Guns Banned.

Just received this email and it is some­thing of inter­est, just what is Wash­ing­ton

doing and why are they doing it?

Is this the hope and the change you vot­ed for?

Dear fel­low Patri­ot,

Near­ly 1 mil­lion Amer­i­can rifles.

Banned by a stroke of Barack Obama’s pen.

In a move unprece­dent­ed in Amer­i­can his­to­ry, the Oba­ma Admin­is­tra­tion qui­et­ly banned the re-impor­ta­tion of near­ly one mil­lion Amer­i­can made M1 Garand and Car­bine rifles.

The M1 Garand, devel­oped in the late 1930’s, car­ried the Unit­ed States through World War II see­ing action in every major bat­tle.

Gen­er­al Pat­ton at the time called the M1 Garand “the great­est bat­tle imple­ment ever devised.”

The rifle is large­ly cred­it­ed with giv­ing Amer­i­can sol­diers the advan­tage and secur­ing vic­to­ry for the allies.

Dur­ing the Kore­an War, near­ly one mil­lion of these rifles were brought to South Korea and left with the South Kore­an gov­ern­ment after­ward.

Now, South Korea wants to give Amer­i­can gun col­lec­tors the chance to get their hands on this unique piece of his­to­ry.

A piece of Amer­i­can his­to­ry that Barack Oba­ma would like to see go down the mem­o­ry hole.

That’s why I want as many Amer­i­cans as pos­si­ble to put them­selves on record oppos­ing this gun ban by sign­ing the Offi­cial Firearms Free­dom Sur­vey the Nation­al Asso­ci­a­tion for Gun Rights has pre­pared for you.

Will you please join me?

After World War II, the Unit­ed States gov­ern­ment sent mil­lions of these rifles over­seas to our allies and friends.

Over the past 50 years, many of the coun­tries we lent them to returned them to Amer­i­ca to be bought and sold by firearms col­lec­tors.

This is noth­ing new.

Make no mis­take; these rifles were made in Amer­i­ca, by Amer­i­cans, for Amer­i­cans, to defend free­dom on for­eign shores.

As a part of our his­to­ry, they are great­ly sought after by Amer­i­can shoot­ers and col­lec­tors.

But accord­ing to Hillary Clinton’s State Depart­ment there is a dan­ger they might “fall into the wrong hands.”

That they might, pos­si­bly, one day be used in a crime.

No men­tion of the hun­dreds of thou­sands of gun own­ers deprived of the oppor­tu­ni­ty to own an inte­gral part of Amer­i­can his­to­ry.

The State Department’s out­ra­geous claims are noth­ing more than a thin­ly veiled ploy to dis­tract from the real issue:

Pres­i­dent Obama’s deep seat­ed hatred for gun rights.

While his gun-grab­bing base is gid­dy with praise at this back-door gun ban, law-abid­ing cit­i­zens across the Unit­ed States are cry­ing foul.

Let me be clear: at no time in U.S. his­to­ry has the own­er­ship of this firearm — or any part of this firearm — been ille­gal, restrict­ed or banned.

Amer­i­cans have col­lect­ed World War II M1 Garand and Car­bine rifles for decades.

Now they are sold through the Civil­ian Marks­man­ship Pro­gram.

You can even pur­chase a new­ly man­u­fac­tured mod­el from Spring­field Armory that was made just a month or two ago.

And the M1 Garand’s cal­iber or capac­i­ty is no more dan­ger­ous than the mil­lions of mod­ern firearms owned by Amer­i­cans across the coun­try today.

As you can see, there is absolute­ly no jus­ti­fi­ca­tion for this uncon­sti­tu­tion­al gun ban.

This is just the lat­est in a series of anti-gun schemes from the Oba­ma Admin­is­tra­tion:

*** New BATFE reg­u­la­tions on semi-auto­mat­ic rifles, requir­ing firearms deal­ers to act as an infor­mant to anti-gun fed­er­al bureacrats if some­one buys more than one rifle;

*** The Dis­arm­ing Amer­i­can Cit­i­zens Act (H.R. 2159 in the last Con­gress) let­ting Attor­ney Gen­er­al Eric Hold­er revoke the Sec­ond Amend­ment rights of ANY Amer­i­can he choos­es based on pure sus­pi­cion;

*** Noto­ri­ous anti-gun­ners appoint­ed to the U.S. Supreme Court and oth­er senior admin­is­tra­tion posi­tions;
That’s why it is essen­tial that Amer­i­cans like you and I take a stand against the M1 Garand gun ban!

