BELLEVUE,
WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms today
publicly thanked Hillary Rodham Clinton for energizing the nation’s
firearms owners to political action and virtually assuring their heavy
turnout for the 2016 presidential election.
“Thanks to all of her anti-gun-rights statements, Hillary Clinton
will guarantee that gun owners will exercise their voting rights next
November,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “She seems eager to
double down on Barack Obama’s failed attempts to stick pins in gun
owners.”
Clinton, the former Secretary of State and U.S. Senator from New
York, has a history of supporting gun control measures. She supports a
ban on popular modern sport-utility rifles and original capacity
magazines, and she suggested that gun owners are “a minority of people
that hold a viewpoint that terrorizes a majority of people.”
“Just as it has been for the past seven years, since Barack Obama
was elected in 2008, a Clinton nomination in 2016 will guarantee
continued strong gun sales and expanded gun ownership,” Gottlieb
contended. “Even among those who favor expanded background checks there
is strong sentiment for protecting gun rights rather than controlling
gun ownership.
“At the annual Gun Rights Policy Conference held over the weekend,
one of the biggest concerns among the activists in attendance was a
Clinton nomination, followed by a Clinton election victory,” he said.
“American gun owners are convinced that she will turn the Oval Office
into a nuclear war room against the Second Amendment.
“Between now and November 2016,” he continued, “we expect Hillary
Clinton to try to stigmatize and marginalize gun owners, but in fact
she will energize those millions of law-abiding citizens whose votes
she fears the most. That’s why we’re grateful for her campaign
rhetoric.
“By this time next year,” Gottlieb predicted, “if there is any
apathy within the firearms community, it will have been transformed
into activism.”
With more than 650,000 members and
supporters nationwide, the Citizens
Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is one of the nation’s
premier gun rights organizations. As a non-profit organization, the
Citizens Committee is dedicated to preserving firearms freedoms through
active lobbying of elected officials and facilitating grass-roots
organization of gun rights activists in local communities throughout
the United States. The Citizens Committee can be reached by phone at
(425) 454-4911, on the Internet at www.ccrkba.org
or by email to InformationRequest@ccrkba.org.
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