{"id":3191,"date":"2012-06-21T16:04:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T16:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2012\/06\/21\/gun-rights-organizations-react-to\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:18:51","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:18:51","slug":"gun-rights-organizations-react-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=3191","title":{"rendered":"Gun Rights Organizations React To Contempt Resolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15595,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.blogger.com\\\/goog_1794378133&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15596,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.nraila.org\\\/news-issues\\\/news-from-nra-ila\\\/2012\\\/06\\\/nra-applauds-passage-of-us-house-committee-resolution-recommending-that-the-house-find-attorney-general-holder-in-contempt-of-congress.aspx&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.nraila.org\\\/news-issues\\\/news-from-nra-ila\\\/2012\\\/06\\\/nra-applauds-passage-of-us-house-committee-resolution-recommending-that-the-house-find-attorney-general-holder-in-contempt-of-congress.aspx&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15597,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/nraila.org\\\/media\\\/7733622\\\/cc-letter-to-issa.pdf%20&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20130918023803\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.nraila.org\\\/media\\\/7733622\\\/cc-letter-to-issa.pdf&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-20 14:03:21&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-20 14:03:21&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15598,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.ccrkba.org\\\/?p=2895&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/ccrkba.org\\\/?p=2895&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>The National Rifle Association and the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms have both released statements backing the actions of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on a contempt citation for Eric Holder.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/goog_1794378133\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nraila.org\/news-issues\/news-from-nra-ila\/2012\/06\/nra-applauds-passage-of-us-house-committee-resolution-recommending-that-the-house-find-attorney-general-holder-in-contempt-of-congress.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">From the NRA-ILA<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Fairfax, Va. \u2013 The U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform passed a resolution recommending that the House find Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr. in contempt of Congress by a 23 to 17 vote. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe NRA fully supports this contempt resolution,\u201d said Chris W. Cox, executive director of NRA&#8217;s Institute for Legislative Action.  \u201cThe American people \u2013 including millions of NRA members and tens of millions of NRA supporters \u2013 deserve the truth, and we will support any effort that leads us to that truth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Committee\u2019s report thoroughly details the immediate reasons for the resolution: the Justice Department\u2019s open defiance of legitimate demands for documents that are needed for oversight and investigation of one of the most disastrous episodes in the history of federal law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>Since taking office, Attorney General Holder has seized on the deadly violence in Mexico to promote more gun control.  He perpetuated the lie that \u201c90 percent\u201d of firearms used in Mexican crime come from the U.S. and he called for resurrecting the 1994 Clinton gun ban; and to justify the illegal multiple sales reporting scheme, which amounts to gun registration for honest Americans who buy long guns in southwest border states.<\/p>\n<p>There is little doubt that the White House used the Fast and Furious program to advance its gun control agenda.  The White House actively sought information from the operation to support its plan to demand reporting of multiple rifle sales by the nearly 9,000 federally licensed firearm dealers in border states.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe NRA\u2019s support of this resolution was not undertaken lightly.  Eric Holder and the Justice Department owe it to the American people to produce the truth,\u201d concluded Cox.<\/p>\n<p>A letter to Chairman Issa from Chris Cox can be found here: <a href=\"http:\/\/nraila.org\/media\/7733622\/cc-letter-to-issa.pdf%20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/nraila.org\/media\/7733622\/cc-letter-to-issa.pdf <\/a><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ccrkba.org\/?p=2895\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">From the CCRKBA<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>BELLEVUE, WA \u2013 President Obama\u2019s claim of executive privilege to prevent Congressional access to documents relating to Operation Fast and Furious smacks of monumental hypocrisy and looks like an attempt to cover blood on the administration\u2019s hands, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today.<\/p>\n<p>It did not prevent the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform from voting 23-17 to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a March 2007 interview with Larry King on CNN, then-Senator Barack Obama complained about a \u2018tendency\u2019 on the part of the Bush administration to \u2018hide behind executive privilege\u2019,\u201d CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb recalled. \u201cNow we must find out what is in those documents that the White House wants to hide from the American public.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has been investigating Fast and Furious since March 2011. Guns linked to the operation are also linked to the murder of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry, and untold numbers of Mexican citizens.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s action by the White House creates the strong suspicion that the Obama administration is trying to hide from the fact that they have blood on their hands,\u201d Gottlieb observed. \u201cThat\u2019s not rhetoric; we\u2019re talking about the deaths of countless Mexican citizens and especially a dead federal officer. Fast and Furious has given us a verifiable body count.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is evidence that those involved in Fast and Furious thought it could bolster calls for additional gun control,\u201d Gottlieb said. \u201cIf that\u2019s accurate, it demonstrates a callousness that goes beyond the limits of human decency. It is imperative that that the American public knows all the facts of this case prior to the election. The people responsible for this disaster must be held accountable, and that will not happen so long as the administration continues to stonewall, and hiding behind executive privilege suggests that Holder and the president have no intention of coming clean.\u201d<\/i> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Rifle Association and the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms have both released&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[395,3680,1135,26],"class_list":["post-3191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ccrkba","tag-contempt-of-congress","tag-eric-holder","tag-nra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8104,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3191\/revisions\/8104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}