusers" is problematic as a ban on the right to self-defense for those who have only been convicted of a misdemeanor

In America, you don't lose your right to vote, serve on a jury, etc. for a misdemeanor. That's how we punish felons
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Sep 20, 2022
ICYMI: The lawsuit challenging @ATFHQ's permanent Form 4473 record-keeping requirement (illegal gun registry expansion) is @GunOwners challenge of @ATFHQ's "Frame or Reciever" Rule
Among other arguments, we point out that 18 U.S.C. 926(a)(3) explicitly states that @TheJusticeDept cannot implement a rule that requires (more) firearm transaction records be kept on a government facility.
A broader challenge against the entire record-keeping system is certainly needed, but Congress also bears the ultimate responsibility in eliminating the registry they helped fund.

Read 4 tweets
Sep 19, 2022
⚠️AMMUNITION BACKGROUND CHECKS using @FBI's NICS system is to be studied in @USGAO's FY 2023 appropriations unless gun owners tell Congress "NO!"

Call your Rep @ (202) 224-3121

🧵Background checks are dangerous, unconstitutional, and ineffective. Learn more⤵️
The House Report accompanying H.R. 8256 includes a GAO study on “Ammunition Background Checks.” Within one year, @USGAO office will submit a report detailing the following: (1/5)
1️⃣@USGAO to study: “[H]ow best to implement a requirement that background checks be conducted for all ammunition sales, including sales by Federal firearms licensees and private sellers;” (2/5)
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Sep 19, 2022
🚨@HouseDemocrats are proposing a 13% ATF increase to pay for:

📝"Amnesty Registration"
🖥️Gun registry upgrades
✔️Ammunition Background Checks plan
🤨Annual pay for ATF agents & family if killed or seriously injured on the job

GOA is fighting back! ⤵️
To facilitate its gun registration schemes, @ATFHQ has requested a 13% budgetary increase , including $14,400,000 to “modernize” the National Tracing Center (NTC), which is the branch that maintains, accesses, and searches ATF’s digital, searchable, gun registries
This funding, which is provided in H.R. 8256, “[i]ncreases by more than 40% the funding for the National Tracing Center.” @ATFHQ is transparent with exactly how the system will be monetized:
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Jul 12, 2022
🧵Gun Owners of America will be scoring any votes in favor of Steve Dettelbach’s confirmation to the role of ATF Director as anti-gun votes. Here's why ⤵️
At his confirmation hearing, Steve Dettelbach claimed that “politics can play no role in law enforcement.” However, Dettelbach’s past actions give this statement no credibility, and indeed suggest the opposite.
As a US Attorney, Dettelbach wrote an op-ed calling for gun control. At his hearing, he defended such behavior as ethical and indicated he would do it again if confirmed.
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