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December 26th, 2020, 08:23 PM #1
Pro gun Georgia senator plans to fight for gun rights!
Hopefully the right place for this.
Sorry, it is a lot to post, so you'll have to follow the link.
Anyway, this looks like a huge win!
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rep...t-crusader-irs
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December 26th, 2020, 09:02 PM #2Grand Member
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Re: Pro gun Georgia senator plans to fight for gun rights!
The main problem is the house of rep is under democrat control. The GOP did gain a couple of seats which closed the gap of power somewhat. The House can't filibuster so if a anti gun bill gets to the floor it will be a straight up and down vote. For what I gather there are no Pro gun democrats in the US house of rep.
I hope any anti gun bills get clogged up in sub committees, watered down to where they are no longer acceptable to the sponsors/co sponsors. Also some democrats might not be too anxious to pass anti gun bills because a large amount are up for re election in two years.
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December 26th, 2020, 11:48 PM #3
Re: Pro gun Georgia senator plans to fight for gun rights!
Clyde ran as a pro-President Trump, pro-life, pro-border wall conservative who wants to dismantle the IRS and limit the power of the federal government.
He*s spent the last three decades building a business that started as a hobby out of his garage in 1991 and has expanded to two brick-and-mortar stores in Georgia.
Paramount to Clyde*s platform is his staunch support of the Second Amendment and belief that there should be no government constraint of gun ownership.
While Democrats and even some Republicans in Congress support expanding background checks on firearm purchases, closing loopholes at gun shows and more, Clyde is convinced existing regulations have already gone too far.
He campaigned on the "complete elimination" of the background check system established by the 1993 Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act. The law requires FBI criminal history checks on individuals before gun purchases in an effort to prevent felons, domestic abusers, drug addicts and those adjudicated as mentally unfit from purchasing a gun.
Clyde said coronavirus lockdowns further exposed the broken federal system. His business, Clyde Armory, "had to turn away hundreds of customers" during the pandemic because the FBI background checks were backed up due to state office shutdowns, putting many people in "limbo," he said.
Typically, if a buyer hasn*t gotten a determination on the background check after three days, then the firearms dealer can sell the weapon anyway.
But during the pandemic, the "government simply ignored that [three-day rule] completely," Clyde said. Background checks are only good for 30 days. So when results took more than a month, they were already invalid and the prospective buyer had to start the process all over again, Clyde said.
"It is completely broken," Clyde said of the background check system. "It puts the federal government between the Constitution and the individual in a way that denies the person their individual constitutional right. That's not right."
As to what, if anything, should replace the Brady system, Clyde said there needs to be "more negotiation on that," acknowledging the public's desire to keep guns away from violent criminals.
"You cannot have a law that eliminates a constitutional right with the intent of giving a little bit of perceived safety," Clyde said.
New Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett opened the door to nonviolent felons obtaining firearms while a judge on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
In the 2019 gun-rights case Kanter v. Barr, Barrett wrote a dissenting opinion that argued that a conviction for a nonviolent felony * in this case, mail fraud * shouldn*t automatically disqualify someone from owning a gun. She said the government had failed to introduce data "to show that disarming all nonviolent felons substantially advances its interest in keeping the public safe."
Gun control advocates and Democrats panned this position as "radical" during her confirmation hearings.
Clyde, a federally licensed firearms dealer, also wants taxes on guns and ammunition to be eliminated, calling the added cost an infringement on a constitutional right. That means repealing the taxes imposed under the Pittman-Robertson Act and the National Firearms Act.
"You can't tax the right to vote. So how can you tax the right to keep and bear arms? You can't," Clyde said.
"If you can tax it, you can tax it out of existence. No constitutional right should ever be able to be taxed."
Now that he*s elected to Congress, Clyde's top priority will be constituent services, because he knows firsthand what it*s like to be the person on the other end of the line desperate for help
His ordeal with the IRS began after President Obama's 2012 re-election and the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, sparking a sales boom at Clyde Armory. Many people were concerned the government would enact new firearms restrictions.
The Bank Secrecy Act requires financial institutions to report cash deposits of more than $10,000. But since terrorists and other criminals know this rule, banks also must report patterns of deposits slightly below the $10,000 threshold.
Clyde's legitimate large bank deposits tipped off the IRS to suspected "structuring"-- that is, making deposits deliberately calculated to skirt reporting requirements of $10,000.
On April 12, 2013, the IRS suddenly seized $940,313 from Clyde*s business, essentially draining all his liquid assets.
"I have three combat tours in Iraq and Kuwait," Clyde said. "I was probably never more scared in my life than when those IRS agents left my conference room on that day on April the 12th because I had no idea how to fight them
Even though Clyde had done nothing illegal and was just depositing cash on a regular basis, the IRS wasn't willing to give the money back. The agency offered to return $600,000 if he forfeited the rest, Clyde said. He refused, calling the settlement offer extortion.
"I took them to court. And I beat them in court because they were wrong," Clyde said.
Five months later, when he finally got his money back, Clyde turned into a crusader. He set out to change the law so that the IRS could never confiscate legally earned money again through civil asset forfeiture.
He traveled to Washington, worked with members of Congress and testified before a House committee in 2015 about his ordeal.
Although his story resonated and the legislation had broad bipartisan support, it took six years and lots of legwork to get something passed.
In 2019, the House and Senate unanimously passed legislation to prohibit the IRS from carrying out seizures relating to a structuring transaction unless the property seized derived from an illegal source, or if the funds were structured for the purpose of concealing criminal activity.
On July 1, 2019, Trump signed into law the Clyde-Hirsch-Sowers RESPECT Act as part of the broader Taxpayer First Act. It was named for Clyde and two others who testified in the House against the IRS.
"That was an absolute crowning moment for me," Clyde said.
Now he aims to fight just as hard on behalf of his Georgia constituents.
"I'm very committed to ... fighting for what's right and winning for my district, and winning for this country against government overreach," Clyde said. "The primary focus is government overreach because I experienced it firsthand in a brutal way.""Cives Arma Ferant"
"I know I'm not James Bond, that's why I don't keep a loaded gun under the pillow, or bang Russian spies on a regular basis." - GunLawyer001
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December 27th, 2020, 12:08 AM #4Grand Member
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Re: Pro gun Georgia senator plans to fight for gun rights!
1 of 100. Can he make a difference?
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December 27th, 2020, 10:19 AM #5
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