Congress attempting Medical Records Gun Ban

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Congress Trying to Implement the Medical Records Gun Ban

-- Step #2 in fraudulent budget process comes to a vote on Wednesday

Congress is moving closer to a showdown over the largest expansion of

government in modern U.S. history -- a bill which would require

virtually every single American to buy government-approved health

insurance, whether they wanted it or not.  And, in the process, that

bill would feed all of your most confidential medical data into an

enormous database, which could be used to take away your guns.

This is a bit

complicated.  But here's where we are:

Once a year, the 1974 Budget Act allows Congress to pass a bill --

solely for the purpose of balancing the budget -- and that bill cannot

be filibustered in the Senate.  Hence, it can be passed with only fifty

Democrat votes (plus the vice president), without any Republican

support.

Now, that supposed " budget-balancing bill " is called the " reconciliation

bill " -- and it can only be created if the annual budget resolution

mandates it.

Three weeks ago, the Senate considered its version of the annual budget

resolution.  Gun Owners of America asked you to oppose passage of the

Senate version of the budget resolution for two reasons:

* First, although the Senate version of the bill did not contain

language mandating the giant anti-gun database and the huge $10,000+

per person government health mandate, the Pelosi-devised House

version

did.

* Second, although Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-ND)

protested mightily that the Senate version did not mandate the anti-gun

database and health mandate, GOA found out that Conrad intended all

along to capitulate in House/Senate conference to the Pelosi language.

Now, the budget resolution has come back from conference, and guess

what?

Budget Chairman Conrad stabbed us in the back, just as GOA thought he

would.  His actions meant that Senators didn't have to go on record

voting for gun control the first time around.

The conference report gives Senate and House Republicans until September

to cave in and agree to pass the anti-gun database and $10,000+ health

mandate.  And, if they do not, the Left Wing Democratic leadership will

pass their own bill with 50 Senate votes -- and no Republicans.

And, incidentally, when we say " anti-gun database, " we mean

that

everything your kid told his pediatrician about whether you have a gun

collection will be searchable by the government.  And people with

Alzheimer's, ADHD, and other disorders will begin losing their gun

rights just as quickly as veterans -- who have seen the ramifications of

being on a government database.

Although the next vote on this budget resolution will not be the final

battle in this eight-month war, GOA is asking senators and

representatives to vote against the sleazy, corrupt budget resolution

conference report -- scheduled for a Senate vote this Wednesday.

Incidentally, the one thing that the federal government can do to reduce

health costs is to remove the anti-gun federal laws which prohibit more

Americans from using firearms to defend themselves and their families.

ACTION:

Contact your senators and representative.  Ask them to vote against the

" fraud scheme " which

the budget resolution conference report has become.

Please use the Gun Owners Legislative Action Center at

http://www.gunowners.org/activism.htm to send your legislators the

pre-written e-mail message below.

You can also call them toll-free at 1-877-762-8762.

----- Pre-written letter -----

Dear

The budget resolution conference report would set the stage for

legislation to require virtually every American to purchase

government-approved health insurance.  And it would use government

control over health insurance to require providers to feed our most

confidential medical data into an anti-gun government database.

When I say " anti-gun database, " I mean that everything a kid tells his

pediatrician about his dad's gun collection will be searchable by the

government.  And people with Alzheimer's, ADHA,

and other

disorders will

begin losing their gun rights just as quickly as veterans -- who have

seen the ramifications of being on a government database for the last

decade.

The budget resolution was sold to the Senate under a lie.  Senators were

told that the Senate version contained no " reconciliation instructions "

when, all along, Budget Chairman Kent Conrad intended to immediately

capitulate in conference.

Please show that such underhanded tactics are unacceptable in the

Congress.  Please vote against the budget resolution conference report.

Sincerely,

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