GOA Warns Of Gun Control Push During Lame-Duck Session

With former President Donald Trump winning the recent election and Republicans retaining the majority in the U.S. House of Representatives and regaining the majority in the U.S. Senate, Democrats are desperate to pass whatever gun-control measures they can before January.

That desperation has prompted the pro-freedom group Gun Owners of America to send an alert to its members warning them of the possibility of such anti-gun shenanigans. 

“The time between the November elections and the swearing in of new members of Congress and our next President is known as the ‘lame-duck’ session,” GOA Senior Vice President Erich Pratt wrote in the alert, headlined, “Tell Congress Not to Pass Gun Control During the Lame Duck Session.” “It’s during this period that Joe Biden and Chuck Schumer can try and ram through any last-minute gun control packages before the door hits them on the way out.”

As Pratt pointed out in the alert, when President Barack Obama left the White House, gun owners had to fight to repeal numerous executive orders imposing gun control that he signed on his way out—including a gun ban for Social Security beneficiaries and a lead ammunition ban.

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