Sen. Schumer
Introduces Gun Control Bill After Brady Campaign Tantrum
Friday, May 20, 2016
For the past several months, Brady Campaign President Dan Gross has been repeatedly telling anyone who will
listen that support for gun control is at a “tipping point.” Gross’ theory
suffered a blow this week as the Brady Campaign resorted to begging their ally,
gun control stalwart Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), to introduce a new version of his Fix
Gun Checks Act.
According to an account by CBS News,
frustrated with what they perceived as Schumer’s recent lack of effort on gun control,
Monday Brady Campaign issued a statement complaining, “Last fall, Senator
Schumer promised ... he would bring a bill to expand Brady background checks.”
Gross went on to whine to reporters that “Senator Schumer has not yet delivered
on that promise.” Shortly after Brady Campaign’s tantrum, Schumer introduced S.2934, or the Fix
Gun Checks Act of 2016. Reports indicate that Schumer had been saving the
legislation for the “right strategic moment.”
Brady Campaign’s decision to target Schumer, who has
continuously proved himself a dedicated enemy of gun owners, drew rebukes from
others in the anti-gun community. A Washington Post article, titled, “Why did a leading gun-control
group just go after one of its own?,” noted, “calling out an ally in
such a public fashion struck many in the gun-control world
as awkward, at best, and harmful to their cause, at worst.” The gun control groups who rushed to Schumer’s defense included Michael
Bloomberg’s Everytown and Americans for Responsible Solutions. Everytown
Chief Communications Officer Erika Soto-Lamb reportedly told Guns.com, “Senator
Schumer has been one of the foremost champions for gun violence prevention
during his entire career in public service… We have no doubt that he will
continue to be a passionate and strategic leader for the cause of saving
American lives from gun violence.”
As for Schumer’s legislation, the bill is a rehash of previous versions
of his Fix Gun Checks Act. S.2934 would criminalize nearly all private
transfers of guns by requiring that individuals seek government permission, in
the form of a National Instant Criminal Background Check System background
check, in order to buy, sell, or trade a firearm. Even gun sales between
longtime friends and family members are forbidden. Whereas the Manchin-Toomey
amendment pertained to firearms transferred at gun shows or pursuant to print
publication or online communication, this legislation covers transfers
regardless of where they occur or the medium used to organize the transaction.
Another of the bill’s provisions would significantly
broaden the number of individuals disqualified from purchasing and possessing
firearms for mental health reasons. The legislation would expand the term
“adjudicated as a mental defective” to cover those that have been compelled by
a “court, board, commission, or other lawful authority” to receive counseling
or medication. During a 2012 hearing on an
earlier version of the bill, Attorney and Second Amendment scholar David Kopel
pointed out the problems with Schumer’s “lawful authority” language. Kopel
noted that this could be used to strip the firearms rights of an individual
whose school administrator or employer merely ordered them to receive
counseling as a condition of further enrollment or employment. This would be a
severe violation of such an individual’s due process rights. Further, the
legislation does not require that a court, board, commission, or other lawful
authority make a finding that an individual is actually a danger to himself or
others before stripping them of their rights.
Schumer’s bill also makes it a crime for a gun owner “to
fail to report the theft or loss of a firearm, within 48 hours after the person
discovers the theft or loss, to the Attorney General and to the appropriate
local authorities.” Here Schumer further victimizes the targets of crime by
exposing them to federal penalties. Further, this scheme violates the privacy
of crime victims by forcing them to reveal their status as gun owners to local
authorities and the federal government.
If the past behavior of gun control advocates is any indication, the “right strategic
moment” to unleash this wide-ranging attack on gun rights would have likely
come following the high-profile misuse of a firearm. Therefore, the Brady
Campaign’s efforts to have Schumer introduce the bill now should be embraced by
their fellow anti-gun groups. The Brady Campaign has perhaps spared gun control supporters a small amount of the embarrassing
indignity with which they pursue their goals in the immediate aftermath of tragedy.
Brady Campaign
Brady
Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence is a national partner with America Votes, and a “Gun Safety, Gun Control” group for guns.
Note: Cecile Richards
was the founder & president of America
Votes, a grant overseer for the Turner
Foundation, is the president of the Planned
Parenthood Action Fund, and the president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
Planned
Parenthood Action Fund is a
national partner with America Votes.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank), and the American Constitution Society.
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, a friend of Michael Douglas, was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote
Open Society, and a benefactor for the Harlem
Children's Zone.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace (think tank), the Harlem
Children's Zone, and the Sundance
Institute.
Jessica Tuchman Mathews was the president of
the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), a director
at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), is a director at the
Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank),
and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Ed Griffin’s interview with Norman Dodd in 1982
(The investigation into the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace uncovered the plans for population control by involving the
United States in war)
Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think
tank) was a funder for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank).
Michael Douglas
is a director at the Nuclear Threat
Initiative (think tank), and a friend of George Soros.
William J. Perry is a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank),
an advisory board member for the Center
for National Policy, and interviewed in the Nuclear Tipping Point.
Michael D. Barnes
is a director at the Center for National
Policy, and was the president of the Brady
Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.
Brady
Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence is a national partner with America Votes, and a “Gun Safety, Gun Control” group for guns.
Ted
Turner is a co-chairman for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank), an underwriter for the Nuclear Tipping Point, and the chairman for the Turner Foundation.
Warren E. Buffett
is an adviser for the Nuclear Threat
Initiative (think tank), an underwriter for the Nuclear Tipping Point, and an advisory board member for Everytown for Gun Safety.
Everytown
for Gun Safety is a “Gun Safety,
Gun Control” group for guns.
Americans
for Responsible Solutions is a
“Gun Safety, Gun Control” PAC for guns.
Michael R.
