LTE From Congressman King: Democrats Attempt to Disarm Americans

On March 13, 2014, while SimGov congress was in session and discussing H.R. 45, the “Restore Second Amendment rights” act, a Democratic Congress-member offered up an amendment that would “Ban Semi-Automatic Guns in the United States”. This amendment would have immediately outlawed well over sixty million firearms in the United States.

This attempt to disarm millions of Americans was a direct attack on the American people’s fundamental rights and liberty, in particular their second and fourth amendment rights. Semi automatic firearms were introduced more than a century ago, and in 2012 over fifty percent of new firearms bought by the American people were semi-automatic firearms. Semi-automatics are used for the same purposes as others firearms, including self-defense, hunting, recreational and competitive target shooting. They also, along with other firearms in the U.S, act as a protective measure to shield us from any tyrannical government. With that said, it is absolutely vital that we protect the Americans people to right to keep and bear arms, and we must fight against politicians who attempt to disarm the citizens of America.

To my constituency in Iowa, as long as I am in Congress I will never, to the best of my abilities, let your Constitutional Rights be abused or taken by an overreaching or overbearing government.

Congressman King