As Senate floor vote looms...
Despite media attempts to lure you to sleep by claiming demand for gun control is waning, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) plans to bring his new and more draconian "universal background check" bill, S. 649, to the Senate floor sometime after Easter. Make no mistake: "Universal background check" is gun control code speech for "universal gun registration," and would make you a criminal for something as inoffensive as leaving a gun at home with your spouse.
Equally premature are predictions that Sen. Dianne Feinstein's (D-CA) ban on semi-automatic firearms is dead. Reid has said he will allow a vote on the measure as an amendment to S. 649 -- potentially avoiding the requirement for 60 votes for "cloture."
MAIG Targets Hagan
Amid all of this, Michael Bloomberg's "Mayors Against Illegal Guns" (MAIG) is making a $12 million multi-state media push, including targeting our own Sen. Kay Hagan (D, GRNC 1-star). Why Hagan? Because her party affiliation and poor 64% pro-gun voting record while in the NC Senate predispose her to support gun control, but the tough reelection bid she faces in 2014 means a vote for gun control might cause her to lose the election.
So where does Hagan stand? Despite her claims to a hunting heritage and her assertion to constituents that she will not "unnecessarily" infringe on your Second Amendment rights, she has dodged the issue until recently, when she first went on record with leftist Chris Fitzsimon of "NC Policy Watch" in favor of some form of background checks. More telling, however, was a recent article in the "Greensboro News & Record," which said:
Despite media attempts to lure you to sleep by claiming demand for gun control is waning, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) plans to bring his new and more draconian "universal background check" bill, S. 649, to the Senate floor sometime after Easter. Make no mistake: "Universal background check" is gun control code speech for "universal gun registration," and would make you a criminal for something as inoffensive as leaving a gun at home with your spouse.
Equally premature are predictions that Sen. Dianne Feinstein's (D-CA) ban on semi-automatic firearms is dead. Reid has said he will allow a vote on the measure as an amendment to S. 649 -- potentially avoiding the requirement for 60 votes for "cloture."
MAIG Targets Hagan
Amid all of this, Michael Bloomberg's "Mayors Against Illegal Guns" (MAIG) is making a $12 million multi-state media push, including targeting our own Sen. Kay Hagan (D, GRNC 1-star). Why Hagan? Because her party affiliation and poor 64% pro-gun voting record while in the NC Senate predispose her to support gun control, but the tough reelection bid she faces in 2014 means a vote for gun control might cause her to lose the election.
So where does Hagan stand? Despite her claims to a hunting heritage and her assertion to constituents that she will not "unnecessarily" infringe on your Second Amendment rights, she has dodged the issue until recently, when she first went on record with leftist Chris Fitzsimon of "NC Policy Watch" in favor of some form of background checks. More telling, however, was a recent article in the "Greensboro News & Record," which said:
- "U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan likes the idea of expanding background checks for gun purchases, but her vote on legislation nearing the Senate floor will depend on the details, her office said Tuesday."
- Immediate Action Required
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