Bloomberg is the founder of Everytown
for Gun Safety, a friend of Merryl
H. Tisch, was a contributor for the Americans
for Responsible Solutions, a benefactor for the Harlem Children's Zone, a New
York (NY) mayor, and Josh Isay
was his political consultant.
Merryl H. Tisch
is a friend of Michael R. Bloomberg,
and a friend of Iris Weinshall.
Iris Weinshall
is a friend of Merryl H. Tisch,
married to Senator Charles E. Schumer,
and was a transportation commissioner for New
York (NY).
Charles E. Schumer
is married to Iris Weinshall, a U.S. Senate senator, a New York congressional delegation
senator, and Josh Isay was his
political consultant.
Josh
Isay was Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg,
Senator Charles E. Schumer & Caroline B. Kennedy’s political
consultant.
Caroline B.
Kennedy’s political consultant was Josh
Isay, and a director at the Commission
on Presidential Debates.
Howard G. Buffett
is a director at the Commission on
Presidential Debates, Warren E.
Buffett’s son, and a director at the ONE
Campaign.
Warren E. Buffett
is Howard G. Buffett’s father, an
adviser for the Nuclear Threat
Initiative (think tank), an underwriter for the Nuclear Tipping Point, and an advisory board member for Everytown for Gun Safety.
Everytown
for Gun Safety is a “Gun Safety,
Gun Control” group for guns.
Americans
for Responsible Solutions is a “Gun
Safety, Gun Control” PAC for guns.
Michael R.
Bloomberg is the founder of Everytown
for Gun Safety, a friend of Merryl
H. Tisch, the founder of Bloomberg
LP, was an advocate for the ONE
Campaign, a contributor for the Americans
for Responsible Solutions, a benefactor for the Harlem Children's Zone, a New
York (NY) mayor, and Josh Isay
was his political consultant.
David Rhodes was
the head of US television for Bloomberg
LP, is the president of the CBS News,
and Benjamin J. Rhodes’s brother,
Michelle Obama
was an advocate for the ONE Campaign,
and a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP.
R. Eden Martin is
counsel at Sidley Austin LLP, and
the president of the Commercial Club of
Chicago.
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Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Newton N. Minow
is a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, a senior counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP, and a director at the Commission
on Presidential Debates.
Caroline B.
Kennedy was a director at the Commission
on Presidential Debates, and Josh
Isay was her political consultant.
Howard G. Buffett
is a director at the Commission on
Presidential Debates, Warren E.
Buffett’s son, and a director at the ONE
Campaign.
Warren E. Buffett
is Howard G. Buffett’s father, an
adviser for the Nuclear Threat
Initiative (think tank), an underwriter for the Nuclear Tipping Point, and an advisory board member for Everytown for Gun Safety.
Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think
tank) was a funder for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank).
Ted
Turner is a co-chairman for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank), an underwriter for the Nuclear Tipping Point, and the chairman for the Turner Foundation.
Cecile Richards
was a grant overseer for the Turner
Foundation, the founder & president of America Votes, is the president of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, the president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America,
and married to Kirk Adams.
Planned
Parenthood Action Fund is a national partner with America Votes.
Brady
Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence is a national partner with America Votes, and a “Gun Safety, Gun Control” group for guns.
AFL-CIO
is a national partner with America Votes.
Service
Employees International Union (SEIU)
is a national partner with America Votes.
Kirk
Adams was an organizing director for the AFL-CIO, is an international EVP for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), married to Cecile Richards, and a board of
managers member for Catalist.
George
Soros was an investor in Catalist,
and is a co-chair, national finance council for the Ready PAC (Ready For Hillary).
Ready
PAC (Ready For Hillary) supported
the 2016 Hillary Rodham Clinton
presidential campaign.
EMILY's List is a
Catalist client, and a national
partner with America Votes.
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from Emily’s List (PAST RESEARCH ON EMILY’S LIST)
Tuesday, May 24, 2016
Brady
Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence is a national partner with America Votes, and a “Gun Safety, Gun Control” group for guns.
Michael D. Barnes
was the president of the Brady Campaign
to Prevent Gun Violence, a senior of counsel at Covington & Burling LLP, and is a director at the Center for National Policy.
Eric H. Holder Jr.
is a partner at Covington & Burling
LLP, was the attorney general at the U.S.
Department of Justice for the Barack
Obama administration, and a board member for the American Constitution Society.
Bureau
of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is a division of the U.S. Department of Justice.
Mario M. Cuomo was
a board of adviser’s member for the American
Constitution Society, the governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state
for the New York state government,
and Maria Cuomo Cole’s father.
Maria Cuomo Cole
is Mario M. Cuomo’s daughter, a
trustee at the Brady Center to Prevent
Gun Violence, and married to Kenneth
D. Cole.
Brady
Center to Prevent Gun Violence is a “Gun
Safety, Gun Control” group for guns.
Kenneth D. Cole
is married to Maria Cuomo Cole, and
a trustee at the Sundance Institute.
Patricia E.
Mitchell is the vice chair for the Sundance
Institute, was the president of CNN
Productions, and an executive in charge of original productions for the Turner Broadcasting System Inc.
Ted
Turner is the founder of CNN,
the founder of the Turner Broadcasting
System Inc., a co-chairman for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank), an underwriter for the Nuclear Tipping Point, and the chairman for the Turner
Foundation.
Cecile Richards
was a grant overseer for the Turner
Foundation, the founder & president of America Votes, is the president of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, the president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America,
and married to Kirk Adams.
Planned
Parenthood Action Fund is a national partner with America Votes.
Brady
Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence is a national partner with America Votes, and a “Gun Safety, Gun Control” group for guns.
Benjamin J.
Rhodes is David Rhodes’s
brother, and the deputy national security adviser for the Barack Obama administration.
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