Posted on 05/23/2007 7:26:52 PM PDT by Revtwo
Senator Ted Kennedy and the anti-gun zealots who wrote the bill just couldn't resist the temptation to get their hands on our guns. They have included language that GOA has been able to defeat in the past.
When Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) introduced these anti-gun provisions in 1998, the GOA grassroots were able to convince seven senator cosponsors to pull their names from Hatch's bill.
The current language in the amnesty bill is only slightly different from Hatch's original language almost 10 years ago, but it would essentially do the same thing -- threaten every gun store in America.
In Section 205, for example, all it takes for the employees of a gun shop (of five or more persons) to become a "criminal gang" is:
* For them to commit two or more violations of ANY federal felony gun offense -- which includes virtually all gun offenses, including paperwork violations; and
* For the anti-gunners to find that violating gun laws was a "primary purpose" of the group.
So let's say your local gun store sells two or three firearms to Mayor Bloomberg's thuggish agents under New York City's extraterritorial "sting" operations. Your gun shop is now a "criminal gang."
This provision could even be used against a family of five who drives by two schools on the way to a movie with a gun in the glove compartment. Certainly under a Hillary administration, it would not be surprising to see them treat this infraction as a "felony" under the weird language of Gun Free School Zones Act. Thus, you and your family would become a "criminal gang."
(Excerpt) Read more at gunowners.org ...
>The border situation is under control. - (NOT)
>it’s too expensive to protect the border. - Not as expensive as leaving them wide open.
>no terrorists would try to cross our border. - I have a bridge for sale.
>this bill will help to prevent terrorists from crossing the border. - in as small numbers as before it
Chertoff, the teller of bedtime stories to make sleepy heads feel safe in the dark, while pulling a fast one over on America.
Well, in the news from Mexico today was a special delivery to a newspaper office—the head of a politician. Add that to your list of how our neighbors to the south do things.
I think the whole Clinton WH should have been RICOed.
“El nadador gordo (the fat swimmer) strikes again!”
Yeah, for sure - also Senator Hatch. In fact, I have long suspected that Senator Kennedy has a picture filed away of Hatch performing some sort of unnatural act with a chicken or something as he (Kennedy) certainly is able to have his way with him (Hatch).
Not exactly. He gets protection for a limited time (10 years now?) and then can get it continued at his own expense after that. Law changed after XXXlintigula.
LOL the yellow stripe; should be a red one!!
He sunk beneath the water, remember? (he saved his own skin)
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