Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 17:48:16 -0400
From: Gun Owners of America <goamail@gunowners.org>
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Subject: Anti-gun "Compromise" Expected
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Gun Control Moving Again on Capitol Hill
-- Gun shows still on the chopping block
Gun Owners of America E-Mail/FAX Alert
8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151
Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408 http://www.gunowners.org
"House Republican leaders will press ahead with new gun restrictions
despite a lack of cooperation from Democrats and resistance by
Republican conservatives."
-- The Washington Times, 10/13/99
(Wednesday, October 13, 1999) -- The battle lines are being drawn in
the House and Senate, as negotiators soon plan to produce a
"compromise" gun control bill.
The new restrictions will be included as part of a much larger
juvenile crime bill that was passed in each house earlier this year
(S. 254 and H.R. 1501). The chief Republican negotiators, Sen.
Orrin Hatch of Utah and Rep. Henry Hyde of Illinois, are hoping to
bring up the anti-gun bill for a House-Senate conference vote as
early as today. The bill would then move to the House and Senate
floors.
According to press reports and legislative aides, the provisions in
the bill will limit the freedoms of decent Americans and will
include, but not be limited to, the following controls:
* A likely end to gun shows. The Senate version of the crime bill
contained language allowing gun shows to be taxed without limits.
And under the Senate version and an amendment adopted by the House,
gun shows would be subject to draconian regulations and
harassment-type inspections with no practical limitations. These
are tools an anti-gun president could use to shut down gun shows
nationwide.
* A ban on the importation of high-capacity magazines-- items which
are enormously useful for self-defense and some types of hunting.
* A "gun tax" resulting from a requirement that forces every handgun
buyer to also purchase a "lock-up your safety" device.
In the House, Republican Reps. Tom DeLay (R-TX) and John Doolittle
(R-CA) have led the opposition to the anti-gun provisions in the
bill. In the Senate, Bob Smith of New Hampshire has promised to
filibuster any "compromise" that contains one iota of gun control.
Ironically, press reports indicate that the obsessively anti-gun
senator from New York, Democrat Chuck Schumer, could join Smith in
filibustering the bill. Many Democrats-- Schumer included-- are
likely to balk at any bill that does not contain all of the gun
control that passed the Senate in May.
ACTION: Make sure your Representative and Senators have heard your
opposition to the juvenile crime bill. They could be voting soon on
the final version that emerges from the conference committee. You
can call toll-free at 1-888-449-3511; or 202-225-3121. See the GOA
website for fax and e-mail contact information.
Will Congress Limit Your Ability To Get Gun-Related Information From
Groups Like GOA?
In other news, the Senate will soon be debating legislation that GOA
has been tracking very closely. Either late this week or early next
week, the Senate will vote on whether to shut down a filibuster of
the anti-gun "campaign finance" bill being pushed by anti-gun
senators Russell Feingold (D-WI) and John McCain (R-AZ).
The House-passed version of that bill would outlaw GOA's legislative
alerts by treating them as campaign contributions and as
expenditures for or against the senators and congressmen whose votes
are discussed. Candidate ratings such as those that GOA puts out in
election years would also be effectively outlawed.
Although the Senate sponsors have tactically deleted the
anti-freedom provisions from the Senate bill, passage of that bill
would result in a conference with the anti-gun House version,
thereby bringing them back to life.
Please contact your two senators and ask them to vote against
shutting down the filibuster of the McCain legislation (S. 1593).
**************
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you use http://www.cheaperthandirt.com/goa.htm to enter their online
store.
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From: Gun Owners of America <goamail@gunowners.org>
Reply-To: Gun Owners of America <goamail@gunowners.org>
To: goamail@gunowners.org
Subject: Anti-gun "Compromise" Expected
X-Mailer: Gun Owners of America's registered AK-Mail 3.0b [eng]
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
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Gun Control Moving Again on Capitol Hill
-- Gun shows still on the chopping block
Gun Owners of America E-Mail/FAX Alert
8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151
Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408 http://www.gunowners.org
"House Republican leaders will press ahead with new gun restrictions
despite a lack of cooperation from Democrats and resistance by
Republican conservatives."
-- The Washington Times, 10/13/99
(Wednesday, October 13, 1999) -- The battle lines are being drawn in
the House and Senate, as negotiators soon plan to produce a
"compromise" gun control bill.
The new restrictions will be included as part of a much larger
juvenile crime bill that was passed in each house earlier this year
(S. 254 and H.R. 1501). The chief Republican negotiators, Sen.
Orrin Hatch of Utah and Rep. Henry Hyde of Illinois, are hoping to
bring up the anti-gun bill for a House-Senate conference vote as
early as today. The bill would then move to the House and Senate
floors.
According to press reports and legislative aides, the provisions in
the bill will limit the freedoms of decent Americans and will
include, but not be limited to, the following controls:
* A likely end to gun shows. The Senate version of the crime bill
contained language allowing gun shows to be taxed without limits.
And under the Senate version and an amendment adopted by the House,
gun shows would be subject to draconian regulations and
harassment-type inspections with no practical limitations. These
are tools an anti-gun president could use to shut down gun shows
nationwide.
* A ban on the importation of high-capacity magazines-- items which
are enormously useful for self-defense and some types of hunting.
* A "gun tax" resulting from a requirement that forces every handgun
buyer to also purchase a "lock-up your safety" device.
In the House, Republican Reps. Tom DeLay (R-TX) and John Doolittle
(R-CA) have led the opposition to the anti-gun provisions in the
bill. In the Senate, Bob Smith of New Hampshire has promised to
filibuster any "compromise" that contains one iota of gun control.
Ironically, press reports indicate that the obsessively anti-gun
senator from New York, Democrat Chuck Schumer, could join Smith in
filibustering the bill. Many Democrats-- Schumer included-- are
likely to balk at any bill that does not contain all of the gun
control that passed the Senate in May.
ACTION: Make sure your Representative and Senators have heard your
opposition to the juvenile crime bill. They could be voting soon on
the final version that emerges from the conference committee. You
can call toll-free at 1-888-449-3511; or 202-225-3121. See the GOA
website for fax and e-mail contact information.
Will Congress Limit Your Ability To Get Gun-Related Information From
Groups Like GOA?
In other news, the Senate will soon be debating legislation that GOA
has been tracking very closely. Either late this week or early next
week, the Senate will vote on whether to shut down a filibuster of
the anti-gun "campaign finance" bill being pushed by anti-gun
senators Russell Feingold (D-WI) and John McCain (R-AZ).
The House-passed version of that bill would outlaw GOA's legislative
alerts by treating them as campaign contributions and as
expenditures for or against the senators and congressmen whose votes
are discussed. Candidate ratings such as those that GOA puts out in
election years would also be effectively outlawed.
Although the Senate sponsors have tactically deleted the
anti-freedom provisions from the Senate bill, passage of that bill
would result in a conference with the anti-gun House version,
thereby bringing them back to life.
Please contact your two senators and ask them to vote against
shutting down the filibuster of the McCain legislation (S. 1593).
**************
Cheaper Than Dirt donates a percentage of your total order to GOA if
you use http://www.cheaperthandirt.com/goa.htm to enter their online
store.
**************
Did someone else forward this to you? To be certain of getting up to
date information, please consider subscribing to the GOA E-Mail
Alert Network directly. There is no cost or obligation, and the
volume of mail is quite low. To subscribe, simply send a message to
goamail@gunowners.org and include the state in which you live, in
either the subject or the body. To unsubscribe, reply to any alert
and ask to be removed.
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"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes" RKBA!