That’s what at least one conservative stalwart in the US House is alleging:

Rep. Richard Hudson (R-NC) usually manages to walk the line between endearing himself to the Establishment and ostensibly holding true to the conservative rhetoric he proffers on the campaign trail. ‘Usually’ being the key word.

Now it seems that Hudson is playing an important role in providing cover for a gun control bill sponsored by ultra-liberal senators Diane Feinstein (D-CA) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY).

At the beginning of this year Hudson introduced House Bill 38, the National Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act, that would have concealed carry certifications from states like North Carolina be honored in, say, Virginia. A great idea that should have been recognized a long time ago as consistent with liberty.

Conservatives and Second Amendment advocates should make some noise to have this bill passed, right? Not so fast.

According to the Chairman of the Second Amendment Caucus Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) Hudson’s bill is now serving as a Trojan Horse the Feinstein/Schumer/Tillis gun control push.

“As Chairman of the Second Amendment Caucus, I’m blowing the whistle on the swamp. Last week, Republicans in the House fast tracked through committee HR 4477, a gun bill titled “fix-NICS.” The Senate version of this bill is cosponsored by Senator Dianne Feintstein and Senator Chuck Schumer and it will send $625 million over 5 years to states to expand the national background check database. The bill will also advance former President Obama’s agenda of pressuring every branch of the administration (such as the Veteran’s Administration) to submit thousands of more names to the NICS background check database to deny gun purchases. The House bill is identical in every way to the Senate bill except the House bill will also commission a study on bump-stocks.

What you don’t know, and what virtually no one in Washington wants you to know, is that House leadership plans to merge the fix-NICS bill with popular Concealed Carry Reciprocity legislation, HR 38, and pass both of them with a single vote. Folks, this is how the swamp works. House leadership expects constituents to call their representatives demanding a vote on the reciprocity bill, when in fact the only vote will be on the two combined bills.”