"Don't faint, but the National Rifle Association and the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence have joined forces behind a bill regulating the sale of firearms."
—Gun reform with NRA blessing,
Denver Post, June 17, 2007
September 18, 2007
QUOTES PROVE THE NRA'S EXPANSION OF INSTANT CHECK IS GUN CONTROL 
Two days ago we alerted you that the congress will be voting on HR 2640, the bill expanding the federal Instant Check gun control scheme. We told you the truth about who was pushing the bill -- the Brady Campaign, Sarah Brady, and a whole host of leftist liberals like Carolyn McCarthy, Chuck Schumer and John Dingell, to name just a few.
But the most shocking co-conspirator behind this -- and the real people responsible for forcing us to deal with this draconian legislation -- are National Rifle Association leaders who are working in lockstep with these notorious Democrat anti-gunners. While we believe most NRA members are staunch no-compromise gun rights activists, it appears NRA leadership is following a different agenda.
In the September 2007 issue of American Rifleman, page 14, in an article entitled "Clearing the Air on the Instant Check Bill," NRA leadership insulted everyone's intelligence when they attempted to re-package the bill as good for gun owners, as an "improvement," and as -- allegedly -- 'not gun control.'
But here are the facts proving that everyone including the most ardent anti-gunners in Congress KNOW the bill is an expansion of federal gun control and may be the most dangerous assault against the Second Amendment since the Clinton Assault Weapons Ban.
NRA leadership MUST kill the bill or forever own the consequences of its tragic passage.
Here's what people are saying about this legislation -- compiled courtesy of our friends at the National Association for Gun Rights (NAGR).
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"In a deal brokered by former NRA-board member Rep. John Dingell (D-MI) and blessed by the National Rifle Association, a bill introduced earlier this year by gun control advocate Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) to improve the NICS was modified at the last minute and passed by the House with much fanfare and little outside analysis."
--Josh Sugarmann, "Mental Health Gun Bill Has Hidden Problems," The
Huffington Post, July 26, 2007
"With the NRA on board, the bill, which fixes flaws in the national gun background check system that allowed the Virginia Tech shooter to buy guns despite his mental health problems, has a good chance of becoming the first major gun control law in more than a decade."
--"NRA, Democrats Team Up To Pass Gun Bill", www.cbsnews.com, June 13, 2007
""We'll work with anyone, if you protect the rights of law-abiding people under the second amendment and you target people that shouldn't have guns," NRA chief Wayne LaPierre told CBS News Correspondent Sharyl Atkisson."
--"NRA, Democrats Team Up To Pass Gun Bill", www.cbsnews.com, June 13, 2007
""When the NRA and I agree on legislation, you know that it's going to get through, become law and do some good," says Schumer."
--"NRA, Democrats Team Up To Pass Gun Bill", www.cbsnews.com, June 13, 2007
"(The Politico) On the day President Bush is set to receive a report on April's deadly Virginia Tech shooting, Congress took steps to pass the first piece of federal gun control legislation in 13 years."
--Patrick O'Connor, "Schumer Predicts Smooth Senate Sailing For Gun Bill,"
The Politico, June 13, 2007
""I came to Congress in 1997 in the wake of my own personal tragedy," she said. "Today.we are one step closer to reducing the needless deaths from gun violence."" (Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-N.Y.))
--Patrick O'Connor, "Schumer Predicts Smooth Senate Sailing For Gun Bill,"
The Politico, June 13, 2007
"The NRA is the nation's largest gun-rights group. But its support for the new bill actually reflects the NRA's long-standing belief that existing gun laws should be enforced before new ones are written. That's exactly what the McCarthy/ Smith/Dingell bill would do.
--"Gun reform with NRA blessing," The Denver Post, June 17, 2007
"Also pending in Congress is a Gun Show Loophole Closing Act of 2007, geared to require criminal-background checks for all firearm transactions at events where guns change hands." "This has drawn criticism from groups such as the National Rifle Association-Institute for Legislative Action, which said the measure "masquerades as reform - imposing bureaucratic restrictions aimed at shutting down gun shows - without fixing real problems." The NRA, however, has supported some of the proposed federal changes."
--Anna M. Tinsley, "Gun control back as national issue," The Seattle Times,
August 16, 2007
"The difference is that the NRA endorsed the background check improvements, boosting its chances of becoming the first major national gun control law in more than a decade."
--Andrew Taylor of Associated Press, "NRA Challenges Gun-Control Democrats,"
www.ABCNews.com, June 27, 2007
"The House voted Wednesday to fix flaws in the national gun background check system that allowed the Virginia Tech shooter to buy guns despite his mental health problems. The legislation, passed by voice vote, was endorsed by the National Rifle Association, boosting its chances of becoming the first major gun control law in more than a decade."
--Jim Abrams, Associated Press, "House Tempers Background Checks for Guns,"
www.ABCNews.com, June 14, 2007
"The NRA worked closely with Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., a gun rights proponent and senior House member, in crafting the new bill. The NRA insisted it was not gun control legislation because it does nothing to restrict legal rights to buy guns."
