Posted on 06/23/2004 1:51:00 PM PDT by Dan from Michigan
Police Across Country Urge that Federal Assault Weapons Ban be Renewed
Renewed
6/23/2004
Press Release
States United to Prevent Gun Violence
www.supgv.org
Contacts:
Carolynne Jarvis
Phone: 517-321-0195
Bryan Miller
Phone: 856-371-3038
800 Plus Police Chief and Sheriffs and Counting Across Country Urge That Federal Assault Weapons Ban Be Renewed and Strengthened
Remarkable Grassroots Law Enforcement Support Demonstrated for Strong and Effective Assault Weapons Ban in National Outreach Project
Lansing, MI - States United to Prevent Gun Violence (States United), the nationwide coalition of independent state-based organizations devoted to reducing gun violence, today delivered to all US Senators and Representatives a list of more than 800 police chiefs and sheriffs from across the country supporting renewal and strengthening of the federal Assault Weapons Ban. The national Law Enforcement Outreach Project (LEO Project) was undertaken by States United, in collaboration with several grassroots advocacy organizations to determine support for renewing and strengthening the federal Assault Weapons Ban (AWB), which will expire on September 13 of this year unless Congress and the President enact appropriate legislation.
The existing AWB, enacted in 1994 with a ten-year term, prohibits the manufacture, transfer, and possession of 19 specific semi-automatic assault weapons, such as AK-47s, AR15s, and UZIs. However, the gun industry immediately began to evade the law by making minor cosmetic changes to assault weapons, renaming them, and marketing them as "post-ban" models. Post-ban assault weapons are "copycats" of those banned by the 1994 AWB, and are functionally identical to them, which is why States United, many collaborative grassroots organizations and those Police Chiefs and Sheriffs participating in the LEO Project believe the AWB must be both renewed and strengthened.
Carolynne Jarvis, President of States United, said: "The LEO Project is not complete, but early results are extremely positive and indicative of strong grassroots law enforcement support for renewing and strengthening the AWB. We have already received over 800 replies from Chiefs and Sheriffs all across the country, including many rural departments, calling for the renewal and strengthening of the AWB. This is not surprising as it is the men and women whom law enforcement executives send out each day to protect our communities who are most likely to face assault weapons in the wrong hands."
Bryan Miller, Executive Director of Ceasefire New Jersey, whose only brother, FBI Special Agent Mike Miller, was one of three officers shot and killed with a MAC-10 assault pistol in a 1994 massacre at Washington, DC Metropolitan Police Headquarters, said: "My brother was killed with an assault gun banned by name by the '94 AWB, but the manufacturer now makes and sells essentially the same gun under a slightly different name. And, late last week three police officers in Alabama were shot and killed while attempting to serve warrants by a man wielding a SKS assault rifle, a post-ban copycat of a gun banned by name in the current AWB. These horrific incidents starkly demonstrate both the danger law enforcement faces each day from the firepower of assault weapons and the need to strengthen the AWB to eliminate the manufacture and sale of post-ban assault weapons."
Jarvis closed with: "Chiefs and Sheriffs from all across the country understand that their officers face overwhelming firepower in the hands of criminals whether pre or post-ban assault weapons, and they want an AWB that effectively bans both. We hope that Congress heeds the sad message of last week's shooting in Alabama and the call of more than 800 Police Chiefs and Sheriffs and acts quickly to renew and strengthen the AWB."
She was the head of MPPGV, which probably has 100 people. Their PAC has been bankrupt since 2000.
MPPGV was funded mostly by the Joyce Foundation(Which funds VPC, Join Together, and others) and also the Tides Foundation. There's nothing grass roots about them and I haven't seen anything by them outside of one meeting of 20 people in a rich Detroit burb in 01.
Typo.
Boom
Politicians in Uniform for Gun Control
Politicians for a Disarmed Citizenry.
With Americans under assault around the world, it makes more sense to arm more people to shoot these attackers whenever the need arises.
Conflict of interest, their opinions don't count.
They've been offered a pretty sweet bribe...
If passed...they (Police) get to keep and bear arms accross all state lines in all places...cart blance concealed carry weapons...
Police both active duty and retired....will actually get their real 2nd ammendment rights
all they have to do...is sell out their fellow American law abiding tax payers....
Frank Serpico just hit the tip of the ice berg
imo
WRONG idiot!!
An SKS isn't a copy of anything. It's an original design and always was a semi-auto rifle and has an internal five round magazine and they're not covered by the AWB.
