An Assault rifle is one
that has a Select Fire capability, switching from semi-automatic to some
form of full-automatic fire and fired a diminished power rifle round.
Anything that does not
have both of these descriptions applicable is not an assault rifle.
There is no such thing as an "assault Pistol". I don't care what
the ATF says.
I thought a few of the readers of this base would
enjoy this message so, I forwarded it.
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If we "cave in" and learn to handle
guns safely and, if necessary, to defend ourselves with them, we have become...adults.
Adults who respect both their own freedom and that of others, and who understand
that freedom requires responsibility. We will have become independent
individuals who need not cower behind locked doors while irresponsible
hoodlums (and possibly tyrannical governments) roam the streets outside.
If it comes to a choice between defending
yourself violently or perishing peacefully, our government would prefer
that we do the latter. And that may be your preference as well.
And that's your right. It
may be your choice as well.
It is *not* my choice.
A government which does not trust
me to be a responsible citizen does not deserve *my* trust. Nor my
obedience. A government which attempts to disarm its citizens will
create millions of criminals with a stroke of the pen.
And make no mistake. I will
be one of them.
09/26/93
THE BRADY BILL IS COMING IF YOU DON'T STOP IT!
I've just returned from the GRPC '93 in Arlington, Va. It was a great event. I received more information than I can assimilate in such a short time, but I wanted to get this out right away.
There is much mis-information in the media about the Brady Bill.
Many people say "What's the big deal about a waiting
period anyway? My state ALREADY has one." Well if that's the
case then you MAY be aware of all the women who have died at the
hands of an estranged spouse while WAITING for the waiting period
to expire, after ordering a firearm for protection, because they feared
for their lives.
But what you may not
know is that written in to the Brady Bill is a provision that would
allow your local sheriff or Chief of Police or whoever has the jurisdiction
to reject your application for trivial reasons. Let's say he just
doesn't like you, or doesn't think people should own guns, or maybe during
the background check one of your neighbors gave completely false and negative
information about you. Your recourse: You go to Federal Court before
a Judge, and if the derogatory information is not true, yes you will then
get approved.
DO YOU THINK THIS WILL HAPPEN IN 7 DAYS OR LESS?!!
And here's the kicker: YOU HAVE ABSOLUTELY
NO LEGAL RECOURSE TO SUE WHOEVER GAVE THE FALSE INFORMATION IN THE FIRST
PLACE!
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___from HR 1025 (the Brady
Bill)
SECTION 7
"(7) A chief
law enforcement officer or other person responsible for providing criminal
history background information pursuant to this subsection shall not be
liable in an action at law for damages--
"(A) for
failure to prevent the sale or transfer of a handgun to a person whose
receipt or possession of the handgun is unlawful under this section; or
"(B) for
preventing such a sale or transfer to a person who may lawfully receive
or possess a handgun.
"(8) For
purposes of this subsection, the term `chief law enforcement officer' means
the chief of police, the sheriff, or an equivalent officer or the designee
of any such individual.
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2) Ammunition ban and/or tax
S.178 which is the ammo ban, S.179 which is the
ammo tax of 1000%!
Both are sponsored by Senator Daniel Moynihan.
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3) Handgun ban
4) Long gun ban
S.653 sponsored by Howard Metzenbaum. It
starts out with some specific semiautomatic rifles (including some .22's)
but gives an APPOINTED official the power to add ANY semiautomatic firearm
to the list
at a later time!
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~~~~ 5) Hunting and Fishing ban (that's right
Fishing, these people don't want anyone hurting the little fishies.)
~~~~~~ This was Proposition 211(?) which actually
got on the ballot as a referendum in the state of Arizona this year!
It was soundly defeated thank goodness! This time. BTW,
I might have the number of the proposition wrong, but not the content.
I was unable to locate my source file, but perhaps someone in Arizona
could provide it. If you doubt the veracity of this, I WILL follow
up with verification of the number.
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~~~~ Can
you possibly be comfortable with what might
follow??? --- RyPacker v2.5
JL> Stephen:
JL> Wrong,
wrong.
JL> The purpose of Cannons was to kill
people. Who ever knocked down a building with a cannon, unless it
contained people. The cannon was a product of war. A quick way to
kill a lot of people in a hurry..
JL> The right to
bear arms meant that in 1776, we as a nation had the right to form a standing
army, and to bear arms. An army is armed...
You need to study history and
not listen to the politically correct liberals.
Let's instead listen to what
the founders of the country and the authors of the Constitution said.
(Quotes were
taken from an American Citizens
& Lawmen Association publication.)
"No free man shall ever be de-barred the use of
arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain their right to
keep and bear arms is as a last resort to protect
themselves against tyranny in government." -
Thomas Jefferson
"The said Constitution shall never ben construed
to authorize Congress to prevent the people of the United
States who are peaceable citizens from keeping
their own arms." -- Sam Adams
"The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able may have a gun." -- Patrick Henry
"Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation." -- James Madison
Those statements are really ambiguous, aren't they? No, in reality, they couldn't have been any clearer.
JL> How many guys
that you know need an AK 47 to hunt rabbits?
JL> An automatic weapon is not nor was
ever intended to be a game hunters weapon. Unless your game is people..
