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LOBBYING REPORT |
Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 (Section 5) - All Filers Are Required to Complete This Page
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City | Windsor |
State | CO |
Zip Code | 80550 |
Country | USA |
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TYPE OF REPORT | 8. Year | 2013 |
Q1 (1/1 - 3/31) | Q2 (4/1 - 6/30) | Q3 (7/1 - 9/30) | Q4 (10/1 - 12/31) |
9. Check if this filing amends a previously filed version of this report
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Provide a good faith estimate, rounded to the nearest $10,000, of all lobbying related income for the client (including all payments to the registrant by any other entity for lobbying activities on behalf of the client). | 14. REPORTING Check box to indicate expense accounting method. See instructions for description of options. | ||||||||
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Reporting amounts using LDA definitions only
Method B. Reporting amounts under section 6033(b)(8) of the Internal Revenue Code Method C. Reporting amounts under section 162(e) of the Internal Revenue Code |
Signature | Digitally Signed By: Christopher N Kuper Director of Federal Legislation |
Date | 10/21/2013 |
LOBBYING ACTIVITY. Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client during the reporting period. Using a separate page for each code, provide information as requested. Add additional page(s) as needed.
15. General issue area code FIR
16. Specific lobbying issues
Manchin Amdt. No. 715; To protect Second Amendment rights, ensure that all individuals who should be prohibited from buying a firearm are listed in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, and provide a responsible and consistent background check process.
S.649: Safe Communities, Safe Schools Act of 2013
Manchin Amdt. No. 715; To protect Second Amendment rights, ensure that all individuals who should be prohibited from buying a firearm are listed in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, and provide a responsible and consistent background check process.
Grassley Amdt. No. 725; To address gun violence, improve the availability of records to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, address mental illness in the criminal justice system, and end straw purchases and trafficking of illegal firearms, and for other purposes.
Leahy Amdt. No. 713; To increase public safety by punishing and deterring firearms trafficking.
Cornyn Amdt. No. 719; To allow reciprocity for the carrying of certain concealed firearms.
Feinstein Amdt. No. 711; To regulate assault weapons, to ensure that the right to keep and bear arms is not unlimited, and for other purposes.
Burr Amdt. No. 720; To protect the Second Amendment rights of veterans and their families.
Lautenberg Amdt. No. 714; To regulate large capacity ammunition feeding devices
Barrasso Amdt. No. 717; To withhold 5 percent of Community Oriented Policing Services program Federal funding from States and local governments that release sensitive and confidential information on law-abiding gun owners and victims of domestic violence.
Harkin Amdt. No. 730; To reauthorize and improve programs related to mental health and substance use disorders.
S.2: Sandy Hook Elementary School Violence Reduction Act
S.22: Gun Show Background Check Act of 2013
S.34: Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act of 2013
S.33: Large Capacity Ammunition Feeding Device Act of 2013
S.35: Stop Online Ammunition Sales Act of 2013
S.54: Stop Illegal Trafficking in Firearms Act of 2013
S.82: Separation of Powers Restoration and Second Amendment Protection Act of 2013
S.146: School and Campus Safety Enhancements Act of 2013
S.147: Common Sense Concealed Firearms Permit Act of 2013
S.150: Assault Weapons Ban of 2013
S.170 Recreational Fishing and Hunting Heritage and Opportunities Act
S.174: Ammunition Background Check Act of 2013
S.179: Gun Trafficking Prevention Act of 2013
S.261: No Firearms for Foreign Felons Act of 2013
S.374: Fix Gun Checks Act of 2013
S.443: Stop Illegal Trafficking in Firearms Act of 2013
S.480: NICS Reporting Improvement Act of 2013
S.572: Veterans Second Amendment Protection Act
S.691 High-Capacity Ammunition Magazine Ban of 2013
S.729 Disarm Criminals and Protect Communities Act
S.730 Firearm Straw Purchasing and Trafficking Prevention Act
S.843 Ammunition Management for More Obtainability Act of 2013
S.1149 Undetectable Firearms Modernization Act
S.1505:Hunting, Fishing, and Recreational Shooting Protection Act
S.CON.RES.7: A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress regarding conditions for the United States becoming a signatory to the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty, or to any similar agreement on the arms trade.
S.AMDT.673 to S.CON.RES.8 To create a point of order against legislation that would further restrict the right of law-abiding Americans to own a firearm.
Inhofe Amdt. No. 139 to S.CON.RES.8; To uphold Second Amendment rights and prevent the United States from entering into the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty.
