GRNC On S.374 And S.649

Grass Roots North Carolina issued an alert last night regarding the pressure that is being put on Sen. Kay Hagan and five Republican senators to support gun control. They note the ads being run by MAIG and petitions being gathered by OFA. GRNC has some suggested messages to send to Hagan and to the other senators.

From GRNC:

MAIG & Obama radicals pressuring Hagan & others

As Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid vows to bring S. 649, the latest "universal background check" (read that "registration") bill to a vote as early as this week, Bloomberg's "Mayors Against Illegal Guns," Obama's "Organizing for Action, and the media have begun a full court press to pass whatever gun control they can foist on the American public.

In fact, North Carolinians "Against Gun Control" just dropped 39,000 petitions, presumably gathered by Obama's radicals at "Organizing for Action," on Hagan. In response, the National Coalition to Stop the Gun Ban forged by GRNC and others is running a campaign against Hagan and 5 other senators.

S. 374 & S. 649 would make you a criminal

There is nothing benign about "universal background checks," which are gun control code words for "universal gun registration." Not only would S. 649 open the door for registration, it and similar bills under consideration would make it a 5-year federal felony to:

• Leave town for more than 7 days, and leave your wife, partner, or roommate at home with your guns;
• Lend a gun to a friend to take shooting or to go hunting;
• Loan a gun to your mother if she lives at a different residence;
• Hand a gun to someone at a gun club which is not a shooting range;
• Teach someone to shoot on your own land, if you hand them the gun; or
• Fail to report a gun as lost or stolen within 24 hours, even if you are on a hunting trip deep in the woods and are unable to do so.

IMMEDIATE ACTION REQUIRED!

• CALL & EMAIL SEN. KAY HAGAN IMMEDIATELY at 202-224-6342 and by CLICKING HERE or going to: http://www.hagan.senate.gov/contact/ and deliver the message below.
• CALL @ EMAIL Sen. Richard Burr at 202-224-3154 and by CLICKING HERE or going to: http://burr.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.ContactForm and deliver the message below.
• Call and email senate Republicans Pat Toomey (PA), Chuck Grassley (IA), Tom Coburn (OK), and Mitch McConnell (KY)
• DONATE TO GRNC: In the next two days, GRNC will be sending 30,000 automated telephone alerts to gun-owning voters. THIS DOESN'T COME CHEAP. Please help with the effort by CLICKING HERE or going to: http://www.grnc.org/join-grnc/contribute

CONTACT INFORMATION

Sen. Pat Toomey (PA), 202-224-4254, email HERE or at: http://www.toomey.senate.gov/?p=contact

Sen. Chuck Grassley (IA), 202-224–3744, email HERE or at: http://www.grassley.senate.gov/contact/contact.cfm

Sen. Tom Coburn (OK), 202-224-5754, email HERE or at: http://www.coburn.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/contactform

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (KY), 202-224-2541, email HERE or at: http://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=ContactForm

DELIVER THIS MESSAGE

To Hagan:

Suggested Subject: Don't Support Universal Background Checks/Registration

Dear Senator Hagan:

You recently expressed support for the type of "universal background checks" Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid plans to bring to a floor vote as early as this week. You've also been pressured by Michael Bloomberg's misnamed group, "Mayors Against Illegal Guns" and President Obama's "Organizing for Action."

But I live in North Carolina. They don't. I am one of the 300,000 gun-owning North Carolina voters who will follow the recommendations of Grass Roots North Carolina and the 39-member "National Coalition to Stop the Gun Ban" they have formed.

More importantly, *I* am the one who will work to remove you from office if you fail to: (1) Vote against any "motion to proceed" on S. 374, S. 649 or whatever other thinly disguised gun registration bill hits the Senate floor, and (2) Support efforts to filibuster such legislation.

I would suggest you act like your political career depends on it, because it does. I will be closely monitoring your actions via Grass Roots North Carolina legislative alerts.

Respectfully,

To Senate Republicans:

Suggested Subject: Don't Support Universal Background Checks/Registration

Dear Senator:

I am one of the hundreds of thousands of gun-owners who follow recommendations of the 39-member "National Coalition to Stop the Gun Ban". They have formed to oppose any and all gun control.

More importantly, *I* am the one who will work to remove you from office if you fail to: (1) Vote against any "motion to proceed" on S. 374, S. 649 or whatever other thinly disguised gun registration bill hits the Senate floor, and (2) Support efforts to filibuster such legislation.

The National Coalition to Stop the Gun Ban will not accept any "compromise" on competing universal gun registration schemes -- not between Sens. Charles Schumer and Tom Coburn, not between Sen. Joe Manchin and the NRA, and not the "alternative" being put together by Sen. Chuck Grassley. We have long ago learned that "compromise" in the gun debate defines a process in which we lose less freedom than under our opposition's original proposal, but we still lose.