U.S. HOUSE DEFEATS ANTI-GUN AMENDMENTS

      Earlier this week, the House Appropriations Committee defeated three anti-gun amendments offered for the Treasury- Postal-General Operations (TPGO) Appropriations bill.

      The first, offered by Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), was a repeat of the Lautenberg gun show amendment passed by the U.S. Senate in May, and was defeated on a 35-24 vote. The Committee then defeated Rep. Nita Lowey's (D-N.Y.) attempt to offer the Hyde Magazine Import Ban amendment and Rep. Rosa DeLauro's (D-Conn.) attempt to attach the Davis "Safe Storage Device" amendment, both by 34-24 votes.

      Both the Hyde and Davis amendments had been attached to the House juvenile justice package individually, but were defeated along with all other firearm-related provisions on a bipartisan vote (See FAX Alert Vol. 6, No. 23).

Bonilla (R-TX)	Cunningham (R-CA)	Delay (R-TX)	Kingston (R-GA)	Tiahrt (R-KS)

      Our thanks go out to those who voted against these provisions, and especially to Reps. Henry Bonilla (R-Tex.), Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-Cal.), Tom Delay (R-Tex.), Jack Kingston (R-Ga.), and Todd Tiahrt (R-Kan.), who spoke out for the rights of law-abiding gun owners.

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