H.R.21: NRA Members' Gun Safety Act of 2013
Oppose: Would outlaw private sales that do not undergo a background check.
H.R.34: Blair Holt's Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2013
Oppose: This bill would impose a National Permit to Purchase requirement just to purchase a firearm, outlaw private firearms sales, require you lock up your firearm in your own house.
H.R.35: Safe Schools Act of 2013
Support: This bill would repeal the Gun Free School Zone Act.
H.R.65: Child Gun Safety and Gun Access Prevention Act of 2013
Oppose: This bill would strip law-abiding adults aged 18-21 from their Second Amendment rights and force gun owners to lock-up their firearms or potentially face prosecution.
H.R.93: Fire Sale Loophole Closing Act
Oppose: This bill would give the federal government vast new power to cease the inventory of firearms dealers, and require upon revoking a dealers license, all of a dealers inventory be transferred to another dealer or turned into the government.
H.R.72: Border Security, Cooperation, and Act Now Drug War Prevention Act of 2013
Oppose: This bill would expand BATFE power and authority.
H.R.117: Handgun Licensing and Registration Act of 2013
Oppose: This bill would mandate that each state require every gun owner to register all handguns in their possession. Failure to do so would be met with a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years in prison.
H.R.133: Citizens Protection Act of 2013
Support: This bill would repeal the Gun Free School Zone Act.
H.R.137: Fix Gun Checks Act of 2013
H.R.138: Large Capacity Ammunition Feeding Device Act
H.R.141: Gun Show Loophole Closing Act of 2013
Oppose: This bill not only bans private sales but also requires that gun show promoters file with the Attorney General prior to commencement. The promoter must also collect up to date federal licenses from each FFL and submit those as well. Severe penalties are imposed for poor record keeping. This bill also allocates the ATF 40 investigators to patrol gun shows and look for potential violations. Passage of this bill would ultimately reduce the number of gun shows nationwide as well as increasing entrance fees.
H.R.142: Stop Online Ammunition Sales Act of 2013
H.R.226: Support Assault Firearms Elimination and Reduction for our Streets Act
H.R.227: Buyback Our Safety Act
H.R.236: Crackdown on Deadbeat Gun Dealers Act of 2013
H.R.238: Fire Sale Loophole Closing Act
H.R.321: Firearm Safety and Public Health Research Act of 2013
H.R.332: Equal Access to Justice for Victims of Gun Violence Act
H.R.339: Fairness in Firearm Testing Act
H.R.404: Straw Purchaser Penalty Enhancement Act
Oppose: This bill would increase the penalties for those found guilty of "straw purchases." Meaning, anyone who willingly buys a firearm from a dealer with the express intent of selling it to a person who is barred by law from owning a firearm. How they will determine intent is unsaid, or worse, left to the discretion of the Attorney General.
H.R.410: Restore the Constitution Act of 2013
Support: This bill nullifies any presidential Executive Order that infringes on the Second Amendment or violates the limitations of power under Article 8, Section 1 of the United States Constitution. It also prohibits the President from allocating any Federal funds to implement such violations. This bill would also allow any person who has had their liberties infringed by executive order to bring suit against the Government.
H.R.427: Trafficking Reduction And Criminal Enforcement TRACE Act
Oppose: This bill would allow the Attorney General to impose new trace requirements to firearms. It would also increase the amount of time the ATF can legally hold records of gun sales, as well as appropriate more funding for the agency.
H.R.431: Gun Transparency and Accountability Gun TRAC Act of 2013
Oppose: This bill allows the ATF to keep records of gun sales for 90 days before "destroying" them. It also allows courts to subpoena ATF TRACE records as admissible evidence for civil and criminal suits.
H.R.437: Assault Weapons Ban of 2013
Oppose: This bill would outlaw hundreds of commonly used semi-automatic rifles and pistols and limit magazine capacity to 10 rounds.
H.R.449: To provide an amnesty period during which veterans and their family members can register certain firearms in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record, and for other purposes.
H.R.452: Gun Trafficking Prevention Act of 2013
H.R.538: PLEA Act
Oppose: This bill outlaws Five-seveN Pistol and accompanying ammunition, manufactured by FN Herstal of Belgium. It also arbitrarily bans "any other handgun" that uses certain types of loosely defined ammunition.
H.R.575: Second Amendment Protection Act of 2013
H.R.577: Veterans Second Amendment Protection Act
Support: This bill would put an end to the practice of stripping veterans diagnosed with PTSD of their Second Amendment rights.
