[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 20101]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 ADMINISTRATION'S ATTACK ON GUN RIGHTS

  (Mr. RATCLIFFE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. RATCLIFFE. Mr. Speaker, the horrific attacks in San Bernardino 
underscore the pressing need to defeat ISIS and radical Islamic 
extremism. But instead of trying to fix his failed policies, which 
contributed to the very rise of ISIS in the first place, the President 
is instead attempting to divert and distract the American people by 
leveraging this tragedy to announce his plans to issue an executive 
order on gun control.
  Just yesterday the White House called the San Bernardino attack an 
incident of gun violence. Mr. Speaker, it was terrorism, and I refuse 
to let this President use acts of terrorism as a means to try another 
end run around this Congress.
  Earlier this year I stood up against the administration's attempted 
ammunition ban and I was successful in getting that unconstitutional 
policy rescinded.
  So today I am again standing up against this latest attack on our 
constitutional gun rights in this country because, if this 
administration refuses to take terrorism seriously, then the American 
people will need their Second Amendment rights more than ever before.

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