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<blockquote data-quote="sanjuro893" data-source="post: 1884686" data-attributes="member: 4491"><p>I don't know. If these articles are right, we may have a dog in this fight after all.</p><p><a href="http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ccrkba-encouraged-by-pro-second-amendment-republican-platform-167754585.html" target="_blank">http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ccrkba-encouraged-by-pro-second-amendment-republican-platform-167754585.html</a></p><p><a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/gop-set-to-ok-most-pro-gun-platform-ever/article/2506043#.UD6ANGHd6So" target="_blank">http://washingtonexaminer.com/gop-set-to-ok-most-pro-gun-platform-ever/article/2506043#.UD6ANGHd6So</a></p><p></p><p>!st article:</p><p>BELLEVUE, Wash., Aug. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is "encouraged by the strong pro-gun rights platform" put forth at the Republican National Convention in Tampa.</p><p></p><p>"This is the strongest pro-gun rights platform I've ever seen," said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb, who was in Florida this week.</p><p></p><p>The platform includes language supporting the "law-abiding citizens' God-given right of self-defense," and national concealed carry reciprocity. It opposes revival of a ban on so-called "assault weapons" and normal ammunition magazines, and it also takes a swipe at the Justice Department over Operation Fast and Furious.</p><p></p><p>"This is strong stuff that squarely puts the GOP behind, ahead of and alongside every one of this nation's millions of law-abiding gun owners," Gottlieb noted. "I was delighted to see such a bold position put forth because it clearly provides a contrast between those who offer lip service to the Second Amendment, and those who live by it."</p><p></p><p>The Republican platform also supports gun owner privacy with language supporting "the right to obtain and store ammunition without registration."</p><p></p><p>"I think it is important to American gun owners that, even in the wake of the tragedy in Colorado, and the soaring homicide rate in Rahm Emanuel's Chicago that the GOP platform framers can intelligently separate the acts of criminals from the civil rights of peaceable citizens," Gottlieb stated. "Others would dredge up cliche-ridden programs that have been demonstrable failures, and that punish law-abiding citizens for the acts of social losers, thugs and lunatics.</p><p></p><p>"The Republican platform does none of that," he concluded. "It is clear that this platform language was crafted by people who understand that the rights of law-abiding gun owners should be expanded not eroded. Their platform recognizes gun owners as first-class Americans, not second-rate citizens."</p><p></p><p>With more than 650,000 members and supporters nationwide, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (<a href="http://www.ccrkba.org" target="_blank">www.ccrkba.org</a>) is one of the nation's premier gun rights organizations. As a non-profit organization, the Citizens Committee is dedicated to preserving firearms freedoms through active lobbying of elected officials and facilitating grass-roots organization of gun rights activists in local communities throughout the United States.</p><p></p><p>SOURCE Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms</p><p></p><p>PR Newswire (<a href="http://s.tt/1lX1N" target="_blank">http://s.tt/1lX1N</a>)</p><p></p><p>2nd article:</p><p>TAMPA, Fla. - Delegates to the Republican National Convention on Tuesday will approve the most pro-gun platform ever, staking out support for national concealed carry reciprocity and opposing domestic restrictions on ammunition and United Nations interference in gun sales.</p><p></p><p>"It's probably the most supportive and detailed on Second Amendment issues ever," said a gun-rights advocate who attended the GOP platform committee meetings last week.</p><p></p><p>Besides giving the National Rifle Association and other Second Amendment groups victories on their issues, the platform is also a slap at several Obama initiatives, including the Fast & Furious scandal, his administration's consideration of a ban on high-capacity bullet magazines and talk of reviving the assault weapons ban and negotiations in the United Nations over a treaty to regulate small arms sales.</p><p></p><p>Leading the changes from prior GOP platforms was a sentence backing the use of deadly force for self-defense. The added sentence reads: "We acknowledge, support and defend law-abiding citizens' God-given right of self-defense."</p><p></p><p>Also added was language opposing restrictions on ammo purchases and supporting the right of those with state-issued concealed carry permits to cross state lines.</p><p></p><p>In the section calling on Americans to handle guns safely, the GOP platform adds: "this also includes the right to obtain and store ammunition without registration. We support the fundamental right to self-defense wherever a law-abiding citizen has a legal right to be, and we support federal legislation that would expand the exercise of that right by allowing those with state-issued carry permits to carry firearms in any state that issues such permits to its own residents."</p><p></p><p>The GOP took advantage in their platform to slap Attorney General Eric Holder and his refusal to dish out more documents on the Fast & Furious gun scandal on the border with Mexico which prompted the U.S. House to rebuke him.</p><p></p><p>In that section of the platform, delegates added, "We condemn the reckless actions associated with the operation known as 'Fast and Furious,' conducted by the Department of Justice, which resulted in the murder of a U.S. Border Patrol agent and others on both sides of the border. We applaud Members of the U.S. House of Representatives in holding the administration's attorney general in contempt of Congress for his refusal to cooperate with their investigation into that debacle. We oppose the improper collection of firearms sales information in the four southern border states, which was imposed without congressional authority."