From Rocky Mountain Gun Owners:
“SB-2099” e-mail a hoax, but illustrates why you should be a member of a trusted pro-gun group
You may have received an e-mail about a bill in the U.S. Senate known as “SB-2099”.
There are a great number of indicators in this e-mail that prove the sender is not to be trusted.
“This bill will become public knowledge 30 days after it is voted into law.” Baloney. I don’t trust the scumbuckets in Washington, D.C. either. But a bill can’t become law without “public knowledge” or without a vote.
If this were possible, is there any doubt the anti-gun liberals would use it to immediately enact their gun control fantasies? The only thing stopping them is… well, frankly, you, and your outrage.
Another thing that tells you this isn’t accurate is that the US Senate doesn’t legislation as “SB 2099” or “SB-2099”. It would be “S. 2099”.
The third glaring indication that it isn’t real is that when you do a search of “S. 2099” or even “2099” from the US Senate website, it returns nothing.
I’m a former US Senate employee (Sen. Bill Armstrong’s staff), and still have a lot of contacts on the Hill. So I’ve got a good handle on federal legislation — we track federal legislation here:
http://www.nationalgunrights.org/billwatch.shtml
As you can see, no “2099” exists in the current Congress.
The one thing they did get right is that 2099 was, at one time, a bill in the U.S. Senate… in 2000. And yes, it was a gun control disaster. It didn’t get anywhere, but 9 years later its not still alive.
However, this illustrates why we exist: There’s a lot of misinformation out there — especially on the internet — and gun owners need someone they trust take the time to decipher it. They want to know what’s happening without being scammed, so they become members of groups they trust.
“I asked a gun lobbyist I trust about the legislation you referenced, “SB-2099”. And, as you can see from this 15-year veteran of the wars to save our freedoms, the referenced legislation isn’t as advertised.
There are plenty of real threats to our right to keep and bear arms. Let’s put our energy into fighting them, not ghosts.
If you live in Colorado, you need to be a member. There is no other group in Colorado who truly defends our rights without compromise.
Click here if you’d like to receive more information about RMGO in the mail
Click here to read more about RMGO
If you don’t live in Colorado, you can always join the National Association for Gun Rights, which is led by the same staff.
This is a great way to turn a wild goose chase into an actual positive for freedom.
Tags: Gun Control, News, Politics, RMGO, SB 2009
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June 2, 2009 at 07:57
Thanks for the clarification
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June 2, 2009 at 20:47
Thanks for the update. I needed that. Now if I could only figure out how to email it to my friends.
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June 3, 2009 at 05:44
A copy and paste should work Frank.
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June 9, 2009 at 15:50
Thank you very much for clearing all of that mess up, Mr. Sperry. As gun owners, my husband, myself, and my brother in law all grew very wary of such, and I Googled said “law”. Legally, we can’t be taxed without representation. It’s bad enough that there are so many anti-gun enthusiasts out there now. We don’t need more.
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June 10, 2009 at 07:12
As noted in the article, this has not really gone away. It’s just off the table, and hence the political radar for now.
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June 16, 2009 at 14:18
I hope I never have to sayI told you so.
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June 22, 2009 at 14:49
I did the same search when I saw the email and found the 2000 bill… deader than a doornail. Sometimes I wonder if things like this are the left trying to play marionette with Second Amendment supporters…
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June 22, 2009 at 16:29
Thanks for the link fingolfen, at first I misread your post at your website, and was a little perturbed.
But, and it is only speculation on my part. I think that you are on target about the more or less fifth column actions by the left.
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July 6, 2009 at 05:45
Thanks for the heads-up on this.
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July 8, 2009 at 04:09
[…] informed them it was a hoax. Other sites that refer to this hoax email are Soldier of Fortune, Conservative Libertarian Outpost, Truth or Fiction, and […]
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July 10, 2009 at 04:58
As a member of NRA, 4th US Cavalry Association, as well as life member of NAFC and BASS, I would like to commend what you are doing here. I also appreciate your pingback on my Myth Blaster article.
People that don’t like guns or don’t want them around the house have the right to do so … but do not have the right to transgress against the Second Amendment by not letting other citizens exercise their rights.
The people getting military weaponry are the drug cartels and terrorists, and gun running, along with drugs and uninvited people coming from Mexico is by no means anything new. However, because of our government (both political parties to blame) the traffic has accelerated. We have immigration laws in place, but the government, those elected, do not enforce laws they created to protect the sovereignty and security of our nation and its people. AS Ronald Reagan stated: “Government IS the problem”. The solution is, as you have portrayed here at CLO is that citizens must keep track of their reps and senators and be more responsible when voting. We should no longer pay attention to political parties or give the two traditional ones our allegiance/loyalty. They have developed a monopoly, along with the media, where independents and third party candidates do not have a chance in national elections, as well as congressional selection. That isn’t the way it was supposed to be in America. Once upon a time the two traditional parties provided a more balanced government witht he underlying endeavor to govern in the best interests of America and its people. Now our leadership has become apologists, socialists, and selfish – with everything but statesmanship on their minds.
But the voices from the wilderness, like this citizen journalist endeavor demonstrates that the sociocrats haven’t totally won the game yet. If reformation is required it is up to We the People to initiate it and choose elected officials that exercise statesmanship.
You are linked at my blogroll listings and I join you in making America great again and a democratic republic For the People and By the People.
Thanks for all you do.
