Open Congress : Blog Articles for H.R.2640 NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007

H.R.2640: Consumer Assistance to Recycle and ... - OpenCongress

2009-05-20T01:00:00Z

All Bill Titles. <li><em>Official:</em> To accelerate motor fuel savings nationwide and provide incentives to registered owners of high polluting automobiles to replace such automobiles with new fuel efficient and less polluting .... http

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Drugs and Oil: Tuesday - January 6th, 2009

2009-01-05T19:00:00Z

Arkansas Financial Development Authority; BCCI; Camp Bucca; Chemtrails; Coinage Act of 1792; Council of Economic Advisers; E. Howard Hunt; E85; Echelon; Francis Galton; H.R. 1955; H.R. 2640; H.R. 3605; H.R. 393; H5N1; Hjalmar Schacht ...

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Drugs and Oil: Monday - January 5th, 2008

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Drugs and Oil: Sunday - January 4th, 2009

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Drugs and Oil: Saturday - January 3rd, 2008

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Drugs and Oil: Friday - January 2nd, 2008

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Thursday October 18_Tourism_HOT001

2008-12-29T19:00:00Z

Because of his actions, the Veterans Disarmament Act (HR 2640 and S2084) has been stalled in the Senate for a few weeks. But not content to remain silent, Sen. Coburn sent a pointed letter to the Department of Veterans Affairs, ...

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Drugs and Oil: Tuesday - December 30th, 2008

2008-12-29T19:00:00Z

Common Sense Is So Rare, Itâ€™s a Super Power Â« Fragments of Memories

2008-12-25T19:00:00Z

... hoax (6), Hollywood (1), Home Depot (1), Homeland Security (3), Horus (1), HPV (1), HR 2640 (1), Human Papilloma Virus (1), Humanity (1), Hydrogen Peroxide (1), illuminati (6), Income tax (4), Internal Revenue Service (3), Iran (3) ...

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Drugs and Oil: Friday - December 26th, 2008

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Drugs and Oil: Christmas - December 25th, 2008

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Drugs and Oil: Wedensday - December 24th, 2008

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Drugs and Oil: Monday - December 22nd, 2008

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Drugs and Oil: Sunday - December 21st, 2008

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Drugs and Oil: Saturday - December 20th, 2008

2008-12-19T19:00:00Z

U.S. Constitutionalist: "...for GOD so loved the world" - video ...

2008-12-18T19:00:00Z

... health care (4); hillary clinton (20); Hillary Clinton gaffe (1); homeland security (2); homosexual agenda (19); housing bailout (14); Housing Bill (1); housing bubble (14); HR 1370 (1); HR 1955 (3); HR 2415 (2); HR 2640 (2) ...

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Drugs and Oil: Thursday - December 18th, 2008

2008-12-17T19:00:00Z

My perspective -- What Constance thinks: SARAH LESLIE WILL HOST MY ...

2008-12-16T19:00:00Z

With mandated psychiatric testing and the law HR 2640, commonly called The Veteran's Disarmament Act, prohibiting gun ownership by those with mental illness they could effect a very significant portion of the population in more ways ...

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U.S. Constitutionalist: MERRY CHRISTMAS

2008-12-16T19:00:00Z

Drugs and Oil: December 17th, 2008

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Drugs and Oil: Tuesday - December 16th, 2008

2008-12-15T19:00:00Z

Virginia Gun Owners Coalition

2008-12-14T19:00:00Z

â€œThose who hammer their guns into plowshares will plow for those who do not.â€* - Thomas Jefferson. Home · About · Contact Lawmakers · Donate · Join · Media · VGOC Newsletters. Sorry, no posts matched your

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U.S. Constitutionalist: Constitution vs. Barry Soetoro

2008-12-14T19:00:00Z

Drugs and Oil: Monday - December 15th, 2008

2008-12-14T19:00:00Z

U.S. Constitutionalist: U. S. Bill of Rights Day - Dec. 15

2008-12-13T19:00:00Z

U.S. Constitutionalist: CHUCK BALDWIN headlines Constitution Party ...

2008-12-11T19:00:00Z

Drugs and Oil: Thursday - December 11th, 2008

2008-12-10T19:00:00Z

U.S. Constitutionalist: FIAT MONEY = GREAT DEPRESSION

2008-12-09T19:00:00Z

... health care (3); hillary clinton (20); Hillary Clinton gaffe (1); homeland security (2); homosexual agenda (19); housing bailout (14); Housing Bill (1); housing bubble (14); HR 1370 (1); HR 1955 (3); HR 2415 (2); HR 2640 (2) ...

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U.S. Constitutionalist: Selective Constitutionalism

2008-12-09T19:00:00Z

Scott's Conservative LDS Blog: End of the Year Report

2008-12-08T19:00:00Z

Dangerous gun control bill in US Senate · HR 2640: Consider the source · â–º August (1). Joaquin Jackson Update · â–º June (1). Citizens Decree to the President of the United Sta... â–º April (1). Disarmed Victims in Virginia

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Stop the Seattle Gun Ban | Red Pills

2008-12-08T19:00:00Z

NRA lead gun owners to slaughter with HR 2640 · Barack Obama thinks gun owners are stupid; you are, if you vote for him · Ron Paul will not conduct a third party run for president · NRA-ILA Action Alert for Utah Senate Bill 67 ...

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Scott's Conservative LDS Blog: FW: AUSTRALIAN GUN LAW UPDATE

2008-12-08T19:00:00Z

Drugs and Oil: Tuesday - December 9th, 2008

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Scott's Conservative LDS Blog: Post election gun ban alert

2008-12-07T19:00:00Z

... NRA board member Nugent nukes gun control deal; Ve... Candidate Calculator · â–º September (3). AMNESTY RED ALERT! Call Now Oppose 'Bad' Dream Act... Dangerous gun control bill in US Senate · HR 2640: Consider the source ...

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Drugs and Oil: Monday - December 8th, 2008

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Drugs and Oil: Saturday - December 6th, 2008

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Scott's Conservative LDS Blog: A Special Offer for SAF Supporters

2008-12-04T19:00:00Z

Drugs and Oil: Friday - December 5th, 2008

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U.S. Constitutionalist: Indiana Planned Parenthood Covering Up ...

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Drugs and Oil: Thursday - December 4th, 2008

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U.S. Constitutionalist: Pardon the Border Guards

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Drugs and Oil: Tuesday - December 2nd, 2008

2008-12-01T19:00:00Z

My Recent Online Gun Control Conversation

2008-12-01T19:00:00Z

Check out the following: re: Congressional bill HR 2640; â€œIn 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 ...

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Drugs and Oil: Monday - December 1st, 2008

2008-11-30T19:00:00Z

U.S. Constitutionalist: Posse Comitatus Act to be abolished in fact

2008-11-30T19:00:00Z

U.S. Constitutionalist: Time to Follow Reagan's Example

2008-11-29T19:00:00Z

... health care (3); hillary clinton (20); Hillary Clinton gaffe (1); homeland security (1); homosexual agenda (19); housing bailout (14); Housing Bill (1); housing bubble (14); HR 1370 (1); HR 1955 (3); HR 2415 (2); HR 2640 (2) ...

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Drugs and Oil: Sunday - November 30th, 2008

2008-11-29T19:00:00Z

TitusOneNine - ABC News Nightline: Mentally ill Soldiers Put Back ...

2008-11-27T19:00:00Z

â€œKey Provisions of H.R. 2640. As a practical matter, the mental health disability is the only firearm disqualifier that can never be removed. Criminal records can be expunged or pardoned, but mental records cannot.â€* ...

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U.S. Constitutionalist: What Chances a Global Financial Apocalypse ...

2008-11-27T19:00:00Z

Drugs and Oil: Thursday - November 27th, 2008

2008-11-26T19:00:00Z

Smart guns: Arenâ€™t | Red Pills

2008-11-25T19:00:00Z

DC · National Shooting Sports Foundation supports HR 2640 · Chuck Baldwin: He that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one · Yes, Obama, Gun Owners are Clingyâ€¦from our cold dead hands! Democrats assault firearms owner

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Drugs and Oil: Wednesday - November 26th, 2008

2008-11-25T19:00:00Z

Apparently it's never too early to panic about bang-bangs - Andrew ...

2008-11-24T19:00:00Z

The "gun lobby" (NRA) got in bed with Carlyn McCarthy and helped pass HR 2640, sometimes called the veteran's disarmament bill. It make is far to easy to deny our veterans their right to keep and bear arms. The NRA has been compromising ...

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U.S. Constitutionalist: A BLESSED THANKSGIVING

2008-11-24T19:00:00Z

National Shooting Sports Foundation: with friends like this, who ...

2008-11-24T19:00:00Z

National Shooting Sports Foundation supports HR 2640 · Bullet serialization bill pulled in Kentucky · BATFE under Sullivan threatens to stifle free market · The ATF continues to strong arm firearms dealers out of business ...

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Drugs and Oil: Tuesday - November 25th, 2008

2008-11-24T19:00:00Z

U.S. Constitutionalist: The Bailout Surge

2008-11-23T19:00:00Z

U.S. Constitutionalist: What Kind of Revolutionary Will You Be?

2008-11-23T19:00:00Z

Drugs and Oil: Sunday - November 23rd, 2008

2008-11-22T19:00:00Z

NRA vs. GOA - The Firearms Forum.Com

2008-11-21T19:00:00Z

The NRA supported the Veterans Disarmament Act (HR 2640) the GOA opposed it. You can take all the efforts the NRA has made over the years and with that one move, flush it right down the toilet ...

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U.S. Constitutionalist: Where Did the Reagan Votes Go in the 2008 ...

2008-11-21T19:00:00Z

Drugs and Oil: Saturday - November 22nd, 2008

2008-11-21T19:00:00Z

Instant Criminal Background Check

2008-11-20T19:00:00Z

Arcanum Noctis Asked: Was skimming HR 2640 and noticed SEC. 106. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------SEC. 106. ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT GUN PURCHASE NOTIFICATION.(a) In General- Notwithstanding ...

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UrbanSurvival Â» Blog Archive Â» Coping: National Correct George Day

2008-11-18T19:00:00Z

â€œThink it was buried in hr 2640 signed into law by Bush et al in Jan of this year. See definitions sec. 3 para 2. 2) MENTAL HEALTH TERMS- The terms `adjudicated as a mental defectiveâ€™ and `committed to a mental institutionâ€™ have the ...

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Drugs and Oil: Wednesday - November 19th, 2008

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Drugs and Oil: Tuesday - November 18th, 2008

2008-11-17T19:00:00Z

U.S. Constitutionalist: Restricting Freedoms and Choices

2008-11-16T19:00:00Z

What Bill Schneider has learned from Gun Nuts Â« Armed and Free

2008-11-16T19:00:00Z

About H.R. 2640, Senator Coburn, and . . . stuff · no, i will not vote for colonel tigh. Guns â€˜nâ€™ Bread â€˜nâ€™ Roses · THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS IN JEPARDY. This entry was posted on November 17, 2008 at 10:59 am and is filed und

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virginia tech

2008-11-13T19:00:00Z

[82] The bill, HR 2640, mandates improvements in state reporting to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) in order to halt gun purchases by criminals, those declared mentally ill, and other people prohibited from ...

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virginia tech

2008-11-13T19:00:00Z

virginia tech

2008-11-13T19:00:00Z

GOA Alert: HR 2640, Senate Ready To Move On Brady Expansion!

2008-11-12T19:00:00Z

Senate Getting Ready To Move McCarthy's Brady Expansion! -- Plus news on OSHA gun control, DC Gun Ban and more Gun Owners of America E-Mail Alert 8001.

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U.S. Constitutionalist: Obama dictatorship coming? - video

2008-11-09T19:00:00Z

Senate passes HR2640

2008-11-09T19:00:00Z

Received via e-mail today.... The US Senate today voted to pass their version of the NRA supported NICS Improvement Act (HR2640). The bill now.

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One of the reasons I donâ€™t go to church anymore Â« Fragments of ...

2008-11-07T19:00:00Z

GOA Alert: As Senate Reconvenes... Veterans Disarmament Bill ...

2008-11-07T19:00:00Z

Leahy in the Senate and Carolyn McCarthy in the House (HR 2640). Gun owners don't support this legislation, better known as the Veterans Disarmament Act. The Military Order of the Purple Heart is opposed to it, having stated on June 18 ...

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U.S. Constitutionalist: Wizards of Washington - kids may not view ...

2008-11-07T19:00:00Z

... health care (3); hillary clinton (20); Hillary Clinton gaffe (1); homeland security (1); homosexual agenda (18); housing bailout (14); Housing Bill (1); housing bubble (14); HR 1370 (1); HR 1955 (3); HR 2415 (2); HR 2640 (2) ...

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Chemtrail Results from day

2008-11-06T19:00:00Z

Look up HR 1022 Look up HR 2640 this part is comical ("and for other purposes") HR 1424 (this one gives your insurance company a legal out to deny your benifits) But here you can see that they get theirs below. ...

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nra membership :: /a>

2008-11-04T19:00:00Z

The National Rifle Association is far from being a group that protects gun-owner rights, as ... had gone before the NRA membership for. a vote, it would ... This Jack Blood interview is from September 2007. The HR 2640 bill has actually ...

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nra membership :: Firearms Law, Second Amendment, Gun Control ...

2008-11-04T19:00:00Z

Media Research Center (MRC) is a conservative media watchdog group dedicated ... discredit the NRA's jump in membership and demanded the NRA's Wayne LaPierre ... This Jack Blood interview is from September 2007. The HR 2640 bill has ...

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Gun Rights News Â» Post Topic Â» Gun Rights News 02 Nov 2008 - Matt Long

2008-11-03T19:00:00Z

... Host Needed for the Show - Show #006, New Format with Rich - Show #005, Looking at New Show Format - Show #004, Gun Shop Demagoguery - Show 003, Psychotrophic Drugs Not Gun Control - Show 002, The Truth About H.R. 2640 - Show 001 ...

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Michael Crichton Dies of Cancer Â« Fragments of Memories

2008-11-03T19:00:00Z

Newsweek blames the financial crisis on Libertarians... you know ...

2008-10-18T20:00:00Z

Let's say you get a diagnosis of PTSD = get your 2nd ammendment taken away due to HR 2640's passage in Jan. 08, but you MAYBE get treatment/diagnosis/disability compensation if your lucky. Trade-off? It may or may not be the correct ...

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From Oleg Volk | The Real Gun Guys

2008-10-15T20:00:00Z

... Gun Talk (7); Gun Violence Prevention Center of Utah (1); guns (20); guns in schools (7); Guns into Goods (1); guns save life (2); gunslingers (1); H.R. 2074 (1); H.R. 2640 (3); Half Hour News Hour (2); hammer time (1); Hammond (1) ...

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Why I canâ€™t vote for McCain

2008-10-15T20:00:00Z

First and foremost, HR 2640 became public law on Jan. 8, 2008. The excript below makes clear that any veteran who is diagnosed with PSD or any other mental disorder will not be allowed to own a firearm. PUBLIC LAW 110â€“180â€”JAN. 8, 2008 ...

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Instant Background Check For Buying Gun

2008-10-10T20:00:00Z

Clearing the Air on the Instant Check Bill (HR 2640) ... to provide to NICS; it doesn't ban anyone new from buying or owning a gun. ... 1-day record for gun checks : Local News : The Rocky Mountain News ...

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hmmm...

2008-09-30T20:00:00Z

NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007 Bill # HR2640 Original Sponsor: Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY 4th) Cosponsor Total: 18 (last sponsor added 06/13/2007) 15 Democrats 3 Republicans NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007Title I: ...

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Michael Bacolas on the Mentally Ill & Gun Control

2008-09-29T20:00:00Z

The legislation (HR 2640), sponsored by Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (DN.Y.), authorizes up to $1.3 billion in state grants to improve the tracking and reporting of individuals who are legally barred from gun purchases, including those ...

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Back to Main Page

2008-09-27T20:00:00Z

gun owners with H.R. 2640 -- legislation which would bar you from owning guns if:. * You are a battle-scarred veteran suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder; or. * As a kid, you were diagnosed with ADHD. ...

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ron paul 2008 part 3

2008-09-23T20:00:00Z

i also recently opposed hr 2640, which would allow government-appointed psychiatrists to ban us veterans experiencing even mild forms of post-traumatic stress syndrome from ever owning a gun. you have the right to protect your life, ...

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good news for gun owners

2008-08-31T20:00:00Z

chris cox, executive director of the nra institute of legislative actiion siad, â€œthese changes manufacture good bill {hr 2640} even better. the end product is a win on behalf of american gun owers.â€* nics improvement act has the ...

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hr 2640.... "veterans disarmament act"

2008-08-21T20:00:00Z

re: hr 2640 (nics improvement bill) i have two questions i'd like you to answer for me regarding this law: 1. how will this law affect the 2nd amendment rights of a veteran who has been diagnosed with ptsd, but has not been treated for ...

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Fort Liberty Â» Blog Archive Â» Veteranâ€™s Disarmament Act

2008-07-31T20:00:00Z

Larry Pratt over at News With Views has pointed out an extremely dangerous provision in HR 2640: To improve the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, and for other purposes. Larry calls HR2640 the Veteranâ€™s Disarmament Act ...

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Iowa Independent Â» Hold Put on Harkinâ€™s Veterans Suicide ...

2008-07-22T20:00:00Z

â€œThe real issue behind Coburn blocking the Omvig bill is that he hates new proposed gun control legislation (H.R. 2640) which was drafted in response to the Virginia Tech shooting,â€* Rieckhoff writes on his IAVA blog. ...

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your doctor could put you on no-gun list!

2008-07-20T20:00:00Z

the proposal, hr 2640, was sponsored by us rep. carolyn mccarthy, dn.y., in the wake of the april tragedy at virginia tech, when a gunman shot and killed more than 30 people, then killed himself. mccarthy, whose own husband was killed ...

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Jack Blood covers NRA backed Gun Control with Dudley Brown o...

2008-06-27T20:00:00Z

The NRA is actively supporting gun control via HR 2640. Get the word out about this so the bill can be stopped. It passed the house and then the senate with an unrecorded vote so you cant see who is actively destroying the 2nd amendment ...

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gun control makes a dictator's job so much easier

2008-06-25T20:00:00Z

through congress with the bills like the veterans disarment act (hr 2640) which prohibit any veteran with post traumatic stress disorder (ptsd) and any person that was diagnosed with adhd from owning a firearm (pratt and bob unruh). ...

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End of session report

2008-06-24T20:00:00Z

The NICS improvement bill A-11758/S-8706 with relief from civil disabilities provision also passed. It basically implements what NRA got passed in Congress a few months back in HR-2640.

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Argghhh! The Home Of Two Of Jonah's Military Guys.. - "NICS ...

2008-06-22T20:00:00Z

Some opponents of the "NICS Improvement Amendments Act" (H.R. 2640) have spent the last several months painting a picture of the bill that would rightly terrify gun owners-if it was true. The opponents' motive seems to be a totally ...

