[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 3 (Monday, January 14, 2013)]
[House]
[Page H76]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                         RIGHT OF GUN OWNERSHIP

  (Mr. COLLINS of Georgia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. COLLINS of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I rise to express my grave 
concern over recent media reports that the administration is 
considering issuing executive orders to further their radical anti-gun 
control legislation.
  The battle to protect the Second Amendment rights of all citizens 
rages on in Congress, and this is the appropriate place for such 
debate--not in the dark of night through executive orders as the Obama 
administration has become so fond of doing.
  Gun control advocates prey on the fears of Americans, claiming that 
stricter gun laws will result in reduced gun violence. That theory is 
false and is dangerous to the sanctity of the United States 
Constitution. Security can only come through the preservation of 
individual liberties such as the right to defend one's home and one's 
family. We should protect the right to keep and bear arms as fiercely 
as we seek to protect the rights of free speech, the freedom of 
religion, and of due process.
  I urge my colleagues to oppose any efforts by the administration to 
restrict the rights of gun ownership through executive orders and 
commit to the American people to tirelessly defend all of their 
constitutional rights on the floor of this House, including the right 
of gun ownership.

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