I just received the information below from my local range and thought it'd be at least useful to post it here.
Horror... Even after doing all this message asks for, I still have a feeling of helplessness... It'll never stop until they restrict it all completely...
"RangeMaster - http://www.rangemaster.com
Please use the link below to send a message to your representative
regarding gun control.
It will take you only 1 minute to do so....Aren't your rights worth it?
See the GOA Legislative Action Center at http://www.gunowners.org/activism.htm
(Tuesday, April 25, 2000) -- Get ready for another round. At the
beginning of next week, the U.S. Senate will take up its education
bill, and anti-gun zealots are planning 30 to 40 anti-gun amendments
to that bill in furtherance of their assault on the Second
Amendment. But, tragically, some supposed "pro-gun" senators are
cooperating with the prohibitionist strategy.
Aides are urging Majority Leader Trent Lott to do nothing to
prohibit consideration of anti-gun amendments. While we have yet to
see a full list of the anti-gun abominations which we could be
fighting, it is possible that Second Amendment advocates will face
proposals that would:
* require registration of gun owners with the government;
* impose a one-gun-a-month limit on gun purchasers;
* establish a ban on handguns which are unacceptable to the government (so-called "Saturday night specials"); and
* redefine "armor piercing bullets" in such a way that most ammunition could be outlawed.
What is even worse is that, rather than fighting to ensure that none of these travesties can be offered, some hapless Republicans are developing another "gun control lite" package of so-called "pro-gun" restrictions on your Second Amendment rights -- many of the same restrictions that passed as part of the juvenile crime bill.
ACTION: Please use the message provided below to help direct your comments to your two U.S. Senators. It is possible that the Democrats might begin offering anti-gun amendments -- and that some Republicans will counter with "gun control lite" amendments -- as early as this week on an unrelated victims proposal. See the GOA Legislative Action Center at http://www.gunowners.org/activism.htm for complete Senate contact information, and to send the pre-written message. The U.S. Senate switchboard number is 202-224-3121.
Tell Your Senators We Need Government Control, Not People Control!
"One bit of intelligence that supposedly justified the assault -- 'dynamic entry' is the term of art -- on the [Gonzalez'] house was the possibility that there might be weapons inside.... Is 'dynamic entry' justified whenever the government has some business to conduct with an American household and suspects that occupants of the household may be exercising their Second Amendment right to own a gun?" -- George F. Will, "The Raid in Little Havana," The Washington Post, 4/25/00
It is said that a "picture is worth a thousand words." Indeed, the now-famous picture from last weekend is a stern reminder of why we don't need more federal agents enforcing even more laws. We certainly don't need Project Exile or any other program that would give federal goon squads more power to break down doors and harass good Americans.
In a letter sent to The Washington Post, a letter which the paper still has yet to run, Dr. Norbert Bikales compares last week's home
invasion to a similar event he experienced in a Berlin apartment more than 60 years ago -- when the Nazis came to his house and took his father and brother. "But unlike the Clinton-Reno goons who first gained admittance by breaking down the door," Dr. Bikales says, "even the Gestapo men who came that night rang the door bell, wore no masks, spoke quietly, and did not remove their sidearms from their holsters." Oh, how far we have fallen!
----- Pre-written message -----
Dear Senator:
I understand that anti-self defense legislation (gun control) is coming to the floor again. I urge you to vote NO on all firearms restrictions -- including any so-called "compromises" that will be offered by Republicans. These gun control "lite" provisions may include: "lock-up-your-safety" trigger lock requirements, a ban on medium
capacity magazines that are useful for self-defense, a prohibition on young adults owning certain semi-automatic firearms, and a ban upon private sales at gun shows (unless the sale is first subjected to a registration background check). These are not compromises; these are capitulations.
It saddens me that the Senate is once again going down this road, trying to saddle good Americans with even more infringements on constitutional rights. Shouldn't the recent picture showing the dramatic home invasion by federal, paramilitary forces in Miami remind us that it is the government we should seek to control -- not the lives of decent citizens?
We don't need more federal gun laws. We don't need to enforce the unconstitutional and dangerous laws that are already on the books. We don't need more federal agents with more power to break down doors and harass good Americans.
I support liberty. And I hope you will stand in support of the Bill of Rights by voting against ALL gun control -- be it gun control heavy or "gun control lite."