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Example how H.R. 2640 could be abused | blog of bile

2008-06-15T20:00:00Z

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=749 Newspapers last month reported that Horatio Miller allegedly said that it could be â€œworse than Virginia Techâ€* if someone.

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Arizona already has a law to keep mentally ill from obtaining guns

2008-06-15T20:00:00Z

8, HR 2640, a bill to improve the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, became Public Law 110-180. This federal legislation provides grant money to states and tribal governments to adopt systems to report individuals who ...

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no one is safe while the congress is in sessionâ€¦

2008-06-14T20:00:00Z

hr 2640 (mccarthy et al.): this bill would dramatically increase the number of personal records on americans handed over to the fbi instant check center in west virginia and would, for the first time, statutorily make a battle-scarred ...

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democrats propose stripping rights from veterans

2008-06-13T20:00:00Z

the house bill, hr 2640, is being sponsored by one of the most flaming anti-second amendment representatives in congress: carolyn mccarthy (d-ny). another liberal anti-gunner, sen. patrick leahy (d-vt), is sponsoring the bill in the ...

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OpenCongress - U.S. Congress - H.R.6257 Assault Weapons Ban ...

2008-06-12T20:00:00Z

[22]; H.R.73 Citizens' Self-Defense Act of 2007 [15]; H.R.96 Gun Show Loophole Closing Act of 2007 [13]; S.1237 Denying Firearms and Explosives to Danger... [8]; H.R.2640 NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007 [8] ...

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Laws

2008-05-27T20:00:00Z

If you don't trust me, search for HR 2640 on the 110th Congress at . Are you thinking of giving your in-laws gifts? That is a great idea. The fact that you even thought of it should be encouraging to people that you associate with, ...

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Holy crap, a serious post about politics and laws and grown-up stuff.

2008-05-27T20:00:00Z

If you don't trust me, search for HR 2640 on the 110th Congress at [url]http://thomas.loc.gov.[/url] Everyone's saying that 'this will make it so that any veteran who got PTSD counseling would be a prohibited person and thus banned from ...

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NRA-ILA :: Legislation

2008-05-26T20:00:00Z

Copyright 2008, National Rifle Association of America, Institute for Legislative Action. This may be reproduced. It may not be reproduced for commercial purposes. Contact Us | Privacy & Security Policy.

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Government to Disarm Military Veterans With Purple Hearts

2008-05-12T20:00:00Z

US Deceived with HR Bill 1955 S 1959 HR 2640 All Passed Under Ex-military to be denied gun ownership HR 2640 passed the House â€¦ Centuries before Iraq and Afghanistan, George Washington created the Purple Heart to honor troops wounded in ...

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Part 1 @ 10:40 AM Strange Chemtrail Formations

2008-05-05T20:00:00Z

Look up HR 2640 this part is comical (â€*and for other purposesÌ¶ HR 1424 (this one gives your insurance company a legal out to deny your benifits) But here you can see that they get theirs below. Look up HR 2082 ...

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First up to lose their 2nd amendment rightsâ€¦.

2008-04-16T20:00:00Z

I would personally like to thank even those people here that didnâ€™t stand up and oppose the Veterans Disarmament Act, or officially known as HR 2640 NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007 and signed into law 2008/01/08. ...

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Bar Rifle

2008-03-26T20:00:00Z

HR 2640 would also make clear that if a federal adjudication or commitment has expired or been removed, it would no longer bar a person from possessing or receiving firearms under the Gun Control Act Bar Rifle Which of them was on the ...

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Adjudicated

2008-03-25T20:00:00Z

HR 2640, the â€œNICS Improvement Act,â€* is consistent with NRAâ€™s decades long support for measures to keep guns out of the hands of those who have been adjudicated by a court as mentally incompetentmentally incompetent? ...

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I Support Ron Paul

2008-03-20T20:00:00Z

I also recently opposed HR 2640, which would allow government-appointed psychiatrists to ban US veterans experiencing even mild forms of Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome from ever owning a gun. You have the right to protect your life, ...

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Nics background clubhouse

2008-03-20T20:00:00Z

KEY PROVISIONS OF THE NICS IMPROVEMENT AMENDMENTS ACT OF 1994 HR 2640 01-2008 Key Provisions.to.pages. Guide To The National Instant Check System : The cricket Instant Check System (NICS) for firearms transactions took effect Nov. ...

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The American Hunters and Shooters Association is an anti-gun ...

2008-03-17T20:00:00Z

The NRA has been involved in curbing firearms on a number of occasions, the last being HR 2640, the Veterans Disarmament Act.} â€œThe NRA is extreme,â€* says Ray Schoenke, the former Washington Redskins lineman and failed Democratic {and ...

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Keep Your Guns, Annie.

2008-03-15T20:00:00Z

HR 2640 The NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007 to improve the National Instant Criminal Background Check System and for other purposes was passed and became Public Law No: 110-180 A major supporter of HR 2640 was the nation's ...

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No Disarmament For Vets W/PTSD

2008-03-07T19:00:00Z

A major supporter of HR 2640 was the nation's staunchest gun rights advocate, the National Rifle Association, who would have never backed a bill that overly restricted ownership rights. Bottom line: Gun ownership is a Second Amendment ...

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RON PAUL ON GUN CONTROL

2008-03-02T19:00:00Z

The Candidates and Privacy of Your Health Records: Ron Paul

2008-02-29T19:00:00Z

H.R. 2640 also seriously undermines the privacy rights of all Americans, gun owners and non-gun owners alike, by creating and expanding massive Federal Government databases, including medical and other private records of every American. ...

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Corporate Media Begins Gun Control Mantra

2008-02-25T19:00:00Z

... has in the recent past teamed up with classic gun-grabbers such as Chuck Schumer, Carolyn McCarthy, and Pat Leahy, to make sure veterans are unable to protect themselves, thus helping to pass HR 2640, the Veterans Disarmament Act. ...

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Snowflakes in Hell Â» Blog Archive Â» This Is Getting Crazy

2008-02-21T19:00:00Z

Then think about HR 2640 getting passedâ€¦.and going through a messy divorce or child custody fight. If you havenâ€™t noticed there are a lot of places where divorce attorneys file a TPO with the divorce filing just as a ...

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General Homesteading : Ideal Rifle

2008-02-19T19:00:00Z

The NICS Improvement Amendments Act (HR 2640) would require federal agencies to provide relevant records for use in NICS. It would also provide financial incentives to states to do the same, by rewarding states that provide records to ...

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George W. Bush (Republican) signs the most Draconian Gun law in US ...

2008-02-17T19:00:00Z

HR 2640, the "NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007," which requires accurate information on individuals prohibited from possessing firearms to be transmitted by State and local government and Federal agencies to the Justice ...

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Corporate Media Begins Gun Control Mantra

2008-02-16T19:00:00Z

the shootists

2008-02-15T19:00:00Z

Focusing on guns and politics, here is todayâ€™s Second Amendment News Roundup: The executive leadership of Gun Owners of America has written an open letter today concerning HR 2640. Agree, disagree, or be undecidedâ€¦nonetheless many even ...

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Mantra for â€œGun-Controlâ€* begins anewâ€¦..

2008-02-15T19:00:00Z

More On the NIU Killer

2008-02-15T19:00:00Z

Kazmierczak's mental illness hospitalization didn't get noticed during the federal background check for any of the four guns that he bought through licensed dealers. I'm not sure if HR 2640, recently signed into law, would fix this or ...

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OpenCongress - U.S. Congress - H.R.5434 Protecting Americans from ...

2008-02-14T19:00:00Z

H.R.2640 NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007 [3]; H.R.5266 National Crime Gun Identification Act [3]; H.R.1784 Protect Law Enforcement Armor Act [3]; S.2577 Gun Show Background Check Act of 2008 [3]; H.R.6257 Assault Weapons Ban ...

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Anti Gun Bush

2008-02-06T19:00:00Z

For one, signing the first gun control legislation in over a decade, the Veterans Disarmament Act (HR 2640). For another, the very anti-gun brief the Solicitor General (the Justice Department's lawyer) filed in the DC gun ban case, ...

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President Bush

2008-02-06T08:21:18Z

Related video Are your 2nd Amendment rights safe? If thoughts your second rights of correction are sure, still think ... of disarmament ofveterans (H.R.2640) promoted from Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, from D-N.Y. Desp

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Gulf War Veteran Dr Mark Taylor Talks about HR 2640 HR 1955 and S ...

2008-01-28T19:00:00Z

Gulf War Veteran Dr Mark Taylor Talks about HR 2640 HR 1955 and S 1959 and Why maintream media wants to censor Internet.

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Your bias is showing

2008-01-27T19:00:00Z

If you recall, Virginia passed their own legislation similar to HR 2640; and of course HR 2640 itself was passed on the federal level. After Virginia closed a loophole that allowed Seung-Hui Cho to purchase his weapons of mass murder, ...

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2008-01-25T21:34:40Z

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Still here and stuffs

2008-01-25T19:00:00Z

Notheless having read the actual text of the law the line people are up in arms about is hr 2640 sec 101 C 1 c: "(C) the adjudication or commitment, respectively, is based solely on a medical finding of disability, ...

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JPFO ALERT: BETRAYAL BY YOUR â€œFRIENDSâ€* IN CONGRESS

2008-01-25T19:00:00Z

A CALL TO ARMS - NATIONAL ACTION FOR THE 2nd AMENDMENT WHEN: JANUARY 11TH 2008 12 PM (week of January 7th 2008) WHERE: STATE CAPITOLS EVERYWHERE, THE WHITE HOUSE WHY: STOP HR. 2640 AKA: THE VETERANâ€™S DISARMAMENT ACT 2008 In an ...

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Bush needs to listen, againâ€¦

2008-01-25T19:00:00Z

Veterans Disarmament Act (HR 2640). For another, the very anti-gun brief the Solicitor General (the Justice Departmentâ€™s lawyer) filed in the DC gun ban case, DC v. Heller. As you know, Rep. Virgil Goode is rounding up other members of ...

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US Deceived with HR Bill 1955 S 1959 HR 2640 All Passed Under ...

2008-01-22T19:00:00Z

... ONLY SOURCE OF REVENUE mark stahr sykes yeager Congress passes HR Bill 1955 Wrongfully under Suspension of order rule. But be aware as Washington headed home for Christmas the cheated us again with HR 2640 Veterans Disarmament Act. ...

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Rifle Case

2008-01-21T19:00:00Z

The US Senate today voted to pass their version of the NRA supported NICS Improvement Act (HR2640). The bill now must go back to the House to resolve differences between the versions passed in the two bodies. ...

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For the last time

2008-01-20T19:00:00Z

The VA Tech shooter got his guns because he squeezed through a now closed loophole in the NICS system, something that was addressed by HR 2640. So closing the gun show loophole will do, uh, nothing. Something like 99% of the people ...

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Veterans Disarmament Act

2008-01-18T19:00:00Z

On the 8th of January 2008 HR 2640 was quietly signed into law which makes it illegal for hundreds of thousands of US military veterans to own a gun. If you've not already seen it, watch Naomi Wolf's End of America speech - it's deeply ...

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Veterans Disarmament Act

2008-01-17T19:00:00Z

The proposed ban is actually broader. Anyone who is diagnosed as being a tiny danger to himself or others would have his gun rights taken away ... forever. It is section 102(b)(1)(C)(iv) in HR 2640 that provides for dumping raw...

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Veterans Disarmament Act

2008-01-17T19:00:00Z

US Conference of Mayors meeting next week

2008-01-17T19:00:00Z

On the agenda for the Criminal & Social Justice Committee are Carolyn McCarthy, who will discuss HR-2640, and Brady Campaign President Paul Helmke who will be lying about new â€œfederal gun safety legislation. ...

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outlines of a critique of political economy

2008-01-17T12:35:41Z

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BUSH SIGNS MOST DRACONIAN GUN LAW IN US HISTORY! | Know The Lies ...

2008-01-15T19:00:00Z

President Bush Signs HR 660, HR 3690, S. 863, and HR 2640 :

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HR 2640--Part 1--But Maybe I Like Guns...

2008-01-14T19:00:00Z

HR 2640 is a gun control legislation that has, oddly, passed and been signed into law without too much of a blip on anyone's radar. According to the White House, HR 2640 "requires accurate information on individuals prohibited from ...

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Serving Up the Carnival of Principled Government

2008-01-13T19:00:00Z

Sholom takes a look at recent federal gun legislation (HR 2640) passed here in the US over at the blog Anarcho-Judaism. /The_Election. Announcing: Disunity08, a look at the demise of Unity08. Check it out at Divided We Stand United We ...

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Boren Blasted Back Home

2008-01-13T19:00:00Z

HR 2640, or the National Instant Criminal Background Check System Improvements Act of 2007, came about as a result of the shootings at Virginia Tech last year. A portion of the measure calls for states to forward to the US Justice ...

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Dirty Congress Sneaks in the Veterans Disarmament Act

2008-01-12T19:00:00Z

Gun Owners of America- Congress passed HR 2640, the Veterans Disarmament Act while everyone was sleeping, effectively disarming over 100000 American Veterans. This story is developing, stay tuned to GOA, and read this column in WND. ...

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#18 - Sunday

2008-01-12T19:00:00Z

First, Bush signs HR 2640 on January 8th, 2008. Now, I see THIS article on Yahoo!!! Let the fear mongering begin. They are going after our guns in 2008! Keep an eye out on the Supreme Court case that could BAN GUNS! ...

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News HR 2640: Got PTSD? You might not got gun no more.

2008-01-12T19:00:00Z

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill...bill=h110-2640 Get medically discharged? Get your shit taken away, i think... need more "sane" individuals to look at this one, but it's basically a veterans disarmament act from all the stuff I ...

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Has Congress and the President Btrayed our Veterans!!

2008-01-10T19:00:00Z

Bush signed HR 2640 into law. The bill is now referenced as the â€œNICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007.â€* Pro 2nd amendment grass roots gun organizations have unanimously agreed that HR 2640 should ...

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NICS Improvement Bill (HR2640)

2008-01-10T19:00:00Z

The NICS Improvement Bill (HR2640) passed the House on a voice vote last night. The House voted to accept the bill as modified by the Senate. This legislation aims to get more records on the NICS database - not only on mental health but ...

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Hillary Clintonâ€™s Middle Name

2008-01-09T19:00:00Z

Project 5 was most colonial contrive have done this semester. rehashed GOA BSbut have not yetread onestatement an hillary clinton washington dc 2nd Amendment lawyer that states thing other than fact that HR 2640 step right direction. ...

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Gun law update: January 10, 2008

2008-01-09T19:00:00Z

Without fanfare or advanced notice, the incredibly dangerous anti-rights gun law drafted by the Brady group and its allies, HR 2640, has been rewritten by attorneys coordinated by the NRA. The new bill, though not perfect, ...

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Bush Signs NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007 (HR 2640)

2008-01-09T19:00:00Z

EVERYONE should now REALLY know where the hearts of the VPC and other gun-grabbers lies, it certainly is NOT in protecting Americans, but rather enslaving them to the government - thatâ€™s THEIR goal!! --HR2640-- HR2640 ...

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2008-01-08T20:05:50Z

If you wish to call, email or fax the White House and add your voice to OFFE’s efforts to block this legislation ... . H.R.2640 has received the approval and endorsement of the National Rifle Association (NRA

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George W. Bush (Republican) signs the most Draconian Gun law in US ...

2008-01-08T19:00:00Z

H.R. 2640, the â€œNICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007,â€* which requires accurate information on individuals prohibited from possessing firearms to be transmitted by State and local government and Federal agencies to the Justice ...

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President signed gun control bill

2008-01-08T19:00:00Z

The above was the headline in today's Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the bill signed was a supposedly much amended version of HR 2640. While the Chief Bushy signing this legislation might not be all that much of a surprise to people, ...

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The Decider Signs HR 2640 NICS Improvement Act

2008-01-08T19:00:00Z

On Tuesday, January 8, 2008, the decider signed into law HR 2640, the "NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007," which requires information on individuals prohibited from possessing firearms to be transmitted by State and local ...

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NATIONAL ACTION FOR THE 2nd AMENDMENT

2008-01-08T19:00:00Z

In an unrecorded voice vote the gun grabbing bill once known at HR 297, HR 2640 also known as "The Veteran's Disarmament Act" by Pro 2nd Amendment grass roots organizations across America, passed, and will soon be on the way to ...

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Gun Owners Get Stabbed In The Back - Veterans Disarmament Act on ...

2008-01-08T19:00:00Z

Gun Owners of America and its supporters took a knife in the back yesterday, as Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) out-smarted his congressional opposition into agreeing on a so-called â€œcompromiseâ€* on HR 2640 â€” a bill which now goes to the ...

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Losers: Turning a Corner on Guns?

2008-01-08T19:00:00Z

This was in regards to the passing of HR 2640. Someone might want to buy Paul a clueâ€¦ like the fact that the NRA worked dilligently to make this legislation extremely friendly to the law-abiding. I especially liked this part: ...

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Anti-rights â€œNICS Improvement Actâ€* Re-Written

2008-01-08T19:00:00Z

Without fanfare or advance notice, the incredibly dangerous anti-rights gun law drafted by the Brady group and its allies, HR 2640, has been rewritten by attorneys coordinated by the National Rifle Association. ...

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More on HR2640

2008-01-08T19:00:00Z

It does aptly demonstrate the love-it-or-hate-it nature of HR 2640 though; both for pro-gun groups and apparently anti-gun groups as well. Just because Paul Helmke is calling this â€œgun controlâ€* doesnâ€™t mean that it is. ...

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The Veteran's Disarmament Act

2008-01-07T19:00:00Z

Why I'm Voting For Ron Paul, pt. III: Constitutional Rights

2008-01-07T19:00:00Z

The newly-passed HR 2640 attacks the Second Amendment from a different angle entirely. It prohibits people who have been diagnosed with almost any psychological condition from owning any firearms. This would include veterans diagnosed ...

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Ron Paul is the only candidate against HR 2640 - Action Alert!

2008-01-07T19:00:00Z

Please resend to your lists, and join us this week as we defend the 2nd amendment! Contact: Jack Blood FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. Email: jackblood@hotmail.com. A CALL TO ARMS â€“ NATIONAL ACTION FOR THE 2nd AMENDMENT ...

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OFFE Strongly Opposes HR 2640

2008-01-07T19:00:00Z

According to Operation Firing For Effect (OFFE), National Chairman, Gene Simes; â€œif President Bush signs HR 2640 (aka: â€˜The Veterans Disarmament Actâ€™) into law, former military personnel of this country and their families will indeed ...

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OFFE Strongly Opposes HR 2640

2008-01-07T19:00:00Z

President Bush Signs HR 660, HR 3690, S. 863, and HR 2640

2008-01-07T19:00:00Z

Veterans May Suffer from the Veterans Disarmament Act

2008-01-07T19:00:00Z

HR 2640 - the subversion of the 2nd Amendment!

2008-01-06T19:00:00Z

This legislation is about to subvert the Constitution and erode our choice to own a firearm!

