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23 State Attorneys General To Attorney General Holder: "No Semi-Auto Ban"
NRA - ILA ^ | June 12, 2009 | 23 State Attorneys General

Posted on 06/12/2009 4:42:45 PM PDT by neverdem


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23 State Attorneys General To Attorney General Holder: "No Semi-Auto Ban"
 
Friday, June 12, 2009
 

On June 11, the top law enforcement officials of nearly half the states signed a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, expressing their opposition to reinstatement of the federal ban on semi-automatic firearms. 

"We share the Obama Administration's commitment to reducing illegal drugs and violent crime within the United States. We also share your deep concern about drug cartel violence in Mexico. However, we do not believe that restricting law-abiding Americans' access to certain semi-automatic firearms will resolve any of these problems," the letter said. 

The letter notes congressional opposition to bringing back the ban, and calls for increasing enforcement of existing laws. 

We encourage NRA members to let these state officials know we appreciate them standing up to the incessant clamor for gun control that is currently coming from anti-gun groups and their media allies. 

The 23 state Attorneys General, in alphabetical order, by state, are: 

Arkansas – The Honorable Dustin McDaniel
Alabama - The Honorable Troy King
Colorado - The Honorable John W. Suthers
Florida - The Honorable Bill McCollum
Georgia - The Honorable Thurbert E. Baker
Idaho - The Honorable Lawrence G. Wasden
Kansas - The Honorable Steve Six
Kentucky - The Honorable Jack Conway
Louisiana - The Honorable James D. Caldwell
Michigan - The Honorable Mike Cox
Missouri - The Honorable Chris Koster
Montana - The Honorable Steve Bullock
Oklahoma - The Honorable W.A. Edmonson
Nebraska - The Honorable Jon Bruning
Nevada - The Honorable Catherine Cortez Masto
New Hampshire - The Honorable Kelly A. Ayotte
North Dakota - The Honorable Wayne Stenehjem
South Carolina - The Honorable Henry McMaster
South Dakota - The Honorable Lawrence Long
Texas - The Honorable Greg Abbott
Utah - The Honorable Mark L. Shurtleff
Wisconsin – The Honorable J.B. Van Hollen
Wyoming - The Honorable Bruce A. Salzburg

To read the letter in its entirety, please click here.



Find this item at: http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Federal/Read.aspx?id=4971


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: awb; banglist; bhobanglist; bhodoj; guns; holder; nra; secondamendment; semiauto
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To: neverdem

Where is Alaska? The shame!


21 posted on 06/12/2009 7:10:21 PM PDT by kittycatonline.com
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To: Sender
... they should have stayed in the crawlspace... once they started crapping all over the kitchen, well, something has to be done.

LOL - they never intended to stay in the crawlspace, just breed there until they felt they had enough numbers to raid the kitchen.

22 posted on 06/12/2009 7:13:37 PM PDT by Talisker (When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on it's own.)
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To: upchuck
Nothing from New England, the upper midwest, the far west, etc. Wimps!

*****

Sigh ... another product of public schools.

Please look again. New Hampshire is certainly part of New England.

23 posted on 06/12/2009 7:18:18 PM PDT by DNME (Copy editor for hire.)
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To: upchuck
Nothing from New England, the upper midwest, the far west, etc. Wimps!

Leftist New Hampshire is on the list.

24 posted on 06/12/2009 7:18:35 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: who knows what evil?; DNME

I apologize for overlooking New Hampshire, home to retiring SCOTUS member David Souter.


25 posted on 06/12/2009 7:28:24 PM PDT by upchuck (Psalm 109:8 - Let his days be few; and let another take his office.)
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To: upchuck

...and the state responsible for reviving John McCain’s presidential campaign last year.


26 posted on 06/12/2009 7:35:29 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: bamahead; rabscuttle385; Bokababe; djsherin

PONG!


27 posted on 06/12/2009 7:54:56 PM PDT by dcwusmc (We need to make government so small that it can be drowned in a bathtub.)
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To: dcwusmc

California’s not on the list!? Shocking. Truly shocking.


28 posted on 06/12/2009 7:59:35 PM PDT by djsherin (Government is essentially the negation of liberty.)
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To: American_Centurion; Emmett McCarthy; Rome2000; CrappieLuck

Tennessee Attorneys General are left-wing Democrat party hacks chosen in the singlemost byzantine manner by any state in the nation, they are “elected” by the State Supreme Court, itself a NON-ELECTED bastion of trial lawyer leftists for which it is nearly impossible to get a Republican appointed. Until we return the Supreme Court to being duly elected by the public (the only Constitutionally permissable method, ignored now for nearly 30 years where the Modified Missouri plan is used), there is almost no chance of getting a Republican, let alone Conservative, AG.


