This just in.........The Port and Maritime Security Act of 2001

TSRA E-mail | Texas State Rifle Association

[Squantos]

The port security legislation has already passed in the Senate (by voice vote) is S. 1214, "The Port and Maritime Security Act of 2001." This bill contains a provision that could restrict firearms in ports, but the legislation does not narrowly proscribe what a "port" is. Therefore, there is the potential for this legislation to be interpreted in a way that restricts firearms from areas in and around ports, including port service facilities located miles from the water's edge.

If the Senate bill were the final action on this subject, the legislation could adversely affect commercial and recreational fishermen, waterfowl hunters, houseboat residents, and individuals who live, work, recreate, and drive in and around ports. The House's port security legislation is H.R. 3983, "The Maritime Transportation Anti-terrorism Act of 2002." The House bill doesn't contain provisions restricting firearms possession in or around ports as the Senate version does.

Once the House passes its bill, the House bill and the Senate bill must be brought together to iron out any differences between the two before the legislation is sent to the President for his signature. Leaders on the issue from the House and Senate meet in a conference to work out the differences between the two bills. Plan A is to have the conference eliminate the Senate bill's firearms restrictions. If we are not successful at that, Plan B is to get the conference to adopt language that narrowly defines ports as the areas along the water's edge where the actual loading and unloading of cargo and/or passengers occurs.

NRA and TSRA are watching this legislation very closely so that the lawful possession of firearms is not unduly restricted in the Congress' effort to make ports more secure. Your help and support is needed now.

You can write your Representative from: http://www.house.gov/writerep/welcome.html You also can reach your members of Congress by calling (202) 224-3121 and asking to be transferred to the office to which you wish to speak.

[Squantos]

Call your congresscritter's folks...........

[Squantos]

Bump

[razorback-bert]

Bump.

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

Thanks for the news. I can't wait to call my Dim congressman and give his office workers a piece of my mind. So now it will be illegal to carry my pistol, with a CCW permit, when I go out Salmon fishing on the Sound? Get real.

[nunya bidness]

You can write your Representative from: http://www.house.gov/writerep/welcome.html You also can reach your members of Congress by calling (202) 224-3121 and asking to be transferred to the office to which you wish to speak.

Or you can tell the nice guy from the ATF that all your guns were stolen and why the hell didn't he find the bad men who took them.

I'm buying a speargun. That'll fit in around the docks.

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

Here's an idea.

Why don't they just pass a law banning terrorists from owning firearms?

[Travis McGee]

I think that in ten years, it will be said for certain that you are permitted to own a gun in part of one county in Oklahoma every February the 30th.

Just "common sense gun safety, for the children".

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

I guess I better move to Oklahoma and switch to the damn Chinese calender.

[Squantos]

Yeah so much for the float and bloat option eh......

[Squantos]

Yeah I just got this in my e-mail this PM and was pissed. BS stacked on BS IMHO. Stay Safe !

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

I'm sitting here reading Mother Earth News about the best broccoli to put in my garden and Washington Fishing and Hunting News trying to plan a turkey hunt (Apr. 15 is the opener) and I then I see this crap and it just makes me sick.

Travis if you're out there, am I the only person on the planet that reads Mother Earth News and Soldier of Fortune?

[Squantos]

Mother Earth News and Soldier of Fortune habit can only lead one to the conclusion that yer into them big ole potato launcher cannons ain't ya Ern :o)

Stay Safe!

[Travis McGee]

I used to see mother earth news once in a while, but I read SOF every month.

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

Moth. Earth News is where I'm getting my ideas for my bunker building plans; rammed earth or tire walls?LOL Crashing for the night guys.

[Squantos]

Seems sometimes the terrorist have won when we have such draconian measures taken by our own goobermint beancounters to "protect" us.......

Stay Safe !

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

Yes, potato cannons and I grow/reload my own ammo. I'm growing 105mm youkon golds.

[Squantos]

Think trebuchet aka pumpkin chunkin or in my case piano and honda chunkin..........

BTW are you going snaggin for those Coho ?............Stay Safe !

[Lion's Cub]

I'm placing this in the "UN List" because I remember reading that Koffi had suggested that the UN should come up with international airport security guidelines. If they've decided to do that, they'll probably include guidelines for ports also. Since a lot of the gun confiscation plans seem to start in the UN, they may try to sneak this through the backdoor as some kind of UN treaty, etc.