Slowpoke_Rodrigo
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March 19 Neal Knox Update -- I was at the Roanoke, Virginia
gun show all day today, hustling mail and phone calls to Congress,
and votes for me and the dozen other NRA director candidates on the
"vote against" list.
So I didn't see the videotapes of NRA E.V.P. Wayne LaPierre's
interviews on Fox Morning News and NBC's Meet the Press until
tonight.
Wayne did great. He didn't back down on his blast at Clinton
yet he did gently back away by saying he had used strong rhetoric to
get people to focus on the Clinton Administration's lack of
enforcement of Federal gun laws and Bill Clinton's use of tragedies
to further his political agenda.
More importantly, LaPierre narrowed who he wanted targeted by
Federal gun laws, repeatedly limiting "zero tolerance" for gun
possession and use by "violent felons with guns, drug dealers with
guns and gang members with guns." That's a huge difference from
demanding all Federal gun laws be enforced.
Those much-needed subtle shifts should help soothe
Congressional Republicans and the many folks at the gun show who
thought his "blood on Clinton's hands" statements were hurting gunowners.
LaPierre made a strong point of Thursday's killing of a Georgia
sheriff's deputy, and wounding of another, apparently by 1960's
anti-government radical H. Rap Brown. LaPierre said local
authorities asked the Clinton Administration to prosecute Brown as
a felon in possession of a firearm in 1995, a possible 10-year
sentence. The Clinton Justice Department declined.
In the 1960's, we gunowners were objecting to Sen. Tom Dodd's
efforts to pass the Gun Control Act's prohibitions on interstate
transfers, and blaming "law-law states" for the high crime rates in
D.C. and New York, while there had never been a single prosecution for
illegally transporting a firearm into the "strict laws" states.
As I recall, about 1967 the Justice Department brought the
first-ever prosecution under the 1938 Federal law. The charge was
for transporting an M1 Carbine from New Orleans to Washington,
D.C., where the gun was unlawful. The person charged was the same
H. Rap Brown.
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The Violence Policy Center is arguing that the Clinton
Administration got a "bad deal" with Smith & Wesson, because many
of the items in the agreement are already being done.
But some of those provisions will be costly to gun owners, and
a lot of folks are talking boycott, both at today's gun show and in
my waiting stack of phone calls and emails.
S&W has every right to serve its stockholders by caving in to
White House extortion to get out from under costly lawsuits.
And we gunowners have every right to purchase our guns from
someone else.
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The test of how gunfire, tanks, glass and other debris look on
infrared video tape was conducted today at Ft. Hood, trying to
determine the cause of those apparent gunflashes on the FBI
infrared tape shot during the final attack on the Branch Davidians
at Waco.
The press or public was not allowed to observe. Davidian
attorney Mike Caddell had said he would release his copies of
today's tapes by tomorrow, but Judge Walter Smith has prohibited
any copies of the tapes from being given to news madia until the
court's own infrared expert prepares an analysis in about 30 days.
That strikes me as most unusual.
However, Caddell and Justice Department may begin discussing
what they think the tapes show whenever they get them, probably
tomorrow.
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gun show all day today, hustling mail and phone calls to Congress,
and votes for me and the dozen other NRA director candidates on the
"vote against" list.
So I didn't see the videotapes of NRA E.V.P. Wayne LaPierre's
interviews on Fox Morning News and NBC's Meet the Press until
tonight.
Wayne did great. He didn't back down on his blast at Clinton
yet he did gently back away by saying he had used strong rhetoric to
get people to focus on the Clinton Administration's lack of
enforcement of Federal gun laws and Bill Clinton's use of tragedies
to further his political agenda.
More importantly, LaPierre narrowed who he wanted targeted by
Federal gun laws, repeatedly limiting "zero tolerance" for gun
possession and use by "violent felons with guns, drug dealers with
guns and gang members with guns." That's a huge difference from
demanding all Federal gun laws be enforced.
Those much-needed subtle shifts should help soothe
Congressional Republicans and the many folks at the gun show who
thought his "blood on Clinton's hands" statements were hurting gunowners.
LaPierre made a strong point of Thursday's killing of a Georgia
sheriff's deputy, and wounding of another, apparently by 1960's
anti-government radical H. Rap Brown. LaPierre said local
authorities asked the Clinton Administration to prosecute Brown as
a felon in possession of a firearm in 1995, a possible 10-year
sentence. The Clinton Justice Department declined.
In the 1960's, we gunowners were objecting to Sen. Tom Dodd's
efforts to pass the Gun Control Act's prohibitions on interstate
transfers, and blaming "law-law states" for the high crime rates in
D.C. and New York, while there had never been a single prosecution for
illegally transporting a firearm into the "strict laws" states.
As I recall, about 1967 the Justice Department brought the
first-ever prosecution under the 1938 Federal law. The charge was
for transporting an M1 Carbine from New Orleans to Washington,
D.C., where the gun was unlawful. The person charged was the same
H. Rap Brown.
----------
The Violence Policy Center is arguing that the Clinton
Administration got a "bad deal" with Smith & Wesson, because many
of the items in the agreement are already being done.
But some of those provisions will be costly to gun owners, and
a lot of folks are talking boycott, both at today's gun show and in
my waiting stack of phone calls and emails.
S&W has every right to serve its stockholders by caving in to
White House extortion to get out from under costly lawsuits.
And we gunowners have every right to purchase our guns from
someone else.
----------
The test of how gunfire, tanks, glass and other debris look on
infrared video tape was conducted today at Ft. Hood, trying to
determine the cause of those apparent gunflashes on the FBI
infrared tape shot during the final attack on the Branch Davidians
at Waco.
The press or public was not allowed to observe. Davidian
attorney Mike Caddell had said he would release his copies of
today's tapes by tomorrow, but Judge Walter Smith has prohibited
any copies of the tapes from being given to news madia until the
court's own infrared expert prepares an analysis in about 30 days.
That strikes me as most unusual.
However, Caddell and Justice Department may begin discussing
what they think the tapes show whenever they get them, probably
tomorrow.
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