"MACHINE GUN SAMMY," A PERFECT HALLOWEEN PICK (Brady campaign slams Alito)

Brady Campaign gun grabbers ^ | 10-31-05 | Peter Hamm

[Dan from Michigan]

"MACHINE GUN SAMMY," A PERFECT HALLOWEEN PICK For Immediate Release: 10-31-2005 Contact Communications: (202) 898-0792 Washington, D.C. - How could it have gone in any other direction, from a White House that just gave blanket immunity to the gun industry, which refuses to bar terrorists from buying guns, that broke a campaign promise and put Uzis and AK-47s back on America’s city streets, and insisted that records of gun purchases be destroyed before the sun sets on them twice?

It had to be a Supreme Court pick that favors legal machine guns.

In 1996, Judge Samuel Alito was the sole judge who dissented from his Third Circuit Court of Appeals colleagues when they upheld the authority of Congress to ban fully automatic machine guns.

“Earth to Sammy - who needs legal machine guns?” asked Jim Brady, chair of the Brady Campaign. “The Chicago mobsters of the 1930s would be giddy. But the man I worked for, who gave us Sandra Day O’Connor and signed the 1986 machine gun ban, would be shaking his head.”

“Judge Alito’s ludicrous machine gun decision is bad enough. But it also indicates that a Justice Ilito would attempt to prevent Congress from passing other laws to protect Americans from gun violence,” said Michael D. Barnes, President of the Brady Campaign. “If Judge Alito had his way, the federal machine gun ban would have been struck down as unconstitutional, and the private possession of these weapons would have become legal.”

[Dan from Michigan]

Jim Brady, chair of the Brady Campaign. “The Chicago mobsters of the 1930s would be giddy. But the man I worked for, who gave us Sandra Day O’Connor and signed the 1986 machine gun ban, would be shaking his head.”

Uh, Jimmy, Reagan also gave us Alex Kozinski.

[TXBSAFH]

I am beginning to like this guy more and more.

[andyk]

“Earth to Sammy - who needs legal machine guns?” asked Jim Brady

I'd like one, please.

[ClearCase_guy]

Can Jim Brady read the Constitution? I know that Alito can. That's evident in the court case cited here.

[SFC Chromey]

Things that make you go, " Heck yea!"

[Horatio Gates]

who needs legal machine guns?”

I've got lots of stuff I don't need and machine gun has been on my wish list for a while now.

Alito is really under the skin of the left it appears. I love it!

[BenLurkin]

So they are unhappy because the nominee SUPPORTS the Bill of Rights?

[talleyman]

Fully auto AK-47's are legal now? - man, I gotta go do some Christmas shopping!...

[ExcursionGuy84]

Reagan also gave us Alex Kozinski

Who he [Alex Kozinski]??

[andyk]

Michael D. Barnes, President of the Brady Campaign. “If Judge Alito had his way, the federal machine gun ban would have been struck down as unconstitutional, and the private possession of these weapons would have become legal.”

Wait a minute. They're talking about the 1986 ban on manufacturing and import, right? That law did not ban private possession of "these weapons".

[pissant]

Can't wait to buy a shiny new machine gun! Woohoo!

[Dan from Michigan]

Kozinski on Second Amendment

[Joe Brower]

Here's what the lead antigunners have to say about Alito.

A man is known in part by the enemies he makes...

[CharlesWayneCT]

which refuses to bar terrorists from buying guns

They fought restricting people on the "terror watch list" from buying handguns. The "terror watch list" contains the names of people who are not known to be terrorists, but whom the government wants to track because of suspicions.

Democrats have argued that people on the "terror watch list" should be banned from buying guns.

[M Kehoe]

“If Judge Alito had his way, the federal machine gun ban would have been struck down as unconstitutional, and the private possession of these weapons would have become legal.”

I like judge Alito the more I read about him.

5.56mm

[Riley]

More obfuscation and fearmongering from the left. The AWB's sunset doesn't 'make machine guns legal'.

“The Chicago mobsters of the 1930s would be giddy. But the man I worked for, who gave us Sandra Day O’Connor and signed the 1986 machine gun ban, would be shaking his head.”

The contemporary analog to the 'Chicago mobsters', modern gangs and organized crime- always had the real deal- not the watered-down semiautos that the AWB affected. They're criminals! They're not running around high-fiving each other because they can now legally buy an AR-15 and not be breaking any laws.

Full-auto weapons- 'machine guns' by definition- have been controlled since 1934, if I remember correctly anyway.

[Dan from Michigan]

This one's better

[prophetic]

So they are unhappy because the nominee SUPPORTS the Bill of Rights?

At the moment in its current & originally worded text it does not meet their standards. So they are in process of re-writing it to be more Politically Correct: Anti-Family, Anti-Guns, Pro-Gay, Pro-UN, Big Brother, Anti-American, Anti-Free Speech etc.

[USNBandit]

I just read another post that made Alito's opinion on this seem not so much about the second amendment as it was about interstate commerce laws.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1512621/posts

I don't think his opinion is as much about machine guns as it is a look at the consequences of interstate commerce laws.