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July 24, 2009 at 22:04
This is no hoax. Better look a little closer. Look up H.R. 45 or Blair Holt’s Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009. This was reintroduced 01/2009. Thanks, Bob
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July 25, 2009 at 06:57
Bob, to the best of my knowledge Blair Holt’s law has been sitting in limbo in committee since being introduced,and without a single co-sponsor thank God.
Now, does that mean that we should relax? Of course not, because vigilance is ever necessary if freedom is to remain alive and well.
Thanks for stopping by.
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July 25, 2009 at 10:41
Patrick wrote: “But a bill can’t become law without “public knowledge” or without a vote. ”
Actually, a bill can become law without congress even reading the bill. Just happened with the 787 Billion dollar fiasco called the bailout/stimulus bill. And they’re trying to do the same with Nationalized Health Care, Cap and Trade and others. They’re trying to force these spending bills through without proper vetting by congress, much less the public.
Every single politician that votes on a bill the he hasn’t read should be brought up on treason charges and expelled without pay or retirement.
They’re ALL criminals !!!
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July 25, 2009 at 11:33
Doug: That is why I sponsor the RTBA! See my sidebar “Down Size DC.”
Not to mention that I don’t see that comment by me in this thread. Nor does that establish that a vote, even a misinformed one isn’t required. Further, to bolster your argument; since the Lautenberg Domestic Violence Act ex post facto law is now the law of the land, and public notice is nothing but political posturing.
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July 28, 2009 at 13:48
Uh, sorry Patrick, I guess that it’s my bad. I saw your name at the top of the article and thought that it was by you. A little lower, I see that part is from the “Rocky Mountain Gun Owners” that said this:
“This bill will become public knowledge 30 days after it is voted into law.” Baloney. I don’t trust the scumbuckets in Washington, D.C. either. But a bill can’t become law without “public knowledge” or without a vote.
It’s hard to tell where your commentary starts/stops and the article begins/quits….
Sorry
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July 29, 2009 at 04:41
No problem Doug. I usually leave a big space near the top, and source at the bottom. The wordpress quotation tool crams things so tightly that I stopped using it a couple of years ago.
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August 1, 2009 at 20:21
Besides keeping us chasing our tails, this crap is a credibility killer, I would really like to know who started it.
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August 2, 2009 at 05:11
For years I have said that there is a fifth column operating on behalf of the left. Sometimes the source can be found, but not all the time.
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August 6, 2009 at 11:07
Patrick, thank you for all you are doing. Having been an NRA member for many years, it’s nice to see someone provide the facts. I’m sure mine is not a popular belief, but I feel the NRA cries wolf way to many times.
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August 6, 2009 at 15:38
Ummm, you are not very familiar with my blog then! I beat them up all the time! I’m a life member, but GOA gets my donations anymore!
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September 24, 2009 at 13:07
It’s a house bill: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.45 and it is NOT a hoax!
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September 24, 2009 at 13:58
Robert, try reading things please. The Senate Bill is from years ago, and died there. H.R. 45, the Blair Holt Anti Liberty Bill of Oppression, as I call it. Is currently dead in the water as a stand alone Bill. The danger, is that he may succeed in attaching it to another Bill, and or pulling a Lautenberg and sneaking it through via nefarious means.
As I have posted several times, contact your elected representatives, and tell them in no uncertain terms that you will not stand for this abomination becoming law period!
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September 25, 2009 at 05:31
Patrick is correct, Robert.
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September 25, 2009 at 08:56
Thanks Keith. Great blog you have BTW. My overall point, is that while things don’t look good for H.R. 45 we must remain ever vigilant, and wary of any scheme that neutralizes, no matter how small the effect, the Bill of Rights. Besides? Who is to say that another version of the failed S.B. 2099 might not be introduced?
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September 25, 2009 at 19:46
Patrick – thanks for the accolade.
One thing for sure, the sociocrats never give up – they’ll try to sneak it into the next defense budget!
Their attitude is that it doesn’t matter that Americans are against something – the people (peasantry) don’t know what’s good for them, thus the reason they must rule over their lives. If it was up to them the feudal system would return. An economist once wrote that the peasants of medieval Europe paid less taxes than Americans do today, in percentage – and that is saying something. Of course, taxes were not based upon income as today, but on the other hand, the feudal lords didn’t have anyone redistributing their income either.
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September 26, 2009 at 08:49
That would be Political Economist Paul Craig Roberts I believe. The government, in general, seem to have revisited the communist / socialist pattern whereby the elites, as in them, know better for you than what you do for you and yours. From toilet paper (yes, I almost blogged about that the other day! 🙂 ) to whether or not you deserve to be able to protect yourself the way that they do.
The list just goes on…
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December 20, 2009 at 03:07
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December 21, 2009 at 23:44
Patrick:
If you are having difficulty with quote blocks, try changing your theme with better quotation blocks.
BTW – LPJ is in the process of moving, the new web address is at site.
Good citizen journalism.
I also have three other blogs going, one for the ARM (American Reform Movement), one from Fort Faded Glory and the newest where I am moving my theology themes and my book, “Phenomenology of World Religion”.
I will send you links upon email request.
I didn’t include them here because I feel that permission should be obtained first and not use someone’s commentary for promoting something I do.
As usual, Best Regards and with professional respect …
KAL
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December 22, 2009 at 17:11
Sure KAL, although the blog roll is really getting pretty big.
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December 23, 2009 at 04:12
Well, since LPJ is already on blogroll – here’s new web address:
http://lighthousepatriot.blogspot.com/
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December 23, 2009 at 05:36
Got it added KAL.
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