Last week Congress passed a $1.7 trillion yearlong federal government spending bill – clearing its path to Biden’s desk. This legislation will give millions to the anti-gun movement. Helping Biden spread his legislation. Now we break down what that means for the second amendment headed into 2023.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) is set to receive a massive 14.1% budget increase as they will receive nearly $2 billion. This money is what they are saying is necessary to run their day-to-day operations, though it will include $14 million to be used to modernize their illegal gun registry, National Tracing Center (NTC). In addition to the ATF’s budget, there was more than $700 million set aside to help bribe states to pass “Red Flag” gun confiscation laws. Which will only help the ATF with its mission of cracking down on gun owners who do not comply with this unconstitutional gun ban.
The Omnibus will also create multiple VA gun-related measures. “Collaboration on Lethal Means Safety” at the Department of Veterans Affairs will basically encourage VA medical centers to collaborate with state and local law enforcement to adopt “red flag laws.” They would take the guns of Veterans seeking treatment at VA centers, depriving them of their Second Amendment rights without due process. Also, there will be funding for the VA to maintain “gun storage maps” to keep tabs on where Veterans keep their guns. It is supposed to be for suicide prevention, however, it will give the government a direct line of knowing what veterans have in their homes and will likely keep many suffering from mental illness from reaching out in fear that their rights will be stripped.
A “Secure Firearm Storage” program is also mentioned by the Department of Education, which will essentially allow the government into the decisions made in private homes. Under this program, parents will have to store firearms in homes with children in secure storage. Which would make obtaining firearms harder in high-stress situations where guns might be necessary. As already seen, these sorts of laws can prevent families from obtaining their rightfully owned gun in times of assault or break-ins when a gun is necessary to obtain quickly.
There will also be a program set to discourage women from exercising their second amendment rights. With a $4 million dollar “domestic violence lethality reduction initiative,” this program is set to single out those who may want to own a gun for domestic violence-related issues. Rather than creating a program to target abusers, they are singling out women and women’s rights. This program will most likely discourage not only women from owning guns, but from using firearms for self-defense.
There will also be an anti-gun “community violence intervention” initiative which is currently set for $50 million dollars in proposed spending. While this initiative was set back in Biden’s COVID relief package it seems to be amping up from prior funding.
And there will be a $7.5 million allotment for “violent anti-government ideology” and “domestic radicalization research.” As the FBI labeled common patriotic, historic, and Second Amendment-related speech and ideologies, including the Founding Fathers’ original interpretation of the Second Amendment as “militia violent extremism,” the Department of Justice is set to study the domestic radicalization with this funding.
However, the largest amount of money going to anti-gun initiatives is through earmarks made in the Omnibus. $10,914,000 is set to go to a variety of lobby groups and initiative programs to foster anti-gun policies. As seen below, the GOA listed the earmarks with their page numbers and amount allocated to them.
Overall, this is set to be a year full of potential headaches for gun owners across the U.S. There was also no money set aside for pro-2A or pro-gun initiatives or policies. And just as a reminder 18 Republican Representatives voted to clear this $1.7 trillion Omnibus spending bill. How about that?
Is there a way to know who put a particular earmark in a bill?
Go to DotGovUS and let your fingers do the walking.
How about that, indeed. If you live in a State where those traitors hail from, you need to get off your duffs and primary them.
Buy ammo now while you can, the tyranny within our government now is completely out of hand.
Let’s just say that, regardless of party, self-serving assholes reside in the political spectrum, AND they are elected by self-serving dummies, all funded by the sweat of the tax paying suckers. We have been thru this scenario before in the recent past. It led to the second world war. The assholes don’t want you to know what the previous governments did to their dummies, and the ignorant present dummies don’t care. Bread and circuses are the resurrected order of the day. All the alphabet agencies are acolytes of the new sacred government religion, just as the Gestapo, and the KGB were. The dogma persists.
It’s high time for responsible conservatives and Republicans to dump Republican big spenders. Simply “write in” your own name if you don’t know anyone you can trust.
everyone might need to be equipped, thanks to the commie democrat pedophile racist woke cult party and their destruction of America
18 RINOs, not republicans.
This government is a giant stinking pile of horse pucky. POTUS is a China owned and controlled Sock Puppets; The DNC is a fascist criminal organization, The GOP is GUTLESS and RINOS are worthless, and elections are stolen. Any wonder few of our professional politicians can even spell CONSTITUTION.
Personally, any legislator that votes for Biden’s/democratic omnibus bill, out to be charged with treason and removed from office, not only for the abuse of the 2nd amendment, but for the largess of his spending spree when we don’t have the financial means to meet it and will have to deficit spend.
It’s the Uniparty. There are only a few republicans, a very few.