Last October John Cornyn added a provision to the MiniBus bill that would prevent any further gun running operations like F&F. The Senate passed it by 100 to 0.
In his 2013 budget released this week, President Obama has proposed to bracket (remove) the Cornyn amendment. In other words, to ignore the will of the ENTIRE Senate. Someone please tell me how he can live with himself.
In addition, the Budget attacks M1 Garand rifles and M1 Carbines again by adding a provision to destroy any remaining rifles owned by the Military. Congress has protected these historic rifles through the Civilian Marksmanship Program for decades.
And another redux, the attack on used military brass is revived. The budget directs once-used brass to be destroyed instead of sold to wholesalers and end users like me for use in target shooting. The costs to taxpayers is much larger to buy new brass, and the cost in secondary markets will be hundreds of jobs. They tried this two years ago and Congress voted them down. So again, Obama and his Administration show their contempt for Congress.
And they also want to revive the sinister junk science reports that the NIH and CDC used to produce that called guns a "disease."
See Emily Miller at Washington Times: Obamas-fast-and-furious-spin
And last, but not least, Obama is again pushing Andrew Traver as Director of the ATF. Traver is a long-time ATF bureaucrat who is totally anti-gun and relatively clueless about firearms. The Congress refused last year to even bring him in for a confirmation hearing. He is not what is needed to lead ATF, which needs to learn to serve the People and not the political aspirations of the President.
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