Gun control groups turn focus to ‘riders’ backed by NRA

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By Ed O’Keefe and and Philip Rucker, Published: March 18

Gun-control advocates are hoping to reverse some of the political influence of the National Rifle Association and other gun rights proponents by urging the White House to strip the president’s next budget proposal of any provision that limits how federal agencies track firearms.

They are targeting one of the oldest tricks in the congressional playbook, a legislative sleight-of-hand that tucks little, sometimes random, changes to federal policy into massive “must pass” spending bills with the hope that they slip quietly under the radar and into law.

For years, the NRA and other gun rights groups have earned bipartisan support to amend spending bills with “riders” limiting how the Justice Department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) keep track of firearms.

Some of the provisions in question have been adopted in the president’s budget year after year, after having originated as legislative riders to spending bills on Capitol Hill.

More: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/gun-control-groups-turn-focus-to-riders-backed-by-nra/2013/03/18/14a76574-8ffb-11e2-9cfd-36d6c9b5d7ad_story.html?wprss=rss_national

We're in this for the long haul. We will not stop until the NRA snake has its head lopped off. This issue is to important to be stopped by such slithering, venomous cowards.

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1. Tactically it won't work...

...Rs will vote against such bills to kill the rider because they hate America.