Twenty groups unite against federal gun control

For the first time since 2013, the member groups that comprise the National Coalition to Stop the Gun Ban have reunited against federal gun control measures being pushed in the wake of recent mass homicides, and sent a joint Open Letter to Congress on July 6.
In particular, coalition members vowed to fight any “compromise” under which citizens on the secretive “Terrorist Watch List” would be denied their right to keep and bear arms under the Second Amendment or their right to due process under the Fifth Amendment.
“After the latest terrorist aggression in Orlando, gun control advocates wasted little time to cynically exploit tragedy in pursuing their pre-ordained agenda to restrict or eliminate Americans’ rights under the Second Amendment,” the letter said.
“President Barack Obama immediately renewed his calls for banning semi-automatic firearms, which are functionally identical to many common hunting rifles, knowing full well that bans on such firearms—indeed, some of the world’s most stringent gun laws—recently failed to stop two mass killings in Paris (November 13, 2015, 137 dead, 368 injured and January 7, 2015, 19 dead, 22 injured) and Brussels (35 dead, over 300 injured). Given the terrorists procured guns illegally, they did the only logical thing by using not the semi-automatic firearms used in Orlando and San Bernardino, but rather fully automatic machine guns,” the coalition letter said.
“But it isn’t the attacks from Sens. Feinstein, Charles Schumer or others who have spent decades working to restrict American freedom that should most alarm us, but rather reports of Republican plans to ‘compromise.’ While the Coalition thanks Speaker Paul Ryan for his recent declaration that, ‘We’re not going to take away a citizen’s rights without due process,’ a recent article in The Hill said: ‘A week after Democrats staged a nearly 26-hour sit-in demanding a vote on gun control measures, Speaker Paul Ryan…said the House will vote next week on legislation to block suspected terrorists from buying guns.’ Some conjecture a House proposal might mirror Sen. John Cornyn’s S. Amdt. 4749, which amounted to little more than ‘Feinstein Lite.’
“‘Compromise’ in the gun debate generally denotes a process in which Second Amendment supporters lose slightly less than under an original proposal, but they still lose. Therefore, the members of the National Coalition to Stop the Gun Ban have agreed that we will not compromise on gun control proposals under debate,” the letter said.
The national signatories were: The Firearms Coalition; Gun Owners of America; Rights Watch International; ◦Second Amendment Sisters, and USRKBA.org. The state organizations signing the letter were: Arizona Citizens Defense League; Arkansas Carry; Florida Carry, Inc.; Grass Roots North Carolina; Gun Owners Civil Rights Alliance of Minnesota; Gun Owners of California; Gun Owners of Maine; Gun Owners of Utah; Gun Owners of Vermont; Michigan Gun Owners; Montana Shooting Sports Association; New Hampshire Firearms Coalition; New Jersey 2nd Amendment Society; Nebraska Firearms Owners Association; Oregon Firearms Federation; Peaceable Texans for Firearms Rights; Utah Shooting Sports Council; Virginia Citizens Defense League; West Virginia Citizens Defense League; Western Missouri Shooters Alliance, and Wisconsin Carry, Inc.