Why is the NRA supporting H.R. 297?

[teotwawki]

Seriously, I know many of you are NRA members. I canceled my lifetime membership last year when they endorsed a gun grabber instead of the Honoroable Ron Paul.

Can someone explain this to me?

 

[rkh]

Maybe because LaPierre likes feral horses and donkeys?

Unless you're a fan of donkey meat, I don't think this is anything to get riled up about. Additionally, it looks like the bill has been dead for some time.

109th CONGRESS

1st Session

H. R. 297
To restore the prohibition on the commercial sale and slaughter of wild free-roaming horses and burros.


IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES


January 25, 2005

Mr. RAHALL (for himself and Mr. WHITFIELD) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Resources


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A BILL
To restore the prohibition on the commercial sale and slaughter of wild free-roaming horses and burros.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,


SECTION 1. SALE OF WILD FREE-ROAMING HORSES AND BURROS.

(a) In General- Section 3(d)(5) of Public Law 92-195 (16 U.S.C. 1333(d)(5)) is amended--

(1) by striking the period and inserting the following: `Provided, That no wild free-roaming horse or burro or its remains may be sold or transferred for consideration for processing into commercial products.'; and

(2) by striking subsection (e).

(b) Criminal Provisions- Section (8)(a)(4) of Public Law 92-195 (16 U.S.C. 1338(a)(4)) is amended by striking `except as provided in section 3(e),'.

 

[teotwawki]

Actually you're wrong:

http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_297.html

HR 297 provides, in the form of grants, about $1 billion to the states to send more names to the FBI for inclusion in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System [NICS]. If you are thinking, "Oh, I’ve never committed a felony, so this bill won't affect me," then you had better think again. If this bill becomes law, you and your adult children will come closer to losing your gun rights than ever before.

 

[pcosmar]

I don't understand how spending more money to "Fix" a bad law that does not work in the first place, is a good idea.