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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 | 2014 |
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
10. Check if this is a Termination Report | Termination Date |
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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 Kuper |
Date | 1/20/2015 4:29:08 PM |
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
S.2872: Promoting Healthy Minds for Safer Communities Act of 2014
H.R.5522: ATF Elimination Act
H.R.5093: Children's Firearm Marketing Safety Act
S.2676: Domestic Violence Gun Homicide Prevention Act of 2014
H.Amdt.1098 Amends Bill: H.R.5016
H.Amdt.1084 Amends Bill: H.R.5016
S.1290: Protecting Domestic Violence and Stalking Victims Act of 2013
H.R.5756: Heller Public Firearms Range Act of 2014
H.R. 5040: Land Conveyance
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.
S.1774: Undetectable Firearms Reauthorization Act of 2013
H.R.3626: To extend the Undetectable Firearms Act of 1988 for 10 years.
H.R.3335: Firearms Interstate Commerce Reform Act
H.R.3484: Airport Security Act of 2013
H.R.3689: To restore Second Amendment rights in the District of Columbia.
S.1660: SPORT Act
H.R.3590: SHARE Act of 2013
S.1486: Postal Reform Act of 2013
H.R.3933 : Protecting Gun Owners in Bankruptcy Act of 2014
H.R.4135 : Firearm Importation Fairness Act of 2014
H.R.4405 : Preventing Gun Violence Act
S.1908 : Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2014
S.1996 : Bipartisan Sportsmen's Act of 2014
H.RES.468: Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that gun violence is a public health issue and Congress should enact by the end of the 113th Congress comprehensive Federal legislation that protects the Second Amendment and keeps communities safe and healthy, including expanding enforceable background checks for all commercial gun sales, improving the mental health system in the United States, and making gun trafficking and straw purchasing a Federal crime.
S.2105 : Gun-Owner Registration Information Protection Act
S.AMDT.717 to S.649 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.
H.AMDT.704 to H.R.4660, H.AMDT.727 to H.R.4660, H.AMDT.769 to H.R.4660
H.AMDT.729 to H.R.4660
H.R.4380 : Gun Confiscation and Registration Prevention Act
H.R.4135: Firearm Importation Fairness Act of 2014
H.R.4783 : Promoting Healthy Minds for Safer Communities Act of 2014
H.R.4784: End Purchase of Firearms by Dangerous Individuals Act of 2014
H.R.4806: Pause for Safety Act of 2014
H.R.4946: Crime Gun Tracing Act
H.R.4405: Preventing Gun Violence Act
H.R.4547 : To modify the definition of "antique firearm
H.R.4707: To authorize the appropriation of funds to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for conducting or supporting research on firearms safety or gun violence prevention.
H.R.5606: Homemade Firearms Accountability Act of 2014
H.R.5555: FIREARM Act
H.R.1369 : Firearm Risk Protection Act of 2013
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
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: Gun Violence Prevention and Reduction Act of 2013
H.R.2959: National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act of 2013
H.R.3018: Gun Violence 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.
S.2363 - Bipartisan Sportsmen's Act of 2014
S.2105 - Gun-Owner Registration Information Protection Act
S.2445 - Pause for Safety Act of 2014
S.2373 - A bill to authorize the appropriation of funds to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for conducting or supporting research on firearms safety or gun violence prevention.
S.2426 - Correctional Officer Self-Protection Act of 2014
S.2483 - Lori Jackson Domestic Violence Survivor Protection Act
S.649: Safe Communities, Safe Schools Act of 2013
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
H.R.34: Blair Holt's Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2013
H.R.35: Safe Schools Act of 2013
H.R.65: Child Gun Safety and Gun Access Prevention Act of 2013
H.R.93: Fire Sale Loophole Closing Act
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco & Firearms (ATF), Executive Office of the President (EOP)
18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area
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19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None
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AFFILIATED ORGANIZATIONS
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FOREIGN ENTITIES
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28. Name of each previously reported foreign entity that no longer owns, or controls, or is affiliated with the registrant, client or affiliated organization
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