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PL 110-180, The NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007

2008-01-06T19:00:00Z

HR 2640 would improve the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.... Vote on This Bill: For | Against.

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URGENT Action Notice! Help us stop HR 2640 - Save the 2nd Amendment!

2008-01-06T19:00:00Z

In an unrecorded voice vote the gun grabbing bill once known at HR 297, HR 2640 also known as â€œThe Veteranâ€™s Disarmament Actâ€* by Pro 2nd Amendment grass roots organizations across America, passed and will soon be on the way to President ...

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Misleading headlines

2008-01-06T19:00:00Z

The loophole that he slipped through has been closed by the NICS Bill, or HR 2640 that we have long been lobbying to pass, and that still awaits a signature from President Bush. Thankfully, some of the state Senators in Virginia still ...

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USSC has their head up the NRAâ€™s rear on HR 2640

2008-01-03T19:00:00Z

As I opined on December 21st in â€œNRA lead gun owners to slaughter with HR 2640â€œ, the NRA was instrumental in passing this piece of anti-gun legislation yet are strutting around like it is pro-gun. Really? Well, ask our veterans. ...

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bill sent to president: hr2640 nics improvement amendments act of 2007

2008-01-03T01:00:00Z

to improve the national instant criminal background check system, and for other purposes. january 04, 2008: presented to president.

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Anti 2nd Amendment (Gun Grab) Bill heads to Bush! Â« Suzie-Q

2008-01-02T19:00:00Z

While other gun groups have endorsed H.R. 2640, a comprehensive plan to expand the powers of the Brady Bill gun restriction plan, Gun Owners of America has opposed it vigorously, and described its provisions for banning individuals, ...

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Bill Sent To President: HR2640 NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007

2008-01-02T19:00:00Z

To improve the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, and for other purposes. January 04, 2008: Presented to President.

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McCarthy "hails" enactment of much amended HR 2640, more her than ...

2008-01-01T19:00:00Z

I cannot prove it either way, but seems to me that I've seen or read mention of Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy having become "desperate" to see the enactment of something with her name on it, such enactment would serve to show her Long ...

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Veterans Disarmament Act Coming Soon

2008-01-01T19:00:00Z

While other gun groups have endorsed HR 2640, a comprehensive plan to expand the powers of the Brady Bill gun restriction plan, Gun Owners of America has opposed it vigorously, and described its provisions for banning individuals, ...

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Ron Paul on the Second Amendment

2007-12-31T19:00:00Z

NRA/ILA 2007 Year in Review

2007-12-30T19:00:00Z

The US House of Representatives overwhelmingly passes HR 2640, the â€œNICS Improvement Act,â€* which makes needed, and long overdue, improvements to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). {Another instance of the NRA ...

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Gun owners get stabbed in the back

2007-12-29T19:00:00Z

19], as Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) out-smarted his congressional opposition into agreeing on a so-called â€˜compromiseâ€™ on HR 2640 â€” a bill which now goes to the Presidentâ€™s desk. The bill â€” known as the Veterans Disarmament Act to

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VETS "HR-2640" IS BACK AND ALIVE.

2007-12-28T19:00:00Z

My Vet buddy is following this close. I have not been. We had this on the board before. His info was from Dec. 23rd. www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h2640/blogs/3-32k "Veterans Disarmament Act to Bar Vets From Owning Guns."

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Gun Grabbers eagerly await Bush to sign HR 2640 in Politics ...

2007-12-28T19:00:00Z

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Gun owners get stabbed in the back

2007-12-27T19:00:00Z

19], as Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) out-smarted his congressional opposition into agreeing on a so-called â€œcompromiseâ€* on HR 2640 â€” a bill which now goes to the Presidentâ€™s desk. The bill â€” known as the Veterans Disarmament Act to

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2007-12-27T11:15:21Z

Night Vision Super Night Vision performance exceeds military-grade (Gen III) ... gun show Reply #15 - Nov 20th, 2006, 7:10am. Ya we try to get up there early enough on … H.R.2640 ... their version of the NRA suppo

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Gun Control Bill HR 2640 NICS

2007-12-26T19:00:00Z

The Bill presently headed for the President's desk for signing. . . http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h110-2640.

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Bush tries to push through Justice Dept appointment..Senate says ...

2007-12-26T19:00:00Z

The gun bill is HR 2640. The Freedom of Information Act bill is S. 2488. Tags: BIO, President Bush, Security, weapon sales, first amendment, Crime, Bush, CIA, Congress, Democrats, FOIA, Justice Department, Senate, Terrorists, Veto.

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Bush tries to push through Justice Dept appointment..Senate says ...

2007-12-26T19:00:00Z

The FOIA bill, for example, would become law on New Yearâ€™s Eve if not vetoed before then, according to Senate Judiciary Committee officials. The gun bill is HR 2640. The Freedom of Information Act bill is S. 2488. ...

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Senate meets to block Bush

2007-12-26T19:00:00Z

... D-Nev., said Bush refused to rule out appointing Bradbury to the job if the Senate formally adjourned. So, Reid decided to keep the Senate in session with pro forma meetings every two or three days. The gun bill is HR 2640. ...

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Ten most corrupt politicians of 2007

2007-12-25T19:00:00Z

Pelosi issued a press release on the House passage of HR 2640, which effectively disarms veterans. The bill is awaiting the Regimeâ€™s response. Although this bill removes many rights, the emotional impact of Virgina Tech was harnessed in ...

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NRA cackles over passage of HR 2640

2007-12-25T19:00:00Z

As I opined on the 21st in â€œNRA lead gun owners to slaughter with HR 2640â€œ, the NRA was instrumental in passing this piece of anti-gun legislation yet are strutting around like it is pro-gun. Really? Well, ask our veterans. ...

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The Great Gun Debate

2007-12-25T19:00:00Z

The bill, HR 2640, passed in the House in June and was later passed out of the Senate Judiciary Committee both times without a recorded vote. Gun owners have been trying to raise awareness and beat down the legislation ever since. ...

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Senate Passes NICS Improvement Act

2007-12-25T19:00:00Z

to address his concerns regarding HR 2640, the National Instant Check System (NICS) Improvement Act. These changes make a good bill even better. The end product is a win for American gun owners. Late yesterday, anti-gun Senator Ted ...

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NICS changes pass Congress

2007-12-25T19:00:00Z

Gun Owners of America and its supporters took a knife in the back yesterday, as Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) out-smarted his congressional opposition into agreeing on a so-called "compromise" on HR 2640 -- a bill which now goes to the ...

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National Shooting Sports Foundation supports HR 2640

2007-12-25T19:00:00Z

The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) put out a â€˜Bullet Pointsâ€™ email on 12/19 in support of HR 2640. I will not go into detail here regarding the bill and how the GOA still sees it as selling out our veterans and how it is ...

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NRA cackles over passage of HR 2640

2007-12-25T19:00:00Z

Re: HR 2640 look it up folks....

2007-12-23T19:00:00Z

It's still necessary since most of the "national guard" is overseas fighting in wars...... most of the military is already spoken for......

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â€œNew Democratic Congressâ€*, With The Help Of The NRA, Goes After ...

2007-12-22T19:00:00Z

Itâ€™s called the Veterans Disarmament Act by opponents such as myself; H.R. 2640 (an addendum to the Brady Act) by the gun-grabbers, and itâ€™s PUTRID, unconstitutional, a slap in the face to ANY veteran whoâ€™s served in times of war, ...

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Relentless Anti Gun Crowd Goes After Returning Veterans

2007-12-22T19:00:00Z

HR 2640 , which has been dubbed the veterans disarmament act by gun owners, would place any veteran who has ever been diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) on the federal gun ban list. The bill passed in the House in June ...

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Gun owners 'get stabbed in back'

2007-12-22T19:00:00Z

But section 101(c)(1)(C) of HR 2640 would rubber-stamp those illegal actions. Over 140000 law-abiding veterans would be statutorily barred from possessing firearms.'" As far as I know disabled Vets are no more likely to shoot anyone ...

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Gun Owners Get Stabbed in Back

2007-12-22T19:00:00Z

Veterans Disarmament Act

2007-12-22T19:00:00Z

HR 2640 contains a provision to allow doctors to ban people from owning guns. The provision seems to target disabled veterans. Expand the Brady Bill? It hasn't done anyone any good yet.

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Welcome Home Soldierâ€¦You Canâ€™t Carry A Gun

2007-12-22T19:00:00Z

Itâ€™s called the Veterans Disarmament Act by opponents such as myself; HR 2640 (an addendum to the Brady Act) by the gun-grabbers, and itâ€™s PUTRID, unconstitutional, a slap in the face to ANY veteran whoâ€™s served in times of war, ...

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Good news, everyone! or, why I let my NRA membership lapse

2007-12-22T19:00:00Z

The "National Instant Check System (NICS) Improvement Amendments Act of 2007" (HR 2640) was passed by unanimous consent in the US Senate and House, and now goes to the President's desk for signature. Surely, any day the Bradies crow ...

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Senate Passes Va Tech-Inspired Gun Bill

2007-12-22T19:00:00Z

This is a compromise of HR 2640. More on HR 2640 here... http://www.yourvabenefits.org/sessearch.php?q=hr+2640&op=ph. This new legislation appears to have ironed-out many of the complaints of gun owners, especially veterans. ...

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We All Said This Would Happen....

2007-12-22T19:00:00Z

Senate Slams 2nd Amendment By Passing Veterans Disarmament Act HR 2640

2007-12-21T19:00:00Z

AFP December 20, 2007 The US Congress has approved the first major gun control legislation in more than a decade, broadening background checks for gun buyers in the wake of a deadly campus shooting earlier this year by a mentally ill ...

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Gun Owners Get Stabbed In The Back

2007-12-21T19:00:00Z

Gun Owners of America and its supporters took a knife in the back yesterday, as Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) out-smarted his congressional opposition into agreeing on a so-called "compromise" on HR 2640 -- a bill which now goes to the ...

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SAS URGES PRESIDENT TO VETO HR 2640![/ (by: Second Amendment Sisters)

2007-12-21T19:00:00Z

Last Post by: Second Amendment Sisters on Dec 22 2007.

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Betrayal and Defeat

2007-12-21T19:00:00Z

In fact, he wasn't even in the House when it was passed at midnight on Tuesday. When HR 2640 was initially presented in the House, Dr. Paul stood up and spoke against it. Regarding HR 2640, Ron Paul's hands are clean - period. ...

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Is Bush likely to sign HR 2640?

2007-12-21T19:00:00Z

Same as the title: Is Bush likely to sign HR 2640?

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Yo!! F@#k Every Thing Else For A Second!

2007-12-21T12:40:12Z

H.R.2640 - NICS Improvement Act Passes The U.S. Senate today voted to pass their version of the NRA supported NICS Improvement Act (H.R.2640). The bill now must go back to the Hous

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Senate Passes Veterans Disarmament Bill, page 1

2007-12-20T19:00:00Z

Huck and Gun Rights

2007-12-20T19:00:00Z

Gun Owners of America and its supporters took a knife in the back yesterday, as Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) out-smarted his congressional opposition into agreeing on a so-called "compromise" on HR 2640 -- a bill which now goes to the ...

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A Victory For The Families Of Virginia Tech, And For Common-Sense ...

2007-12-20T19:00:00Z

Passage of HR 2640, the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) Improvement Amendments Act of 2007 [pdf], is a major victory for the families and survivors of the Virginia Tech shooting, and for all who support ...

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Is Bush likely to sign HR 2640?

2007-12-20T19:00:00Z

Forum: 2nd Amend. Politics and Laws Posted By: DarthSean Post Time: 12-21-2007 at 09:37 PM.

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HR 2640 look it up folks....

2007-12-20T19:00:00Z

Gun owners and second amendment rights groups have condemned the passage by Congress yesterday of legislation that re-writes the law in order to regulate gun ownership. Opponents have dubbed the bill, the "veterans disarmament act" as ...

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Nancy Pelosi: â€˜Congress Takes Step Forward in Improving Gun ...

2007-12-20T19:00:00Z

December 19, 2007 -- Washington, DC - Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement this evening after the House passed Senate amendments to HR 2640, the National Instant Criminal Background System (NICS) Improvement Amendments ...

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Bloggers: The New Watchdogs. We may not be the Gatekeepers (we ...

2007-12-20T19:00:00Z

Congress passes a gun bill, HR 2640. Nobody much hears about it except us gunnies. It's a compete oddity - supported by the Brady Campaign and the NRA. So, of course the (only gun) Violence (counts) Policy Center opines in opposition, ...

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Gun Owners Group Condemns â€œTreacherousâ€* Passage Of Anti-Second ...

2007-12-20T19:00:00Z

Problems With The New Federal Gun Control (HR 2640 & S 2084)

2007-12-20T19:00:00Z

Full information about the Washington attack on your Second Amendment rights, courtesy, GunOwners.org ...

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Rep Dingell on HR 2640

2007-12-20T19:00:00Z

Lastly, I would like to thank the National Rifle Association (NRA). The NRAâ€™s support for this legislation has been invaluable and is a testament to the NRAâ€™s commitment to passing sensible and responsible legislation to keep guns out ...

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Trojan Horse Gun Control: The NRA Wins on the NICS Bill

2007-12-20T19:00:00Z

Paul Helmke: A Victory For The Families Of Virginia Tech, And For ...

2007-12-20T19:00:00Z

Stabbed In The Back

2007-12-20T19:00:00Z

HR 2640 â€” a bill which now goes to the Presidentâ€™s desk. The bill â€” known as the Veterans Disarmament Act to its opponents â€“ is being praised by the National Rifle Association and the Brady Campaign. The Brady Bunch crowed â€œVictory

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NRA lead gun owners to slaughter with HR 2640

2007-12-20T19:00:00Z

An email from Gun Owners of America (GOA) regarding the passage of HR 2640 in the Senate is shown below. IMHO, we, the gun owners of America, were sold down the river by the NRA (National Rifle Association), AGAIN! ...

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NICS Improvements will Benefit Both Lawful Gun Owners and Law ...

2007-12-20T19:00:00Z

Dingell (D-MI15) released the following statement this evening after the House passed Senate amendments to HR 2640, the National Instant Criminal Background System (NICS) Improvement Amendments Act of 2007, which will now go to the ...

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Can You Smell It Yet?

2007-12-20T19:00:00Z

But section 101(c)(1)(C) of HR 2640 would rubber-stamp those illegal actions. Over 140000 law-abiding veterans would be statutorily barred from possessing firearms. Saying it over and over doesnâ€™t make it so. ...

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Tools of Lawlessness

2007-12-20T19:00:00Z

The â€œNational Instant Check System (NICS) Improvement Amendments Act of 2007â€³ (HR 2640) was passed by unanimous consent in the US Senate and House, and will now go to President Bush for his signature. ...

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NRA lead gun owners to slaughter regarding HR 2640

2007-12-20T19:00:00Z

Veterans Disarmament Act on its way to the President

2007-12-20T19:00:00Z

Might be more good news of the day

2007-12-20T17:20:13Z

From The Firearms Coalition: The U.S. Senate today voted to pass their version of the NRA supported NICS Improvement Act (H.R.2640). The bill now must go back to the House to resolve differences

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Senate passes HR2640

2007-12-19T21:16:09Z

Received via e-mail today.... Quote: The U.S. Senate today voted to pass their version of the NRA supported NICS Improvement Act (H.R.2640). The bill now must go back to the House

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Gun Law News - H.R.2640 - NICS Improvement Act Passes

2007-12-19T19:00:00Z

The U.S. Senate today voted to pass their version of the NRA supported NICS Improvement Act (H.R.2640). The bill now must go back to the House to resolve differences between the versions passed in the two bodies. ...

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Gun Owners Get Stabbed In The Back

2007-12-19T19:00:00Z

... and its supporters took a knife in the back yesterday, as Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) out-smarted his congressional opposition into agreeing on a so-called "compromise" on HR 2640 -- a bill which now goes to the President's desk. ...

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The NICS Mental Health Expansion

2007-12-19T19:00:00Z

The National Rifle Association (NRA) worked closely with Senator Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) to address his concerns regarding HR 2640, the National Instant Check System (NICS) Improvement Act. These changes make a good bill even better. ...

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HR 2640 Passed

2007-12-19T19:00:00Z

HR 2640 Passed

2007-12-19T19:00:00Z

Fuck the NRA, Fuck congress, fuck shady bitch Carolyn McCarthy

2007-12-19T19:00:00Z

In a parliamentary move reminiscent of a lame duck Democrat Congress, Democrat leadership in the Senate and House snuck HR 2640, the Veterans Disarmament Act, through both chambers as Congress was about to adjourn. ...

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guns @ 2007-12-20T11:34:00

2007-12-19T19:00:00Z

Well HR 2640 passed the senate..now it's up to Bush to say no..but I don't see that happening. So I guess as long as your not a veteran that was declared traumatized by some field surgeon quack I guess you should be okay..at least I'm ...

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MIGHT BE MORE GOOD NEWS OF THE DAY

2007-12-19T19:00:00Z

Senate currently voted to pass their chronicle of a NRA upheld NICS Improvement Act( HR2640) . A check right away contingency go behind to a House to finalise differences in between a versions upheld in a dual bodies. ...

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Second Amendment News Roundup for 12/20/07

2007-12-19T19:00:00Z

The unconstitutional gun control bill known as HR 2640 has been approved by Congress and sits on Bush's desk, and he is expected to sign it. Assholes. Here is Nicki's take on it: http://libertyzone.blogspot.com/2007/12/its-done-deal. ...

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Obviously they're confused..

2007-12-19T19:00:00Z

The "National Instant Check System (NICS) Improvement Amendments Act of 2007" (HR 2640) was passed by unanimous consent in the US Senate and House, and now goes to the President's desk for signature. PLEASE CALL PRESIDENT BUSH TODAY AT ...

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Senate Passes NICS Improvement Act

2007-12-19T19:00:00Z

The US Senate passed HR 2640 on December 19th. The National Rifle Association (NRA) worked closely with Senator Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) to address his concerns regarding HR 2640, the National Instant Check System (NICS) Improvement Act. ...

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You pathetic little twerp!

2007-12-19T19:00:00Z

NOTE: Congress passed HR 2640. It now goes to the President for a signature, which, I'm sure, makes it a done deal. In response to this rational defense of the right to keep and bear arms, a snotty, cowardly, sanctimonious little ...

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QUIT THE NRA!

2007-12-19T19:00:00Z

The piece of legislation is question is HR 2640, the NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007. HR 2640 was carefully-crafted by the NRA and Members of Congress to protect the rights of gun owners, especially those who may have mental ...

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Congress passes bill closing gun background check loophole

2007-12-19T19:00:00Z

[JURIST] The US Senate and House of Representatives Wednesday passed by voice vote the NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007 [HR 2640 materials], which closes a loophole [JURIST report] that allowed Virginia Tech shooter Seung-Hui Cho ...

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Josh Sugarmann: Trojan Horse Gun Control: The NRA Wins on the NICS ...

