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THE MOST SWEEPING GUN BAN EVER INTRODUCED IN CONGRESS (by Dems, of course)
NRA News Alert | 2/24/07

Posted on 02/24/2007 6:37:47 AM PST by pabianice

McCarthy Bill Bans Millions More Guns Than The Clinton Gun Ban

On Feb. 14, 2007, Representative Carolyn McCarthy (D-N.Y.) introduced H.R. 1022, a bill with the stated purpose, "to reauthorize the assault weapons ban, and for other purposes."

McCarthy's verbiage warrants explanation. Presumably, what she means by "assault weapons ban" is the Clinton Gun Ban of 1994. Congress allowed the ban to expire in 2004 for multiple reasons, including the fact that federal, state and local law enforcement agency studies showed that guns affected by the ban had been used in only a small percentage of crime, before and after the ban was imposed.

With the nation's murder rate 43% lower than in 1991, and the re-legalized guns still used in only a small percentage of crime, reauthorizing the Clinton Gun Ban would be objectionable enough. But McCarthy's "other purposes" would make matters even worse. H.R. 1022 would ban every gun banned by the Clinton ban, plus millions more guns, including:

. Every gun made to comply with the Clinton ban. (The Clinton ban dictated the kinds of grips, stocks and attachments new guns could have. Manufacturers modified new guns to the Clinton requirements. H.R. 1022 would ban the modified guns too.)

. Guns exempted by the Clinton ban. (Ruger Mini-14s and -30s and Ranch Rifles; .30 cal. carbines; and fixed-magazine, semi-automatic, center-fire rifles that hold more than 10 rounds.)

. All semi-automatic shotguns. (E.g., Remington, Winchester, Beretta and Benelli, used for hunting, sport shooting, and self-defense. H.R. 1022 would ban them because they have "any characteristic that can function as a grip," and would also ban their main component, called the "receiver.")

. All detachable-magazine semi-automatic rifles-including, for example, the ubiquitous Ruger 10/22 .22 rimfire-because they have "any characteristic that can function as a grip."

. Target shooting rifles. (E.g., the three centerfire rifles most popular for marksmanship competitions: the Colt AR-15, the Springfield M1A and the M1 "Garand.")

. Any semi-automatic shotgun or rifle an Attorney General one day claims isn't "sporting," even though the constitutions of the U.S. and 44 states, and the laws of all 50 states, recognize the right to use guns for defense.

. 65 named guns (the Clinton law banned 19 by name); semi-auto fixed-magazine pistols of over 10 rounds capacity; and frames, receivers and parts used to repair or refurbish guns.

H.R. 1022 would also ban the importation of magazines exempted by the Clinton ban, ban the sale of a legally-owned "assault weapon" with a magazine of over 10 rounds capacity, and begin backdoor registration of guns, by requiring private sales of banned guns, frames, receivers and parts to be conducted through licensed dealers. Finally, whereas the Clinton Gun Ban was imposed for a 10-year trial period, H.R. 1022 would be a permanent ban.

Please be sure to contact your U.S. Representative and urge him or her to oppose H.R. 1022!

You can call your U.S. Representative at (202) 225-3121.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Extended News; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bang; banglist; clinton; congress; democrats; duncanhunter; electionpresident; elections; gungrabber; guns; secondamendment
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP

RINO.


61 posted on 02/24/2007 9:04:05 AM PST by toddlintown (Six bullets and Lennon goes down. Yet not one hit Yoko. Discuss.)
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To: pnh102
BUSH! VETO PEN! NOW!

Unfortunately, I campaigned in 2000 with a promise to sign an AWB renewal. I invited the Dims to pass one. It was Tom DeLay and the GOP Congress that saved you from it.

Now you'd better start calling those surviving GOP senators and those Blue Dogs in the House to save your gun rights.
62 posted on 02/24/2007 9:05:32 AM PST by George W. Bush
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To: Thumper1960

Are we brave enough to be free? We still have -- more or less -- the great rights of the ballot, the bulletin, the bullion, and the bullet. I think that we are brave enough.


63 posted on 02/24/2007 9:06:09 AM PST by Unknowing (Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.)
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To: pabianice
Basically outlaws everything except bolt action rifles.

You mean (shudder) SNIPER Rifles....

How quickly the Dems forget what a losing issue gun control is for them.

64 posted on 02/24/2007 9:08:21 AM PST by ko_kyi
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To: tiger-one
Let's see a compliant RINO brings to mind, Mitt, Rudy, and since Johnny McCain, reduced the First Amendment, I'll include him.

McStain is not an enemy of guns that I know of. Romney just joined the NRA. Rudy has pushed for renewal of AWB while he was mayor and he tried to use NY courts to sue all the gun manufacturers.

I welcome this dimwit Democrat introducing this bill. I expect NRA and GOA and others will respond soon.

No candidate is going to slip past us without committing to a position on AWB and gun rights.
65 posted on 02/24/2007 9:09:17 AM PST by George W. Bush
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To: Thumper1960

It's just a simple fact that for many generations, America has known only strength and Peace due to the sacrifices of a few brave people who fought for their freedom.

They are ignorant but certainly not "worthless scraps of human flesh". Under different circumstances, I strongly believe that the free American spirit would be revived if there were an undeniable threat on us.

World Terrorism is still too distant at the current time to be considered a threat. In WWII, several highly organized militarily oriented fascist governments made undeniable attacks on World freedom. If it ever became as evident in this era, the same thing would probably happen.