29 posted on 06/12/2009 8:12:33 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: djsherin

Yeah, really hard to believe, huh? And that dumbass gun-grabber, Moonbeam Brown wants to be governor again next year. He was the one who started this state’s slide into oblivion!


30 posted on 06/12/2009 8:24:59 PM PDT by dcwusmc (We need to make government so small that it can be drowned in a bathtub.)
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To: neverdem

There you have, with maybe a couple of added states, the core of the New United States... No Make that the Reformed United States.


31 posted on 06/12/2009 8:34:58 PM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: upchuck
Nothing from New England,

New Hampshire is on the list. "Live Free or Die".

32 posted on 06/12/2009 9:36:16 PM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: neverdem
We are pleased that the Administration appears to conform with the Congressional leadership’s position on this very important issue. Importantly, the White House website no longer calls for the reinstatement of the 1994 ban. In fact, it expressly acknowledges “the great conservation legacy of America’s hunters.” We share that appreciation for hunters and are committed to defending our Second Amendment rights—which is why we believe that additional gun control laws are unnecessary. Instead, authorities need to enforce laws that are already in place.

They're just waiting for the right moment. Maybe if the Soldier killer had some cojones, and had pressed his attack into the recruiting center, or the guards at the holocaust center hadn't been quite so on the ball, they might have had enough blood to dance in.

Except for laws which allow permanent bans on keeping and bearing arms as part of a specific criminal sentence (you know that due process thing) most all current "gun" laws should not be enforced, they should be declared unconstitutional or repealed, preferably both.

33 posted on 06/12/2009 9:54:00 PM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: neverdem

I am proud to see my state, Missouri, on that list. My heart swells with joy.


34 posted on 06/12/2009 10:34:41 PM PDT by MissouriConservative (Let the purging of the RINOs begin in 2010. - MissouriConservative)
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To: upchuck

New Hampshire is New England


35 posted on 06/12/2009 10:51:23 PM PDT by skaterboy (PAYBACKS ARE A B*TCH...YOU HURT ME..I HURT YOU..You deserved the lie for I was a lie to you)
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To: El Gato
Maybe if the Soldier killer had some cojones, and had pressed his attack into the recruiting center, or the guards at the holocaust center hadn't been quite so on the ball, they might have had enough blood to dance in.

There were enough dead this last spring, about 40 dead in 4 incidents, i.e. the ethnic Chinese guy from Vietnam in upstate NY, a white guy on a rampage including his family and former employer in two small towns in southern Alabama, the North Carolina nursing home massacre and another incident that escapes my recall, IIRC.

Brady et al. were foaming at the mouth. They want bills for access to medical/psychiatric records. The national rats don't want to touch the Second Amendment, except to embrace it. IMHO, they are very shy about gun control.

36 posted on 06/13/2009 12:00:08 AM PDT by neverdem (Xin loi minh oi)
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To: fieldmarshaldj; American_Centurion; Emmett McCarthy

Had Andrea packed a gun yon years ago when Phil was mayor history would be different.


37 posted on 06/13/2009 12:15:13 AM PDT by NewRomeTacitus
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To: NewRomeTacitus
We're missing some I would have expected to be on the list:
Alaska, West Virginia, New Mexico, Arizona, Mississippi, Tennessee, North Carolina and Virginia.

I'm surprised to see Wisconsin and New Hampshire on the list.

38 posted on 06/13/2009 2:31:20 AM PDT by Aroostook25
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To: neverdem
Eric Holder dismissed charges of Black Panthers intimidating voters in Philadelphia - and got away with so easily it was laughable.

Charges Against 'New Black Panthers' Dropped by Obama Justice Dept. Three men were accused of trying to threaten voters and block poll and campaign workers by the threat of force -- one even brandishing what prosecutors call a deadly weapon.

What makes anyone thinks he cares what letter is sent to him?

39 posted on 06/13/2009 3:41:49 AM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: freekitty

23 out of 50? Still, better than what I would have expected, these days.


40 posted on 06/13/2009 5:07:00 AM PDT by 2harddrive (then)
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