House passes gun rights amendment
An amendment was attached to the recently passed credit card bill which makes all park service land uniformly follow state laws with regard to carrying a firearm. This is something several rights groups have been working on for years as the National Park Service had differing rules for their various controlled properties making it tricky to know if you were “allowed” to carry you licensed firearm on a particular parcel. This bill fixed that by setting all land to honor state laws rather than bureaucratic rules.
Anyway, despite the overwhelming support of this amendment today President Obama reminded the nation that this law does not take effect for 9 months. As the rules baring licensed care are policy rather than law it would take one phone call to make it effective NOW. But he’s not going to for a couple of reasons.
First, he can point out his “opposition” to it to the Brady Bunch to solicit campaign dollars. At the same time he can point out to the 2A rights groups that he signed it. I doubt he’ll get campaign dollars from any of the latter group though.
Second, as long as he doesn’t make that phone call its only a paper victory for 2A groups – at least for another 9 months. And as we’ve seen in the first 100 some days of the new Administration, a lot can happen in that time. For example, the passage of pending federal bill that would prohibit you from owning the firearms your state has licensed you to carry.
Fear monger you say? Maybe. But with the sycophants in the media refusing to do their job and the utter lack of objectivity in the American mind today nothing this administration does, or can get away with, will surprise me.
Update: Didn’t take long to find supporting documentation. Not any of the pending Fed legislation but an international treaty.
Unsurprisingly, one of the leading proponents of ratifying this treaty is non other than Dick Lugar (R-IN). Seems every time I see Lugar he’s reinforcing my view that he has sold out his state and his party for visions of globalist grandeur.