Slowpoke_Rodrigo
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May 3 Neal Knox Report -- After two days of preliminary
skirmishing over reauthorizing the 1965 Education Act, the Senate
got down to debating and voting on amendments this morning.
Democrats oppose the committee bill, S. 2, because it shifts
control of funds from Washington to local school boards. They
intend to either load the bill with restrictive gun provisions --
arguing that gun laws will make schools safer -- or prevent its
passage as written by using gun amendments for filibustering.
A string of gun amendments, including the firearms provisions
of the stalled Juvenile Justice bill, one gun per month and much
more may be offered before the bill is completed.
Four amendments are in order for today, but I don't think any
include gun provisions. Details of the amendments haven't been
revealed,
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The Branch Davidians' lead attorney, Mike Caddell, on Monday
asked Waco Judge Walter Smith to impound all computers and Waco-
related information in the office and laboratory of infrared (FLIR)
expert Carlos Ghigliotti, whose badly decomposed body was found
Friday.
Yesterday, Special Counsel John Danforth joined that request.
Ghigliotti had worked for Rep. Burton's Government Reform
Committee until late March, shortly before he died. He had found
that the FBI and Davidians had engaged in a gun battle, and that the
shots and shooters from both sides were visible on the FLIR tape
FBI took just before the fatal fire.
In late April Caddell had told the judge he intended to use Ghigliotti
as his FLIR expert in next month's trial, replacing Dr. Edward Allard,
who recently had a stroke.
On April 17 Caddell asked Special Counsel John Danforth to
interview Ghigliotti and spend time in his laboratory reviewing his
findings. He stated that he had been trying to reach Ghigliotti but
hadn't been able to locate him.
He was already dead.
As of late yesterday, the Maryland Medical examiner still had
not released his autopsy findings.
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Canadian law enforcement has uncovered an effort to smuggle
1,700 M1 rifles, 21,000 receivers, three "machine guns" and 39 high
capacity magazines into the U.S.
Apparently the M1's may have been Lend-Lease arms. A Clinton
Executive Order prohibited bringing U.S.-made military surplus back
into the country unless it could be proven to have been purchased.
M1's are fairly valuable in the U.S. compared to what these
obsolete rifles can be purchased for overseas, so a Canadian dealer
apparently decided to smuggle them into the U.S. as truck parts.
The press reports the guns have a "street value" of $5
million. You couldn't give away a big, heavy, klutzy M1 to a
criminal on the street.
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The extremely well-financed Million Mom March for gun laws on
Mother's Day in Washington and in several states, is getting two to
four major articles per day according to my clipping service.
The counter-march, organized by Second Amendment Sisters, is
being almost totally ignored. Texas Rep. Suzanna Gratia Hupp,
whose parents were killed in the 1991 Luby's Cafeteria massacre
because the then-law had forced her to leave her gun in her car,
will be the keynote speaker.
Suzanna mounted a campaign to enact a concealed carry
licensing law in Texas, and ran for the legislature so she could
get it adopted.
The counter-marchers will gather at 9 a.m. Sunday May 14 on
the northwest quadrant of the Washington Monument grounds. I hope
to see you there.
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Housing and Urban Development supposedly has gotten agreement
from almost 200 municipalitites to give preferential treatment to
Smith & Wesson, or other gun makers which sign the same agreement
that S&W signed.
But many of those officials began crawfishing when HUD sent
press releases to local news media, and gunowners began objecting.
The Cheyenne, Wyo., mayor rescinded his pledge yesterday saying
"our citizens have reminded me that this is really not a matter for
local government."
Last week the Roanoke, Va., mayor complained that HUD had
"jumped the gun" by talking about his "taking the pledge" before
yesterday's mayoral election. He lost.
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Slowpoke Rodrigo...he pack a gon...
I voted for the Neal Knox 13
I'll see you at the TFL End Of Summer Meet!
skirmishing over reauthorizing the 1965 Education Act, the Senate
got down to debating and voting on amendments this morning.
Democrats oppose the committee bill, S. 2, because it shifts
control of funds from Washington to local school boards. They
intend to either load the bill with restrictive gun provisions --
arguing that gun laws will make schools safer -- or prevent its
passage as written by using gun amendments for filibustering.
A string of gun amendments, including the firearms provisions
of the stalled Juvenile Justice bill, one gun per month and much
more may be offered before the bill is completed.
Four amendments are in order for today, but I don't think any
include gun provisions. Details of the amendments haven't been
revealed,
-------------
The Branch Davidians' lead attorney, Mike Caddell, on Monday
asked Waco Judge Walter Smith to impound all computers and Waco-
related information in the office and laboratory of infrared (FLIR)
expert Carlos Ghigliotti, whose badly decomposed body was found
Friday.
Yesterday, Special Counsel John Danforth joined that request.
Ghigliotti had worked for Rep. Burton's Government Reform
Committee until late March, shortly before he died. He had found
that the FBI and Davidians had engaged in a gun battle, and that the
shots and shooters from both sides were visible on the FLIR tape
FBI took just before the fatal fire.
In late April Caddell had told the judge he intended to use Ghigliotti
as his FLIR expert in next month's trial, replacing Dr. Edward Allard,
who recently had a stroke.
On April 17 Caddell asked Special Counsel John Danforth to
interview Ghigliotti and spend time in his laboratory reviewing his
findings. He stated that he had been trying to reach Ghigliotti but
hadn't been able to locate him.
He was already dead.
As of late yesterday, the Maryland Medical examiner still had
not released his autopsy findings.
-----------
Canadian law enforcement has uncovered an effort to smuggle
1,700 M1 rifles, 21,000 receivers, three "machine guns" and 39 high
capacity magazines into the U.S.
Apparently the M1's may have been Lend-Lease arms. A Clinton
Executive Order prohibited bringing U.S.-made military surplus back
into the country unless it could be proven to have been purchased.
M1's are fairly valuable in the U.S. compared to what these
obsolete rifles can be purchased for overseas, so a Canadian dealer
apparently decided to smuggle them into the U.S. as truck parts.
The press reports the guns have a "street value" of $5
million. You couldn't give away a big, heavy, klutzy M1 to a
criminal on the street.
-----------
The extremely well-financed Million Mom March for gun laws on
Mother's Day in Washington and in several states, is getting two to
four major articles per day according to my clipping service.
The counter-march, organized by Second Amendment Sisters, is
being almost totally ignored. Texas Rep. Suzanna Gratia Hupp,
whose parents were killed in the 1991 Luby's Cafeteria massacre
because the then-law had forced her to leave her gun in her car,
will be the keynote speaker.
Suzanna mounted a campaign to enact a concealed carry
licensing law in Texas, and ran for the legislature so she could
get it adopted.
The counter-marchers will gather at 9 a.m. Sunday May 14 on
the northwest quadrant of the Washington Monument grounds. I hope
to see you there.
---------
Housing and Urban Development supposedly has gotten agreement
from almost 200 municipalitites to give preferential treatment to
Smith & Wesson, or other gun makers which sign the same agreement
that S&W signed.
But many of those officials began crawfishing when HUD sent
press releases to local news media, and gunowners began objecting.
The Cheyenne, Wyo., mayor rescinded his pledge yesterday saying
"our citizens have reminded me that this is really not a matter for
local government."
Last week the Roanoke, Va., mayor complained that HUD had
"jumped the gun" by talking about his "taking the pledge" before
yesterday's mayoral election. He lost.
------------------
Slowpoke Rodrigo...he pack a gon...
I voted for the Neal Knox 13
I'll see you at the TFL End Of Summer Meet!