BLOOMBERG CALLS FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE

A "FRINGE ORGANIZATION"

Anti-gun New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) is at it again.  A recent New York Post article detailed how, at a breakfast sponsored by Ladies Home Journal, he took a swipe at the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) for its support of the Tiahrt Amendment, which prohibits the disclosure of confidential firearm trace data except in the course of a bona fide criminal investigation.  "It is one fringe organization," charged Bloomberg.

 MEEHAN-SHAYS AMENDMENT DEFEATED!  For the second time this year, legislation infringing on American citizens' First Amendment rights was defeated in the U.S. Congress.  On May 1, anti-gun Representatives Martin Meehan (D-Mass.) and Christopher Shays (R-Conn.) introduced H.R. 2093, legislation restricting grassroots lobbying.  The "Meehan-Shays amendment" would have defined communications by organizations such as NRA, that were written with the intent of mobilizing citizens to contact Congress as "lobbying," subjecting those efforts to onerous registration and reporting requirements for the first time in American history.  In the past Congress has specifically exempted grassroots mobilizing from the definition of "lobbying."  Meehan offered H.R. 2093 as an amendment to H.R. 2316 (the "Honest Leadership and Open Government Act") at the House Judiciary Committee markup yesterday and it was defeated on a voice vote with only one of his colleagues speaking in its favor.

S. 376 MOVES OUT OF COMMITTEE:  We are happy to report that, this week, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to report S. 376 favorably, without any of the many anti-gun amendments Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) had threatened to propose.  The bill is now available for consideration by the full Senate.

Please contact your U.S. Senators and ask them to cosponsor and support S. 376.  And please encourage your family, friends, and fellow firearm owners to do the same!