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Emergency Alert!
-- House to Vote on Several Gun Amendments Tonight

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


(Thursday, July 20, 2000) -- The moment of truth has arrived. The
last train will ride through Congress tonight, and with it, will
come the last chance for pro-gun Rep. John Hostettler (R-IN) to
defeat President Clinton's back door gun control.


Hostettler "Stop the BATF" Amendment

The House today begins consideration of the Treasury-Postal funding
bill (H.R. 4871). And Rep. Hostettler plans to offer an amendment
preventing the BATF from enforcing the agreement signed by the
Clinton administration and Smith & Wesson. This accord regulates
and restricts the sales of ALL firearms sold by dealers carrying
S&W products -- including Glocks, Berettas, Brownings, etc.

Hence, under the agreement, if a person tries to buy a gun from a
S&W dealer, he must at the very least: take a government-approved
safety course to buy ANY firearm, and submit to a limit of no more
than one handgun OF ANY KIND at a time. In addition, the agreement
could shut down all gun shows.

Hostettler will probably offer his amendment some time late tonight.


Goode "No Preferences" Amendment

On the other side of the aisle, Democrats are hoping to strip out an
amendment that was tacked onto the bill in subcommittee by pro-gun
Rep. Virgil Goode (I-VA). The Goode amendment prevents the Treasury
Department from rewarding S&W with fat government contracts in
exchange for the sell-out agreement the company signed last March.
The language of his provision will stop the Treasury Dept. from
showing any preference toward Smith & Wesson when purchasing
firearms for their agents -- including BATF, Secret Service, etc.

Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) is expected to offer the amendment striking
the Goode language from the bill.


ACTION: Please call your Representatives right away and urge them
to:

1. Support the Hostettler amendment which will stop the BATF from
in any way enforcing the Clinton & Wesson agreement. This accord
is more than just about trigger locks. This agreement regulates
and restricts the 2nd Amendment rights of ALL kinds of gun makers,
gun dealers and private individuals. Clinton should not be
allowed to make an end-run around the Congress in order to
unilaterally impose gun control upon the nation.

2. Oppose any amendment (by DeLauro or others) that would strike
the Goode "no preferences" provision from the bill. The criteria
our government should use when purchasing weapons should be quite
simple -- the safety of the public and law-enforcement personnel
which comes from purchasing the best product at the best price.
The awarding of these contracts should have nothing to do with
whether a gun maker (like S&W) has adopted the President's gun
control agenda. The Goode amendment ensures the President cannot
give preference to S&W and reward them for selling out gun owners.

Contact your Congressman at 202-225-3121 or toll-free at
1-888-449-3511. Note: with so little time, phone calls will
probably make more of a difference than e-mail or faxes.


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Remember this is the little unimportant bill that the greatest lobby of
all the NRA is sitting out on.As brought out by one of the BOD members.
"one when you ask wheres the NRA , the NRA will say where were you"
Um really hmmm interesting thought.
Im calling and writing constantly my congressmen about a pro-gun bill
their doing 0 lobbying for, but he aint gonna do squat but
quote to me again the A+ vote the NRA gave him for his anti-gun votes
and being a republican.

Patriot.45
www.gunowners.org www.citizensofamerica.org www.jbs.org www.jpfo.org


Just friendly fire ignore that comment.
YOu didnt see it, its just anti-gun rhetoric
it doent mean anything.
hahahahha

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liberty for security deserve neither"
 
Does anyone know what the out come of this was?

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NRA-ILA FAX ALERT Vol. 7, No. 29

HOUSE PASSES APPROPRIATIONS BILL WITH GOODE AMENDMENT ATTACHED

On Thursday, the U.S. House passed the 2001 Treasury, Postal Service and General Government Appropriations bill containing an important amendment by pro-gun U.S. Rep. Virgil Goode (Ind.-Va.). Goode's amendment (see FAX Alert Vol. 7, No. 28) would prohibit the Treasury, Postal Service, and other agencies from granting or withholding firearms contracts on the basis of gun makers' agreement to arbitrary "codes of conduct" relating to their operating or design practices in importing, manufacturing, or dealing in firearms or ammunition -- such as the coerced agreement signed recently by Smith & Wesson (S&W). On Tuesday, there was an effort to remove Goode's amendment in the House Committee on Appropriations by anti-gun extremist U.S. Rep. Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.), but she was defeated on a voice vote, with opposition to Lowey's effort coming from both sides of the aisle. U.S. Reps. Jim Kolbe (R-Ariz.) and David Obey (D-Wis.) both deserve a great deal of thanks for speaking out against the New York lawmaker, and even Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), normally a foe of the pro-gun community, opposed Lowey.