It has been com­mon prac­tice since the end of World War II to re-import these Amer­i­can made rifles from the for­eign allies they were lent to dur­ing the war.

But the Oba­ma Admin­is­tra­tion departs rad­i­cal­ly from the Amer­i­can tra­di­tion.

In fact, on top of ban­ning Amer­i­can cit­i­zens from own­ing these his­toric firearms, Obama’s State Depart­ment is arrang­ing for the destruc­tion of near­ly one mil­lion of them — iron­i­cal­ly, at a time of bal­loon­ing fed­er­al deficits.

It’s an out­rage!

These firearms — tru­ly pieces of Amer­i­can his­to­ry — right­ly belong in the hands of U.S. cit­i­zens.

That’s why I was glad to hear that the Nation­al Asso­ci­a­tion for Gun Rights is help­ing fight this pow­er grab in the U.S. Sen­ate.

Do you believe the U.S. Con­sti­tu­tion, the Bill of Rights, and the Sec­ond Amend­ment are the supreme law of the land?

Do you believe that Pres­i­dent Oba­ma ban­ning the re-impor­ta­tion of these his­toric firearms is an unprece­dent­ed and uncon­sti­tu­tion­al pow­er grab?

Do you sup­port Con­gress forc­ing Pres­i­dent Oba­ma to reverse his ban and save these Amer­i­can made rifles from destruc­tion?

If you said “Yes” to these ques­tions, please sign the Firearms Free­dom Sur­vey the Nation­al Asso­ci­a­tion for Gun Rights has pre­pared for you.

Your sur­vey will put you square­ly on the record AGAINST Barack Obama’s Rifle Ban.

And along with your signed sur­vey, I hope you’ll send a gen­er­ous con­tri­bu­tion of $250, $100, $50 or even just $35 to help finance this bat­tle.

With your gen­er­ous con­tri­bu­tion, the Nation­al Asso­ci­a­tion for Gun Rights will con­tin­ue con­tact­ing Sec­ond Amend­ment sup­port­ers to turn up the heat on tar­get­ed U.S. Sen­a­tors.

Not only that, but they’re prepar­ing a mas­sive pro­gram to launch the designed to force Pres­i­dent Oba­ma to reverse this ban.

Direct mail. Phones. E‑mail. Blogs. Guest edi­to­ri­als. Press con­fer­ences. Hard-hit­ting inter­net, news­pa­per, radio and even TV ads if fund­ing per­mits. The whole nine yards.

Of course, a pro­gram of this scale is only pos­si­ble if the Nation­al Asso­ci­a­tion for Gun Rights can raise the mon­ey.

But that’s not easy.

So please put your­self on record AGAINST Barack Obama’s Rifle Ban by sign­ing NAGR’s Firearms Free­dom Sur­vey.

But along with your sur­vey, please agree to make a gen­er­ous con­tri­bu­tion of $250, $100, $50 or even just $35.

And every dol­lar counts in this fight so even if you can only chip in $10 or $20, your help will still make a dif­fer­ence.

Thank you in advance for your time and mon­ey devot­ed to defend­ing our Sec­ond Amend­ment rights.

For Free­dom,

Rand Paul
Unit­ed States Sen­a­tor

P.S. In a move unprece­dent­ed in Amer­i­can his­to­ry, Barack Oba­ma secret­ly banned the re-impor­ta­tion of near­ly a mil­lion Amer­i­can made M1 Garand and Car­bine rifles.

The M1 Garand, devel­oped in the 1930’s, car­ried the U.S. through World War II see­ing action in every major bat­tle.

So please put your­self on record AGAINST the Barack Obama’s Rifle Ban by sign­ing NAGR’s Firearms Free­dom Sur­vey.

But along with your sur­vey, please agree to make a gen­er­ous con­tri­bu­tion to the Nation­al Asso­ci­a­tion for Gun Rights of $250, $100, $50 or even just $35.

And every dol­lar counts in this fight so even if you can only chip in $10 or $20, your help will still make a dif­fer­ence.