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My letter to: Blanche Lincoln; Congressman Mike Ross; Vic Snyder; Pryor, Mark; Richard Cheney; George W. Bush

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We, the people of these United States, rightfully petition our President, House of Representatives and Senate in affirmation of the Second Amendment to our Constitution, and request that you reject legislation to renew the 1994 Clinton-Feinstein-Schumer gun-control law scheduled to sunset in September of 2004.

Carl L. Steplock III
311 Ramble St
Hot Springs, AR 71901
501-609-9283
http://focus.gohotsprings.com

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
Ronald Reagan

"The right of citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against the tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible."
Senator Hubert H. Humprey D-Minn

We do not allow people to have guns. Why do you think we should allow them to have ideas?
Josef Stalin

Do YOU want your legacy to be "He was the second STALIN?"

Most Sweeping Gun Ban Ever Hits Congress:
Clinton Ban "Re-enactment" Targets Millions More Guns!!!

As we predicted, the anti-gunners have begun the push to further expand the Clinton gun ban of 1994. Not content with merely re-authorizing the ban, Reps. John Conyers (D-Mich.) and Carolyn McCarthy (D-N.Y.) have drafted legislation that bans millions more guns! It's a giant step closer to the goal stated by Clinton ban sponsor Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who said on CBS's 60 Minutes: "If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an outright ban, picking up every one of them, Mr. and Mrs. America, turn them all in, I would have done it." Toward that goal, Conyers/McCarthy would:

* Ban every gun made to lawfully comply with the Clinton ban. The Clinton ban arbitrarily dictated the kinds of grips, stocks and attachments that new guns could have. Manufacturers complied. New guns were made to conform to the Clinton restrictions. Now prohibitionists want to ban the new guns, too.
* Ban guns the Clinton legislation expressly exempted from prohibition. This includes Ruger Mini-14s, Ranch Rifles, and .30 Caliber Carbines, and entire classes of guns, including fixed magazine rifles, as well as shotguns that hold under five rounds.
* Ban guns widely used for target shooting. It bans the three center-fire rifles most commonly used for marksmanship competitions: the Colt AR-15, the Springfield M1A, and the M1 "Garand."
* Ban all semi-automatic shotguns: Remingtons, Winchesters, Benellis, Berettas, etc., widely used for hunting, trap, skeet, and sporting clays, by banning their receivers (main component).
* Ban guns for defense. Bans any semi-automatic rifle or shotgun any U.S. Attorney General one day claims is not "sporting," even though self-defense is a fundamental right and the federal constitution, the constitutions of 44 states, and the laws of all 50 states recognize the right to use guns for defense.

* Ban 68 named guns (Clinton ban named 19 guns); Ban parts used to repair or refurbish guns, including frames or receivers; Ban importation of ammunition magazines exempt under Clinton ban; Ban private sales of millions of guns, their frames and receivers, and their parts; Ban semi-automatic rifles under 30" long (useful for home defense); Ban all semi-automatic rifles that can hold more than 10 rounds.

* Ban guns rarely used in crime. State and local law enforcement agency reports have always shown that guns on the Clinton and Conyers/McCarthy ban lists have never been used in more than a small percentage of violent crime. The Congressionally-mandated study of the Clinton law concluded that guns it banned "were never used in more than a fraction of all gun murders." But even if they were, are the rights and liberties of law-abiding citizens to be dictated by the acts of criminals?

* Begin "backdoor" registration. Requires manufacturers of banned guns, frames, receivers, and parts to report the names of their dealers, and requires dealers to report any of those parts they have in stock. The next step is obvious-demanding the names of gun owners who buy those parts.

Please contact your U.S. Representative at (202) 224-3121 or by using the "Write Your Representatives" feature and urge them to oppose any attempt to keep alive the Clinton gun ban.
Posted: 5/10/2003 8:34:12 AM

ANY "gun control" bill has about the same chance to be passed in the forseeable future as i do flying W/O wings, i.e. NONE!

the GOP-controlled HOR will NOT even bring it to a floor vote. (even RED NANCY pelosi admits that there is "no chance for new gun control bills to reach the house floor in 2004.")

the bill, upon arrival, will be sent to a sub-committee, from which it will NEVER be released. the GOP fears the wrath of gunowners/NRA/JPFO/GOA/etc.;so do the western & southern DIMocRATS (they have NOT forgotten who/what issue helped beat albore.).

FRee dixie,sw

This new bill makes it clear, there are NO type of guns that are to be spared this time around, they are after ALL of them. They do not care if you are a hunter or skeet shooter, they are out to take your guns.

Is'nt it true that that B**** Swinestein has to run for election next year?

Kali is a Babel of a state, so fractionalized that Gun Owners may be the most potent political force to be found in the next election, if they would just pull together as a group crossing party lines.

ALL Kali Gun owners need to work together this one time, with the goal of ensuring that Swinestein becomes the EX-senator from Kali.!

Perhaps shutting THAT high profile P.O.S. out of office would finally get candidates attention sufficiently to put a permanent halt to the continued attacks on our RKBA?

Actually, this is a good thing.

What the democRATs refuse to accept is that their attempts at gun control cost them votes. Recent history is clear. DemocRATS have lost seats in every election where they made gun control an issue.

Sometimes the best way to destroy your enemy is to let them destroy themselves. Let them propose. We will refute and prosper.

Criminals don't care if the weapon they are using comport with the 23,000 federal, state and local gun restrictions already on the books.

mass grave ditto

Unfortunately, President Bush has reiterated that he SUPPORTS the gun-ban...

No he hasn't. Ari Fleischer said he did in response to a White House Press Corps question.

Gun Controller Schumer Has Armed Bodyguard