Congress Passes NRA-backed “Disaster Recovery Personal Protection Act of 2006”

[Shane]

Congress Passes NRA-backed “Disaster Recovery Personal Protection Act of 2006”

Monday, October 02, 2006

Fairfax, VA- The National Rifle Association (NRA) and law-abiding gun owners scored a significant victory when the United States Congress acted to prohibit the confiscation of legal firearms from law-abiding citizens during states of emergency, barring practices conducted by officials in New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. This action was included in the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations bill that passed both chambers of Congress. This bill now heads to President Bush for his expected signature.

“Following the chaos and civil disorder in New Orleans when the city effectively suspended the Second Amendment, NRA vowed to make sure we never again witnessed this kind of desecration on our rights,” declared Chris W. Cox. “As promised, NRA set out to pass legislation at both the federal and state levels to protect the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding American citizens.”

H.R. 5013, the “Disaster Recovery Personal Protection Act,” was introduced in the House by Congressman Bobby Jindal (LA - 1) passed the House on July 25, 2006 with a broad bi-partisan margin of 322-99. Senator David Vitter (R-La) introduced the Senate version of the bill, which passed the United States Senate by 84-16, the largest margin of victory for a NRA-backed measure.

“The essence of the ‘Disaster Recovery Personal Protection Act’ was so compelling that it received strong bipartisan support in Congress,” continued Cox. “When 911 is non-existent and law enforcement personnel are busy with search and rescue missions and other duties, law abiding Americans want to defend their families and loved ones in times of emergency. Your NRA helped guarantee their freedom to do just that.”

“On behalf of all NRA members nationwide, I want to thank Rep. Bobby Jindal (R-LA) and Sen. Vitter for their leadership in introducing this legislation and seeing these fundamental bills through to passage,” concluded Cox.

 

[Admin]

Sweet

 

[dreppucci007]

Very nice

 

[Pilgrim]

oh yea ! Another one for the good guys !

 

[wilfx]

That's one of the things NRA does for us.

 

[JRyan]

Yep this is good news.

 

[KMaurer]

The nice thing about the Jindall bill is that it applies to all law enforcement agencies that receive any federal funds, unlike the original Senate version that only applied to federal agencies. Almost every state and local law enforcement agency in the country receives at least a token amount of federal funding.

Ken

 

[adweisbe]

Fantastic, I hope this legislation is as good as it sounds. I think the NRA has been very creative in finding new ways to strengthen our rights without having to overturn the issues we already lost on.

 

[Len-2A Training]

Fantastic, I hope this legislation is as good as it sounds. I think the NRA has been very creative in finding new ways to strengthen our rights without having to overturn the issues we already lost on.

I guarantee you that this will NOT intimidate people like Mumbles Menino and his minions from confiscating guns! They don't care about the laws and know that once they have them, you'll go thru hell to get them back (if ever) and the most that they will suffer is a slap on the wrist . . . maybe!

 

[adweisbe]

Death by a thousand cuts works both ways. I hope...

 

[Jose]

I guarantee you that this will NOT intimidate people like Mumbles Menino and his minions from confiscating guns! They don't care about the laws and know that once they have them, you'll go thru hell to get them back (if ever) and the most that they will suffer is a slap on the wrist . . . maybe!

Maybe some of the confiscators would like to have the gun bullets first?

 

[Len-2A Training]

Jose, you won't "win" that way.

 

[LoginName]

I guarantee you that this will NOT intimidate people like Mumbles Menino and his minions from confiscating guns! They don't care about the laws and know that once they have them, you'll go thru hell to get them back (if ever) and the most that they will suffer is a slap on the wrist . . . maybe!

Thanks to the FRB, it doesn't help matters when they know whom owns what and where to find them.