Another Appointee- This one is scary

[BPTactical]

Well the Annointed one is going to use his Executive powers and shove through one of his far lefties again...........This time to head the BATFE!
Just what I thought-he would lose the majority and shove crap down our throats during the lame duck session.
Folks this one is a clear and present danger to our 2A rights.
Contact EVERYONE you know!
http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Fe...d.aspx?id=6084
http://onlygunsandmoney.blogspot.com...ew-traver.html

Friday, November 19, 2010

Statement From NRA-ILA Executive Director Chris W. Cox

The NRA strongly opposes President Obama’s nomination of Andrew Traver as director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE). Traver has been deeply aligned with gun control advocates and anti-gun activities. This makes him the wrong choice to lead an enforcement agency that has almost exclusive oversight and control over the firearms industry, its retailers and consumers. Further, an important nomination such as BATFE director should not be made as a “recess appointment,” in order to circumvent consent by the American people through their duly elected U.S. Senators.
Traver served as an advisor to the International Association for Chiefs of Police’s (IACP) “Gun Violence Reduction Project,” a “partnership” with the Joyce Foundation. Both IACP and the Joyce Foundation are names synonymous with promoting a variety of gun control schemes at the federal and state levels. Most of the individuals involved in this project were prominent gun control activists and lobbyists.
The IACP report, generated with Traver’s help, called on Congress to ban thousands of commonly owned firearms by misrepresenting them as “assault weapons,” as well as calling for bans on .50 caliber rifles and widely used types of ammunition. The report also suggests that Congress should regulate gun shows out of existence and should repeal the privacy protections of the Tiahrt Amendment—all efforts strongly opposed by the NRA and its members.
Traver also participated in an extremely deceptive NBC Chicago report (http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local-beat/Assault-Weapons-Surge-in-City-69620227.html) in which he referred to “the growing frequency of gang members and drug dealers using heavy caliber military-type weapons” and described them as if they were machine guns: “Pull the trigger and you can mow people down.” Traver and his agents provided the reporter with a fully automatic AK-47, with which she was unable to hit the target. He then said that stray bullets are “one of the main problems with having stuff like this available to the gangs.”
As the Agent-in-Charge of Chicago’s BATFE office, Traver knows that fully automatic firearms are not available through normal retail channels—the opposite of what was implied in the report.
An agency involved in the regulation of a fundamental, individual right guaranteed under the U.S. Constitution should not be led by an individual with a demonstrated hostility to that freedom. For that reason, the NRA strongly opposes Andrew Traver to head the BATFE and urges President Obama to withdraw this ill-advised nomination.

The chair is against the wall...............

[Byte Stryke]

Yeah we should make more laws banning guns.
I think all guns should be banned because then criminals wouldn't have them, They would have to turn them in like everyone else and the streets would be safe again.
/sarcasm

[Irving]

First anger, then despair.

[KevDen2005]

The chair is against the wall...............

Is that from Red Dawn?

[Ed_S]

When are the anti-gun idiots going to wake up.

More gun control laws will not prevent 'bad' people from getting them.

Ever seen a gang member at your local gun store - nope!

Also what's their thing about .50 calibre, if it's not 'assault weapons' it's .50 calibre. I don't get that one?

As Cartman once said 'Democrats piss me off'.

[Mazin]

Is that from Red Dawn?

LOL I believe it is....


Avenge ME!!!!!

[BPTactical]

Is that from Red Dawn?

No- it is actually what was broadcasted to the underground organizations in WWII to advise them that D-Day was underway and to begin disrupting commo and logistics.



John has a long mustache......

[Ranger]

What did you expect, nearly every questionable appointment by this ass clown of a president has been whacko and always done in a recess. ONE TERM ONLY PLEASE!

[patrick0685]

what are the chances that he will make it though?

[BPTactical]

what are the chances that he will make it though?

Considering Oboingo's past record with appointee's - About 99%.

Think about it- permanently banning "Assault Weapons" was one of his campaign agendas. He has been able to push through just about every other campaign promise but he was suspiciously silent on this one. He knew that if he mentioned an AWB prior to mid terms it would be a death knell for any candidate that endorsed it.
Now he knows that when the new Congress gets seated his "Appointments" are not going to get the easy pass that Kagan, Sotomayor, Sunstein and the like got when he had the majority.
Now he is appointing this clown in recess and will use his Executive powers to push the appointment through.
I guarantee you he does get appointed we WILL see another AWB and it will be much worse than the Clinton era ban.

We need to contact every Congress critter and Senator that we can to try to keep this appointment from occurring.