2007-12-19T19:00:00Z

Gun owner's rights bill passes Senate

2007-12-19T19:00:00Z

HR 2640 on the Presidentâ€™s desk

2007-12-19T19:00:00Z

The Senate and the House have both finally passed HR 2640. If you recall, it had been stalled in the Senate by Senator Coburn, who had raised legitimate questions about the funding and execution of the bill. The link above takes you to ...

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HR 2640 passes

2007-12-19T19:00:00Z

Congress has passed Carolyn McCarthyâ€™s bill to keep nuts veterans from getting guns. It was nice of Tom Coburn to put a hold on it for awhile, but alas, that had nothing to do with the 2nd Amendment but with simple fiscal prudence. ...

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GOA Announces Vet Disarm Act Reversal of Fortune - Free Market ...

2007-12-18T19:00:00Z

into agreeing on a so-called "compromise" on HR 2640 -- a bill which now goes to the President's desk. The bill -- known as the Veterans Disarmament Act to its opponents -- is being praised by the National Rifle ...

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Senate Passes NICS Improvement Act - HR 2640 (Antiâ€™s are Flipping OUT)

2007-12-18T19:00:00Z

NICS Improvement Act is enroute to the Presidents Desk

2007-12-18T19:00:00Z

HR2640 - NICS Improvement Act Passes

2007-12-18T19:00:00Z

Brady Campaign Praises Senate for Action on Brady Background Checks

2007-12-18T19:00:00Z

2007â€² (HR 2640).â€* â€œThe Virginia Tech killer was able to arm himself because the court order that should have blocked his gun purchase was not reported to the Brady background check system. This is why many of the families of those ...

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HR2640 - NICS Improvement Act Passes

2007-12-18T19:00:00Z

Point Counterpoint Essays on HR 2640 (Gun Control Law)

2007-12-13T19:00:00Z

The bill, HR 2640 (the National Instant Criminal Background Check System Improvement Amendments Act of 2007), would require the states to update the NICS with the names and other identifying information of people committed to mental ...

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2007-12-11T19:00:00Z

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2007-12-11T19:00:00Z

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2007-12-11T19:00:00Z

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Here it comes! Slowly but surely, they will take your guns away?

2007-12-08T19:00:00Z

Resolved Question Here it comes! Slowly but surely, they will take your guns away? "In my opinion, HR 2640 is a flagrantly unconstitutional expansion of restricti.

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DR. RON PAULITICS vs. GLOBAL WHORING TAXES vs. THE GAP MURDE(RED ...

2007-12-06T19:00:00Z

It is section 102(b)(1)(C)(iv) in HR 2640 that provides for dumping raw medical records into the system. Those names -- like the 83000 records mentioned above -- will then, by law, serve as the basis for gun banning. ...

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Ron Paul: Das Wahlprogramm

2007-12-05T19:00:00Z

Auch habe ich vor kurzem HR 2640 abgelehnt, das von der Regierung beauftragten Psychiatern erlaubte hÃ¤tte, US-Veteranen, die auch nur milde Formen des posttraumatischen Belastungssyndroms aufweisen, den Besitz von Waffen fÃ¼r immer zu ...

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Involuntary Commitment

2007-12-01T19:00:00Z

Involuntary Commitment Pennsylvania Korwin was concerned that the language of HR 2640 refers to commitment, but not involuntary commitment. It turns out that the legal language is a bit confusing on this. A person who enters a mental ...

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Disappointed

2007-11-30T19:00:00Z

I also recently opposed HR 2640, which would allow government-appointed psychiatrists to ban US veterans experiencing even mild forms of Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome from ever owning a gun.â€* â€œNo amnesty. Estimates suggest that 10 to ...

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Beware Holiday Season Ambush (HR 2640)

2007-11-29T19:00:00Z

If that eery silence about HR 2640 (the Veteran Disarmament bill by Carolyn McCarthy) makes you uneasy, it should: the best time for our opponents to slip gun control through the legislative process is when it's quiet, and everyone's ...

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Veterans Disarmament Act to Bar Vets from Owning Guns

2007-11-25T19:00:00Z

Summary: Veterans Disarmament Act to Bar Vets from Owning Guns ... Hundreds of thousands of veterans -- from Vietnam through Operation ... Traumatic Stress Disorder on the federal gun ban list. ... The House bill, HR 2640, ...

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ACTION ALERT:Email President, Congress, House

2007-11-25T19:00:00Z

40 to Stop the North American Union! Restoration of Habeas Corpus Congress, Convince President Bush to Pardon Border Agents Ramos and Compean NO North American Union! (Updated 6/26/07) Oppose HR 2640 Say NO to the Hope Fund Act of 2007 ...

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Anyone seen a legitimate candidate yet?

2007-11-22T19:00:00Z

He also recently opposed HR 2640, which would allow government-appointed psychiatrists to ban US veterans experiencing even mild forms of Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome from ever owning a gun. You have the right to protect your life, ...

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Ila

2007-11-20T19:00:00Z

Ila Scotland End Aside), a generally disseminated alert from NRA-ILA regarding HR 2640 on which I have posted on redpills. Obviously NRA-ILA is feeling some heat we the gun owners of America and are either trying to set us straight or ...

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Beware Holiday Season Ambush

2007-11-14T19:00:00Z

Veterans Disarmament Act To Bar Vets From Owning Guns

2007-11-06T19:00:00Z

The NICS Improvement Amendments Act (HR 2640) was snuck through the house within two days of being introduced. The bill represents the most far-reaching gun ban in years. For the first time in American history, the federal government ...

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REALITY CHECK: Putting a Hold on Gun Reform

2007-11-05T19:00:00Z

Coburn, who currently has holds on about one hundred separate bills, recently set his sights on HR 2640, the NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007, which would improve the federal governmentâ€™s ability to prevent the mentally ill from ...

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Effectiveness & Unity: Maintaining our focus (revisited)

2007-11-03T20:00:00Z

This bill, HR 2640, is probably not the everything-to-everybody/all-that-we-want bill that many of us would like to see, but neither is it a â€œVeterans Disarmament Actâ€* that some people/groups might refer to it as. ...

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OpenCongress - U.S. Congress - H.R.3956 Coin Modernization and ...

2007-11-02T20:00:00Z

homosexual agenda (19); housing bailout (14); Housing Bill (1); housing bubble (14); HR 1370 (1); HR 1955 (3); HR 2415 (2); HR 2640 (2); HR 2755 (2); HR 3216 (1); HR 3217 (1); HR 3221 (1); HR 3664 (1); hr 3685 (1); HR 3956 (1) . ...

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OpenCongress - U.S. Congress - H.R.3690 U.S. Capitol Police and ...

2007-11-02T20:00:00Z

President Bush Signs HR 660, HR 3690, S. 863, and HR 2640 :. HR 2640, the "NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007," which requires accurate information on individuals prohibited from possessing firearms to be transmitted by State and . ...

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The Colossus of Rhodey: Dare I say it? Ron Paul is an attractive ...

2007-10-24T20:00:00Z

I also recently opposed H.R. 2640, which would allow government-appointed psychiatrists to ban U.S. veterans experiencing even mild forms of Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome from ever owning a gun. (The "ever" absolutist language is ...

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Veteranâ€™s Disarmament Act

2007-10-22T20:00:00Z

Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and NRA support HR 2640 ...

2007-10-18T20:00:00Z

Remember HR 2640? The gun control legislation that the NRA (National Rifle Association) said it had â€˜hijackedâ€™ and was now good legislation for gun owners? But the GOA (Gun Owners of America) seeing another side to the bill continued to ...

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Vietnam veteran subjected to outrageous injustice

2007-10-17T20:00:00Z

First, although this is about a veteran being denied, for psychological reasons, his Constitutionally guaranteed fundamental human right of the individual to keep and bear arms, it is not about HR 2640. I am passionately, vehemently ...

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Can We Talk About Resuming the Conversation Yet?

2007-10-15T20:00:00Z

In the wake of Virginia Tech, the best Wayne & Co. could do was treat with the antis on HR 2640. To actually move forward on legislation that would give future victims a fighting chance would be exploiting the situation--or at least ...

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Guns, Government & GI's

2007-10-15T20:00:00Z

In June the House passed HR 2640, the NICS (National Instant Criminal Background Check System) Improvement Act of 2007. The bill is now in the Senate. However it has been stuck in the Committee on the Judiciary for the last 4 months and ...

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Mike Huckabee for President 2012: Mike Huckabee Opposes H.R. 2640 ...

2007-10-14T20:00:00Z

Mike Huckabee Opposes H.R. 2640 Adamantly and its predecessor H.R. 297: NICS Improvement Act of 2007... As are Ron Paul and Duncan Hunter, two other well known long time life members of the NRA and 2008 Presidential Candidates! ...

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A Victory For Law Enforcement In California

2007-10-14T20:00:00Z

Survivors and surviving family members will make a trip to Capitol Hill here in Washington, DC tomorrow morning, and urge passage of the NICS Improvement Act (HR 2640), a bill designed to fill gaps in the Brady background check law that ...

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Gun Bill Not Anti-Veteran - No such thing as 'Vet Disarmament Act'

2007-10-13T20:00:00Z

The piece of legislation is question is HR 2640 , the NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007. HR 2640 was carefully-crafted by the NRA and Members of Congress to protect the rights of gun owners, especially those who may have mental ...

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Do Not Be Fooled By The NRA on HR 2640

2007-10-12T20:00:00Z

HR 2640 is yet another piece of anti-gun legislation in a long line of such constitutional infringements by Anti-Gun Zealot Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) whom ran for congress just to push her anti-gun agenda on us. ...

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NRA Responds to Critics: Setting The Record Straight On HR 2640

2007-10-12T20:00:00Z

NRA responds to critics: In last week's Grassroots Alert, we provided factual information to refute several myths being promulgated by some vocal opponents of the NICS Improvement bill. The success of the pro-gun community and the ...

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PTSD Veterans Victims of Neocon Nutcase Scare (HR2640)

2007-10-12T20:00:00Z

Internet Spreading False Rumors About Bill HR 2640. by G. Duff (Vet, gun owner, gunsmith MAD AS HELL). House Bill HR2640 which is being idiotically misrepresented across the internet by right wing extremists as a bill that would allow ...

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From the Firearms Coalition - Coburn Blocks NICS Bill Railroad

2007-10-12T03:52:57Z

(Washington, DC, September 27, 2007) Oklahoma Republican Senator Dr. Tom Coburn put a halt to an attempt to push through H.R.2640, the so called “NICS Improvement Bill”, by objecting to an attempt

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HR2640 Update

2007-10-11T20:00:00Z

It hasnâ€™t made it to the Congressional Record yet, but the Wall Street Journal has some info on House Bill 2640, the NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007 in Democrats Stall on Gun-Records Bill. Does anyone else find it amazing that ...

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"NICS Improvement Amendments Act" (HR 2640)

2007-10-11T20:00:00Z

I've been involved with this legislation, via Representative Boyda. I've gotten a *lot* of email from gun groups and readers talking about the effect it will potentially have on PTSD-diagnosed veterans. ...

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Sarah Brady, Blood Dancer

2007-10-11T20:00:00Z

In July, the US House of Representatives took a courageous first step to keep guns out of the wrong hands by passing HR 2640, the NICS Improvement Act. We all know whose hands are the wrong hands Sarah, the hands of every law abiding, ...

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This Is Why The NRA Is Wrong About HR 2640, the "NICS Improvement ...

2007-10-10T20:00:00Z

Student advocates gun rights, gets suspended. Church-affiliated university to require mental evaluation before return allowed. A Christian church-affiliated university in St. Paul, Minn., has suspended a student after he raised ...

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HR 2640 The End

2007-10-09T20:00:00Z

... comments from hysterical conspiracy theorists, rehashed GOA BS but I have not yet read one statement from an authenticated 2nd Amendment attorney that states anything other than the fact that HR 2640 is a step in the right direction ...

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"NICS Improvement Amendments Act" (HR 2640)

2007-10-09T20:00:00Z

Some opponents of the "NICS Improvement Amendments Act" (HR 2640) have spent the last several months painting a picture of the bill that would rightly terrify gun owners-if it was true. The opponents' motive seems to be a totally ...

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Are PTSD Veterans Slated to Lose Their Right to Possess Firearms ...

2007-10-08T20:00:00Z

The confusion over H.R. 2640 and veterans, especially veterans with PTSD, began in 2000 when the VA gave the names of between 83000 and 89000 veterans to the NICS database. The names were of veterans who had been committed to VA ...

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Civil Rights and Mental Illness

2007-10-08T20:00:00Z

The tragedy of Virginia Tech helped a bill (HR 2640, NICS Improvment Amendments Act of 2007 PDF) that would tighten the restrictions on gun ownership among the mentally ill pass the House of Representatives and move to the Senate. ...

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HR 2640 continued

2007-10-08T20:00:00Z

There certainly is some virulent anti NRA sentiment out there and it appears most of those people are of the same ilk as the conspiracy theorist who believe that the United States planned the 911 attacks. Comments out of context and ...

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Second Amendment News Roundup for 10/8/07

2007-10-07T20:00:00Z

If you haven't seen Armed and Safe's comments on HR 2640, this is a good time to read an excellent blog post: http://armedandsafe.blogspot.com/2007/10/about-hr-2640-senator-coburn-and-stuff.html Blogonomicon has a slide show on the ...

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NRA board member Nugent nukes gun control deal

2007-10-07T20:00:00Z

Opposition to HR 2640 continues to grow, thanks exclusively to the grassroots activism of gun owners -- like you and me-- across the country. All of the establishment, and notably the institutional gun lobby â€“ thatâ€™s the NRA and their ...

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About HR 2640, Senator Coburn, and . . . stuff

2007-10-06T20:00:00Z

There's lots of discussion (some of it a bit heated) these days in the gun rights community about HR 2640, the NICS "Improvement" Act. This bill is championed by longtime enemies of gun rights, including Representative Carolyn "I don'

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NRA board member Nugent nukes gun control deal

2007-10-06T20:00:00Z

Opposition to HR 2640 continues to grow, thanks exclusively to the grassroots activism of gun owners â€” like you and meâ€“ across the country. All of the establishment, and notably the institutional gun lobby â€“ thatâ€™s the NRA and their ...

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Some random thoughts on HR 2640

2007-10-06T20:00:00Z

I received an email the other day from the NRA trying to salvage the leak in gun owner support for HR 2640. I've read numerous blog entries and articles about the bill, claiming the "extremist" among us are trying to divide the gun ...

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Ron Paul: 2nd Amendment Is Under Attack

2007-10-06T20:00:00Z

"In my opinion, HR 2640 is a flagrantly unconstitutional expansion of restriction on the exercise of the right to bear arms protected under the Second Amendment," he said.

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Threat to vetsâ€™ 2nd Amendment rights on hold

2007-10-05T20:00:00Z

â€œThe American Legion, the nationâ€™s largest wartime veteransâ€™ service organization, strongly opposes specific provisions of HR 2640 â€¦ that would unilaterally abrogate the rights of certain service-connected disabled veterans to own ...

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nra board member nugent nukes gun control deal; veteran's group's ...

2007-10-04T20:00:00Z

opposition to hr 2640 continues to grow, thanks exclusively to the grassroots activism of gun owners -- like you and me-- across the country. all of the establishment, and notably the institutional gun lobby that s the nra and their ...

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Opposition to HR 2640 continues to mount

2007-10-03T20:00:00Z

But for some reason, HR 2640 was not given this benefit. The bill was rammed through the legislature with very few Representatives present on the House floor... there was no recorded vote at all! Why wasn't the public given a chance to ...

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Ted Nugent - HR 2640 is Janet Reno's dream

2007-10-03T20:00:00Z

HR 2640 is Janet Reno's dream "...with ATF harrassing the shit out of numerous mom & pop gunshops in SC, ID & elsewhere, this is THE American issue of alltimes. I pray to God ya all hammer relentlessly." -Nuge ...

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Second Amendment News Roundup for 10/4/07

2007-10-03T20:00:00Z

The War on Guns reports the latest blather from 'Little Chucky' Schumer on the difficulty of negotiating with Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn (Coburn has blogged progression of HR 2640): ...

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HR-2640

2007-10-03T20:00:00Z

Iâ€™ve been ignoring the BS coming from GOA over HR-2640 because I want to focus on state and local issues and let NRA deal with federal matters. It was getting to the point where I figured Iâ€™d have to say something, but fortunately Tom ...

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PODCAST - LARRY SCOTT INTERVIEW ON CAM AND COMPANY ABOUT HR 2640 ...

2007-10-03T20:00:00Z

From Cam and Company on NRA Radio, Thursday, October 4, 2007.

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10-3 Update on HR-2640

2007-10-03T20:00:00Z

organization, strongly opposes specific provisions of HR 2640... that would unilaterally abrogate the rights of certain service-connected disabled veterans to own firearms, a right guaranteed by the Second Amendment. ...

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The more I listen to Glenn Beck, the more I realize that this man ...

2007-10-03T20:00:00Z

Back on September 28th I posted regarding Beckâ€™s ignorance of HR 2640, the Veteranâ€™s Disarmament Act. He had invited the NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPew, er, LaPierre, on to his radio show and Wayne then went on a BS tour of ...

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Gun Bill Not Anti-Veteran

2007-10-02T20:00:00Z

HR 2640 - NICS Improvement Act

2007-10-02T20:00:00Z

In an effort to provide you with the most up-to-date information to help address any confusion or misrepresentation over HR 2640, the "NICS Improvement Amendments Act," NRA-ILA has provided the below helpful links to NRA-ILA fact sheets ...

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Hr 2640

2007-10-02T20:00:00Z

Ok. I, for one, am getting tired of everyone who is against this bill saying "I heard....". When dealing with something you obviously feel is so important, please take the time, at the very least, to read the summary. ...

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Enough NRA Bashing!

2007-10-02T20:00:00Z

Introduction by the Board of Directors, September 30, 2007: While the policy of Pro-Gun New Hampshire is to focus on state legislation, we have received enough inquiries about a controversial federal bill, HR 2640, to warrant a response ...

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List of Groups in Opposition to hr 2640 The Veterans Disarmament ...

2007-10-02T20:00:00Z

The list of groups in opposition to HR 2640 -- the Veterans Disarmament Act -- continues growing, even while Senators in our nation's capital are continuously being BOMBARDED by thousands upon thousands of phone calls and e-mails from ...

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Paul Helmke: Violent crime is up in America. Again.

2007-10-02T20:00:00Z

In the short run, Congress can pass the NICS Improvement Act (HR 2640) [pdf document] - a common-sense bill designed to close the gap that allowed the Virginia Tech shooter to get his guns. Supported by the Brady Campaign, ...

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Gun Bill Not Anti-Veteran

2007-10-02T20:00:00Z

Take on HR 2640

2007-10-02T20:00:00Z

Military.com has this take on HR 2640, the bill relating to mental records and NICS. Attorney Ev Nappen, whose pro-gun credentials are as solid as can be, has the same take. I've read the complex bill, and see it as a help. ...

