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NRA-ILA :: Twelve Big Wins for Gun Owners

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[TD=class: copy]"Friday, November 18, 2011

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The final conference report on the combined Fiscal Year 2012 Agriculture,

Commerce/Justice/Science (CJS) and Transportation/Housing/Urban Development

(THUD) Appropriations bills—also known as the “Mini-Bus,†was passed by both the

U.S. House and the U.S. Senate, and has been signed into

law.

One of the most important ways that Congress has protected the Second

Amendment is through a number of general provisions included in various

appropriations bills. Many of these provisions have been included in the bills

for many years—some of the provisions go back almost three decades. This

conference report is no exception, as it contains 12 provisions that strengthen

the Second Amendment and protect the American people.

Specifically, the

conference report makes PERMANENT the following protections:

• Firearms Database/National Gun Registry Prohibition. No funds
  may be used to create, maintain or administer a database of firearms
  owners or their firearms. This prohibition has been in place since Fiscal Year
  1979, and prevents the federal government from establishing a national gun
  registry.
  
• Former Firearms Dealers Information Retrieval Prohibition. No funds
  may be used to electronically retrieve personally identifying information
  gathered by federal firearms licensees. The provision prohibits the creation of
  a gun registry from dealers’ records that are required by law to be surrendered
  to the federal government when a dealer goes out of business. This provision has
  been included since FY 1997.
  
• Information Gathering Prohibition/24-Hour Destruction of Records. A
  prohibition on the use of funds to retain any information gathered as a part of
  an approved instant background check for more than 24 hours. This provision
  protects the privacy of law-abiding gun buyers by prohibiting gun buyers’
  personal information about legal gun purchases from being retained by government
  authorities for more than 24 hours after a firearm background check. It has been
  included since FY 1999.
  

In addition, the conference report adds two NEW provisions designed to

bolster our gun rights and protect the Second Amendment from unelected

bureaucrats who would twist the law to facilitate their gun-control agenda.

• Prohibit Funding for “Gun Walking†Operations. No funds may be used
  to knowingly transfer firearms to agents of drug cartels unless U.S. law
  enforcement personnel control or monitor the firearms at all time. This
  amendment is designed to prevent the Justice Department (or any government
  entity) from spending taxpayer dollars on “gun walking†programs like Operation
  Fast and Furious.
  
• Shotgun Importation Protections. Prohibits the Department of
  Justice from requiring imported shotguns to meet a “sporting purposes†test that
  theBureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE)
  has used to prohibit the importation of shotguns with one or more
  features disliked by the Agency, such as adjustable stocks, extended magazine
  tubes, etc"
  

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[mikegideon]

I got no problems with it.

[Guest 6.8 AR]

Nor do I, but you know as well as I do, nothing in DC is permanent.

[Guest ArmyVeteran37214]

I got no problems with it.

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