66 posted on 02/24/2007 9:11:14 AM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP
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To: garv; Spiff
Carolyn McCarthy, why that's the same Carolyn McCarthy that Rudy Giuliani had a joint press conference with to call for increased gun control and federal licensing after the terrorist attack at the Empire State Building.

Bump!
67 posted on 02/24/2007 9:11:54 AM PST by George W. Bush
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham
Elections have consequences. Thanks to all "conservatives" who sat on their asses in November.

Yeah, but you'd think that the Dems might wait at least a few months to lull the country before starting up the loony left stuff ...
68 posted on 02/24/2007 9:11:54 AM PST by kilohertz
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To: toddlintown

Thanks for illustrating my point.


69 posted on 02/24/2007 9:13:18 AM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP
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To: pabianice

A gun ban right at a time the nation is going retarded and maniacal anarchic, voting BinLAden Democrats and fubar lawyers and judges helping terrorists? I don't think so, I keep my rifles no matter what.


70 posted on 02/24/2007 9:14:25 AM PST by JudgemAll (Condemn me, make me naked and kill me, or be silent for ever on my gun ownership and law enforcement)
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To: kilohertz

THey have a long list on their agenda. The spent the last 8 years off line.

Elections have consequences.


71 posted on 02/24/2007 9:14:57 AM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP
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To: pabianice
Basically outlaws everything except bolt action rifles.

Plus slide/pump and lever actions. Break action s too of course.

What they don't realize is that what they really should be worried about are bolt action or break action rifles in heavy calibers, 7mm and above. More accurate and longer range.

Of course banning those will come in the name of banning "sniper rifles". All they'd have do would be to delete "semi-automatic" from the following definition, and that would do it. Then if they substituted "firearm, for "rifle or shotgun", they'd ban most every handgun as well.

`(L) A semiautomatic rifle or shotgun originally designed for military or law enforcement use, or a firearm based on the design of such a firearm, that is not particularly suitable for sporting purposes, as determined by the Attorney General. In making the determination, there shall be a rebuttable presumption that a firearm procured for use by the United States military or any Federal law enforcement agency is not particularly suitable for sporting purposes, and a firearm shall not be determined to be particularly suitable for sporting purposes solely because the firearm is suitable for use in a sporting event.'.

72 posted on 02/24/2007 9:14:58 AM PST by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: kilohertz

Politics is their religion.


73 posted on 02/24/2007 9:15:04 AM PST by Mad_Tom_Rackham (Veritas. Gravitas. Ohmygas.)
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To: pabianice

The most sweeping gun ban ever was signed into law by President Ronald Reagan.


74 posted on 02/24/2007 9:15:20 AM PST by killjoy (Life sucks, wear a helmet.)
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To: dudewheresmytank
i beleive the constitution says somewhere or other that if they do this it is our patriotic duty to shove our rifles halfway up their butt

Not only the Constitution...

"This country belongs to the people who inhabit it.
Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it."
--Abraham Lincoln

75 posted on 02/24/2007 9:17:43 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Don't question faith. Don't answer lies.)
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To: pabianice

how's the old saying go, "if Vince Foster had really had a gun in his hand, he might be alive today"


76 posted on 02/24/2007 9:18:07 AM PST by isom35
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To: Last Dakotan
Anybody remember any gun rights laws offered in that that time? Nope.

You're right... However, I also remember AG Ashcroft stating that the 2nd Amendment affirms the individual's right to keep and bear arms.

I miss AG Ashcroft.

Mark

77 posted on 02/24/2007 9:20:45 AM PST by MarkL (When Kaylee says "No power in the `verse can stop me," it's cute. When River says it, it's scary!)
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To: pabianice

Know the enemy. From 1999:

"Clinton also embraced elements of Rep. Carolyn McCarthy's legislation which provides criminal penalties for adults if juveniles use their weapons for illegal purposes.

(Rep. Carolyn McCarthy lost her husband during a shooting rampage in Long Island)

McCarthy became a congresswoman because little happened on toughening crime measures after her husband was killed nearly six years ago during a shooting rampage on the Long Island Rail Road.

At the event she said, "We're hearing from the other side already, 'There is nothing we can do.'"

"I'm sorry. You have heard of so many proposals. There is something we can do. There has to be something that we can do," McCarthy responded."

http://www.cnn.co.hu/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/04/27/clinton.crime/


78 posted on 02/24/2007 9:21:59 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: pabianice

So much for claims by the Rudy boosters that gun control is a dead issue. Instead, we have gun grabber extraordinaire Carolyn McCarthy trying to massively EXPAND the AW ban signed by Slick. The same Carolyn McCarthy Rudy stood with and avidly supported in 1997 when she wanted more federal gun control after the 1997 Empire State Building terrorist attack.


79 posted on 02/24/2007 9:22:00 AM PST by dirtboy (Duncan Hunter 08)
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To: lowbridge
I remember her very first campaign. She claimed to be a lifelong Republican that changed over to Democrat because of the gun control issue (she lost a loved on in the shooting incident on the long island railroad). She claimed that she still supported everything the Republicans did and said on other issues and the only reason she changed over to the Dems was because of the gun control issue.

The REAL problem on that LIRR train was that there was nobody able or willing to disarm Collin Ferguson. Of course, needless to say Ferguson was the only one armed on the train... Had there been one armed civilian, that civilian could have put an end to Ferguson's rampage.

McCarthy's response? We need to be sure that all potential victims are disarmed and defensless. Don't spend too much time trying to make sense of it.

Mark

80 posted on 02/24/2007 9:25:14 AM PST by MarkL (When Kaylee says "No power in the `verse can stop me," it's cute. When River says it, it's scary!)
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