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U.S. House Rejects Attack On Ashcroft & Privacy Of Gun Buyers
In a bipartisan vote of 268-161, the U.S. House of
Representatives defeated an attempt by anti-gun Representative
Jim Moran (D-Va.) - joined by gun-ban extremists Reps. Carolyn
McCarthy (D-N.Y.) and Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) - to invade the
privacy rights of law-abiding gun owners.
Moran introduced an
amendment that sought to give the FBI authority to retain records
of law-abiding gun purchasers for at least 90 days, a policy the
Clinton/Reno Department of Justice (DOJ) had attempted to make
permanent with a last-minute regulation. Fortunately, Attorney
General John Ashcroft's recent proposal to reform and improve the
operation of the National Instant Criminal
Background Check
System (NICS) included a call to slash the amount of time allowed
to keep records on law-abiding citizens that are generated by
NICS to less than one day.
NRA-ILA Executive Director James Jay Baker said, "On behalf of
the NRA's more than 4.4 million members, I am pleased to see that
the U.S. House voted in support of maintaining the privacy of our
citizens. While the Attorney General's proposal is an effort to
protect the rights of law-abiding citizens, Rep. Moran's
intentions were to further restrict those rights.... Our members
are very pleased with the outcome of the bipartisan, overwhelming
defeat of the Moran amendment."
Take the time to thank those U.S. Representatives who voted
against the Moran amendment, and protected the privacy of
law-abiding gun owners. And if your Representative voted against
privacy and for the Moran amendment, be sure to voice your
objection. To find out how your U.S. Representative voted on the
Moran amendment, you can call the NRA-ILA Grassroots Division at
1-800-392-8683. For those on the Internet, you can
click here.
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