Senate committee sets firearm regulatory reform hearing

Senate committee sets firearm regulatory reform hearing

http://judiciary.senate.gov/hearings/he ... fm?id=4771

“Firearms in Commerce: Assessing the Need for Reform in the Federal Regulatory Process”
Senate Judiciary Committee
Full Committee

DATE: September 14, 2010
TIME: 10:00 AM
ROOM: Dirksen-226
OFFICIAL HEARING NOTICE / WITNESS LIST:

September 7, 2010

NOTICE OF COMMITTEE HEARING
The Senate Committee on the Judiciary has scheduled a hearing entitled "Firearms in Commerce: Assessing the Need for Reform in the Federal Regulatory Process" for Tuesday, September 14, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. in Room 226 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building.

By order of the Chairman.

* Link to webcast can be found at below:
http://judiciary.senate.gov/hearings/he ... fm?id=4771

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Message from VCDL

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Many of you have sent me a link to a Senate Judiciary meeting announcement that just came out:

http://judiciary.senate.gov/hearings/hearing.cfm?id=4771

The announcement, which is titled, "Firearms in Commerce: Assessing the Need for Reform in the Federal Regulatory Process" says nothing about what the hearing is about, but sure sounds scary.

However, with some digging and confirmation from the NRA, it is about reforming the BATFE and is pro-gun:

http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Federal/Read.aspx?id=5210

http://www.nraila.org/Issues/FactSheets/Read.aspx?id=251&issue=28

Unfortunately, Virginia's two Senators, Mark Warner and Jim Webb, have NOT cosponsored the bill (S. 941)!

Let's ask Senators Warner and Webb to cosponsor S. 941:

Senator Warner's web mail:

http://warner.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=Contact

Senator Webb's web mail:

http://webb.senate.gov/contact.cfm

Suggested message:

As a constituent, I urge you to cosponsor S. 941 to provide much needed pro-gun reforms to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.

Please let me know if you are going to cosponsor S. 941 or not.

Lets let them know how we feel, but probably still get the usual canned response.

Canned repsonse should be expected, but...

That doesn't mean they will ignore the input if there is enough of it.