Posted on 09/10/2004 12:59:06 PM PDT by Richard-SIA
From: NRA-ILA_Alerts.UM.A.2.2212@www.nranews.org Subject: ONE MORE PUSH TO END THE CLINTON GUN BAN Date: September 8, 2004 3:45:44 PM PDT ----------------------------------------------------------------- AN URGENT MESSAGE TO NRA MEMBERS: ONE MORE PUSH TO END THE CLINTON GUN BAN
With only five days to go before the September 13th expiration of the 1994 Clinton gun ban, anti-gun activists across the nation are making a last stand to re-enact this ineffective legislation. But now time is running out. Congress is only in session three more days before the sunset, and because time is short, anti-gunners will be redoubling their efforts to extend the ban.
Originally enacted in 1994, the Clinton crime bill banned gun ownership by law-abiding citizens as the solution to violent crime. But anti-gun politicians were only able to pass the portion of the law banning military-style semi-automatic firearms after agreeing to "sunset" the ban in a decade.
Proponents of the ban have not been able to offer a shred of evidence over ten years that the Clinton gun ban has reduced crime. The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) commissioned an independent study that concluded, "We cannot clearly credit the ban with any of the nation's recent drop in gun violence. And, indeed, there has been no discernible reduction in the lethality and injuriousness of gun violence." Even one extremist gun ban group, the Violence Policy Center, has admitted that continuing the ban will not "make one whit of difference one way or another . . . if it doesn't pass, it doesn't pass." (National Public Radio, 3/11/2004)
Since the gun banners are trying now to persuade Members of Congress to renew the Clinton Gun Ban, we ask you to call, fax and e-mail your Representative today. Urge your Member of Congress to publicly oppose renewal of the ban and instead to support legislation that will actually remove violent criminals from America's streets. Please urge your family, friends and fellow hunters and shooters to do the same. Help dismantle part of the anti-gun Clinton legacy by acting today!
Senate: (202) 224-3121 http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
House: (202) 224-3121 http://www.house.gov/writerep/
NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION INSTITUTE FOR LEGISLATIVE ACTION
P.S. Learn more about this very timely and important issue by clicking on www.ClintonGunBan.com -- view the story and take the quiz.
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It's really, really dead.
I heard Kerry talking about it this morning. Wonder if he's going to grace the Senate with his presence to vote on it. Probably not. Heheheh.
It's not over until the fat lady sings....
When can I buy new 15 round clips for my Glock?
And if you live in California it's not over even then! How a state, subservient to Federal Law, can withold rights guaranteed by the Second Amendment of the Federal Constitution and the lynchpin for our most precious Bill of Rights is beyond me. I wish someone with deep pockets would take them on. Why should someone from another state have more rights than I do?
Congress is still in session. Our liberties are still not safe.
If you live in a state that hasn't banned them yes....otherwise no.
Thats exactly right. Full time legislatures are a BAD idea...and unnecessary.
States are not subservient to federal law, they are subservient to the US Constitution, and via it to federal law only in those areas where the federal government has been explicitly granted power therein.
When can I buy new 15 round clips for my Glock?
Live your life as a paranoid. Makes no difference to me.
It's really, really dead.
Yes, it is. As I write this it is 5:51 PM EST on 9/10. The House is not in session today, and won't be until Monday, 9/13. The ban is REPEALED 10 years after it was enacted, which was on 9/13/94. Thus, the ban is repealed at the beginning of the day on 9/13/04, i.e. at 12:00:00 AM EST on Monday, 9/13/04. Unless the Senate passes a renewed AWB over the weekend and sends it to the House, then the House passes it over the weekend, with no amendments, and the approved bill is sent to the White House and signed before midnight on Sunday night, THEN THE AWB IS F'ING DEAD!!!!
I am sure that millions of normal capacity magazines will be sold in the next several weeks, as will tens of thousands of guns without the cosmetic handicaps of the last 10 years. Folding stocks and flash suppressors will be attached to what are, for the next 2 days and about 6 hours, called "post-ban" rifles. In short, gun owners are going to ensure that there is no way that any future ban will be in the least bit effective.
Of course, we shall all have to remain vigilant to avoid a new AWB in the future. The first thing to do is to make sure that Kerry remains a Massachusetts Senator after January 20, which requires that we get up off of our duffs and vote for Bush. Now that the AWB is dead, I'll have far less trouble doing that.
I'm going to have a few beers late Sunday night (11 PM my time), to celebrate a victory against tyranny. Later I'll celebrate by exercising another of my Constitutional rights, buying normal capacity mags - LOTS of them. I will, however, wait until the initial buying binge is over so that the prices can come down a bit more.
Thanks! You just made me one day happier!
I just found that out today myself. Check out the Countdown Clock in the upper right hand corner at http://www.awbansunset.com/
Tuesday Morning!
Thanks. Of course, I would not want to buy one of these with a dreaded pistol grip onTuesday.
Note to the BATF---I won't buy one---so please don't raid my house, shoot my dogs, and incinerate my family.
Last note--John Kerry can have a shotgun with a pistol grip---because....well...a Union Thug gave it to him.
There is an extremely important lesson to be learned about how to WIN at politics in the way the AWB was sunsetted.
Remember when all the girlie-men conservatives got their panties in a wad when Ari Fleischer said Bush would sign the AWB renewal if it hit his desk?
That was a brilliant move on the administration's part. It completely defused the issue as something that could be demagogued against Bush, and after that he simply ignored it to death.
But there are STILL girlie men on Free Republic who rant and rave because Bush did not propound upon Thomas Jefferson, The Second Amendment, and the need to water the tree of liberty with the blood of tyrants and patriots and give the Liberals a real target to go after.
Those idiots would rather have had Bush whisper sweet nothings into their ears than win the God d****d objective, which was to sunset the AWB.
The thing is, once Bush gets about three new Supreme Court Justices appointed and promotes Clarence Thomas to Chief Justice, we may not have to pussyfoot around like that anymore, but right now we do.
I believe that Bush is a lot more conservative than you would be lead to believe by the past four years with things like the huge spending deficit and the prescription drug program, but he had to do those things to stay in power long enough to get the momentum in the right direction.
The next four years are going to be awesome.
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