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From: "Gun Owners of America" <kellyj@gunvoter.org>
To: "Gun Owners of America" <kellyj@gunvoter.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 3:57 PM
Subject: See a shrink; Lose your guns - is worse than Feinstein Gun Ban

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Kelly Jarboe

The Toomey-Manchin sell-out is worse than the Feinstein gun ban, which will
reportedly
be tied to it on the same amendment tree.

Toomey and Manchin will claim that their bill only covers "gun show sales"
and Internet sales. But if you've ever talked about your gun and /or let it
be known you'd
like to sell or buy a gun on the Internet, this language covers you. If
you advertise your
gun in the church bulletin and the bulletin is put on the Internet, you're
covered.

The only exemption is for sales that are sold exclusively by word of mouth.
The increased
number of background checks would likely exacerbate the system breakdowns
(inherent to
NICS) which have shut down gun shows over and over again. It would mean
that Americans
who were illegally denied firearms because their names were similar to other
people's would
effectively be barred from owning a gun. (We would never tolerate such
delays for voting
rights or other freedoms that we are guaranteed.)

And for those Republicans who think they're going to be able to offer their
useless amendments,
guess what? Reid is reportedly going to use an amendment tree to block out
all amendments.
And there are plenty of Senators standing in line to make sure that the
Senate doesn't give
"unanimous consent" to set that blocking effort aside.

So if you live in a rural area, you're effectively barred from selling or
buying a gun - or it at least
becomes very, very difficult.

Incidentally, the Toomey-Manchin "national registry" language is full of
holes. There will be a
national gun registry as a result of this sell-out.

But that's not the worst part. Under an amendment in the bill to HIPAA, you
could have your guns
taken away because your private shrink thinks you're "dangerous" and could
send your name
directly to the FBI Instant Check system.

Did you think it was terrible that 150,000 military veterans had been added
into the NICS system
because they'd seen a VA shrink about their PTSD? Well guess what? Now
it's going to happen
to the rest of the population ... by the millions!

And the next step, of course, will be to begin to sue psychiatrists that
don't send every single
patient's name to the Instant Check system, and to make sure that their
lives are ruined if they
don't send a patient to NICS and anything goes wrong.

The bottom line: "See a shrink; lose your guns."

All of this will reportedly be on an amendment tree with the Feinstein gun
ban and magazine bans.

In addition, Toomey no doubt unintentionally agreed to repeal one of the
most important protections
for gun owners that was included in the 1986 McClure-Volkmer Act - the
provision that would allow
you to take an unloaded, locked-up gun through states like New York without
being stopped. Under
a new subsection (c), the Toomey-Manchin bill would require you to
"demonstrate" to the satisfaction
of New York police where you were coming from and where you are going to.
And, if you don't do
that to their satisfaction, they can arrest you.

Please understand that nothing in this bill would have stopped the Newtown
dirtbag from killing his
mother and taking the firearms that she owned and perpetrating the horrible
crimes that he committed.

Nothing is this bill would actually make children safer at schools. There
is nothing that will actually
keep bad guys from stealing or illegally acquiring guns, but there's plenty
that will threaten our gun
rights!

Please vote against cloture on the motion to proceed to the "see a shrink;
lose your guns" / Feinstein
gun ban amendment tree.

Sincerely, Kelly Jarboe