[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 89 (Tuesday, June 15, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H4440]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
GUN RIGHTS
(Mr. REHBERG asked and was given permission to address the House for
1 minute.)
Mr. REHBERG. Mr. Speaker, too many people in Washington, D.C. are
under the dangerous impression that the Second Amendment is obsolete
and unnecessary. If they had their way, only criminals and agents of
the State would be armed, while law-abiding Americans would be at their
mercy.
While we can stop gun control in Congress, progressives and
Washington, D.C. bureaucrats will use every tactic at their disposal to
disarm the American public, including banning firearms on public lands.
That is why I have sponsored the Firearms Freedom on Federal Lands
Act with Representatives Rob Bishop and Paul Broun. This legislation
creates a statutory protection of gun rights, preventing land
management agencies from restricting firearms on public lands, as they
have done in the past.
The NRA has endorsed this measure, and I hope my colleagues will
follow their lead and cosponsor this legislation.
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