And the obvious point is that the founders of
the Constitution expected the COMMON PEOPLE to own weapons to protect them
from the government.
When the government takes away the weapons, then
you'd better fear the government.
Haven't you wondered why the government is in this sudden "gun control frenzy?"
Hitler's and Pol Pot's first speeches were about gun control Let's listen to some other "authorities" on disarmament.
"...one of the basic conditions for the victory
of socialism is the arming of the workers (Communist) and the
disarming of the bourgeoisie (the middle class)."
-- Vladimir I. Lenin
"Governments need armies to protect them against their enslaved and oppressed subjects." -- Leo Tolstoy, 1893
"If the opposition (citizen) disarms, well and
good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves." --
Joseph Stalin
And finally, in 1990, a female student from Beijing, Red China, described her parents' last words to her:
The Texas Legislature responded, passing the "Right to Carry" bill by an overwhelming margin.
That same day, noting that Governor Ann Richards threatened to veto the bill, the women of Texas extended Richards an invitation to leave her armed guards and protective walls and walk in the shoes of defenseless crime victims.
She refused.
In the shadow of her system that releases 150 criminals a day, Governor Richard's veto of self-defense widened the growing political chasm that separates her from mainstream Texans, women in particular.
Three Texas women brought the message
to Richards at a press conference on the steps
of the capitol before hundreds of supporters, many of
them women and law enforcement officers in and out of uniform.
Dr. Suzanna Gratia lost her
parents at Luby's Cafeteria in Killeen. Ms. Sue King,
an NRA-certified
instructor and member of the NRA Board of Directors
from Houston, has trained hundreds of women in safe gun handling and personal
protection. And Sue Ferris, a former San Antonio police officer, brought
the special perspective of a
rank-and-file law enforcement officer who can no longer protect her
family. "Everybody thinks it happens in a dark alley," began Dr.
Gratia. "It doesn't happen like that, folks. For me, it happened
a year and a half ago, sitting in a restaurant on a pretty day just like
today." Her anger increasingly visible, Gratia asked the crowd why
Ann Richards can have "her personal armed security guards, and I
can't protect myself and my family?" Before a madman killed
22 people, including her parents, in Killeen, Dr. Gratia had
decided not to carry her personally owned firearm, because there was no
carry provision in the law. "I've got my priorities straight, people.
What a shame it took a tragedy to get them straight. Then came
the invitation: "I'd like twenty minutes with Ann Richards.
She gave the time to Sarah Brady. She can give me the time."
Following Dr. Gratia was John
Chapman. A police officer in Killeen, Texas, Chapman asked
aloud if Dr. Gratia could have made a difference in the Luby's disaster.
"She sure could have," he said, "she sure could have." Chapman was
speaking on behalf of the Law Enforcement Alliance of America.
NRA Director Sue King began, "I refuse
to be a victim. I also refuse to allow an elected official
to deny me the right to protect myself." Fear of crime
is both widespread and justified, King explained. "Half of my
students are already victims. The other half are scared to
death, ... because women are [the criminals'] prey of
choice.
"For political police chiefs and politicians
to ignore the safety needs of women is the most appalling circumstance
I've ever seen in my life. I invite the governor, a woman who should
be aware of women's needs, to meet with us.
Governor, what's your answer?"
"As a patrol officer, I became acutely
aware that I could not protect all the women and men in my district,"
said Sue Ferris of San Antonio. "Now we are close to having the means of
protecting ourselves, and only Ann Richards stands in our way. The life
of my 12-year-old daughter is every bit as
valuable as the Governor's life," she said. "Meet with
us, Governor."
The women were joined by
two legislators: Bill Carter, a great-grandfather who
is the picture of the citizen-lawmaker and Ron Wilson, an African-American
from Houston who speaks with a preacher's fire.
"This is not a political issue," Carter
said, "but an issue of personal safety. Texas can't win the
war on crime if Texas doesn't take prisoners. We are
freeing prisoners. We must give good citizens the means to keep them safe
from harm."
Wilson recounted the story of his
own family's victimization. His wife was the victim "not of a human
being, but a predator," he said. After she was stabbed, the attacker
said, "Bitch, I'll be back. And she, by law, can't carry
a firearm to protect herself? When you're a victim," he said
softly, "it opens your eyes."
"You hear all this talk about fighting crime,"
Wilson continued more forcefully. "Well, this is the litmus test.
Now it's time to put up or shut up. The protection of the good folks of
Texas is the most important issue in this legislative session. "We're
going to put this bill on the governor's desk, and she can lock and load,
Jack!"
With her catch-and-release criminal justice system
the focus of a CBS 48 Hours investigative report in April, Governor Ann
Richards was asked on-camera what can be done to protect lawful
Texans from career criminals the system continues to release. "You
protect society the same way you protect your family," she said. "You do
everything you can do for them, and you pray to God that it
works."
Richards vetoed the self-defense legislation
with this insult: "We say 'no' to the amateur gunslingers who think
they are going to be braver and smarter with a gun in their hand."
With the legislative session at an end, Governor
Richards has the time to explain her hostility toward self-defense to every
Texan and every crime victim. She can begin taking her
insults and explanations to Sue Ferris, Sue King and Suzanna Gratia.
