Posted on 04/23/2002 7:04:40 PM PDT by Redcloak
CAL-ERT 04/23/02 1:45 P. M.
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Today's Legislative Activity - AB2222
http://www.nramemberscouncils.com/calerts/calert042302.shtml
AB2222 (Koretz) was voted on Today, April 23, 2002, in the Assembly Public Safety Committee. AB2222 FAILED TO GET ENOUGH VOTES TO PASS!
To all of you that repeatedly contacted the legislature in opposition to AB2222, THANK YOU ! ! ! Your efforts were successful.
AB2222 would have banned and/or heavily restricted the ownership, possesion and use of .50 caliber rifles.
AB2222 failed due to the votes of members of the Assembly Public Safety Committee from both parties.
Voting "NO" were Assembly Members Washington (Chairman), Dickerson, Keeley, and LaSuer. Abstaining was Assembly Member Diaz.
ACTION REQUESTED: Please contact these Assembly Members and THANK THEM FOR NOT SUPPORTING AB2222.
Washington, Carl.Washington@assembly.ca.gov (916) 319-2052
Diaz, Assemblymember.Diaz@assembly.ca.gov (916) 319-2023
Dickerson, Assemblymember.Dickerson@assembly.ca.gov (916) 319-2002
Keeley, Fred.Keeley@assembly.ca.gov (916) 319-2027
LaSuer, Assemblymember.Lasuer@assembly.ca.gov (916) 319-2077
REMEMBER, saying THANK YOU is as important as asking them to vote our way.
For complete in legislative contact information go to: http://www.nramemberscouncils.com/legs.shtml .
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(I'm not anti-gun, I just think politically it would be to their advantage to try to ban this)
The price of those rifles almost guaruntees that. It would not be easy to paint those folks as militia nuts.
"Necessary?" So what? Cadillacs and Jaguars and those limos Hollyweirdos ride to their Earth Day protests in sure aren't "necessary," either - but we don't want them banned!
Once you go down the slippery slope of "necessary," the next thing the antigun nuts will want is that .375 H&H you hunt brown bear with - or even that .308 deer rifle of yours. After all, it isn't "necessary" to hunt when you can buy food at any supermarket, is it?
Scandals of antigun politicians - from Kalifornia to Manhattan!
I'm amazed this happened, given the horrid stuff proposed and passed by the Calif. legislature. An interesting impact of the proposed restrictions is an increase in orders for .50 Cal rifles. The lead time on orders has jumped based on demand. Cool!
Yes, go figure. Just when you think you've got Cali-Socialists figured out. . .
As is happening now. I've been in the market for a Glock 30 since January. Zip. Zilch. Nada. Nary a one. Last month at a local gun store I frequent, I found one in the display case and grabbed it.
During the course of filling out the DROS paperwork, the store manager told me he got a shipment of 50 such pistols in on Monday of that week and had sold 42 of them by the time I came in (Thursday). I figured I better grab one before they disappeared forever.
Of course, state handgun licensing, which begins in California in January couldn't possibly have had anything to do with it. . . NOT!
I'm glad to read this.
On the channel 9 KCAL(aka CBS)news last night here in LA, they spoke differently. They had three announcements of what was hitting the GOV's desk;
1. Legal driver's licenses for illegal immigrants.
2. Equal insurance benifits for queer couples.
3. .50 cal rifle ban.
None of the other LA stations(I actually didn't watch channel 2 KCBS) carried the same story.
Delivering a .50 caliber Victory Bump - -
No problo. The 2nd Amendment already has that covered. Something about 'necessary to the security of a FREE state.'
But then, Freedom is not based on 'need' anyway. It's based on choice.
Thanks for the victory bump, Maggie!
Yeah, hc, I'm rather wealthy. I just sit on these drilling rigs for months at a time because I like the sound of the engines.
Seriously, it's a matter of priorities, like everything else. With as much fun as I have with my M99, I don't mind that I had to give up my ballet lessons.
As far as respect in the community, I've learned that if I crawl across my lawn in my cammos and gilly suit and set my .50 up with my neighbor's house in the field of fire, he does respect me.
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This is a two year-old story. Arnie just signed a ban into law the other day.
No victory, just another example of why we don't allow the foreign-born to become president.
That was two years ago.
Arnold signed bill AB-50 this week, banning all .50BMGs in CA.
Read yer dates !.......:o)
Stay Safe
Read yer dates !.......:o)
Stay Safe
Didn't Arnie just sign the ban on .50 calibers?
How many damn committees does California have in their law making process?
The NRA was wrong about this one time before.
It shows!!!
Should also be a reason why we should be more careful not to vote potential RINOs in.
I thought the last of my brain cells had self destructed.
Stay Safe
AB2222 was a ban attempt from 2 years ago. AB50 was this year's attempt. Unfortunately, it passed. Gun owners in this State no longer have friends in the legislature like Roderick Wright (D - L.A.) to put a stop to bills like this. Aaaahnold, who's knowledge of firearms is limited, signed the bill. Of course, all the bill will really accomplish will be record sales of .50 cal firearms between now and Jan. 1st.
Director:
"Now, Arnold, you're supposed to be the Terminator!
You've got to learn where the trigger is on that pulse phasor!"
Boy, do I feel stupid. I searched for the story on Aaanold Shriver's(D-CA)signing of the .50 cal ban I saw on the news and didn't check the date of this story. Well, at least I FELT good for the day. That's what this new law is about anyway, isn't it? Feelings?
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