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To: metalurgist
Don't forget about your social security number. Then there was the income tax too. Just a small 1% tax on incomes over $100,000 dollars in 1913.

I understand what you're saying, and I realize that the antis will never give up trying to rid the US of all guns and gunowners. Our G-G-Grandkids will be fighting these same battles 100 years from now, if there are any guns and gunowners left by then.

But, if NRA is right about the Craig amendment it would take an entirely new bill passed through both houses of Congress and signed by a president to do anything more than complete a new study of so-called armor piercing ammo. A ban on all or even most types of ammo would wake up the 20 million hunters who aren't doing anything to help fight more gun laws because they think their shotguns and deer rifles are safe from the grabbers. If they are ever forced to realize that the antis want ALL guns banned and are trying to do it by banning all ammunition, maybe they would get their heads out of their arses and join the rest of us who have been fighting the antis for so many years. I don't think the antis want to do anything that would cause that to happen, at least not at this stage of the game.

I guess what I'm saying is that we should take what we can get for now, and fight the next battle when we come to it. There will never be a time when we won't have to fight the antis, and we had best take advantage of any point in time when we have a slight majority of Congress and a president who is, while not nearly as favorable to us as we would like, is at least not our sworn enemy as other governments have been in recent years.

18 posted on 08/06/2005 8:45:09 AM PDT by epow (A fish that always swims with the current is a dead fish.)
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To: epow
But, if NRA is right about the Craig amendment it would take an entirely new bill passed through both houses of Congress and signed by a president to do anything more than complete a new study of so-called armor piercing ammo.

We're 2 years away from a new congress and 4 years away from a new president and another new congress.

I absolutely hate large bills. What other mischief from congress critters and staff (yes, staff. It has happened that some crat staffers inserted language into a bill and it was passed without being caught) are hidden in this bill?

If Craig wants to do something for the American people he needs to pass a law that limits all new laws to no more than 4 pages.

24 posted on 08/06/2005 2:18:25 PM PDT by metalurgist (Death to the democrats! They're almost the same as communists, they just move a little slower.)
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