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Trying this again--Gun Appreciation Day?

Posted: Jan 8, 2013

Do we really want such a thing? If this catches on, I don't want to hear a single complaint about Black History Month ever. again.

Oh, they have a website: http://gunappreciationday.com/

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i don't think so [want such a thing]. It's a bit ridiculous - backwards typist

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The paragraph about Joe Biden meeting with people about new laws...well, I spent part of yesterday and today looking up gun control bills. I found more than expected, some from 2011 that are still sitting in some committee, so Congress has been working on gun control laws since Gabby Gifford's shooting. Some are so strict, you'd be breaking the law if you even looked at a gun.

There are a lot more than what I'm listing. I just ran out of time. I know I saw Dianne Feinstein's bill and a few others yesterday but failed to mark the number's down.

A few are:
H.R. 6680: Blair Holt's Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2012 (whoa, a new one!)

H.R. 591: Gun Show Loophole Closing Act of 2011

H.R. 6725: NRA Members Gun Safety Act of 2012.

H.R. 1093: Bureau of ATF Reform Act of 2011,

Then I got lazy and just did this: S.32,S.34,S.35 (don't even know what these were for anymore).

Then there's H.R. 2252: Citzen's Self-Defense Act of 2011.

I don't know how anyone keeps the bills straight - RC

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I can't imagine having to look every single one of them up and looking for the creative language often used to get around something.

What I would like to see, at least, is a law that requires gun shows to have the same regulations as gun stores do.

a completely reasonable step, IMO - nm

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I think that's what the legal eagle assistants are for. - backwards typist

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I'm not sure but I think they're the ones who create the language of the bills. The Rep or Senator lays the groundwork and the legal eagles take it from there.

H.R. 591 is the gun show bill and a few others also have something in them on the gun shows. Just have to wade through slowly. At least most of them aren't thousands of pages. LOL

I, for one, don't find it particularly necessary - sm

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What I do find it to be, particularly, is shockingly tone-deaf, extremely disrespectful, and so self-serving as to be inane.

I fervently hope that the many responsible gun owners out there find this kind of chest beating intolerable and seek change withint the NRA.

A new CEO might help. - RC

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The Institute for Legislative Action (ILA) is the lobbying arm of the National Rifle Association of America.[21]

Members of Congress have ranked the NRA as the most powerful lobbying organization in the country several years in a row.[4] Opponents of the organization accuse it of unduly influencing political appointments.[22] Chris W. Cox is the NRA's chief lobbyist and principal political strategist, a position he has held since 2002.

During the 2008 presidential campaign, the NRA spent $10 million.[23] In 2011, the organization refused an offer to discuss gun control with U.S. President Barack Obama. In response to the invitation, NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre said "Why should I or the N.R.A. go sit down with a group of people that have spent a lifetime trying to destroy the Second Amendment in the United States?" In his statement, LaPierre named Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder (both Democrats) as examples of the "people" he referred to.[24]

Eight U.S. Presidents have been NRA members. They are Ulysses S. Grant, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Richard M. Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush.[25] Nixon disavowed his "Honorary Life Membership" in 1969, and Bush resigned his in 1995 in the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing, after LaPierre referred to federal law enforcement agents as "jack-booted thugs" and compared them to the Nazis.[26][27]

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