The U.S. Senate also has been considering the Treasury/Postal Appropriations legislation, and, thanks to the efforts of U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), language similar to the Goode amendment was included during subcommittee markup of the Senate's version of the legislation. Sen. Shelby, along with Sens. Ben Nighthorse Campbell (R-Colo.), and Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) deserve credit for thwarting the attempt by Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) to strip the language that would prohibit establishing politically-motivated purchase preferences for government firearms contracts. As with the Goode amendment, the Senate language does not refer specifically to the Smith & Wesson Sellout (see Special FAX Alert 3/20/00), but it was clearly inspired by the concern that the Clinton-Gore Administration would fulfill its threat to impose purchase preferences on the Department of Treasury, Postal Service, and all other agencies covered by this bill's jurisdiction. As mentioned last week, HUD Secretary Andrew Cuomo has already proposed such purchase preferences for federal law enforcement agencies, and his proposal would encourage or require the federal government to give highly preferential procurement treatment to firearms manufacturers, like S&W, who sign coerced agreements restricting their otherwise legitimate activities. Sen. Shelby also stood fast during Senate Appropriations Committee debate on the legislation, where he derailed attempts by Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) to strip the purchase preference prohibition language.


The next stage will be the floor of the U.S. Senate, where we can expect anti-gun extremists such as Feinstein and Lautenberg to continue their efforts to reward S&W's craven attack on the Second Amendment. Call your U.S. Senators and urge them to oppose any attempts to strip language prohibiting purchase preferences for government contracts on firearms from the 2001 Treasury, Postal Service and General Government Appropriations bill. You can contact your Senators by calling (202) 224-3121, or by using the "Write Your Reps" feature on NRAILA.org.
 
Latest news

House Narrowly Defeats Pro-gun Hostettler Amendment Once Again
-- Gun battles now shift to the Senate

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


(Friday, July 21, 2000) -- Despite a valiant effort, pro-gun Rep.
John Hostettler fell just a few votes short of putting the brakes on
the Clinton gun control agenda. A switch of six votes would have
made all the difference.


Hostettler "Stop The BATF" Amendment Fails

By a vote of 204-214, the House rejected a Hostettler amendment to
the Treasury-Postal funding bill that would have stopped the BATF
from enforcing the Clinton & Wesson sellout agreement. The
Republican Congressman from Indiana has fought a tireless battle in
the Congress to peel back the restrictions that Clinton unilaterally
imposed upon gun owners this past March.

[Activists can go to http://www.gunowners.org/cgv.htm -- click on
"2000 (106-2)" -- to see how Representatives voted on the Hostettler
amendment. The vote may not go online, however, until sometime this
weekend.]

While yesterday's vote was certainly a disappointment, Hostettler
has won a couple of significant victories in the recent past:

1. Stopping the Defense Department from showing any favoritism to
Smith & Wesson in exchange for their sell out of gun owners; and

2. Keeping HUD from joining the coalition of state and local
governments that are working to sue American gun makers.


Goode "No Preferences" Amendment Survives

On a positive note, the "no preferences" amendment -- which was
added to the Treasury bill by Rep. Virgil Goode (I-VA) in
subcommittee -- survived yesterday's marathon session on the House
floor. Despite rumors that an attempt would be made to strike the
Goode language, no one actually made an effort to repeal it. As a
result, H.R. 4871 now prevents the Treasury Department from showing
any preference toward Smith & Wesson when purchasing firearms for
their agents -- including BATF, Secret Service, etc.


Battleground Now Shifts To The Senate

The office of Senator Bob Smith (R-NH) has told Gun Owners of
America that he plans to offer some pro-gun amendments in the
following weeks. For example, Smith may offer a Hostettler-type
amendment in September when the HUD appropriations bill comes to the
Senate floor. (More on that in upcoming alerts.)

In the near future, Smith wants to amend current law to make sure
the FBI immediately destroys gun owners' records that are compiled
through the instant "registration" check. Thus, Smith could offer
an amendment very soon that, if passed, will change current law to
require the "immediate destruction of all [gun buyer] information."
The vehicle that Smith for that amendment is the
Commerce-Justice-State bill (H.R. 4690) -- a bill that is expected
on the Senate floor next week.

ACTION: Please urge your Senators to support any Smith amendment
(to H.R. 4690) that protects the privacy of American gun owners.
The Smith amendment would require the FBI to immediately destroy gun
owners' records. Remind your Senators that this very same Smith
language passed the Senate with 69 votes in July of 1998.
(Unfortunately, the word "immediately" was subsequently stripped out
in a conference committee.)

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I'm old and deceitful.
 
Thanks for the updates, I will be letting my Government employees know how I feel about this :)

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