Sincerely,
Your signature"
Horror... Even after doing all this message asks for, I still have a feeling of helplessness... It'll never stop until they restrict it all completely...
"RangeMaster - http://www.rangemaster.com
Please use the link below to send a message to your representative
regarding gun control.
It will take you only 1 minute to do so....Aren't your rights worth it?
See the GOA Legislative Action Center at http://www.gunowners.org/activism.htm
(Tuesday, April 25, 2000) -- Get ready for another round. At the
beginning of next week, the U.S. Senate will take up its education
bill, and anti-gun zealots are planning 30 to 40 anti-gun amendments
to that bill in furtherance of their assault on the Second
Amendment. But, tragically, some supposed "pro-gun" senators are
cooperating with the prohibitionist strategy.
Aides are urging Majority Leader Trent Lott to do nothing to
prohibit consideration of anti-gun amendments. While we have yet to
see a full list of the anti-gun abominations which we could be
fighting, it is possible that Second Amendment advocates will face
proposals that would:
* require registration of gun owners with the government;
* impose a one-gun-a-month limit on gun purchasers;
* establish a ban on handguns which are unacceptable to the government (so-called "Saturday night specials"); and
* redefine "armor piercing bullets" in such a way that most ammunition could be outlawed.
What is even worse is that, rather than fighting to ensure that none of these travesties can be offered, some hapless Republicans are developing another "gun control lite" package of so-called "pro-gun" restrictions on your Second Amendment rights -- many of the same restrictions that passed as part of the juvenile crime bill.
ACTION: Please use the message provided below to help direct your comments to your two U.S. Senators. It is possible that the Democrats might begin offering anti-gun amendments -- and that some Republicans will counter with "gun control lite" amendments -- as early as this week on an unrelated victims proposal. See the GOA Legislative Action Center at http://www.gunowners.org/activism.htm for complete Senate contact information, and to send the pre-written message. The U.S. Senate switchboard number is 202-224-3121.
Tell Your Senators We Need Government Control, Not People Control!
"One bit of intelligence that supposedly justified the assault -- 'dynamic entry' is the term of art -- on the [Gonzalez'] house was the possibility that there might be weapons inside.... Is 'dynamic entry' justified whenever the government has some business to conduct with an American household and suspects that occupants of the household may be exercising their Second Amendment right to own a gun?" -- George F. Will, "The Raid in Little Havana," The Washington Post, 4/25/00
It is said that a "picture is worth a thousand words." Indeed, the now-famous picture from last weekend is a stern reminder of why we don't need more federal agents enforcing even more laws. We certainly don't need Project Exile or any other program that would give federal goon squads more power to break down doors and harass good Americans.
In a letter sent to The Washington Post, a letter which the paper still has yet to run, Dr. Norbert Bikales compares last week's home
invasion to a similar event he experienced in a Berlin apartment more than 60 years ago -- when the Nazis came to his house and took his father and brother. "But unlike the Clinton-Reno goons who first gained admittance by breaking down the door," Dr. Bikales says, "even the Gestapo men who came that night rang the door bell, wore no masks, spoke quietly, and did not remove their sidearms from their holsters." Oh, how far we have fallen!
----- Pre-written message -----
Dear Senator:
I understand that anti-self defense legislation (gun control) is coming to the floor again. I urge you to vote NO on all firearms restrictions -- including any so-called "compromises" that will be offered by Republicans. These gun control "lite" provisions may include: "lock-up-your-safety" trigger lock requirements, a ban on medium
capacity magazines that are useful for self-defense, a prohibition on young adults owning certain semi-automatic firearms, and a ban upon private sales at gun shows (unless the sale is first subjected to a registration background check). These are not compromises; these are capitulations.
It saddens me that the Senate is once again going down this road, trying to saddle good Americans with even more infringements on constitutional rights. Shouldn't the recent picture showing the dramatic home invasion by federal, paramilitary forces in Miami remind us that it is the government we should seek to control -- not the lives of decent citizens?
We don't need more federal gun laws. We don't need to enforce the unconstitutional and dangerous laws that are already on the books. We don't need more federal agents with more power to break down doors and harass good Americans.
I support liberty. And I hope you will stand in support of the Bill of Rights by voting against ALL gun control -- be it gun control heavy or "gun control lite."
Sincerely,
Your signature"