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HR 2640

2007-10-02T20:00:00Z

The bottom line for veterans concerned about HR 2640 is to just use some common sense. Read the legislation. You may not agree with it. But, if youâ€™re a veteran or you have been diagnosed with PTSD, donâ€™t worry, they arenâ€™t coming for ...

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Congress Poised to Strip 2nd Amendment Rights.

2007-10-02T10:12:14Z

H.R.2640 has passed the House with an unrecorded voice vote, and is slated to enter the Senate under a unanimous consent agreement to limit debate. This will, in effect, steamroll the passage

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[osint] Weaponized Psychology

2007-10-01T20:00:00Z

HR 2640: There has been a lot of blogfroth regarding HR 2640 and what it will do, and what it will not do. What it won't do is take the right to own a gun from soldiers who have Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome (PTSD), what it will do is ...

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Not-so-much Truth in Advertising

2007-10-01T20:00:00Z

... which seems to be the mantra of one pro-gun group. Recently, the advocacy group Gun Owners of America sent an e-mail to rally the like-minded against HR 2640, the National Instant Criminal Background Check System Improvement.

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PTSD, Guns and HR 2640

2007-10-01T20:00:00Z

There has been a lot of blogfroth regarding HR 2640 and what it will do, and what it will not do. What it won't do is take the right to...

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Congress Poised to Strip 2nd Amendment Rights

2007-10-01T14:37:21Z

Congress Poised to Strip 2nd Amendment Rights By TheTower - Posted on October 1st, 2007 Tagged: ADHD • Bill of Rights • Crimestop • Good Citizens • guns • mental health • PTSD • veterans H.R.2640
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Gun Rights Hysteria: PTSD Vets to be Barred from Gun Ownership?

2007-09-30T20:00:00Z
It is section 102(b)(1)(C)(iv) in HR 2640 that provides for dumping raw medical records into the system. Those names â€” like the 83000 records mentioned above â€” will then, by law, serve as the basis for gun banning. ...

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Thatâ€™s How They Support the Troops?

2007-09-30T20:00:00Z
It is section 102(b)(1)(C)(iv) in HR 2640 that provides for dumping raw medical records into the system. Those names, like the 83000 records mentioned above, will then, by law, serve as the basis for gun banning. ...

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H.R.2640

2007-09-29T22:17:11Z
H.R.2640 To improve the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, and for other purposes. introduced Jun. 11, 2007 24 posts See more bills Bills Most Covered in the News(Past Seven

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Veterans Disarmament Act To Bar Vets From Owning Guns ...

2007-09-29T20:00:00Z
If not, then we should not let HR 2640 supporters call the permission to seek an expungement an enhancement, when prior to this bill, veterans could not legitimately be denied their gun rights after being diagnosed with PTSD. ...

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GUN BILL NOT ANTI-VETERAN -- 10-01-2007 #1

2007-09-29T20:00:00Z
Let's use some common sense instead of nonsense about HR 2640. If you're a veteran or you have been diagnosed with PTSD, don't worry, they aren't coming for your firearms.

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Point-by-Point Response to NRA support for Gun Control

2007-09-28T20:00:00Z
MISLEADING STATEMENT: â€œHR 2640 would prevent use of federal â€˜adjudicationsâ€™ that consist only of medical diagnosis without findings that the people involved are dangerous or mentally incompetent.â€* THE TRUTH: First of all, ...

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Mississippi: Exasperated Homeowner Defends Home: "Patricia Parker ...

2007-09-28T20:00:00Z
But these two New York Democrats are currently planning to roll over gun owners with HR 2640 -- legislation which would bar you from owning guns if: * You are a battle-scarred veteran suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder; ...

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Freak, Glenn Beck, just getting wind of HR 2640 and thinks the NRA ...

2007-09-27T20:00:00Z
Anyway, Beck finally gets around to talking about HR 2640 which would take away the gun owning rights of many thousands and which he just learned about (â€¦again Beck, where the hell have you been? This bill has only been out there for ...

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HR 2640 -- yet another anti-gun rights bill in The Right To Bear Arms

2007-09-27T20:00:00Z
Kim Jong Ill, 28/09/07 (31 Replies)

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HR 2640, which has been dubbed the "veterans disarmament act"

2007-09-27T20:00:00Z
During my conversation with the individual representing Senator Schumer's office, I informed him of the oath that guides my life's actions; I then inquired as to whether Senator Chuck Schumer was a domestic enemy of the US Constitution. ...

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HR 2640, the â€œNICS Improvement Amendments Actâ€*

2007-09-27T20:00:00Z
Pratt explains his opposition to HR 2640. Mr. Pratt made some very compelling arguments as to why this bill needed to be defeated. Most gun owners who have read this article were shocked, myself included. ...

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Two for the Price of One

2007-09-27T20:00:00Z
HR 2640 stalls (again) and Mayor Bloomberg of New York is an idiot. Both fascinating topics in one article. On the first issue, it seems that the passage of HR 2640 has been stalled in the Senate (again), but this time itâ€™s for a decent ...

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From the Firearms Coalition - Coburn Blocks NICS Bill Railroad

2007-09-27T17:11:53Z
(Washington, DC, September 27, 2007) Oklahoma Republican Senator Dr. Tom Coburn put a halt to an attempt to push through H.R.2640, the so called "NICS Improvement Bill", by objecting to an attempt

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PUPPETGOV Â» Gun Bill Rewrites Law To Disarm More Americans

2007-09-26T20:00:00Z
Please contact your two U.S. Senators RIGHT AWAY and urge them to OBJECT to Senator Chuck Schumerâ€™s â€œunanimous consent agreementâ€* to steamroll H.R. 2640, the McCarthy anti-gun bill. You can use the pre-written message below and send it ...

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MORE GOA ACTION Schumer/McCarthy sham bill.

2007-09-26T20:00:00Z
Veterans Disarmament Act (HR 2640). "Propelled by a rare alliance between the National Rifle Association and majority Democrats," the AP explained, "the legislation was passed in similar form by the House and would be the first major ...

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Veterans Disarmament Bill #2

2007-09-26T20:00:00Z
Veterans Disarmament Act (HR 2640). "Propelled by a rare alliance between the National Rifle Association and majority Democrats," the AP explained, "the legislation was passed in similar form by the House and would be the first major ...

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Ex-military to be denied gun ownership HR 2640 passed the House

2007-09-26T20:00:00Z
Forum: Sound Off (MichiganForums.com) Posted By: Wetlandhunter Post Time: 09-27-2007 at 05:23 PM.

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Disarming Americans by Diagnosis!

2007-09-26T20:00:00Z
Now comes word of HR 2640 and the new attempt to disarm Americans. "World Net Daily" has an excellent article on this menace to freedom. You'lll find it here:. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57847 ...

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Second amendment and veterans advocates action alert!!!! (Last ...

2007-09-26T20:00:00Z
Contact you representative and senator to oppose HR 2640!! "You'd think that when.

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Ex-military to be denied gun ownership HR 2640 passed the House

2007-09-26T20:00:00Z
"But these two New York Democrats are currently planning to roll over gun owners with HR 2640 â€“ legislation which would bar you from owning guns if: You are a battle-scarred veteran suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder; ...

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NRA sells out on gun rights

2007-09-26T20:00:00Z
Both sides of the gun control debate â€” with the exception of Gun Owners of America and many pro-gun groups at the state level â€” are supporting the Veterans Disarmament Act (HR 2640). â€œPropelled by a rare alliance between the National ...

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New attempt to take away Second Amendment rights?

2007-09-26T20:00:00Z
Some pro-gun groups have claimed that HR 2640 would â€œprohibitâ€* thousands of people from owning guns. This is not true; these bills would only enforce current prohibitions. In fact, HR 2640 would allow some people now unfairly prohibited ...

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HR 2640

2007-09-26T20:00:00Z
The bill is bogged down due to funding issues. Well, that was the problem with the original Brady Bill. Seems they wanted background checks to check for people who have been adjudicated mentally defective. But, you know, no one offered ...

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Ajetpilot's Blog: URGENT! Disarmament Bill Being Rammed Through Senate

2007-09-25T20:00:00Z
Currently, anti-gun zealot Chuck Schumer is trying to get "unanimous consent" to steamroll the Senate in connection with Carolyn McCarthy's anti-gun bill, H.R. 2640. If this bill is passed, an American would be barred from owning guns ...

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Gun Bill Rewrites Law To Disarm More Americans

2007-09-25T20:00:00Z
Please contact your two U.S. Senators RIGHT AWAY and urge them to OBJECT to Senator Chuck Schumer's "unanimous consent agreement" to steamroll H.R. 2640, the McCarthy anti-gun bill. You can use the pre-written message below and send it ...

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Anti-gun Zealots Trying To Ram Disarmament Bill Through Senate ...

2007-09-25T20:00:00Z
ACTION: Please contact your two U.S. Senators RIGHT AWAY and urge them to OBJECT to Senator Chuck Schumerâ€™s â€œunanimous consent agreementâ€* to steamroll H.R. 2640, the McCarthy anti-gun bill. You can use the pre-written message below and ...

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Gun Bill Rewrites Law To Disarm More Americans

2007-09-25T20:00:00Z
Please contact your two U.S. Senators RIGHT AWAY and urge them to OBJECT to Senator Chuck Schumer's "unanimous consent agreement" to steamroll H.R. 2640, the McCarthy anti-gun bill. You can use the pre-written message below and send it ...

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Gun Bill Rewrites Law To Disarm More Americans

2007-09-25T20:00:00Z
HR 2640, which has been dubbed the "veterans disarmament act" by gun owners, would place any veteran who has ever been diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) on the federal gun ban list. ...

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Point-by-Point Response To Proponents Of HR 2640

2007-09-25T20:00:00Z
Here's an interesting read. Seems to say they can disqualify you just by a diagnosis. Never mind if you have ever been "a danger". http://www.gunowners.org/ne0702.htm What's the status on this anyway? Here is the latest. ...

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OT-Veterans Disarmament Act HR 2640

2007-09-25T20:00:00Z
rec.crafts.metalworking: OT-Veterans Disarmament Act HR 2640.

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HR2640 2007 â€“ Largest Gun Control Act in Decades

2007-09-25T20:00:00Z
This has passed the US House and is moving to the Senate. This gun control act takes your right to purchase arms without any due process if an â€œexpertâ€* designates you have ADHD, post traumatic stress disorder (PTDS), altimetry, ...

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GOA URGENT ALERT

2007-09-24T20:00:00Z
gun owners with HR 2640 -- legislation which would bar you from owning guns if: * You are a battle-scarred veteran suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder; or * As a kid, you were diagnosed with ADHD. ...

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Beauty....and then the beast (aka Congress)

2007-09-24T20:00:00Z
And now HR 2640 would punish them for putting themselves between us and danger by taking away their constitutional rights without due process in a court of law. HR 2640 would also discourage PTSD sufferers from seeking diagnosis and ...

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GOA URGENT ALERT

2007-09-24T20:00:00Z
gun owners with HR 2640 -- legislation which would bar you from owning guns if: * You are a battle-scarred veteran suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder; or * As a kid, you were diagnosed with ADHD. ...

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Oppose Carolyn McCarthy's anti-gun bill, HR 2640

2007-09-24T20:00:00Z
Please oppose Carolyn McCarthy's anti-gun bill, HR 2640 Currently, anti-gun zealot Chuck Schumer is trying to get "unanimous consent" to steamroll the Senate in connection with Carolyn McCarthy's anti-gun bill, HR 2640. ...

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Schumer and McCarthy disarming Vets and kids with ADHD via HR 2640

2007-09-24T20:00:00Z
ACTION: Please contact your two US Senators RIGHT AWAY and urge them to OBJECT to Senator Chuck Schumerâ€™s â€œunanimous consent agreementâ€* to steamroll HR 2640, the McCarthy anti-gun bill. You can use the pre-written message below and send ...

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Ron Paul and where he stands on the issues (even the NAU)

2007-09-24T20:00:00Z
I also recently opposed HR 2640, which would allow government-appointed psychiatrists to ban US veterans experiencing even mild forms of Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome from ever owning a gun. You have the right to protect your life, ...

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Second Amendment News Roundup for 9/24/07

2007-09-23T20:00:00Z
Snow Flakes in Hell posts this assessment of the GOA's opposition to HR 2640. It would be great if Larry Pratt would agree to a dialogue over this, since obviously Sebastian believes that Larry has it wrong. Many of us oppose HR 2640 ...

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VETERANS DISARMAMENT ACT TO BAR VETS FROM OWNING GUNS

2007-09-23T20:00:00Z
It is section 102(b)(1)(C)(iv) in HR 2640 that provides for dumping raw medical records into the system. Those names -- like the 83000 records mentioned above -- will then, by law, serve as the basis for gun banning. ...

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Veterans Disarmament Act Will It Pass

2007-09-23T20:00:00Z
If not, then we should not let HR 2640 supporters call the permission to seek an expungement an enhancement, when prior to this bill, veterans could not legitimately be denied their gun rights after being diagnosed with PTSD. ...

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[Conspiracy-Theory] --STOP-HR 2640

2007-09-22T20:00:00Z
Now, adjudication in HR 2640 would include a finding. by "a court, commission, committee or other. authorized person" (namely, a psychiatrist). Forget the fact that people with PTSD have the same violent. crime rate as the rest of us. ...

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[catapult] Re: --STOP-HR 2640

2007-09-22T20:00:00Z
HR 2640 would include a finding by "a court, commission, committee or other authorized person" (namely, a psychiatrist). Forget the fact that people with PTSD have the same violent > crime rate as the rest of us. ...

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clifflesniak @ 2007-09-23T16:26:00

2007-09-22T20:00:00Z
It is section 102(b)(1)(C)(iv) in HR 2640 that provides for dumping raw medical records into the system. Those names -- like the 83000 records mentioned above -- will then, by law, serve as the basis for gun banning. ...

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Veterans Disarmament Act To Bar Vets From Owning Guns

2007-09-22T20:00:00Z
The House bill, HR 2640, is being sponsored by one of the most flaming anti-Second Amendment Representatives in Congress: Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY). Another liberal anti-gunner, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), is sponsoring the bill in the ...

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RUMOR CONTROL - THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS THE "VETERANS ...

2007-09-22T20:00:00Z
Misinformation abounds regarding HR 2640, the NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007.

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The Veterans Disarmament Act

2007-09-21T20:00:00Z
It is section 102(b)(1)(C)(iv) in HR 2640 that provides for dumping raw medical records into the system. Those names â€” like the 83000 records mentioned above â€” will then, by law, serve as the basis for gun banning. ...

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Gun rights advocate says teachers should conceal and carry ...

2007-09-20T20:00:00Z
agreement" to steamroll H.R. 2640, the McCarthy anti-gun bill. You can use the pre-written message below and send it as an e-mail by visiting the GOA Legislative Action Center at http://www.gunowners.org/activism.htm (where phone and ...

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Senate version of HR2640 stalls

2007-09-20T20:00:00Z
As I said, I supported HR 2640 when it was before the House, and I continue to support it now. I wish the Democrats would quit with their little turf wars and get this legislation through.

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HR 2640 Amendments

2007-09-20T20:00:00Z
HR 2640 Amendments It's in the Senate now, and as some worried, there are attempts being made to amend it--but not by the Democrats to add antigun stuff on it--but by Democrats adding stuff to make it easier for some people to carry ...

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HR2640 Update

2007-09-20T20:00:00Z
It hasn't made it to the Congressional Record yet, but the Wall Street Journal has some info on House Bill 2640, the NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007 in Democrats Stall on Gun-Records Bill. Does anyone else find it amazing that ...

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HR 2640 in trouble (doomed by Democratic infighting)?

2007-09-20T20:00:00Z
I have made no secret (here, here, and here, for example) of my opposition to HR 2640, the Carolyn McCarthy/NRA Gun Control Act of 2007 (not the official name, of course, but accurate nonetheless, I submit). ...

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HR 2640

2007-09-20T20:00:00Z
How ineffectual is the Democrat majority? So ineffectual that they canâ€™t pass a gun bill they want even when the bill has the support of the NRA and the Republicans. Via Ahab, who notes:. The biggest problem is that Leahyâ€™s amendments ...

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HR2640 Update

2007-09-20T20:00:00Z
It hasn't made it to the Congressional Record yet, but the Wall Street Journal has some info on House Bill 2640, the NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007 in Democrats Stall on Gun-Records Bill. Does anyone else find it amazing that ...

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Ron Paul: The Pro-Second Amendment Republican Candidate for President

2007-09-19T20:00:00Z
Opposed HR 2640 that would allow government-appointed psychiatrists to BAN US veterans experiencing even mild forms of Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome from EVER owning a gun. If elected president, Dr. Paul will: ...

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Veterans Disarmament Bill Could Come Before The Senate At Any Time

2007-09-14T20:00:00Z
Veterans Disarmament Bill Could Come Before The Senate At Any Time The McCarthy/Schumer Gun Control Act (formerly HR 297) was re-introduced to the House as HR 2640; and was passed with a voice vote! Now it heads to the Senate....

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Veterans Disarmament Bill could come before the Senate at any time

2007-09-14T20:00:00Z
Thatâ€™s what HR 2640 is all about. McCarthy and Leahy (and others like Sen. Chuck Schumer) are forging the legal chains that will be used to keep hundreds of thousands â€” if not millions â€” of decent, law-abiding Americans from owning ...

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Dangerous gun control bill in US Senate

2007-09-13T20:00:00Z
HR 2640 will allow shrinks (psychologists and psychiatrists) and bureaucrats to decide who can own and possess firearms. Currently under the National Instant Check System (NICS) a person becomes a prohibited person, regarding firearms ...

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Veterans Disarmament Bill Could Come Before The Senate At Any Time ...

2007-09-12T20:00:00Z
stating that HR 2640 is a Trojan Horse, which sounds justified on the outside with promises of keeping â€œmental defectivesâ€* from having firearms. But when one takes a closer look at the details of the bill, the group said, it reveals â€œa ...

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What happens when you lose your rights?

2007-09-10T20:00:00Z
I have heard both sides of HR 2640 which is the NICS Improvement Amendment Acts of 2007 or as GOA has termed it the Veterans Disarmament Act. I am very concerned with this bill, I know that some will say that it reinforces what is ...

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gun control bill hr 2640

2007-09-08T20:00:00Z
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, â€œi rise today in strong support of hr 2640.â€* ...

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Adjudicated

2007-09-08T20:00:00Z
Adjudicated Youth HR 2640 is consistent with NRA's decades-long support for measures to prohibit firearm purchases by those who have been adjudicated by a court as mentally defective or as a danger to themselves or others. ...

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Veterans Disarmament Bill offers false hopes of relief for gun owners

2007-09-07T20:00:00Z
Well, thatâ€™s VERY debatable, and GOA has grappled this question in a very lengthy piece entitled, â€œPoint-by-Point Response to Proponents of HR 2640,â€* which can be read at http://www.gunowners.org/ne0702.htm on the GOA website. ...

