HCI...Yikes!

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Steel

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I was reading through a July 1994 issue of "Guns & Ammo" and one of the articles was an abbreviated copy of Handgun Control Inc.'s scheme to disarm America, apparently derived from an in-house HCI memorandum. No doubt, many of the discriminating readers of TFL have known about their public and non-public platforms. However, for the sake of the rest of us, with credit to Guns & Ammo, I offer these highlights (by the way, HCI's wording of the memo had a very divide-and-conquer, holy mission feeling to it...quite unnerving):

5 Year Plan.
-national licensing of all handgun purchases
-licenses for shotguns and rifles
-state licenses for ownership of firearms
-reduction in the number of guns to require an arsenal license...Senator Feinstein is proposing the line be at 20 guns and 1,000 rounds of ammunition.
-arsenal license fees ($300/year !)
-limits on arsenal licensing...none permitted in counties with populations exceeding 200,000!
-requirements of federally approved storage safes for all guns
-inspection license : each safe would be registered with a specific serial number and these numbers stored on file with state and federal authorities! Each safe would have an additional yearly storage fee to offset the cost of UNNOUNCED SPOT INSPECTIONS !

Public Safety Regulations.
-ban on manufacturing in counties exceeding 200,000 people
-banning all "military-style" firearms (gee, that bolt action hunting rifle looks like a military firearm...afterall, it is a mauser-style action....)
-banning the carrying of a firearm anywhere but home or the target range or in transit from one to the other
-banning of sale of replacement parts
-elimination of the curio relic!
-eventual ban of handgun possession!
-banning the ammo that fits military guns(post 1945)(gee, sounds like 12 guage, .30-06, .308, .223, .45 ACP, 9mm, etc.)

Ammunition & Explosives
-banning of any quantity of smokeless powder that would constitute more than 100 rounds of ammo
-banning of "high-power" ammo or "wounding" ammo...which HCI deems as too high-powered for sporting use(HCI included some pistol rounds here!)
-a national license to purchase ammo!
-bannin/restricion of reloading components!
-national registration of ammo buyers!
-requirements of a special storage safe foe ammo

Gun Ranges.
-restrict gun ranges to counties of >200,000
-special licensing for ranges(above current), with new range taxes to defray the costs of "gun violence"!
-waiting period for range rentals

Activities that Promote Gun Violence
-banning gun shows!
-banning military enactments!
-making unlawful the assembly of more that 4 armed individuals!!!!!!!
-curb hunting on public lands
-make gun owners pictures and records public record
-random police checks for weapons of vehicles (gee, what happened to the Constitutional right to be secure in our papers & possesions,etc.?)

Next 15 Years.
-banning military accoutrements
-total elimination of arms from society
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The End. I'm going to go throw up now,

Steel
 
I am pretty sure that this HCI "in-house memo" has been debunked.

While most of HCI's true goals are contained in this list, many items have been added just to make them seem even more extreme than they really are. We don't need to make up lies about them. Their real-life goals are extreme enough.

Whoever made this up is using the same disinformation and fear-mongering that HCI uses, to motivate gun owners. I would rather educate gun owners in the realities of the situation and the perilous position that our rights are in today, than to spread lies about the opposition. We don't need to use their tactics. We have the truth on our side.
 
I believe BluesMan is right.

This looks very much like something I saw circulating 5 - 6 years ago. Sounds very familiar.
 
Hey, sometimes it takes a 2X4!

Try educating the average hunter! He could care less about anything that doesn't directly effect him (even though that Winchester M88 and M100 deer gun in .308 has a removable magazine). My dad always said that sometimes you have to hit the mule over the head with a 2X4 to get its attention before it will listen to you. If this artical "scares" someone enough to wake them up to the cause, I say go for it! Nice to know it made the mainstream.
 
Here's a couple for you...

This one's too good to be true - because it isn't:

"Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed."
: - Sarah Brady, Chairman, Handgun Control, Inc., to Senator Howard Metzenbaum, [the National Educator, January, 1994, page 3].


I think this one's real:


"I'm convinced that we have to have federal legislation to build on. We're going to have to take one step at a time, and the first step is necessarily-given political realities-going to be a very modest. of course, it's true that politicians will then go home and say, 'This is a great law. The problem is solved. . . .' So then we'll have to start working again to strengthen that law, and then again to strengthen the next law, and maybe again and again. . . . Our ultimate goal-total control of handguns in the United States-is going to take time. My estimate is seven to ten years. The first problem is to slow down the increasing number of handguns being produced and sold in this country. The second problem is to get handguns registered. And the final problem is to make the possession of all handguns and all handgun ammunition-except for the military, policemen, licensed security guards, licensed sporting clubs, and licensed gun collectors-totally illegal." [emphasis on "all" in the original]
- Pete Shields, "A Reporter At Large: Handguns", July 26, 1976, 57-58, in the New Yorker magazine. At the time, Mr Shields was the Executive Director of NCCH, which changed its name to Handgun Control, Inc. in 1978.
 
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