Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire My response from Chuckie Schumer. 2nd Amendment

Here is his response to my correspondence with him on the 2nd Amendment. He's completely full of it.

Thank you for contacting me regarding gun control legislation. Like you, I believe the right to bear arms is guaranteed by the Constitution�s Second Amendment. The recent Supreme Court decisions reinforced this fact, but I believed that this was the case prior to those decisions.

While I certainly respect the Second Amendment to the Constitution, I believe that we have a collective interest in keeping guns out of the hands of those who want to harm the innocent. I believe it is possible to strike a reasonable balance. I have long advocated for faster and more accurate background checks so legal purchasers can receive their guns quickly while ensuring criminals do not illegally purchase and possess firearms. In 2011, I proposed S. 436, the Fix Gun Checks Act to provide more funding to states to compile required background data for the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). This legislation builds on the National Rifle Association-supported NICS Improvements Amendment Act, passed by Congress in 2007. Ensuring that this information is comprehensive and up to date will protect law enforcement from criminals with illegally obtained weapons while speeding up the process for purchasing legal firearms.

You may also be pleased to know that I have successfully fought to create new opportunities for law abiding citizens to exercise their right to use guns. For example, in the 109th Congress, I secured federal money to expand the scarce hunting grounds in New York State by creating a financial incentive for private landowners to allow hunters access to their property.

Thank you for contacting me about this important issue. Please do not hesitate to contact me in the future if I can ever be of assistance to you on this, or any other matter.


Sincerely,

Charles E. Schumer
United States Senator

I received the exact same response, word for word. He really thinks he is a gun owners best friend.

Send him an anti gun letter asking him for an AWB and see what response you get.

Any bets it starts with "....Like You..."

What a POS

I got the same one. I really wish he would say what he means. I can imagine someone who doesn't know him thinking he is on our side if all you could read was that email.

The standard reply form letter from any congress critter on any issue is designed to be obfuscatory and present said critter as being on your side. Exceptions are a rarity.

Yep, I got the same exact letter too. I wrote something back to the effect, "you are truely a gifted politician, you almost had me believing you are pro second amendment, when we both know that is the furthest thing from the truth."

slime just drips of that guy.........