As the inauguration of Barack Obama approaches, the men and women he has nominated are starting to face questions in their Senate confirmation hearings. In a number of cases, this includes some high-profile appointees who will have a significant impact on the Obama administration’s policies on firearms rights.
Chief among these is Attorney General designate Eric Holder, who has a long history of opposition to the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. There are already significant concerns about Holder’s nomination. “I have many serious questions about Mr. Holder’s nomination,” said Senator David Vitter (R-La.). “At the top of the list are his anti-Second Amendment right positions. He’s clearly advocated near universal licensing and registration, and he joined and filed an amicus brief in the District of Columbia v. Heller U.S. Supreme Court case arguing that the Second Amendment was not an individual right. That’s deeply disturbing.”
NRA has also opposed Holder’s confirmation, and strongly believes he will actively work to restrict gun owners’ rights. (See the letter to Senators Patrick Leahy and Arlen Specter from NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre and NRA-ILA Executive Director Chris Cox here.)
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Conservative Libertarian Outpost 
January 18, 2009 at 11:26
Gun Owners of America Opposes Attorney General Nominee
— Urge Your Senators to Vote “NO” on Eric Holder
Gun Owners of America E-Mail Alert
8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151
Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408
http://www.gunowners.org
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Barack Obama is wasting no time poking a sharp stick in the eyes of
gun owners.
The incoming President’s choice for U.S. Attorney General, Eric
Holder, is an anti-gun extremist who has assailed gun owners since
his days in the Bill Clinton administration.
Holder, who served as Deputy Attorney General from 1997-2001,
supports a 3-day waiting period for handgun purchases,
one-gun-a-month rationing, licensing and registration of all gun
owners, mandatory so-called smart gun technology, a lifetime gun ban
for certain juvenile offenses and regulating gun shows out of
existence.
As Janet Reno’s top deputy, Eric Holder was the go to guy on gun
control issues. In a 1999 statement, Holder told members of Congress
not to cave in to “the special interest that value the cold hard
steel of guns more than the lives of children, neighbors and police
officers,” and urged them to pass legislation that would have
destroyed the gun show industry.
Gun Owners of America members flooded the Congress with postcards and
e-mails and stopped Holder’s gun control plan.
In 2000, Holder was instrumental in the Clinton Administration’s
effort to strong arm firearms manufacturers into voluntarily
accepting regulations that had stalled in the Congress.
In a brazen legislation-by-extortion plot, the federal government
filed suit against gun makers but offered to drop the suit if the
companies would bow to the administration’s demands.
Again, GOA and its members took the lead in opposing Holder and the
Clinton Administration and slowed down implementation of the
agreement until it completely went away when Clinton left office.
One company went along with the deal but after intense pressure from
gun owners, no others joined the unholy alliance.
After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, in an op-ed in the Washington Post,
Holder pushed for more gun control and greater restrictions on gun
shows, even though the terrorists were armed with box cutters that
could be purchased at any hardware store.
Just last year, Holder joined Janet Reno and 11 other former Justice
Department officials in an amicus brief before the Supreme Court
arguing in favor of the gun ban in Washington D.C.
The Holder/Reno brief also took the position that the Second
Amendment protects a collective government right, not an individual
right.
GOA and its members have defeated Eric Holder and his agenda in the
past, and we need to do it again. The Holder nomination is subject
to Senate confirmation in a vote which is set to occur at any time.
Gun Owners of America has asked all members of the U.S. Senate to
reject this anti-Second Amendment activist.
Now we’re urging gun owners across the country to contact their own
Senators and insist that they vote “NO” on Eric Holder.
ACTION: Please use the Gun Owners Legislative Action Center at
http://www.gunowners.org/activism.htm to send your Senators the
pre-written e-mail message below.
—– Prewritten Letter —–
Dear Senator:
Barack Obama’s selection of Eric Holder for U.S. Attorney General is
unacceptable to gun owners.
Eric Holder supports a three day waiting period for gun purchases,
licensing and registration of all gun owners, driving gun shows into
extinction, and much more.
I urge you to vote “NO” on the Holder nomination.
****************************
Are You A Bitter Clinger?
Who is a Bitter Clinger? According to Barack Obama, who was
recorded unawares at a San Francisco fundraiser, bitter clingers are
voters who are bitter because of their economic frustration and so
cling bitterly to their Bibles and their guns.
If you are a bitter clinger, Gun Owners of America has a T-shirt for
you!
You can proudly proclaim your membership in this class of people so
looked down upon by the elites in our country.
The shirt is available at http://www.gunowners.org/merch9066.htm for
$15.50 plus shipping and handling.
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