Major Gun Rights Group Splits With NRA, Endorses Increased Background Checks
By Daniel Politi - Updated Sunday, April 14, 2013, at 3:34 PM
The usually united gun-rights lobby appears to be splitting. The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, which describes itself as the second-largest gun-rights group after the National Rifle Association, came out in support of the proposal by Sens. Joe Manchin and Pat Toomey that would expand background checks for gun sales, reports the Washington Post. The bipartisan measure could come up for a vote in the Senate by mid-week. The NRA opposes the legislation, insisting it would do nothing to prevent criminals from getting their hands on weapons.
The head of the Citizens Committee, Alan Gottlieb sent an e-mail to supporters Sunday explaining the decision:
-------- If you read the Manchin-Toomey substitute amendment, you can see all the advances for our cause that it contains like interstate sales of handguns, veteran gun rights restoration, travel with firearms protection, civil and criminal immunity lawsuit protection, and most important of all, the guarantee that people, including federal officers, will go to federal prison for up to 15 years if they attempt to use any gun sales records to set up a gun registry. --------
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