H.R.578: Respecting States' Rights and Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2013
Neutral: This bill deals with the recognition of firearms permits.
H.R.619: Keep Kids Safe Act of 2013
Oppose: This bill would impose yet another misdemeanor life long gun ban on certain individuals.
H.R.661: Tiahrt Restrictions Repeal Act
Oppose: This bill expands the authority of the BATFE to conduce on site dealer inspections and eliminates the requirement that NICS background check records be destroyed.
H.R.720: Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act of 2013
H.R.722: Detectives Nemorin and Andrews Anti-Gun Trafficking Act of 2013
H.R.793: Firearm Safety and Buyback Grant Act of 2013
Oppose: Taxes concealable firearms and imposes a government gun buy back program designed to encourage confiscation.
H.R. 848 Armed Prohibited Persons Act of 2013
H.R.868 : Safer Neighborhoods Gun Buyback Act of 2013
Oppose: Authorizes the Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance to make two-year grants to states and local governments for subgrants to gun dealers, or to gun dealers directly, to conduct gun buyback programs under which gun dealers shall be issued smart prepaid cards to purchase specified guns from individuals wishing to dispose of them.
H.R.955 : Hadiya Pendleton and Nyasia Pryear-Yard Stop Illegal Trafficking in Firearms Act of 2013
H.R.965 : To prohibit the possession or transfer of junk guns, also known as Saturday Night Specials.
H.R.1143 : Federal Correctional Workers Safety Act of 2013
H.R.1290 : To amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to more comprehensively address the interstate transportation of firearms or ammunition.
H.R.1369 : Firearm Risk Protection Act of 2013
Oppose: Would ban the sale of firearms to purchasers that do not have a particular "qualified liability insurance policy."
H.R.1474 : Undetectable Firearms Modernization Act
Oppose: Seeks to ban the production of certain personally manufactured firearms.
H.R.1565 : Public Safety and Second Amendment Rights Protection Act of 2013
H.R.1605 : Public Safety and Second Amendment Rights Protection Act of 2013
H.R.1728 : Enforce Existing Gun Laws Act
H.R.1764 : Ammunition Management for More Obtainability Act of 2013
H.R.1825 : Recreational Fishing and Hunting Heritage and Opportunities Act
H.R.1883 : Secure Firearms Act of 2013
H.R.1914 : Preventing Victims of Stalking Act of 2013
H.R.2005 : Personalized Handgun Safety Act
H.R.2046 : Recreational Lands Self-Defense Act of 2013
Support: This bill would allow citizens to lawfully carry firearms for self defense in COE areas.
H.R.2247 : Collectible Firearms Protection Act
H.R.2277 : To eliminate the sporting purposes distinction in the gun laws.
H.R.2464 : To amend the Consumer Product Safety Act to remove the exclusion of pistols, revolvers, and other firearms from the definition of "consumer product" in order to permit the issuance of safety standards for such articles by the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
H.R.2910:GunViolence Prevention and Reduction Act of 2013
H.R.2959:National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act of 2013
H.R.3018:GunViolence Prevention and Safe Communities Act of 2013
H.R.3199:Safe Military Bases Act
H.CON.RES.23 : Expressing the sense of Congress regarding the conditions for the United States becoming a signatory to the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty, or to any similar agreement on the arms trade.
H.RES.35: Expressing no confidence in the Attorney General of the United States and calling for his immediate resignation.
Support: Calling for the resignation of anti-gun Attorney General Eric Holder
H.RES.40: Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that active duty military personnel who are stationed or residing in the District of Columbia should be permitted to exercise fully their rights under the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
Neutral: Expresses congressional support for the Second Amendment rights of Military personnel stationed in Washington DC.
H.RES.55: Honoring the life of Trayvon Martin, urging the repeal of Stand Your Ground laws, and calling on the United States Government to address the crisis of racial profiling.
Oppose: Urges the repeal of state Stand Your Ground laws.
H.RES.258 : Providing for the consideration of the bill (H.R. 1565) to protect Second Amendment rights, ensure that all individuals who should be prohibited from buying a firearm are listed in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, and provide a responsible and consistent background check process.
H.RES.318: Expressing disapproval over the gun violence plaguing America's communities, and calling on the Congress to enact comprehensive gun reforms that reduce gun violence.
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U.S. SENATE, Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco & Firearms (ATF), Executive Office of the President (EOP)
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