Weldon Clark wrote:
>
> Beware NRA's Project Exile Bill HR4051
>
> NRA is pushing HR4051 the so called project exile bill. This is a dangerous
> bill.
>
> Representative Lindsey Graham April 10, 2000
> 1429 Longworth House Office Building
> Washington, DC 20515
> phone 202-225-5301 fax 3216
>
> Dear Representative Graham,
>
> I did as your assistant suggested and went to www.thomas.loc.gov and put in
> HR4051 and
> pressed the go button. I have read the bill. This bill bribes states to
> enact laws to place
> violent criminal and those who break serious drug laws and who carry or
> posse firearms in
> prison under a mandatory sentence. However the following is wrong with the
> bill.
>
> Every state will introduce a gun bill to do that and much, much more. The
> bill does not say
> that the state cannot apply the mandatory sentence to just any violation of
> any law effecting
> firearms or anything else for that matter. We will have to fight gun bills
> in every state in the
> nation.
>
> The bill needs a provision that says that the states cannot make mandatory
> sentences apply
> to less serious firearms laws and other things as well if they are to
> receive grants under the
> law that HR4051 would create.
>
> Also the bill allows the Attorney general to expand the scope of the bill.
> As you know the
> present occupant of that office is very anti-gun.
>
> Very truly yours,
>
> Weldon H. Clark Jr.
> Liberty, SC
>
> Beware NRA's Project Exile Bill HR4051
>
> NRA is pushing HR4051 the so called project exile bill. This is a dangerous
> bill.
>
> Representative Lindsey Graham April 10, 2000
> 1429 Longworth House Office Building
> Washington, DC 20515
> phone 202-225-5301 fax 3216
>
> Dear Representative Graham,
>
> I did as your assistant suggested and went to www.thomas.loc.gov and put in
> HR4051 and
> pressed the go button. I have read the bill. This bill bribes states to
> enact laws to place
> violent criminal and those who break serious drug laws and who carry or
> posse firearms in
> prison under a mandatory sentence. However the following is wrong with the
> bill.
>
> Every state will introduce a gun bill to do that and much, much more. The
> bill does not say
> that the state cannot apply the mandatory sentence to just any violation of
> any law effecting
> firearms or anything else for that matter. We will have to fight gun bills
> in every state in the
> nation.
>
> The bill needs a provision that says that the states cannot make mandatory
> sentences apply
> to less serious firearms laws and other things as well if they are to
> receive grants under the
> law that HR4051 would create.
>
> Also the bill allows the Attorney general to expand the scope of the bill.
> As you know the
> present occupant of that office is very anti-gun.
>
> Very truly yours,
>
> Weldon H. Clark Jr.
> Liberty, SC