--Jim Abrams, Associated Press, "House Tempers Background Checks for Guns,"
www.ABCNews.com, June 14, 2007
"Senior Democrats have reached agreement with the National Rifle Association on what could be the first federal gun-control legislation since 1994, a measure to significantly strengthen the national system that checks the backgrounds of gun buyers."
--Jonathan Weisman, "Democrats, NRA Reach Deal on Background-Check Bill,"
Washington Post, Sunday, June 10, 2007; Page A02
"By contrast, this agreement is a marriage of convenience for both sides. Democratic leaders are eager to show that they can respond legislatively to the Virginia Tech rampage, a feat that GOP leaders would not muster after the 1999 shootings at Columbine High School in Colorado. Meanwhile, the NRA was motivated to show it would not stand in the way of a bill that would not harm law-abiding gun buyers."
--Jonathan Weisman, "Democrats, NRA Reach Deal on Background-Check Bill,"
Washington Post, Sunday, June 10, 2007; Page A02
"Now in her fifth term, McCarthy can see the light. Spurred by the massacre of 32 people by a gunman at Virginia Tech in April -- and in a rare collaboration with the National Rifle Association -- the House passed legislation that would provide money for states to collect and maintain records on the mentally ill, with penalties if states don't comply."
--Lois Romano, "A Long-Sought Advance for a Gun-Control Bid Born of Sorrow",
The Washington Post, Jun 14, 2007, A.25
"McCarthy said the bill in essence enforces a 1968 gun-control measure that prohibits the sale of firearms to those adjudicated as mentally ill. She gives major credit to Rep. John D. Dingell (D-Mich.), a former NRA board member, for negotiating with the organization, because she was a bit wary."
--Lois Romano, "A Long-Sought Advance for a Gun-Control Bid Born of Sorrow",
The Washington Post, Jun 14, 2007, A.25
"The bill will now head to the Senate, where members seem confident it will pass, potentially making it the first new gun-control law in 13 years. "If I can't pass this bill now, I don't know what I'm doing here," she said" {Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy}
--Lois Romano, "A Long-Sought Advance for a Gun-Control Bid Born of Sorrow",
The Washington Post, Jun 14, 2007, A.25
"It took the blood of 32 young college students cut down by a gunman with mental problems and much more importantly the POLITICAL COVER provided by the NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION (NRA) to get congress to this point, but on Wednesday the HOUSE will finally debate and likely pass a GUN BILL. The bill is a far cry from the comprehensive gun control measures Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, D-N.Y., whose husband was slain and son severely injured during a New York Subway gun attack, has pushed for in the past, but when her turn comes to address the House, she will say, "I rise today in strong support of HR 2640."
--Tom Shine, "Politics As Usual", ABC News, June 13, 2007 11:00 AM
"House Democratic leaders are working with the National Rifle Association to bolster existing laws blocking mentally ill people from buying guns."
--JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS, Associated Press Writer, "Lawmakers, NRA Discuss
Background Checks," appeared on ABC News, Apr 20, 2007 (AP)
"Lacking support to enact strong new gun measures even after the Virginia Tech shootings, Democrats are instead resurrecting legislation, which has drawn broad bipartisan support and NRA backing, that would improve the national background check system."
--JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS, Associated Press Writer, "Lawmakers, NRA Discuss
Background Checks," appeared on ABC News, Apr 20, 2007 (AP)
"Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., a strong NRA ally who has been a leading opponent of most gun control legislation, is negotiating with the group on the background-check bill."
--JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS, Associated Press Writer, "Lawmakers, NRA Discuss
Background Checks," appeared on ABC News, Apr 20, 2007 (AP)
"The legislation has spawned an unusual alliance between gun rights activists, who want background checks to be faster, and gun control advocates, who want them to be more accurate. Still, the NRA and some of its congressional allies are skittish about appearing to support any gun control measure in the wake of the Virginia Tech rampage."
--JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS, Associated Press Writer, "Lawmakers, NRA Discuss
Background Checks," appeared on ABC News, Apr 20, 2007 (AP)
""We have a potential opportunity to get something done that both sides have agreed (on) for a couple of years," said Peter Hamm, a Brady Campaign
spokesman."
--JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS, Associated Press Writer, "Lawmakers, NRA Discuss
Background Checks," appeared on ABC News, Apr 20, 2007 (AP)
"McCarthy told NEWSWEEK that she was pleasantly surprised to hear of the NRA's public position, noting that an executive of the Gun Owners of America had met with House Republicans this week to gin up opposition to her measure. "I have a feeling that this is their [the NRA's} way of showing they can be moderate," she said."
--Michael Isikoff of Newsweek, "Taking Aim at Mental Health Records", posted
on www.MSNBC.com, April 24, 2007
"A McCarthy aide said that when the congresswoman's staff members met with NRA lobbyists last January about her proposed measure, the NRA officials said they would not publicly support it unless language was added that would eliminate the existing ban on interstate purchases of firearms. No such language has been added, the aide said."
--Michael Isikoff of Newsweek, "Taking Aim at Mental Health Records", posted
on www.MSNBC.com, April 24, 2007
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