o: goamail@gunowners.org
Subject: URGENT!!! URGENT!!! URGENT!!!
X-Mailer: Gun Owners of America's registered AK-Mail 3.0b [eng]
Ask Your Senators to Support the Smith Amendment
-- Provision would preserve the Second Amendment from extinction
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
Wednesday, May 12, 1999
ACTION: Your immediate action is needed. For at least two days,
the U.S. Senate will be debating a juvenile crime bill introduced by
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT). But anti-gun Senators are trying to load
up that bill with several gun control amendments. Please take the
following actions right away:
1. Ask your Senator to support the Smith amendment that will stop
the anti-gun lawsuits that are currently seeking to shut down the
gun industry (202-224-3121; see the GOA website for fax and e-mail
contact info). The Smith amendment is virtually identical to S.
954, which was introduced last week. Please read below for a
description of the Smith amendment.
2. Please forward this alert to as many people as you can and
urge them to contact their Senators as well.
Smith Amendment Aimed at Preserving Gun Industry; Putting
anti-gunners on the Defensive
As you know, several mayors and anti-gun lawyers have launched
frivolous lawsuits against many in the gun industry. In short,
these lawsuits could accomplish what the anti-gun lobby has not been
able to do in fifty years-- wipe out his country's firearms
industry, and in so doing, prevent citizens from being able to buy
firearms.
Senator Bob Smith (R-NH) plans to put a stop to that with S. 954.
And his office has told GOA that he plans to stick this bill as an
amendment to a series of bills (including the crime bill), and thus,
put the anti-gunners on the defensive. This bill/amendment would do
two things: (1) It would limit the amount greedy lawyers could
reap from anti-gun judgments to $150 an hour. This would eliminate
the massive contingent fees-- in at least one case, reaching
hundreds of millions of dollars-- which were awarded in the tobacco
suits, and will virtually guarantee that these lawyers will lose
interest in pursuing the litigation. (2) It would require HCI and
the anti-gun municipalities to finance the legal expenses of the gun
industry if these frivolous suits are ultimately unsuccessful.
Anti-gun Senators Looking to Load-up Crime Bill with anti-gun
Amendments
According to today's Washington Post, "While GOP and Democratic
leaders are pushing more modest [gun control] measures, a half-dozen
Democratic senators have served notice that they will push for
stronger gun proposals." Some the proposals which Senators are
likely to vote on over the next couple of days are:
* A new three day waiting period;
* Mandatory instant "registration" check for private sales at gun
shows (Republicans have put forth a compromise of "voluntary"
registration checks);
* Imprisoning adults for crimes committed with guns that were
stolen from them by children;
* A lifetime gun ban for youthful indiscretions;
* A young adult gun ban;
* Regulation of internet gun sales; and much more.
The Smith amendment would put anti-gunners on the defensive, and
could have the subsidiary effect of forcing a Presidential veto of
the entire crime bill-- even if it contains anti-gun amendments.
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"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes"
Subject: URGENT!!! URGENT!!! URGENT!!!
X-Mailer: Gun Owners of America's registered AK-Mail 3.0b [eng]
Ask Your Senators to Support the Smith Amendment
-- Provision would preserve the Second Amendment from extinction
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
Wednesday, May 12, 1999
ACTION: Your immediate action is needed. For at least two days,
the U.S. Senate will be debating a juvenile crime bill introduced by
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT). But anti-gun Senators are trying to load
up that bill with several gun control amendments. Please take the
following actions right away:
1. Ask your Senator to support the Smith amendment that will stop
the anti-gun lawsuits that are currently seeking to shut down the
gun industry (202-224-3121; see the GOA website for fax and e-mail
contact info). The Smith amendment is virtually identical to S.
954, which was introduced last week. Please read below for a
description of the Smith amendment.
2. Please forward this alert to as many people as you can and
urge them to contact their Senators as well.
Smith Amendment Aimed at Preserving Gun Industry; Putting
anti-gunners on the Defensive
As you know, several mayors and anti-gun lawyers have launched
frivolous lawsuits against many in the gun industry. In short,
these lawsuits could accomplish what the anti-gun lobby has not been
able to do in fifty years-- wipe out his country's firearms
industry, and in so doing, prevent citizens from being able to buy
firearms.
Senator Bob Smith (R-NH) plans to put a stop to that with S. 954.
And his office has told GOA that he plans to stick this bill as an
amendment to a series of bills (including the crime bill), and thus,
put the anti-gunners on the defensive. This bill/amendment would do
two things: (1) It would limit the amount greedy lawyers could
reap from anti-gun judgments to $150 an hour. This would eliminate
the massive contingent fees-- in at least one case, reaching
hundreds of millions of dollars-- which were awarded in the tobacco
suits, and will virtually guarantee that these lawyers will lose
interest in pursuing the litigation. (2) It would require HCI and
the anti-gun municipalities to finance the legal expenses of the gun
industry if these frivolous suits are ultimately unsuccessful.
Anti-gun Senators Looking to Load-up Crime Bill with anti-gun
Amendments
According to today's Washington Post, "While GOP and Democratic
leaders are pushing more modest [gun control] measures, a half-dozen
Democratic senators have served notice that they will push for
stronger gun proposals." Some the proposals which Senators are
likely to vote on over the next couple of days are:
* A new three day waiting period;
* Mandatory instant "registration" check for private sales at gun
shows (Republicans have put forth a compromise of "voluntary"
registration checks);
* Imprisoning adults for crimes committed with guns that were
stolen from them by children;
* A lifetime gun ban for youthful indiscretions;
* A young adult gun ban;
* Regulation of internet gun sales; and much more.
The Smith amendment would put anti-gunners on the defensive, and
could have the subsidiary effect of forcing a Presidential veto of
the entire crime bill-- even if it contains anti-gun amendments.
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"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes"