Rumor has it … HB 45 Slipped into Federal Stimulus Package?
Feb 18, 2009
Like you, we have heard the rumors about anti-gun legislation (HR 45) being slipped into the stimulus package President Obama just signed.
We have been monitoring this and can assure you this is not the case. To put your mind at ease, we’d like to summarize for you the confirmation we have received from NRA:”The only provision in the stimulus bill that has anything to do with firearms is the funding for BATFE’s “Project Gunrunner,” which (as we pointed out in Friday’s Grassroots Alert) is a program that enforces existing laws to reduce smuggling of firearms from the United States to Mexico. This program imposes no new restrictions on gun owners.
We have gone through the final 1,073-page bill, and its earlier House and Senate versions, both with computerized search terms and a page-by-page review to check the non-searchable handwritten notations.”For your convenience below are links to the bill:http://appropriations.house.gov/.
