NRA-ILA:
On January 8, two bills were introduced in Congress to impose so-called “universal” background checks. The bills, H.R. 8 and S. 42, are being misleadingly described as simply requiring background checks on all sales of firearms, but this is just a small part of what these overbroad pieces of legislation would do.
A hearing on this gun control legislation will take place in the Judiciary Committee of the United States House of Representatives next week. Therefore, it is vital that gun owners immediately contact their Representative to urge them to oppose this legislation, and that gun owners encourage their freedom-minded family and friends to do the same.
We’ve created a new webpage to dispel many of the myths being circulated by proponents of these gun control bills.
This legislation won’t stop criminals, but it does create many traps for law-abiding gun owners to unwittingly violate the law.