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Buckeye Firearms News

2007-08-22T20:00:00Z
Clayton E. Cramer: Op-Ed: HR 2640 - Sensible Solution or Trojan Horse? At least 28 states either intentionally, because of a shortage of money, or by bureaucratic incompetence, fail to turn over mental illness commitment information to ...

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HR 2640, the "NICS Improvement Amendments Act"

2007-08-22T20:00:00Z
from page 15 Quote " On June 13 , the house of representatives passed a bill to improve the national Instant Criminal Background Check System(NICS), The bill (HR 2640, The NICS Improvement Amendments Act") would create incentives for ...

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Rising from the depths - Whittier Daily News

2007-08-18T20:00:00Z
Op-Ed: HR 2640 - Sensible Solution or Trojan Horse?Buckeye Firearms Association, OH - 43 minutes agoThis column is about HR 2640, a mental illness and gun control bill currently before Congress that has split the gun rights community ...

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House tempers background checks for guns

2007-08-18T20:00:00Z
He said he hoped Congress and the gun lobby would go a step further and extend background checks to all gun sales, not just those by licensed dealers covered by current law. ___. The bill is HR 2640. On the Net: ...

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Discussion Topic: Is McCarthy Bill Good or Bad?

2007-08-16T20:00:00Z
Cramer: This column is about HR 2640, a mental illness and gun control bill currently before Congress that has split the gun rights community more than I can... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, ...

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HR 2640: Sensible Solution or Trojan Horse? by cramer

2007-08-13T20:00:00Z
What does HR 2640 purport to do? (Remember that I am talking about the HR 2640 as of the day that I wrote this column, July 21. Bills change as they work their way thorough Congress.) At least 28 states either intentionally, ...

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Bill passed in response to VaTech melee

2007-08-13T20:00:00Z
... those goals and imposes penalties, including cuts in federal grants under an anti-crime law, to those states that fail to meet benchmarks for automating their systems and supplying information to the NICS. ___. The bill is HR 2640 ...

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HR 2640: Sensible Solution or Trojan Horse?

2007-08-13T20:00:00Z
Clayton Cramer examines HR 2640 (NICS Improvement) in the latest edition of the Shotgun News.In short, he finds no there there. Those who oppose the bill (Caveat: As it's currently written!) are objecting to things that either aren't in ...

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Clayton Cramer analyzes the "NICS Improvement Amendments Act"

2007-08-13T20:00:00Z
"Anytime that Carolyn McCarthy wants a bill passed, we should definitely read it carefully, and consider if there might be something nasty hiding in the woodwork. But so far, all of the objections that I have seen raised to HR 2640-at ...

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HR 2640: Sensible Solution or Trojan Horse?

2007-08-13T20:00:00Z
Cramer's Column HR 2640: Sensible Solution or Trojan Horse? My last two columns addressed the problem of psychosis, violence and gun control. This column is about HR 2640, a mental illness and gun control bill currently before Congress ...

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Contact Congress

2007-08-10T20:00:00Z
The NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007 (H.R. 2640) would enhance the National Instant Check System (NICS) by giving monetary enticements to states that agree to keep the federal background database up to date in an effort to bar ...

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Background searches easier to access locally

2007-08-07T20:00:00Z
YubaNet - Sure, the NRA worked with its Congressional enemies to draft legislation that would close Cho loopholes–HR 2640, the National Instant Criminal Background Check System Improvement Amendments Act–which passed the House in June. ...

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Second Amendment News Roundup for 8/9/07

2007-08-07T20:00:00Z
Snow Flakes in Hell blogs about the importance of a united gun rights community, and the fallout from HR 2640. I have been against the bill from the beginning, but I know others disagree. Hopefully this disagreement will not weaken our ...

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House tempers background checks for guns

2007-08-07T20:00:00Z
He said he hoped Congress and the gun lobby would go a step further and extend background checks to all gun sales, not just those by licensed dealers covered by current law. ___. The bill is HR 2640. On the Net: ...

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[No War - No Bush] McCarthy Bill Moves To The Senate

2007-08-06T20:00:00Z
But what happens when good guys' names get thrown into the bad guys' list' That is exactly what has happened, and no one should think that the attempts to expand the gun control noose are going to end with the McCarthy bill (HR 2640). ...

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HR2640 - Senate Action

2007-08-02T20:00:00Z
It is not on the Senate site, or Thomas, but the Richmond Times-Dispatch says that HR2640 , the NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007, has been passed out of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Get educated and communicate with your ...

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HR2640 - Senate Action

2007-08-02T20:00:00Z
It is not on the Senate site, or Thomas, but the Richmond Times-Dispatch says that HR2640 , the NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007, has been passed out of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Get educated and communicate with your ...

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From the enemy camp

2007-08-01T20:00:00Z
Similar legislation (HR 2640) was passed by the US House of Representatives on June 13. “Senator Patrick Leahy and the Senate Judiciary Committee took an important step today to help prevent tragedies like Virginia Tech,” said Paul ...

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HR2640 Activity Today

2007-08-01T20:00:00Z
The Brady Bunch, in the form of Stop the NRA, is nice enough to inform us that HR2640 , the NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007, is seeing action in the Senate Judiciary Committee today. There are big differences of opinion on this ...

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A retraction of my opinion on HR 2640

2007-07-31T20:00:00Z
I'ma little late to the party here, but it looks like I and a ton of others jumped the gun on excoriating HR 2640. Clayton Cramer, friend to gun owners across the nation, had this to say in correcting those of us who did jump the gun: ...

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Efforts to Prevent Gun Sales to Mentally Ill May ...

2007-07-30T20:00:00Z
The bill (HR 2640), which passed the US House of Representatives in June and has been under review in the Senate, would provide incentives for states to submit complete, automated records of involuntary commitments to mental ...

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FORWARD IN REVERSE: THE PROGRESSIVE LIBERTARIAN: ALERT FROM GUN ...

2007-07-27T20:00:00Z
The gun issue has been in the news a lot lately, despite the strange silence coming from Capitol Hill on the status of the McCarthy bill (HR 2640). Many Senators on the Judiciary Committee are being kept in the dark as to when the ...

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Column for July 26, 2007

2007-07-25T20:00:00Z
At the federal level, the McCarthy Bill (HR 2640) will ensure that your right to keep and bear arms will be decided by a doctor, not by the Constitution. Allegedly, the bill would put any mental health records into a the National ...

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PTSD Exposed

2007-07-25T20:00:00Z
Now, that I have seen HR 2640 - the pending bill in Senate Committee - I believe the basis of that pending bill is all fraud. That bill, now before Senate Committee is to disarm veterans with a diagnosis of PTSD. Sounds good? ...

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State of the 5th Amendment

2007-07-25T20:00:00Z
While we're on the subject of due process, bill HR 2640, just passed back to the House from the Senate is also an assault on this. The bill was introduced in response to the VA Tech shootings, and seeks to "strengthen the NICS system. ...

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I'm back!

2007-07-23T20:00:00Z
Yeah, I'm feeling real good about HR 2640 right now. There are more calls for more gun control in Canada. Apparently the already stringent gun control laws aren't working, so... in a bout of insanity, which is defined as doing the same ...

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Gun Ownership Makes You Unfit For Gun Ownership

2007-07-23T20:00:00Z
Gun Owners of America has a compilation of problems with the federal bill I mentioned in a follow up post to that article here: Point-by-Point Response To Proponents Of HR 2640 Biden picked a pretty unsettling time to make statements ...

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Senate Getting Ready To Move McCarthy's Brady Expansion! - Plus ...

2007-07-23T20:00:00Z
... Suite 102 Springfield, VA 22151 (703)321-8585 Thursday, July 19, 2007 The gun issue has been in the news a lot lately, despite the strange silence coming from Capitol Hill on the status of the McCarthy bill (HR 2640). ...

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Senate ready to move McCarthy's Brady Expansion bill (HR 2640) ...

2007-07-23T20:00:00Z
I have posted in redpills several times regarding the McCarthy bill (HR 2640) which is being supported by the National Rifle Association (NRA). Some where along the way they have lost their marbles! Fortunately we have the Gun Owners of ...

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It's Not Paranoia When They ARE Out to Get You

2007-07-22T20:00:00Z
Much kerfuffle has been made over Congresswoman McCarthy's HR 2640, which gained NRA support in an effort to "appear reasonable" and allegedly restrict access to guns by mentally-disturbed folks. Here is what "being reasonable" gets

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Senate getting ready to move McCarthy’s Brady expansion

2007-07-21T20:00:00Z
“The gun issue has been in the news a lot lately, despite the strange silence coming from Capitol Hill on the status of the McCarthy bill (HR 2640). Many Senators on the Judiciary Committee are being kept in the dark as to when the ...

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HR2640

2007-07-20T20:00:00Z
You will remember that before the Independence Day break, the Houseof Representatives passed a McCarthy gun control bill (HR 2640)without any hearings, without any committee action... they put it onthe Suspension Calendar and simply got ...

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Senate getting ready to move McCarthy’s Brady expansion

2007-07-20T20:00:00Z
The gun issue has been in the news a lot lately, despite the strange silence coming from Capitol Hill on the of the McCarthy bill (HR 2640). Many Senators on the Judiciary Committee are being kept in the dark as to when the ...

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HR 2640 & Horatio Miller Those of you who receive...

2007-07-20T20:00:00Z
So it's not surprising that, having skipped much of the legislative process, there are still a lot of unanswered questions regarding HR 2640. In fact, these questions have only been magnified after an offhanded, tongue-in-cheek remark ...

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Senate getting ready to move McCarthy’s Brady expansion

2007-07-20T20:00:00Z
The gun issue has been in the news a lot lately, despite the strange silence coming from Capitol Hill on the status of the McCarthy bill (HR 2640). Many Senators on the Judiciary Committee are being kept in the dark as to when the ...

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How McCarthy Bill Could Threaten All Gun Owners

2007-07-19T20:00:00Z
Troubling questions in HR 2640 still go unanswered.

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Firearms rights - CA.

2007-07-19T20:00:00Z
I've received the similar responses from both Feinstein and Boxer in regards to my concern about HR 2640. Here is their form letter response: Thank you for writing to me about gun control legislation. I appreciate hearing your views. ...

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Senate Ready To Move On Gun Control

2007-07-19T20:00:00Z
The gun issue has been in the news a lot lately, despite the strange silence coming from Capitol Hill on the status of the McCarthy bill (HR 2640). Many Senators on the Judiciary Committee are being kept in the dark as to when the ...

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Senate ready to move McCarthy’s Brady Expansion bill (HR 2640 ...

2007-07-19T20:00:00Z
I have posted in redpills several times regarding the McCarthy bill (HR 2640) which is wrongly being supported by the National Rifle Association (NRA). Fortunately we have the Gun Owners of America (GOA) which is opposing the bill and ...

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Gun-Control Bill Closer to Becoming Law

2007-07-19T20:00:00Z
It could usher in a new type of goy-control. Those of you who still vote: you might want to call your senators about this bill, known as HR 2640:. [Article]. More about the bill: [Here]. The US Senate’s contact information: [Here]

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How McCarthy Bill Could Threaten All Gun Owners

2007-07-18T20:00:00Z
Yes, you might have already taken action on HR 2640. But if you (and many other gun owners like yourself) haven't taken any action recently, then NO ONE is taking action. After all, the NRA is supporting this bill, so they're not ...

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GOA Alert: HR 2640, Senate Ready To Move On Brady Expansion!

2007-07-18T20:00:00Z
(R-SC), John Cornyn (R-TX), Sam Brownback (R-KS) and Tom Coburn (R-OK). Of special note is Sen. Sam Brownback. As a candidate for President, who vocalizes support for the Second Amendment, he should be interested to hear from gun owners ...

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Second Amendment News Roundup for 7/20/07

2007-07-18T20:00:00Z
Gun Owners of America has issued a new special alert concerning the many unanswered questions surrounding HR 2640--the McCarthy gun bill, which is now being considered by the Senate Judiciary Committee: ...

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GOA Alert: HR 2640, Senate Ready To Move On Brady Expansion!

2007-07-18T20:00:00Z
Senate Getting Ready To Move McCarthy's Brady Expansion! -- Plus news on OSHA gun control, DC Gun Ban and more Gun Owners of America E-Mail Alert 8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151 Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: ...

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New GOA Notice for ACTION

2007-07-18T20:00:00Z
(HR 2640). Many Senators on the Judiciary Committee are being kept in the dark as to when the legislation will start moving. But The New York Times seems to have let the cat out of the bag this week when an editorial indicated there ...

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HR 2640 (One More Time) There has been some rath...

2007-07-18T20:00:00Z
HR 2640 hasn't been passed--and yet this guy has already been disarmed for life, according to Gun Owners of America. HR 2640 doesn't change the existing law at all about what categories of commitment disable you from gun ownership. ...

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Senate Getting Ready To Move McCarthy's Brady Expansion

2007-07-17T20:00:00Z
Thursday, July 19, 2007The gun issue has been in the news a lot lately, despite the strange silence coming from Capitol Hill on the status of the McCarthy bill (HR 2640). Many Senators on the.

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Common law, email and blogger.com frustration

2007-07-16T20:00:00Z
They have obviously wasted a bunch of time and I suppose have passed HR 2640 which by any other name is another attempt at eroding our Second Amendment rights. And once again they gave this trash a name which looks good in print; ...

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James J. Murtagh: Harry Potter Battles Big Brother

2007-07-15T20:00:00Z
Scoop - Sure, the NRA worked with its Congressional enemies to draft legislation that would close Cho loopholes--HR 2640, the National Instant Criminal Background Check System Improvement Amendments...

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GOA Analysis on HR 2640

2007-07-15T20:00:00Z
And this is the reason HR 2640 must be defeated. Even as we debate this bill, the Frank Lautenbergs in Congress are trying to expand the NICS system with the names of people who are on a...

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HR 2640

2007-07-15T20:00:00Z
You will remember that before the Independence Day break, the House of Representatives passed a McCarthy gun control bill (HR 2640) without any hearings, without any committee action... they put it on the Suspension Calendar and simply ...

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Already Happening: Case Shows How HR 2640 Threatens All Gun Owners

2007-07-13T20:00:00Z
Yes, you might have already taken action on HR 2640. But if you (and many other gun owners like yourself) haven't taken any action recently, then NO ONE is taking action. After all, the NRA is supporting this bill, so they're not ...

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How the McCarthy Bill could threaten all who seek for freedom

2007-07-13T20:00:00Z
The Pennsylvania case shows how all gun owners could be threatened by HR 2640. After all, did you ever tell anyone that the Second Amendment was included in the Bill of Rights because the Founders (such as James Madison) wanted the ...

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GOA Analysis on HR 2640

2007-07-12T20:00:00Z
First, anti-gun politicians get a toe hold by getting innocuous sounding language into the federal ...Do you see how Congress is slowly (and quietly) sweeping more and more innocent p......

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HR 2640, mental committments and all that...

2007-07-12T20:00:00Z
Clayton Cramer has a take on the bill and, while I haven't puzzled thru all its details, I agree with all the points he makes. It puts more mental health records in the system, but doesn't bar anyone who is not already barred. ...

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Example how HR 2640 could be abused

2007-07-11T20:00:00Z
http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=749. Newspapers last month reported that Horatio Miller allegedly said that it could be “worse than Virginia Tech” if someone broke into his car, because there were guns there. It is not clear whether he ...

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Case Shows How HR 2640 Threatens All Gun Owners

2007-07-10T20:00:00Z
Pennsylvania Case Reveals How McCarthy Bill Could Threaten All GunOwners-- Troubling questions in HR 2640 still go unanswered Gun Owners of America E-Mail Alert8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfiel...

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Pennsylvania Case Reveals How McCarthy Bill Could Threaten All Gun

2007-07-10T20:00:00Z
Yes, you might have already taken action on HR 2640. But if you (and many other gun owners like yourself) haven't taken any action recently, then NO ONE is taking action. After all, the NRA is supporting this bill, so they're not ...

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HR 2640 (One More Time) Gun Owners of America poi...

2007-07-10T20:00:00Z
HR 2640 hasn't been passed--and yet this guy has already been disarmed for life, according to Gun Owners of America. HR 2640 doesn't change the existing law at all about what categories of commitment disable you from gun ownership. ...

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Pennsylvania Case Reveals How McCarthy Bill Could Threaten All Gun ...

2007-07-10T20:00:00Z
Yes, you might have already taken action on HR 2640. But if you (and many other gun owners like yourself) haven’t taken any action recently, then NO ONE is taking action. After all, the NRA is supporting this bill, so they’re not ...

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McCarthy/Schumer Gun Control Act Moves To The Senate

2007-07-10T20:00:00Z
The McCarthy/Schumer Gun Control Act (formerly HR 297) was re-introduced to the House as HR 2640; and was passed with a voice vote! Now it heads to the Senate. Corey Graff, Executive Director of Wisconsin Gun Owners, has written an...

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A Bill Supported By The NRA (Are They Really On Our Side?)

2007-07-10T20:00:00Z
Yes, you might have already taken action on HR 2640. But if you (and many other gun owners like yourself) haven’t taken any action recently, then NO ONE is taking action. After all, the NRA is supporting this bill, so they’re not ...

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Problems With The New Federal Gun Control (HR 2640)

2007-07-10T20:00:00Z
Point-By-Point Response To Proponents Of HR 2640 Bill Text [pdf From The Government Printing Office (GPO)]. BATFE Interpretation. BATFE Letter Re: Mental Disqualification Ramifications Of The BATFE Letter. Citizens At Risk ...

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Pennsylvania case reveals how McCarthy bill could threaten all gun ...

2007-07-10T20:00:00Z
You will remember that before the Independence Day break, the House of Representatives passed a McCarthy gun control bill (HR 2640) without any hearings, without any committee action… they put it on the Suspension Calendar and simply ...

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Case Shows How HR 2640 Threatens All Gun Owners

2007-07-09T20:00:00Z
Yes, you might have already taken action on HR 2640. But if you (and many other gun owners like yourself) haven't taken any action recently, then NO ONE is taking action. After all, the NRA is supporting this bill, so they're not ...

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Gun Owners of America E-Mail Alert about HR 2640

2007-07-09T20:00:00Z
Yes, you might have already taken action on HR 2640. But if you (and many other gun owners like yourself) haven't taken any action recently, then NO ONE is taking action. After all, the NRA is supporting this bill, so they're not ...

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Second Amendment News Roundup for 7/11/07

2007-07-09T20:00:00Z
The Liberty Zone also has a very pointed question to ask the NRA about its support of HR 2640 (this is a MUST READ!) :. http://libertyzone.blogspot.com/2007/07/still-think-hr-4620-is-good-thing-nra.html.

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GOA Analysis on HR 2640

2007-07-09T20:00:00Z
Do you see how Congress is slowly (and quietly) sweeping more and more innocent p...First, anti-gun politicians get a toe hold by getting innocuous sounding language into the federal ......

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Pennsylvania Case Reveals How McCarthy Bill Could Threaten All Gun ...

2007-07-09T20:00:00Z
Troubling questions in HR 2640 still go unanswered.