I can buy one TODAY over the net with my C&R license from around $175-$200 or at the local gun store for retail of approx $250.
Except of course in Kalifornia where the SKS is banned under state law because of the integral bayonet mounting.
Police both active duty and retired....will actually get their real 2nd ammendment rights all they have to do...is sell out their fellow American law abiding tax payers....
"If you're not cop...you're little people."
BladeRunner
Not to mention that nearly all the SKS rifles in circulation were made in the 1940s-50s and have been sitting in crates in the Eastern Bloc for decades. It's not just a pre-ban gun, it's practically a pre-gun-banning-gun.
Price for the Yugo Type 59/66 (an SKS variant) was right at $200 tax included at the last Texas gun show I attended.
You don't even get to the main text before the lies begin. "Grassroots" doesn't apply to public servants. The AWB couldn't possibly get "grassroots support" any more than a bill could get "grassroots support" in the halls of Congress. Grassroots applies to regular people, not government agents. Join Together lies again.
"SKS assault rifle, a post-ban copycat of a gun banned by name"
Correction, the CA legal Yugo is a 59/66 not 56/44! I'm a lousy typist.
More gd lies from the gun-grabbers about "assault weapons" being more powerful.... Grrrrrr
Ok jerkweed, the SKS fires a 7.62x39mm round. A "hunting rifle" fires anything from say a .223, a 7mm, a .308 & 30-06. Most are more 'powerful' (kindly excuse the terminology, I'm po'd) than the 7.62x39. So what's your real agenda, huh? Let me guess you #$*&, you want them all banned don't you?!?!?
What about my 8mm Mauser (7.92x57) huh you pr1ck, you want that banned too because I can take something 'out' from 500 yards???
Where I buy they won't sell in Cal, they say the SKS is banned there because of the bayonet?
Unfortunaley the site is down now, but check later if you like Empire Arms
This is not "grassroots" support. These are sheriffs and police chiefs who owe their positions to their liberal PC stance against armed citizenry.
Rank and file law enforcement officers overwhelmingly support the Second Amendment. However, it is becoming an unwritten requirement in the law enforcement profession that to advance one must embrace and advocate gun control. Hence, we see nonsense like these 800 sheriffs and police chiefs illegitimately entering the legislative process.
Make no mistake, the liberals' goal is a police state under their control. They are well on their way. The law enforcement community routinely claims to "protect and serve" neither of which are its only mission of "law enforcement". It officially refers to citizens as "civilians", implying "the people's" subordinate status to LEOs and not deserving of the right of self protection. And most ominously, it is now engaging in its first nationwide citizen mass control project, "Click It or Ticket", demonstrating decisively they no longer answer to "the people" of their jurisdiction.
These "800" are way beyond the mandate of their offices when they address any legislation except that narrowly affecting their individual organizations. Buy exceeding their offices, they show that they are the local tin Hitlers enabling liberals' wet dream of having their own armed forces controlling the country.
Before you scoff, remember Communist Russia and Nazi Germany. Our homegrown totalitarian traitors already have the judiciary. They are acquiring law enforcement. And they are desperate to disarm "the people". Once that process is complete, legislative process and representative republic are meaningless. Then we'll be a police state just as Communist Russia and Nazi Germany were.
At that time, our noble "800" will reveal themselves for what they truly are, jackbooted thugs. And they'll reveal their true motto; "Laws. We don' need no steenkin' laws!"
Loathe them. Fear them. But above all, before it's too late, replace them with true public servants. Or their cancer will spread.
See #12.
Isn't it only the Yugo version that's banned in CA ?
Other info: http://www.surplusrifle.com/sks/index.asp
That's two lies in one sentence. Not a record, but a good average for ignorant gun-grabbing morons.
The SKS is not a copycat of any other firearm, and it could not be a post-ban firearm since it was not banned by the misnamed AWB in the first place.
The only federal restriction I am aware of concerning the SKS is that the bayonet can't legally be mounted on recently made Chinese SKS rifles. You can buy a Chinese SKS and you can buy a SKS bayonet, but you can't legally put the two together. That regulation has no doubt been responsible for preventing a wave of deadly bayonet charges on Minit Marts and liquor stores.
Russian and Yugoslavian SKS rifles were built in the 1940s and 50s. They meet the criteria for curio and relic classification and are legal with bayonet mounted. In spite of that, AFAIK there have been no reports of drive-by bayonet charges or 7-11 robbers brandishing bayonets.
Just be thankful they don't have those evil pistol grips, who knows how many people might have been killed in Alabama if those things were legal.
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