Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms

VIRGINIA TECH CASE PROVES BLOOMBERG LIES ABOUT GUN TRACE DATA ACCESS

BELLEVUE, WASH. – It took less than 24 hours for authorities to trace two handguns used by Virginia Tech gunman Cho Seung Hui, proving that New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is lying when he claims that legitimate law enforcement access to trace data is being blocked by federal law, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) said today.

CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb noted that Bloomberg’s campaign to undo federal legislation that prevents “fishing expedition access” to gun trace data from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has just been shown to be based on “fabrication and falsehood.”
“Local police, working with the BATFE, were able to trace both handguns quickly, even though Hui apparently filed off the serial numbers from both guns,” Gottlieb noted. “That could only happen if police currently can access BATFE trace capabilities. Bloomberg’s hysteria-driven effort to undo the federal law that now protects that sensitive data from politically-motivated demagogues like himself is a flimsy sham.
“The swiftness of the law enforcement investigation proves that Mayor Bloomberg has been lying all along about legitimate access to the federal gun trace data,” he said. “This data has remained available for legitimate, on-going criminal investigations despite the federal law, and he knows it.
“Bloomberg’s sole interest in broadening access to that data is so that he and other anti-gun politicians can use it to mount more bogus gun shop stings and bully firearms retailers with harassment lawsuits,” Gottlieb added. “The federal statute was adopted specifically to protect the privacy of American gun owners from politicians like Bloomberg, and to prevent the kind of grandstanding he launched last year with his vigilante operation against gun shops in five states.
“This isn’t about stopping gun crimes, it’s about invading the privacy of law-abiding citizens,” Gottlieb stated. “The speed with which authorities traced the guns used by the Virginia Tech gunman prove that the system works just fine for a legitimate criminal investigation. If Michael Bloomberg continues saying otherwise, that’s a lie.”

Appeals Court Sides with Gun Owners

Judges Give Ammo to Gun Owners
By Nicholas von Hoffman

A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” —Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

And look at what just climbed out of its coffin—the Second Amendment, the orphan child of the Bill of Rights. The U.S. Appeals Court for the District of Columbia threw out a law in the nation’s capital that made outlaws of those keeping a gun, even in their own homes.

Until this ruling, many had relegated the Second Amendment to a place next to the Third, a truly obsolete, Amendment: “No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.”

The Appeals Court ruled that the law violates the heretofore much-ignored Second Amendment, thereby causing whoops of joy over at the National Rifle Association headquarters and lamentations from the city’s mayor and gun-control liberals everywhere. This battle is not over, for the lawsuit is on its way to the Supreme Court and more controversy.

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