Until the sun rises on Sept. 14 and no action has been taken, then you can relax. But only for a little while, because you know that this Hydra will rear it's hideous head next year, as sure as night follows day.
Posted on 07/13/2004 7:52:14 AM PDT by neverdem
www.gunowners.org
Jul 2004
Monday, July 12, 2004
Congratulations!
Through your efforts, you have succeeded in killing the best opportunity that anti-gunners had to extend the ban on roughly two hundred semiautomatic firearms.
Liberals had intended to offer the semi-auto ban as a "killer amendment" to class action reform legislation which was considered by the Senate last week. At first, there was every indication that Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist was going to allow anti-gunners like Sen. Feinstein to offer the gun ban amendment.
But after you bombarded Frist's office with demands that he prevent the semi-auto amendment, Frist -- in a parliamentary move that we suggested -- took steps to procedurally block all "killer amendments," including the semi-auto ban.
Liberal anti-gunners whined and screamed on the Senate floor, and threatened to kill the class action bill in retaliation. But we appear to have won the battle for now, as the class action bill has been pulled from the floor.
This victory is huge. Compared to the ill-fated strategy used on the gun makers' protection act (S. 1805) earlier in the year, the outcome on the class action bill was as good as could be expected in the poisoned environment on the Hill. Consider the following:
* The best chance for reenacting the semi-auto ban prior to its September 13 expiration is now dead;
* Unlike the gun liability bill -- defeated 8-to-90 in March after it was loaded down with "killer amendments" -- pro-business Senators can still bring the class action bill back up at some later point during this session;
* Unlike with the gun liability bill, the class action bill did not offer anti-gun Democrats a week of Senate floor time to promote their agenda; and
* Those anti-gunners who cynically pretended to support the class action bill were forced to make a choice between politically powerful constituencies -- between the pro-business community and the trial lawyers.
ACTION: Write Senator Frist. Congratulate him on his use of the rules in connection with the class action bill, and thank him for preventing consideration of the semiautomatic ban.
You can call Senator Frist at 202-224-3344, or go to http://www.frist.senate.gov and select "Contact Senator Frist" under the "About Senator Frist" heading to send a message similar to the one below.
Dear Senator Frist:
Congratulations!
Your use of the Senate rules in connection with the class action bill blocked the prime opportunity of anti-gun liberals to force consideration of the semi-automatic ban.
You also saved the class action bill from the same 8-to-90 defeat experienced by the gun liability bill, and kept it alive to fight another day.
Finally, you prevented the Senate floor from being used as a campaign platform for issues designed to defeat you and your party.
In the politically poisoned environment on the Hill, this is as good as was possible under the circumstances.
Sincerely,
GOA Website News
If you haven't visited the GOA website recently, perhaps you should spend some time at http://www.gunowners.org today.
One reason is that the prices of three influential videos dealing with the Waco tragedy have been slashed to an average of half their original costs. At $9.95 each, no freedom video library would be complete without copies of Waco: The Rules Of Engagement; Waco: A New Revelation, and, The F.L.I.R. Project.
Also, you may not be aware the GOA has added streaming video to our website this year. Numerous television interviews of GOA spokesmen are available free of charge. Of course, additional streamed interviews will be added in the future.
Finally, a very common question received over and over again at GOA deals with how to convince fence-sitting friends and relatives that we are right and the gungrabbers are wrong. Answers can be found in the highly detailed Just For Skeptics section.
BANG
Good news. Now if I could only get a few twenty round clips for my AR-10 in .308 I'd be happy as a clam.
Ah, the question of the ages. How many magazines is enough?
Until the sun rises on Sept. 14 and no action has been taken, then you can relax. But only for a little while, because you know that this Hydra will rear it's hideous head next year, as sure as night follows day.
"Ah, the question of the ages. How many magazines is enough?"
More than the zero twenty round clips I current have for it.
Yup...........................
All of them.
Untrue. They will be back with the 2005 ban.
Trust that.
Say "Amen" brother.
The next time the RATs (and RINOs) have the votes it will be back. Its our job to prevent that from happening.
Good news..........so far.
A wise man once spoke of the relationship between freedom and eternal vigilance. He was right.
I have noticed GOA recommending this use of the rules for some time, I have not seen any mention of it from any of the other pro-gun groups.
If so, will this be the first piece of federal anti-gun legislation that has been sunsetted or rescinded? I cannot think of any others, which if we do make it, will be a great victory in itself.
Now, if we could manage to rescind the 1986 McClure-Volker Act, we could start planning on dumping the 1968 GCA...
I got the GOA news letter.
Be Ever Vigilant!
Me too, but just what parliamentay rules they are using are not described.
My overstuffed gun safe is proof of that. My wife looked into it the other day as I was struggling with the "arrangement" and just laughed.
The enemies of freedom will never relax, why should we?
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