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How our legislature works

2007-07-09T20:00:00Z
I give you HR 2640. Awesome. Why am I so concerned with this vote, on a bill with such an ostensibly noble purpose as preventing any more Virginia Tech-style massacres by making the NICS (the background check system) stronger so that ...

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Gun Owners of America E-Mail Alert about HR 2640

2007-07-09T20:00:00Z
Pennsylvania Case Reveals How McCarthy Bill Could Threaten All Gun Owners-- Troubling questions in HR 2640 still go unanswered Gun Owners of America E-Mail Alert8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151Phone: 703-321-8585 ...

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Pennsylvania Case Shows Extent of McCarthy's HR 2640

2007-07-09T20:00:00Z
You will remember that before the Independence Day break, the House of Representatives passed a McCarthy gun control bill (HR 2640) without any hearings, without any committee action... they put it on the Suspension Calendar and simply ...

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Gun Owners of America E-Mail Alert

2007-07-09T20:00:00Z
Yes, you might have already taken action on HR 2640. But if you (and many other gun owners like yourself) haven't taken anyaction recently, then NO ONE is taking action. After all, the NRA issupporting this bill, so they're not rustlin' ...

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READ THIS!!! HR 2640 could spell disaster for the second amendment.

2007-07-09T20:00:00Z
Take a few moments to read about the potential implications of HR 2640 and MAKE SURE you contact your representatives regarding this bill. Joe Gun Owners of America E-Mail Alert 8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151 ...

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Still think HR 2640 is a good thing, NRA?

2007-07-09T20:00:00Z
Last month I blogged about the fact that HR 2640, supported by ardent gun grabbers and the NRA, is a danger to our gun rights. I expressed my discomfort with the subjective nature of the adjudication process when it comes to judging ...

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OpEdNews Â» What Tech Shootings? NRA Storms Ahead

2007-07-08T20:00:00Z
Sure, the NRA worked with its Congressional enemies to draft legislation that would close Cho loopholes--H.R. 2640, the National Instant Criminal Background Check System Improvement Amendments Act--which passed the House in June. ...

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Seung-Hui Cho’s bullets haven’t stopped NRA agenda–and the ...

2007-07-08T20:00:00Z
Sure, the NRA worked with its Congressional enemies to draft legislation that would close Cho loopholes–HR 2640, the National Instant Criminal Background Check System Improvement Amendments Act–which passed the House in June. ...

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NRA-ILA NICS IMPROVEMENT AMENDMENTS ACT

2007-07-05T20:00:00Z
Summary: Last week, when the US House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed HR 2640, "The NICS Improvement Amendments Act," by a voice vote, some gun owners were confused as to the exact scope and effect of this proactive reform bill ...

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HR 2640, The “NICS Improvement Act,” Passes House By Voice Vote

2007-07-03T20:00:00Z
HR 2640, The “NICS Improvement Act,” Passes House By Voice Vote Friday, June 15, 2007 On June 13, the US House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed HR 2640, the “NICS Improvement Act,” by a voice vote. HR 2640 is consistent with ...

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The Truth About HR 2640 The ''NICS Improvement (Nics background check)

2007-07-01T20:00:00Z
The Truth About HR 2640 The ''NICS Improvement Act'' - Buckeye Firearms AssociationThe Truth About HR 2640 The ''NICS Improvement Act''Buckeye Firearms Association, OH - Jun 18, 2007On June 13, the US House of Representative

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Guns are Bad

2007-06-30T20:00:00Z
The latest incarnation of rights-violations pushed by the NRA is known as HR 2640. Rather than banning all guns from civilian ownership, it seeks to simply make sure a gun owner isn’t crazy before she or he buys a gun. ...

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Problems With The New Federal Gun Control (HR 2640) Â« Conservative ...

2007-06-29T20:00:00Z
MISLEADING STATEMENT: â€œH.R. 2640 would prohibit reporting of mental health adjudications or commitments by federal agencies when those adjudications or commitments have been removedâ€¦. H.R. 2640 would also make clear that if a federal ...

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Gun Owner Involvement In The Immigration Debate

2007-06-29T20:00:00Z
Now, our attention reverts back to the McCarthy Brady expansion bill (HR 2640) - which could come up any time after the July 4th holiday. Supporters of the McCarthy bill are hanging their hat on language which purports to help ...

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Problems With The New Federal Gun Control (HR 2640)

2007-06-29T20:00:00Z
Source: http://www.gunowners.org/netb.htm. www.gunowners.org Jun 2007 Analysis Of HR 2640 By Mike Hammond, legislative counsel to GOA June 13,...

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Info to counter the false claims by NRA detractors re: HR 2640

2007-06-26T20:00:00Z
Info to counter the false claims by NRA detractors re: HR 2640... "NICS Improvement Amendments Act" Not Gun Control! http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Fe...d.aspx?id=3128 GOA Has Mental Health Problems Of It's Own - Compulsive Fibbing ...

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Brave New World - New Gun Control: Shut Down Shops

2007-06-26T20:00:00Z
just recently, the NRA (National Rifle Association) agreed to support HR 2640 passed, on June 13 by the US House of Representatives. HR 2640 prohibits firearm purchases by those who have been adjudicated by a court as mentally defective ...

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In the News :: RE: Thanks NRA

2007-06-26T20:00:00Z
I was at first a little surprised at the number of people who have been finding some nefarious and dastardly plot in HR 2640. I am no fan of the gun control crowd, and I look pretty carefully at whatever scheme they come up with, ...

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NRA passes McCarthy Gun Control bill through US House!

2007-06-24T20:00:00Z
HR 297 was quickly morphed into a new Bill, HR 2640 (by notorious anti-gunner Carolyn McCarthy) and passed on a voice vote, with so little notice that the most pro-Gun members of Congress didn't know it was on the agenda until early in ...

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HR 2640: I Still Don't See It I mentioned a few...

2007-06-24T20:00:00Z
I mentioned a few days ago a WorldNetDaily article, largely relying on a Gun Owners of America alert, that claims that HR 2640 would allow all sorts of people to be prohibited from owning a gun. Larry Pratt at Gun Owners of America has ...

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NICS IMPROVEMENT AMENDMENTS ACT" NOT GUN CONTROL!

2007-06-24T20:00:00Z
Last week, when the US House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed HR 2640, "The NICS Improvement Amendments Act," by a voice vote, some gun owners were confused as to the exact scope and effect of this proactive reform bill. ...

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Mack vs. Brady - 10 years after a defeat of the Brady Bill ...

2007-06-24T20:00:00Z
Brady litigation to the tune of almost half a million dollars and now is supporting federal legislation (HR 2640) that rips at the heart of this court victory. Is the NRA just trying to fit in to political correctness or is there ...

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McCarthy Bill Moves To The Senate

2007-06-22T20:00:00Z
Please urge your Senators to OPPOSE the gun control bill (HR 2640) which was snuck through the House last week by anti-gun Democrats. Some people are saying this bill is a positive step for gun owners, but realize this ONE SIMPLE FACT: ...

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Hr fitness - KT exposes Indian policy to perpetrate HR violations

2007-06-22T20:00:00Z
Source: news.google.comThe Truth About HR 2640 The ''NICS Improvement Act'' - Buckeye Firearms AssociationThe Truth About HR 2640 The ''NICS Improvement Act''Buckeye Firearms Association, OH - 11 hours agoOn June 13, the US

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Do YOU BELIEVE THIS????? Really, Believe??

2007-06-22T20:00:00Z
Last week, when the US House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed HR 2640, "The NICS Improvement Amendments Act," by a voice vote, some gun owners were confused as to the exact scope and effect of this proactive reform bill. ...

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NRA Backs NICS Expansion

2007-06-22T20:00:00Z
It is also important to note what HR 2640 will not do. This bill will not add any new classes of prohibited persons to NICS, and it will not prohibit gun possession by people who have voluntarily sought psychological counseling or ...

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How to Pass Gun Control

2007-06-22T20:00:00Z
On Wednesday, June 13, the House passed the first gun control legislation in nearly a decade, the 29-page HR 2640. They had to do it in a rush, in secret, so no one would know about it in advance. They had to do it by a voice vote, ...

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HR 2640, Gun Owners of America, World Net Daily get it all wrong

2007-06-21T20:00:00Z
Your doctor could put you on no-gun list. This is how WND's article (written by Naomi Laine) starts out. (If you want to read their article, click on the title of this one, it's a direct link) What they don't tell you is, you doctor can ...

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USA 2nd AMENDMENT NOW AT RISK AGAIN!

2007-06-21T20:00:00Z
Please urge your US Senators to OPPOSE the McCarthy gun control bill HR 2640 that was sneaked through the US House of Representatives last week by liberal, leftist and socialist anti-gun Democrats. Some people are saying this bill is a ...

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Your doctor could put you on no-gun list

2007-06-21T20:00:00Z
Technorati Tags: 2nd amendment, gun, guns, HR 2640, ban, ownership, rights, Brady, NRA, National Instant Criminal Background Check System, NICS, legislation, McCarthy, shooting, Virginia Tech, psychiatry, doctors, medicine, database, ...

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Your doctor could put you on no-gun list

2007-06-21T20:00:00Z
The proposal, HR 2640, was sponsored by US Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, DN.Y., in the wake of the April tragedy at Virginia Tech, when a gunman shot and killed more than 30 people, then killed himself. ...

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Bill Seeks to Strengthen Background Checks for Firearm Purchases

2007-06-21T20:00:00Z
"I'm sure that HR 2640 doesn't effectively address what happens if, after all that, the person gets better -- including veterans," said Joel Rosenberg, author of "Everything You Need to Know About (Legally) Carrying a Handgun in ...

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HR 2640

2007-06-21T20:00:00Z
Looking to clarify this. I had posted a question regarding expungment of a civil commitment a few months ago. I was invol committed when I was 15, a few days after my eighteen year old sister passed away, and I was refusing to attend ...

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NICS improvement bill

2007-06-21T20:00:00Z
The NICS Improvement Act, which passed the House by voice vote as HR 2640 on June 13, 2007, will strengthen the Brady background check system, and thereby make it harder for criminals and other dangerous people to buy firearms. ...

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Your doctor could put you on no-gun list

2007-06-20T20:00:00Z
The proposal, H.R. 2640, was sponsored by U.S. Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, D-N.Y., in the wake of the April tragedy at Virginia Tech, when a gunman shot and killed more than 30 people, then killed himself. McCarthy, whose own husband was ...

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LETTERS | www.unionsentinel.com | Union Sentinel

2007-06-20T20:00:00Z
Unless you were really following the action closely last week you may have missed the news that the House passed HR 2640 by a voice vote, and that it now goes on to the Senate. If you're not familiar with HR 2640, the fact that ...

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Prepared Remarks of Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales

2007-06-20T20:00:00Z
Hawaii Reporter, HI - Jun 17, 2007Additionally, HR 2640 makes needed, and nics background check long overdue, improvements to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). ...Source: news.google.com.

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GOA Analysis on HR 2640

2007-06-20T20:00:00Z
In 1968, Congress laid out several criteria for banning Americans from owning guns -- a person can't be a felon, a drug user, an illegal alien, etc. Well, one of the criteria which will disqual...

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Blue Smoke And Mirrors

2007-06-20T20:00:00Z
I e-mailed my (nearly-worthless) Senators last week concerning HR 2640, McCarthy's NICS "Improvement" legislation that was supported by the NRA, and snuck through the House in an underhanded move by the Demonrats. ...

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New Federal Gun Law Coming

2007-06-20T20:00:00Z
Department of Homeland Security to join in NICS database The House of Representatives, with unusual backing from both the NRA and anti-gun activists in the Democrat party, just passed HR 2640 on an unrecorded voice vote. ...

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GOA Analysis on HR 2640

2007-06-20T20:00:00Z
So what does HR 2640 do? Well, as stated already, this is one of the most far-reaching gun bans in years. For the first time in history, this bill takes a giant step towards banning one-fourth of returning military veterans from ever ...

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OpenCongress - U.S. Congress - H.R.2755 Federal Reserve Board ...

2007-06-19T20:00:00Z
hillary clinton (20); Hillary Clinton gaffe (1); homeland security (1); homosexual agenda (19); housing bailout (14); Housing Bill (1); housing bubble (14); HR 1370 (1); HR 1955 (3); HR 2415 (2); HR 2640 (2); HR 2755 (2) . ...

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McCarthy Bill

2007-06-19T20:00:00Z
Please urge your Senators to OPPOSE the gun control bill (HR 2640) which was snuck through the House last week by anti-gun Democrats. Some people are saying this bill is a positive step for gun owners, but ...

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Mental Disorders and Firearms Disability

2007-06-19T20:00:00Z
Lynn Stuter is worried that we’re all going to be diagnosed with mental disorders, and it makes the HR2640 dangerous. It may be true that we’ll all be diagnosed with some kind of mental disorder, but the fact is that’s not sufficient ...

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“Compromise” bill represents the most far-reaching gun ban in years

2007-06-19T20:00:00Z
So what does HR 2640 do? Well, as stated already, this is one of the most far-reaching gun bans in years. For the first time in history, this bill takes a giant step towards banning one-fourth of returning military veterans from ever ...

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HR 2640, the sneaky gun snatch bill

2007-06-18T20:00:00Z
The NICS Improvement Amendments Act (HR 2640), which was snuck through the house within two days of being introduced. This bill represents the most far-reaching gun ban in years. For the first time in American history, this bill would ...

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[No War - No Bush] McCarthy Bill Moves To The Senate

2007-06-18T20:00:00Z
McCarthy bill (HR 2640). Speaking to the CNN audience on June 13, head of the Brady Campaign, Paul Helmke, stated that, "We're hopeful that now that the NRA has come around to our point of view in terms of strengthening the Brady ...

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Hr 2640 Worst Gun Control In Decades

2007-06-18T20:00:00Z
[size="3"]As a supporter of Second Amendment rights, I do NOT support the so-called NICS Improvement Amendments Act (HR 2640), which was snuck through within two days of being introduced. This bill represents the most far-reaching gun ...

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Sneaky Politicians and you…

2007-06-18T20:00:00Z
Please urge your Senators to OPPOSE the gun control bill (HR 2640) which was snuck through the House last week by anti-gun Democrats. Some people are saying this bill is a positive step for gun owners, but realize this ONE SIMPLE FACT: ...

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American Psychological Association Adding New "Mental Disorders ...

2007-06-18T20:00:00Z
HR 2640 which just passed the House, is supposed to fix our National Instant Criminal Background Check System and prohibit people like the Virginia Tech shooter from buying firearms legally. I've already expressed my uneasiness with ...

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HR 2640 First Major Gun Control of the Decade

2007-06-17T20:00:00Z
So what does HR 2640 do? Well, as stated already, this is one of the most far-reaching gun bans in years. For the first time in history, this bill takes a giant step towards banning one-fourth of returning military veterans from ever ...

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Battle Moves To The Senate

2007-06-17T20:00:00Z
Please urge your Senators to OPPOSE the gun control bill (HR 2640) which was snuck through the House last week by anti-gun Democrats. Some people are saying this bill is a positive step for gun owners, but realize this ONE SIMPLE FACT: ...

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NRA response to HR 2640

2007-06-17T20:00:00Z
As reported earlier, HR 2640, which is gun control legislation introduced by notorious anti-gun representative Carolyn McCarthy, (D-NY) was passed by the House of Representatives by a voice vote. ...

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The Truth About HR 2640 The ''NICS Improvement Act'' - Buckeye ...

2007-06-17T20:00:00Z
The Truth About HR 2640 The ''NICS Improvement Act''Buckeye Firearms Association, OH - 1 hour agoOn June 13, the US House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed HR 2640, the "NICS Improvement Act," by a voice vote. ...

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The House passed what could become the first major federal gun ...

2007-06-17T20:00:00Z
Carolyn McCarthy’s (D-NY) bill, HR 2640, and is entitled “NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007 . That same day the House took a quick voice count on the bill and passed it with the help of the National Rifle Association (NRA). ...

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-- "Compromise" bill represents the most far-reaching gun ban in years

2007-06-17T20:00:00Z
Please urge your Senators to OPPOSE the gun control bill (HR 2640) which was snuck through the House last week by anti-gun Democrats. Some people are saying this bill is a positive step for gun owners, but realize this ONE SIMPLE FACT: ...

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With a whisper

2007-06-17T20:00:00Z
Less than three hours later, [Thursday, June 14, 2007] the bill passed by a voice vote. The bill in question, HR 2640, is a massive expansion of the Brady Gun Control law, the subject of many previous alerts by Gun Owners of America. ...

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Major News Media continues to ignore Ron Paul

2007-06-17T20:00:00Z
The Gun Owners of America are correct about bill HR2640 in the USCongress. The TFA noted that this bill (which opens records for the FBI Instant check, VA Tech shootings..) would expand Federal Powers. Congress and the NRA slowing ...

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Rapidly Moving Federal Gun Control (HR 2640)!

2007-06-17T20:00:00Z
In the legislative background noise over the immigration bills the New Federal Gun Control (HR 2640) is quietly moving from the House to the Senate. This bill moved through the House due to some Democrat slight of hand as the bill went ...

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News from The Sight M1911, Volume 257

2007-06-17T20:00:00Z
HR2640 IS NOT HR297 http://www.gunlawnews.org/Analysis/hr26400614-3.html. NEW GUN CONTROL LAW TO MONITOR ENTIRE POPULATION IN CENTRAL DATA BASE By Alan Korwin http://www.readitnews.com/content/view/397/10025/ ...

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It's not gun control

2007-06-17T20:00:00Z
But it also claims the media is misrepresenting HR 2640 as a "gun control" measure -- something the NRA ardently denies. So instead of taking the NRA's word for it, I decided to look for myself to see what, exactly, this bill says. ...

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Judas, Benedict Arnold, and the NRA

2007-06-17T20:00:00Z
I still can't believe you take glory in your sell-out relationship with gun-banning Democrats and actually support HR 2640. Over the last ten years, your actions – not rhetoric – has dramatically softened against anti-gunners. ...

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Compromisers On Capitol Hill Reviving Brady Expansion Again

2007-06-17T20:00:00Z
McCarthy (HR 2640) -- a bill that has not yet been posted on the Thomas legislative service. While all the legislative particulars are not yet available, one thing is clear: it is, as reported by the Post, a deal with Democrats. ...

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Statement on NICS HR 2640

2007-06-17T20:00:00Z
“HR 2640 illustrates how placing restrictions on the exercise of one right — in this case, the right to bear arms — inevitably leads to expanded restriction on other rights as well. In an effort to make the Brady background check on gun ...

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Smoking gun - Calls for tighter gun controls - The AustralianCalls

2007-06-16T20:00:00Z
... population in central data baseRead It Here, AZ - 4 hours agoby Alan Korwin The House of Representatives, with unusual backing from both the NRA and smoking gun anti-gun activists in the Democrat party, just passed HR 2640 on an . ...