</p><p></p><p>And the post-Batman shooting in Colorado, which has prompted a renewed interest in gun control and reviving the Clinton-era assault weapons ban, played a role in strengthening the GOP's opposition to a gun ban. The language added reads, "We oppose legislation that is intended to restrict our Second Amendment rights by limiting the capacity of clips or magazines, or otherwise revising the ill-considered Clinton gun ban."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sanjuro893, post: 1884686, member: 4491"] I don't know. If these articles are right, we may have a dog in this fight after all. [url]http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ccrkba-encouraged-by-pro-second-amendment-republican-platform-167754585.html[/url] [url]http://washingtonexaminer.com/gop-set-to-ok-most-pro-gun-platform-ever/article/2506043#.UD6ANGHd6So[/url] !st article: BELLEVUE, Wash., Aug. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is "encouraged by the strong pro-gun rights platform" put forth at the Republican National Convention in Tampa. "This is the strongest pro-gun rights platform I've ever seen," said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb, who was in Florida this week. The platform includes language supporting the "law-abiding citizens' God-given right of self-defense," and national concealed carry reciprocity. It opposes revival of a ban on so-called "assault weapons" and normal ammunition magazines, and it also takes a swipe at the Justice Department over Operation Fast and Furious. "This is strong stuff that squarely puts the GOP behind, ahead of and alongside every one of this nation's millions of law-abiding gun owners," Gottlieb noted. "I was delighted to see such a bold position put forth because it clearly provides a contrast between those who offer lip service to the Second Amendment, and those who live by it." The Republican platform also supports gun owner privacy with language supporting "the right to obtain and store ammunition without registration." "I think it is important to American gun owners that, even in the wake of the tragedy in Colorado, and the soaring homicide rate in Rahm Emanuel's Chicago that the GOP platform framers can intelligently separate the acts of criminals from the civil rights of peaceable citizens," Gottlieb stated. "Others would dredge up cliche-ridden programs that have been demonstrable failures, and that punish law-abiding citizens for the acts of social losers, thugs and lunatics. "The Republican platform does none of that," he concluded. "It is clear that this platform language was crafted by people who understand that the rights of law-abiding gun owners should be expanded not eroded. Their platform recognizes gun owners as first-class Americans, not second-rate citizens." With more than 650,000 members and supporters nationwide, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms ([url]www.ccrkba.org[/url]) is one of the nation's premier gun rights organizations. As a non-profit organization, the Citizens Committee is dedicated to preserving firearms freedoms through active lobbying of elected officials and facilitating grass-roots organization of gun rights activists in local communities throughout the United States. SOURCE Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms PR Newswire ([url]http://s.tt/1lX1N[/url]) 2nd article: TAMPA, Fla. - Delegates to the Republican National Convention on Tuesday will approve the most pro-gun platform ever, staking out support for national concealed carry reciprocity and opposing domestic restrictions on ammunition and United Nations interference in gun sales. "It's probably the most supportive and detailed on Second Amendment issues ever," said a gun-rights advocate who attended the GOP platform committee meetings last week. Besides giving the National Rifle Association and other Second Amendment groups victories on their issues, the platform is also a slap at several Obama initiatives, including the Fast & Furious scandal, his administration's consideration of a ban on high-capacity bullet magazines and talk of reviving the assault weapons ban and negotiations in the United Nations over a treaty to regulate small arms sales. Leading the changes from prior GOP platforms was a sentence backing the use of deadly force for self-defense. The added sentence reads: "We acknowledge, support and defend law-abiding citizens' God-given right of self-defense." Also added was language opposing restrictions on ammo purchases and supporting the right of those with state-issued concealed carry permits to cross state lines. In the section calling on Americans to handle guns safely, the GOP platform adds: "this also includes the right to obtain and store ammunition without registration. We support the fundamental right to self-defense wherever a law-abiding citizen has a legal right to be, and we support federal legislation that would expand the exercise of that right by allowing those with state-issued carry permits to carry firearms in any state that issues such permits to its own residents." The GOP took advantage in their platform to slap Attorney General Eric Holder and his refusal to dish out more documents on the Fast & Furious gun scandal on the border with Mexico which prompted the U.S. House to rebuke him. In that section of the platform, delegates added, "We condemn the reckless actions associated with the operation known as 'Fast and Furious,' conducted by the Department of Justice, which resulted in the murder of a U.S. Border Patrol agent and others on both sides of the border. We applaud Members of the U.S. House of Representatives in holding the administration's attorney general in contempt of Congress for his refusal to cooperate with their investigation into that debacle. We oppose the improper collection of firearms sales information in the four southern border states, which was imposed without congressional authority." And the post-Batman shooting in Colorado, which has prompted a renewed interest in gun control and reviving the Clinton-era assault weapons ban, played a role in strengthening the GOP's opposition to a gun ban. The language added reads, "We oppose legislation that is intended to restrict our Second Amendment rights by limiting the capacity of clips or magazines, or otherwise revising the ill-considered Clinton gun ban." [/QUOTE]
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