PA Bill Number: HB1472
Title: In primary and election expenses, further providing for reporting by candidate and political committees and other persons and for late contributions ...
Description: In primary and election expenses, further providing for reporting by candidate and political committees and other persons and for late contrib ...
Last Action: Referred to STATE GOVERNMENT
Last Action Date: Apr 22, 2024
Pro-Gun Amendments Under Attack in Appropriations Legislation - HR 2578
Date: 11/28/2015
The U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 2578, which provided a number of pro-2nd Amendment provisions, including funding for federal firearms relief determinations under 18 U.S.C. 925(c), which has not been available for decades. These important changes and provisions are under attack in the US Senate and this issue needs your immediate attention.
Please see the critical alert from friend and fellow FOAC member Attorney Josh Prince, below, and we urge you to take the following actions:
**Contact Senators Toomey and Casey
- Report any feedback you have from them
- Share this alert with your friends.
Again, please see the alert below from Josh Prince and do everything in your power to reach out the Senators in support of this Appropriations Bill-H.R. 2578.
In Freedom,
Kim Stolfer, President
Prince Alert Begins Below:
Very Pro-2nd Amendment Appropriations Bill Under Attack!
As many of our viewers are aware, in June, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 2578, which provided a number of pro-2nd Amendment provisions, including funding for federal firearms relief determinations under 18 U.S.C. 925(c), which has not been available since 1992, and a prohibition on ATF utilizing any of the funding for promulgating a rule requiring CLEO signature requirements.
Specifically, Amendment 302 provided "that such funds appropriated for BATF shall be available to investigate or act upon applications for relief from Federal firearms disabilities under United States Code"
Additionally, Amendment 320 provided ATF was prohibited from "the use of funds to propose or to issue a rule that would change the Chief Law Enforcement Officer certificate requirement with respect to purchase of suppressors and other firearms regulated by the National Firearms Act."
H.R. 2578, with these Amendments, was approved by the House of Representatives on June 3, 2015 with a vote of 242 yeas to 183 nays. You can find out how each Representative voted, here.
It was then sent to the Senate, where Senator Shelby reported it out of the Senate Appropriations Committee with it being substituted for what appears to be the Senate's Appropriation's Bill S. 2131. Unfortunately, S. 2131 does not include Amendment 302 or 320.
Accordingly, it is imperative that you contact your Senators and inform them that you want them either to approve H.R. 2578 as sent to the Senate by the House or you want them to include Amendments 302 and 320 in their version of the 2016 Departments of Commerce and Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill. This is extremely important as hundreds of thousands of people are affected by ATF's inability to perform federal firearms relief determinations and ATF's ATf-41P rulemaking.
http://blog.princelaw.com/2015/11/28/very-pro-2nd-amendment-appropriations-bill-under-attack/
