Just got this in the inbox from the Michigan Coalition for Responsible Gun Owners (MCRGO):

Like you, we have heard the rumors about anti-gun legislation (HR 45) being slipped into the stimulus package President Obama just signed. We have been monitoring this and can assure you this is not the case. To put your mind at ease, we’d like to summarize for you the confirmation we have received from the NRA:

“The only provision in the stimulus bill that has anything to do with firearms is the funding for BATFE’s “Project Gunrunner,” which (as we pointed out in Friday’s Grassroots Alert) is a program that enforces existing laws to reduce smuggling of firearms from the United States to Mexico. This program imposes no new restrictions on gun owners.

We have gone through the final 1,073-page bill, and its earlier House and Senate versions, both with computerized search terms and a page-by-page review to check the non-searchable handwritten notations.”

Slipping something like that into a bill like this is EXACTLY the sort of sneaky underhanded crap we’ve all come to expect from the antis, but it appears that it didn’t happen this time. But we can’t let our guard down.

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