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.
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! 🏋️♀️
@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! 👮
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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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.
⚠️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)
🚨@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:
🧵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.
"[n]ew and pending permit applications for the permanent importation of firearms & ammunition manufactured or located in Russia will be subject to a policy of denial."
ICYMI: @Rep_Clyde & @RepTedBudd ROASTED @ATFHQ for the new "proposed rules," which are actually gun control by executive fiat
Reps. Clyde & Budd are the only Federal Firearms License holders (FFLs) in Congress! Check out their letter in defense of YOUR #SecondAmendment rights!⤵
"As federal firearm licensees turned Members of Congress, we see right through @ATFHQ's CHARADE to chip away at the #SecondAmendment & unilaterally expand its own influence and authority.
"We urge you to reverse course immediately. (1/7)
"It was Congress that defined the term 'firearm' in statute, not @ATFHQ
"But the ATF, through executive overreach, is positioning itself to blatantly usurp Congress's legislative authority by proposing broad & arbitrary definitions of industry terms[!] (2/7)