BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms says the newly-introduced Second Amendment Guarantee Act (SAGA) by U.S. Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY) “is a timely proposal that deserves passage.”
Congresswoman Tenney’s proposal would prohibit the states from banning the manufacture, sale, importation, or possession of any rifle or shotgun that is lawfully permitted under federal law, according to a statement from her office. The measure is co-sponsored by Reps. Doug LaMalfa (R-CA) and Nick Langworthy (R-NY).
“This important legislation comes at a time when a minority of states, run by anti-gun legislative majorities, have adopted or are trying to adopt bans on the most popular rifles and shotguns in the country,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “These prohibitions deprive citizens in those states of their Second Amendment rights under color of state law, which cannot be allowed.”
While Tenney’s legislation is described as a response to New York’s Draconian “SAFE” Act, which was signed into law by disgraced former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, passage of SAGA would nullify bans in other states, and prevent consideration of such laws in the future.
“The Citizens Committee will encourage its members and supporters, and the tens of millions of honest American gun owners to energetically support the SAGA legislation,” Gottlieb said. “The time has come for our voices to be heard, on Capitol Hill and in the halls of every anti-gun state legislature and governor’s office in the country.
“Thanks to Congresswoman Tenney’s proposal,” he observed, “America’s gun owners can put anti-gun lawmakers on notice that we’re tired of being treated like second-class citizens, and that our rights are more important than their ill-advised crusade to disarm law-abiding Americans and erase the Second Amendment from the Bill of Rights. Millions of people already own these firearms across the country and there is no good reason to penalize them for crimes they didn’t commit, and for merely choosing to exercise a right guaranteed by the Constitution.”