Posted on 04/29/2008 11:17:30 AM PDT by EdReform
Citizens Committee for the
Right to Keep and Bear Arms
12500 N.E. Tenth Place
Bellevue, WA 98005
For Immediate Release: April 29, 2008
BELLEVUE, WA – Anti-gun Chicago Mayor Richard Daley has taken one more step toward turning his city into a police state by planning to give police fully automatic M4 carbines, while still fighting to block the gun rights of citizens not only in Chicago but throughout Illinois, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today.
“Here’s one of the most anti-gun mayors in the nation, who has been trying to ban common semiautomatic rifles for years, but now he’s rushing to turn his police into a paramilitary force doing battle against street gangs and other criminals,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb, co-author of America Fights Back: Armed Self-Defense in a Violent Age. “Yet this guy works overtime to make it impossible for average citizens to protect themselves against the same criminal element.
“If Daley thinks turning Chicago neighborhoods into gulags, where only police have guns, is going to keep people safe,” he asked, “he is horribly mistaken. They tried it in Washington, D.C. and it’s been a disaster!
“Daley has decried the violence in Chicago,” Gottlieb said, “but the mayor seems to ignore the likelihood that it is his own urban policies that have made the Windy City so dangerous. The good citizens of Chicago deserve the chance to fight back and make a difference. Instead, Daley sends lobbyists to Springfield to erode the gun rights of Chicago residents and all Illinois citizens, leaving them first defenseless, and now likely to be caught in a crossfire.”
Daley’s effort has attracted the attention of Catholic priest Michael Pfleger, the man who tried to incite a crowd last year outside of Chuck’s Gun Shop in suburban Riverdale to “snuff” proprietor John Riggio and any politician who stands in the way of Pfleger’s gun control agenda.
“When Daley’s solution to violence involves crackpots like Pfleger,” Gottlieb noted, “the city is in trouble, and not just from criminals. It is time for a new approach, not one that turns police into an army of occupation, but one in which citizens can defend themselves and their families, without demagogues like Daley standing in their way.”
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Bang
I wonder how many get stolen out of police cars?
AND ON TOP OF IT, DALEY HAS SANITIZED TERRORIST BILL AYERS!I HAD NO GREAT LOVE FOR HIS DAD, BUT “Da Mare” is probably turning over in his grave over the Ayers connection.
Daley? The guy Obama endorsed? The guy Obama called “the best mayor in America”? That Daley? “Change”. **SHUDDER**
It’s proof that gun control does not work, and they know it does not work.
They just won’t allow Joe Public to protect himself.
” wonder how many get stolen out of police cars?”
With the Chicago cops I wonder how many will get SOLD out of the backs of police cars.
...that too.
Time for "W" to act!
Yes. When I read that the Che poster in Obama's campaign headquarters and the fact that the only thing Ayres is sorry for is that he didn't kill MORE people flashed through my head along with the word "CHANGE" written in big, red letters. Not that we'd have any LESS of a police state with Hillary, but she didn't endorse Daley and call him the world's best mayor.
It’s not UP to “W”. It says so in the United States Constitution, which almost as many “conservatives” think is an evolving document as liberals.
The M4 is not a machine gun. Even if they get the LE/Military version, it is selective fire with the choices being semi auto or 3 round burst. Most LE models are semi auto only.
Maybe and maybe not.
Section. 4. The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened), against domestic Violence.
It's pretty obvious that any government in violation of the Constitution of the US and of that of its own state is not a Republican one.
By law, the National Firearms Act, anything that fires more than one round per trigger pull is a machine gun. Besides, according to Colt's M4 web page, the M4 is "Available with a Safe/Semi/Full Auto 3-position selector (model R0977)". The US military just doesn't' buy them.
AVAILABLE MODELS
RO977 : Flat top, Safe/Semi/Full Auto
RO979 : Flat top, Safe/Semi/Burst
RO777 : Fixed handle, Safe/Semi/Full Auto
RO779 : Fixed handle, Safe/Semi/Burst
It's the responsibility of the Commander in Chief to take action.
You are thinking of the M16A4 not the M4.
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