Washington, DC -(AmmoLand.com)- In response to the July 12, 2016 introduction of the so called “HEART Act” gun ban introduced by Senator Edward J. Markey (D-MA) and Congressman Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), NFA Freedom Alliance Executive Director Todd Rathner issued the following statement:
The Markey/Gallego gun ban proposal is nothing short of an outright attack on the right of parents to decide when and how to introduce their children to the American heritage of outdoor sports.
Their craven assault on parental authority and Second Amendment rights would eliminate the ability for a parent to choose the manner and type of gun safety and self-defense training they believe is best for their family.
As it is drafted, this bill would prohibit a parent from allowing their child to hunt or target shoot with millions of the most common, popular, and safe firearms in existence.
Including the ubiquitous Ruger 10/22 .22 caliber rifle⎯the most popular rimfire rifle in America⎯if it has common features such as a threaded barrel, folding stock, or a pistol grip.
If a parent hands a gun on this massive “ban list” (see the entire list of banned guns in document below) to their child, the parent could go to federal prison In fact, thousands of law-abiding American parents have a threaded barrel on their .22 caliber rifles specifically to allow them to attach personal safety equipment like a sound suppressor to protect the hearing of their children while training, hunting, or target shooting.
The sheer absurdity of this bill demonstrates just how far radical, nanny-state extremists like Senator Markey and Rep. Gallego really want to inject big government into America’s families.
As is typical from anti-gun politicians, the sponsors of this bill falsely represented the scope of their bill in a patently misleading effort to paint a picture of “reasonable” regulations. The two tragedies that are being macabrely leveraged by Senator Markey and Rep. Gallego to promote their irrational, anti-heritage agenda could have been avoided with better training and by following basic rules of gun safety.
This terminally – flawed and emotionally – driven bill proves that legislation should be based on the Constitution, sound policy, and evidence of broad social utility. Instead of offering a legitimate solution, this proposal creates new problems and would criminalize longstanding American traditions.
About the NFA Freedom Alliance:
The NFA Freedom Alliance is the strongest direct action/lobbying organization working at the state and federal level to ease restrictions on the ownership, manufacture, sale, and use of items regulated by the National Firearms Act (NFA).
For more information, visit: www.nfafa.org.
Just go’s to show you that the Democrat are WORTHLESS Brain dead fool’s who think they know better how we should live and take care of our kid’s.
When will the supreme court rule that all of the laws limiting guns, gun use and gun training interferes with our 2nd amendment? They ruled laws unconstitutional recently regarding limits to abortion. The constitution specifically says shall not infringe regarding arms but doesn’t specifically mention abortion. The court doesn’t follow the constitution but makes decisions on how they feel or think the way it should be in our country. They’re way out of bounds in some of their decisions. They’re there to follow the constitution, not make law.
What do you expect from a deceitful dirty depraved Democrat? The same socialist elitist “LBJ/KGB”
Soviet style class warfare that has been promoting the anti-gun agenda since 1968 via Lyndon B.
Johnson!
Take the parents out of the family and let our kids learn from thugs on the street, that The Obama Way!
This is about stopping the “gun culture” in America. Brainwash the kids to be anti-gun in school, then stop the parents from teaching kids about firearms. In a couple of generations firearm confiscation is be acceptable.
I hate to have to admit it but I live in Ma. where Markey is one of our two, very anti gun Senators. The other is Warren. Markey has decided for all parents with guns in the home that he will take over for you all decision making in regards to teaching your children safe firearms training and use. He will eliminate it till your kid is a young adult. Personally Markey makes me want to puke. He has been preaching the “smart gun” crap for a few years now and filing bills and proposed laws on mandating that smart… Read more »