Maxwell Frost: “the interesting thing is the sponsor of this amendment, Mr. Pfluger, in his home State of Texas, there were 22 mass…”

“the interesting thing is the sponsor of this amendment, Mr. Pfluger, in his home State of Texas, there were 22 mass shootings in just the first 4 months of this year. Mr. Chair, I am confused on where this amendment is coming from. Why do we need to task the CMP with selling more guns with less restrictions in a country where we have a gun violence problem? It is interesting. It was one thing when the guns in questions were relics of World War II and World War I. This amendment takes it several steps further. It increases the potential number of weapons being transferred. It expands the type of weapons to include modern .45-caliber pistols and shotguns. It adds sources to every Federal department and agency so they can off-load their firearms to the secondary market, including folks like the FBI or ICE. We have to dig deeper here because the CMP is a nonprofit. This new rule for the CMP, where they would sell massive amounts of firearms, is actually going to help gun manufacturers make mountain loads of money by putting more guns into circulation. It is interesting. I looked it up. On a list of the 22 major sponsors of the CMP, 6 are gun manufacturers. They are companies like Colt, Glock, and Springfield. Mr. Chair, seven make gun accessories, and they produce ammunition. That means that the gun manufacturers funding the CMP stand to benefit from the CMP selling even more weapons and having less restrictions. It is the same old-same old on every issue.…”