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New gun control law to monitor entire population in central data base

2007-06-16T20:00:00Z
by Alan Korwin The House of Representatives, with unusual backing from both the NRA and anti-gun activists in the Democrat party, just passed HR 2640 on an unrecorded voice vote. The “NICS Improvement Act” will greatly ...

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Compromisers On Capitol Hill Reviving Brady Expansion Again

2007-06-16T20:00:00Z
McCarthy (HR 2640) -- a bill that has not yet been posted on the Thomas legislative service. While all the legislative particulars are not yet available, one thing is clear: it is, as reported by the Post, a deal with Democrats. ...

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Criminalizing mental illness...again

2007-06-16T20:00:00Z
Today the House of Representatives passed bill HR 2640, (and it is pretty much guaranteed to pass in the Senate as well) which would require states to automate their lists of convicted criminals and the mentally ill who are prohibited ...

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NRA in Need of Guidance (by Toll-Free Telephone Call)

2007-06-16T20:00:00Z
It is obviously very confused as it recently supported and helped to pass through the House of Representatives HR 2640 which further violates the privacy of gun owners and puts them at risk of forcing them to prove their innocence to ...

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More on the NICS bill.

2007-06-16T20:00:00Z
On June 13, the US House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed HR 2640, the "NICS Improvement Act," by a voice vote. HR 2640 is consistent with NRA's decades-long support for measures to prohibit firearm purchases by those who have ...

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HR 2640 THE NICS IMPROVEMENT ACT

2007-06-15T20:00:00Z
On June 13, the US House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed HR 2640, the "NICS Improvement Act," by a voice vote. HR 2640 is consistent with NRA's decades-long support ...

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NRA News...Fallout From The Korean Killers Rampage

2007-06-15T20:00:00Z
"On June 13, the US House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed HR 2640, the "NICS Improvement Act," by a voice vote. HR 2640 is consistent with NRA's decades-long support for measures to prohibit firearm purchases by those who have .

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Shays Supports Improvements to National Background Check System ...

2007-06-15T20:00:00Z
Congressman Christopher Shays (CT-4) today supported passage of HR 2640, the National Instant Criminal Background Check System Improvement Act.

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The 110th Congress and Privacy: Week 23 (June 11 - June 15)

2007-06-15T20:00:00Z
HR 2640. 2. A bill to amend title 49, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to extend a requirement for the prescreening of air passengers to international flights that overfly the United States; ...

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HR2640 is not HR297

2007-06-15T06:43:13Z
I received an interesting email from The Firearms Coalition last night talking about HR2640, passed by the House yesterday ... , we do not oppose the bill as it was passed by the House today. H.R.2640, sponsored by New

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HR 2640, The â€œNICS Improvement Act,â€* Passes House By Voice Vote

2007-06-14T20:00:00Z
On June 13, the US House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed HR 2640, the "NICS Improvement Act," by a voice vote.

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RMGO Call To Action!

2007-06-14T20:00:00Z
HR 2640 was the brain child of Carolyn McCarthy of New York , who went to Congress for one reason, to pass more gun control. But she was failing until the NRA teamed up with her to pass another dangerous intrusion into your privacy and ...

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HR 2640, The “NICS Improvement Act,” Passes House By Voice Vote

2007-06-14T20:00:00Z
On June 13, the US House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed HR 2640, the “NICS Improvement Act,” by a voice vote.

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GOA Alert: McCarthy Bill rammed through house (PV)

2007-06-14T20:00:00Z
bill in question, HR 2640, is a massive expansion of the Brady Gun Control law, the subject of many previous alerts by Gun Owners of America. Its passage in the House is a case study in backroom deal making, unholy alliances and deceit. ...

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Big, Bigger, Biggest

2007-06-14T20:00:00Z
The House passed HR 2640 which will now go to the Senate. This bill was the result of the Virginia Tech shootings. The Washington Post reported that the NRA and the Democrats reached some kind of agreement. The NRA was in favor of this ...

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Gun law update: June 15, 2007

2007-06-14T20:00:00Z
The House of Representatives, with unusual backing from both the NRA and anti-gun activists in the Democrat party, just passed HR 2640 on an unrecorded voice vote. The "NICS Improvement Act" will greatly expand the list of people banned ...

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McCarthy victim disarmament bill rammed through House

2007-06-14T20:00:00Z
The bill in question, HR 2640, is a massive expansion of the Brady Gun Control law, the subject of many previous alerts by Gun Owners of America. … The bill’s supporters can talk all they want to the contrary, but forcing the states to ...

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McCarthy Bill Rammed Through The House

2007-06-14T20:00:00Z
bill in question, HR 2640, is a massive expansion of the Brady Gun Control law, the subject of many previous alerts by Gun Owners of America. Its passage in the House is a case study in backroom deal making, unholy alliances and deceit. ...

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Working on the NCIS: "Got to keep the loonies on the path"

2007-06-14T20:00:00Z
HR 2640, the “NICS Improvement Act,” is consistent with NRA’s decades long support for measures to keep guns out of the hands of those who have been adjudicated by a court as mentally incompetent. Additionally, HR 2640 makes some much ...

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H.R.2640 is not H.R.297

2007-06-14T04:37:44Z
In a surprise move, the US House of Representatives today passed a bill which provides incentives for states to enhance and computerize criminal and ... , we do not oppose the bill as it was passed by the House today. H.R.2640

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Letter To The NRA

2007-06-13T20:00:00Z
The NRA is boasting about their support for Carolyn McCarthy's HR 2640, which they consider a common sense measure to tighten up the NICS system. They think it is a good idea because "it doesn't prohibit any additional people from ...

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Bill to keep firearms from the mentally ill passes House

2007-06-13T20:00:00Z
Now the bill, HR 2640 now goes to the Senate. The NRA, The Brady Campaign, and Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer support the bill. Now how's that for strange bedfellows? Schumer has graciously agreed not to amend the bill in order to ...

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HR 2640, The “NICS Improvement Act,” Passes House By Voice Vote

2007-06-13T20:00:00Z
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McCarthy Bill Rammed Through The House

2007-06-13T20:00:00Z
The bill in question, HR 2640, is a massive expansion of the Brady Gun Control law, the subject of many previous alerts by Gun Owners of America. Its passage in the House is a case study in backroom deal making, unholy alliances and ...

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bla bla bla more brady crap

2007-06-13T20:00:00Z
And we got our first BIG answer yesterday, when, by a voice vote, the US House of Representatives passed HR 2640 to strengthen Brady background checks!! The bill, introduced by Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) requires states to automate ...

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From the Other Side...

2007-06-13T20:00:00Z
And we got our first BIG answer yesterday, when, by a voice vote, the US House of Representatives passed HR 2640 to strengthen Brady background checks!! The bill, introduced by Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) requires states to automate ...

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McCarthy Bill Rammed Through The House

2007-06-13T20:00:00Z
bill in question, HR 2640, is a massive expansion of the Brady Gun Control law, the subject of many previous alerts by Gun Owners of America. Its passage in the House is a case study in backroom deal making, unholy alliances and deceit. ...

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NRA PASSES GUN CONTROL

2007-06-13T20:00:00Z
HR 297 was quickly morphed into a new bill, HR 2640 (by notorious anti-gunner Carolyn McCarthy) and passed on a voice vote, with so little notice that the most pro-gun members of Congress didn’t know it was on the agenda until early in ...

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HR 2640: Another Dig At The 2nd Amendment?

2007-06-13T20:00:00Z
Click to view this thread by Justin Oldham.

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June 14, 2007 Start Of Loss for Your Rights !!!

2007-06-13T20:00:00Z
bill in question, HR 2640, is a massive expansion of the Brady Gun Control law, the subject of many previous alerts by Gun Owners of America. Its passage in the House is a case study in backroom deal making, unholy alliances and deceit. ...

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Gun grabbers pass a bill in the House of Representatives

2007-06-13T20:00:00Z
I implore you to oppose HR 2640, the so-called "NICS Improvement Act of 2007." How much longer are we going to allow our civil liberties be eroded with legislation like this and allow "Big Brother" to tell us free men and women what we

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Help NAGR fight the NRA Sellout

2007-06-13T20:00:00Z
CALL Senators JIM WEBB 202.224.4024 and JOHN WARNER 202.224.2023 and tell them that you expect them to filibuster HR 2640. Use the information from my last email to persuade them. 2. Go to https://va.eftsecure.net/eftcart/products.asp? ...

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NRA passes McCarthy Gun Control bill through US House!

2007-06-13T20:00:00Z
HR 297 was quickly morphed into a new bill, HR 2640 (by notorious anti-gunner Carolyn McCarthy) and passed on a voice vote, with so little notice that the most pro-gun members of Congress didn't know it was on the agenda until early in ...

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When you compromise with Evil, Evil wins!

2007-06-13T20:00:00Z
And we got our first BIG answer yesterday, when, by a voice vote, the US House of Representatives passed HR 2640 to strengthen Brady background checks!! The bill, introduced by Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) requires states to automate ...

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HR2640 is not HR297

2007-06-13T20:00:00Z
HR2640, sponsored by New York Democrat Carolyn McCarthy, is a modified version of a bill Rep. McCarthy has offered in each of the past several sessions of Congress. This version of the bill was just introduced this past Monday (June 11) ...

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Courtesy of the NRA

2007-06-13T20:00:00Z
Passed by voice vote under suspension of the rules, the measure (HR 2640) would increase the amount of electronic data available to states for checking the criminal and mental health records of people who want to purchase guns. ...

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HR 2640, The "NICS Improvement Act," Passes House By Voice Vote

2007-06-13T20:00:00Z
On June 13, the US House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed HR 2640 by a voice vote. HR 2640, the "NICS Improvement Act," is consistent with NRA's decades long support for measures t...

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Compromisers on Capitol Hill reviving Brady expansion again

2007-06-13T20:00:00Z
McCarthy (HR 2640) — a bill that has not yet been posted on the Thomas legislative service. While all the legislative particulars are not yet available, one thing is clear: it is, as reported by the Post, a deal with Democrats. ...

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HR2640 Passed House

2007-06-13T20:00:00Z
Looks like the bill has passed on a voice vote. Now it’s on to the senate. Given the speed at which it moved through the house, I don’t expect the senate to take long on it at all. The NRA did win some concessions in negotiating the ...

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HR 2640, The "NICS Improvement Act," Passes House (Last post on 06 ...

2007-06-13T20:00:00Z
On June 13, the US House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed HR 2640 by a voice vote.

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House Votes to Improve Background Check System

2007-06-13T09:30:00Z
This morning, the House approved a which bill the AP has called "the most important gun control act since Congress banned some assault weapons in 1994, the last year Democrats controlled the House." The bill, H.R.2640, is

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NRA Blog Statement on NICS Deal

2007-06-12T21:20:18Z
The NRA has a blog entry up in regards to H.R.2640: The NICS bill, as written, wouldn’t expand the definition of a prohibited person. It wouldn’t disqualify anyone currently able to legally

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Having Issues With McCarthy’s Sponsorship

2007-06-12T21:12:09Z
I am rather nonplussed at Carolyn McCarthy’s sponsorship of H.R.2640. I would have sincerely hoped that any deal that could be worked out would have sidelined her, and relegated her to a co

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gun bill passes house hr2640

2007-06-12T20:00:00Z
the new version of the nics improvement act (hr 2640) would require federal agencies to provide records of prohibited individuals for use in nics. it would also provide financial incentives to states to do the same, by rewarding states ...

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HR 2640, The "NICS Improvement Act," Passes House By Voice Vote

2007-06-12T20:00:00Z
On June 13, the US House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed HR 2640 by a voice vote.

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(259) Regarding NICS changes : Greg

2007-06-12T20:00:00Z
I haven't read HR 2640 yet, so I'm not taking a definite stand one way or another. All this talk about it has me thinking about it though. First, there must be an appeals process to expedite corrections of mistakes in the NICS system. ...

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Compromisers On Capitol Hill Reviving Brady Expansion Again

2007-06-12T20:00:00Z
McCarthy (HR 2640) -- a bill that has not yet been posted on the Thomas legislative service. While all the legislative particulars are not yet available, one thing is clear: it is, as reported by the Post, a deal with Democrats. ...

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House tempers background checks for guns

2007-06-12T20:00:00Z
The bill is HR 2640. On the Net:. Congress: http://thomas.loc.gov. NRA: http://www.nra.org. Brady Campaign: http://www.bradycampaign.org/. source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070613/ap_on_go_co/congress_gun_control [link]

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McCarthy/NRA Gun Control Act on fast track

2007-06-12T20:00:00Z
HR 2640 (mentioned here--although I incorrectly assumed it was HR 297 being discussed--and here) passed by voice vote in the House, today--two days after its introduction. Predictions are that Senate passage will be similarly swift and ...

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More Threats to our rights

2007-06-12T20:00:00Z
McCarthy (HR 2640) -- a bill that has not yet been posted on the Thomas legislative service. While all the legislative particulars are not yet available, one thing is clear: it is, as reported by the Post, a deal with Democrats. ...

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We must all hang together

2007-06-12T20:00:00Z
Take for example this new bill before the House, HR 2640. The GOA has been lambasting the NRA for their support of this bill for a while, despite the fact that the relevant text just because available yesterday. ...

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NRA selling out your gun rights, Gun Owners Of America never will!

2007-06-12T20:00:00Z
Now they are back with HR 2640. This bill has just been posted to Thomas legislative service and is entitled “NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007 . The Washington Post reported it to be a compromise between anti-gun Democrats and ...

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HR 2640, The “NICS Improvement Act,” Passes House By Voice Vote

2007-06-12T20:00:00Z
On June 13, the US House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed HR 2640 by a voice vote.

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House Tempers Background Checks (Boat dealers) for GunsForbes - He

2007-06-12T20:00:00Z
The bill is HR 2640 Copyright 2007 Associated Press. All rights reserved Source: www.forbes.comATC-Onlane and boat dealers Dealer Services Corporation Announce a Preferred Forbes - ATC-Onlane, the largest online auction company in North ...

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HR 2640 Passes US House

2007-06-12T20:00:00Z
HR 2640 by a voice vote. HR 2640, the "NICS Improvement Act," is consistent with NRA's decades long support for measures to keep guns out of the hands of those who have been adjudicated by a court as mentally incompetent. ...

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House tempers background checks for guns

2007-06-12T20:00:00Z
The bill is HR 2640. On the Net:. Congress: http://thomas.loc.gov. NRA: http://www.nra.org. Brady Campaign: http://www.bradycampaign.org/. source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070613/ap_on_go_co/congress_gun_control [link]

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House tempers background checks for guns

2007-06-12T20:00:00Z
McCarthy, in an emotional speech, said that "this has been a long, long journey for me." She ran for Congress on a gun control agenda after her husband was gunned down on a Long Island commuter train in 1993. ___ The bill is HR 2640 ...

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Gun Background Check Improvement Legislation Passes

2007-06-12T20:00:00Z
This afternoon the House passed HR 2640, the National Instant Criminal Background System (NICS) Improvement Amendments Act of 2007 by voice vote. It marks the first gun violence prevention legislation passed in the House in over a ...

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What Impact Will the Proposed New Law Regarding Screening Gun ...

2007-06-12T20:00:00Z
As many of our readers know, a proposed law relating to background information on persons prohibited from owning guns due to mental illness has suddenly emerged in Congress as HR 2640. Leaked to the Washington Post earlier this week, ...

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US House closes gun background check loophole

2007-06-12T20:00:00Z
[JURIST] The US House of Representatives Wednesday passed the NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007 [HR 2640 materials], which closes a loophole [JURIST report] that allowed Virginia Tech shooter Seung-Hui Cho [Wikipedia profile] to ...

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Here’s Hoping My 60 Minutes of Fame is Over

2007-06-12T20:00:00Z
No gun bill is perfect and that certainly is the case with HR 2640, the McCarthy-Dingell-Boucher compromise. Their bill, to improve the background check system (called NICS) used to approve or deny gun buyers, is the product of a deal ...

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Compromisers On Capital Hill Reviving Brady Bill!

2007-06-11T20:00:00Z
McCarthy (HR 2640) -- a bill that has not yet been posted on the Thomas legislative service. While all the legislative particulars are not yet available, one thing is clear: it is, as reported by the Post, a deal with Democrats. ...

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Statement on NICS HR 2640, by US Rep. Ron Paul

2007-06-11T20:00:00Z
Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to HR 2640, the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) Improvement Amendments Act, and I urge caution. In my opinion, HR 2640 is a flagrantly unconstitutional expansion of restriction ...

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McCarthy is at it again!

2007-06-11T20:00:00Z
McCarthy (HR 2640) -- a bill that has not yet been posted on the Thomas legislative service. While all the legislative particulars are not yet available, one thing is clear: it is, as reported by the Post, a deal with Democrats. ...

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McCarthy Bill

2007-06-11T20:00:00Z
PASCRELL, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. SHAYS, Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, and Mrs. CAPPS):. HR 2640. A bill to improve the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, and for other purposes; to the Committee on the Judiciary.

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Compromisers On Capitol Hill Reviving Brady Expansion Again

2007-06-11T20:00:00Z
McCarthy (HR 2640) -- a bill that has not yet been posted on the Thomas legislative service. While all the legislative particulars are not yet available, one thing is clear: it is, as reported by the Post, a deal with Democrats. ...

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Correction: the Carolyn McCarthy/NRA Gun Control Act of 2007 is ...

2007-06-11T20:00:00Z
It's a brand new bill, HR 2640, for which the text is not yet available to the public, but which already has 14 cosponsors (it took HR 297 almost 4 months to accumulate that many). Gun Owners of America explains many of the problems ...

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NICS improvement compromise

2007-06-11T20:00:00Z
Word is the bill will be introduced as HR 2640. It's not online at Thomas yet, but I managed to get hold of the relevant language. Most of the bill is 20+ pages of verbiage about grants to states to improve input of mental health ...

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H.R.2640: NICS Improvement Amendments Act of ... - OpenCongress

2007-06-10T01:00:00Z
All Bill Titles. Short: NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007 as enacted. Short: NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007 as passed house. Short: NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007 as introduced. Official: To improve .... Official: To accelerate mo

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H.R.2640: NICS Improvement Amendments Act of ... - OpenCongress

2007-06-10T01:00:00Z
All Bill Titles. Short: NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007 as enacted. Short: NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007 as passed house. Short: NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007 as introduced. Official: To improve .... Official: To accelerate mo

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H.R.2640: NICS Improvement Amendments Act of ... - OpenCongress

2007-06-10T01:00:00Z
All Bill Titles. Short: NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007 as enacted. Short: NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007 as passed house. Short: NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007 as introduced. Official: To improve .... Official: To accelerate mo

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HR 2640, To improve the National Instant Criminal Background Check ...

2007-06-09T20:00:00Z
HR 2640 would improve the National Instant Criminal Background Check System....

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Bill Action: Introduced: HR 2640: To improve the National Instant ...

2007-06-09T20:00:00Z
Rep. Carolyn McCarthy [D-NY] introduced HR 2640: To improve the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, and for other purposes. [This event matched these monitors: Active Legislation ]

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