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Kennedy/Schumer Introduce Bill
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Kennedy/Schumer Introduce Bill
Subject: Kennedy/Schumer Introduce Bill From: nealknox@nealknox.com (Neal Knox) Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 20:17:09 EST
Dec. 8 Neal Knox Update -- Yesterday, one day after hammering Attorney General John Ashcroft for stating National Instant Check System firearms purchase records cannot legally be used for criminal and terrorist investigations, Sens. Edward Kennedy and Charles Schumer introduced a bill to allow it. We've not seen the bill but I'll be surprised if doesn't eliminate the law's requirement that such records be destroyed. General John Ashcroft said he would "consider" such a bill so two of the Senate's leading anti-gunners decided to give him an opportunity. Fox News reported that Immigration and Naturalization Service, a Justice Department agency is going to belatedly give the FBI the names of 315,000 known illegal aliens, none of whom may buy or possess guns or ammunition as a result of the 1968 Gun Control Act. A restricted BATF manual states that the National Alien Information Lookout System, an INS database of aliens excluded from the U.S., is routinely posted in the Treasury Enforcement Communications System, which is supposedly checked by NICS.
The Emerson Second Amendment case will be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, but while the appeal is going up, the trial that Dr. Timothy Emerson is appealing to prevent will probably go forward. The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals on Nov. 30 had rejected Dr. Emerson's request for a hearing by the entire court on whether he should be tried for possessing a firearm while under a restraining order, which is prohibited by the 1994 Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). In October a 5th Circuit panel, in a 2-1 decision, decisively upheld District Judge Sam Cummings declaration that the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms, yet unanimously reversed Judge Cummings' dismissal of Emerson's prosecution on grounds that VAWA is unconstitutional The appeal to the Supreme Court is a high risk for if they agree to hear the case they might strike down the 5th Circuit's decision that the Second Amendment is an individual right. One of Dr. Emerson's attorneys, David M. Guinn Jr., yesterday told me that he faces a "high burden" in getting the Court to accept the case. Guinn, who was also the public defender trial lawyer for Dr. Emerson, and who initially raised the Second Amendment issue, is now in private practice in Lubbock, Texas. Guinn and attorney Aaron Clements will receive some assistance from Second Amendment Foundation, which has established the Emerson Defense Fund and is accepting earmarked tax-deductible contributions at 12500 NE Tenth Place, Bellevue, WA 98005.
We received two reports this week of armed women stopping potentially violent crimes without firing a shot -- typical of most of the two million successful firearms defense cases estimated by Florida State criminologist Dr. Gary Kleck. In Carlisle, Pa., a would-be robber demanded that Erin Moul open the cash register in her used book store. "I don't think so," she told him, pulling a licensed 9mm out of her purse. She said the look on his face was "kind of humorous." And in Norman, Okla., an 18-year-old who had broken into Virginia Delaney's home was stopped by her shotgun as he started crawling out a laundry room window. Maybe he heard her shuck the action.
The Canadian gun law requires that all firearms be registered and their owners licensed by Jan. 1, 2003. There's been massive reluctance to comply and costs have thus far more than doubled estimates -- now exceeding $600 million. In a seemingly desperate effort to increase registration, known gunowners in the balking western provinces are receiving easy-registration forms, and registration fees are being waived. And Canadians can even register online at http://www.cfc.gc.ca/en/default.asp It will be interesting to see how long after guns are registered that confiscations begin. It took over 60 years in England, less than half that in Australia.
Subject: Kennedy/Schumer Introduce Bill From: nealknox@nealknox.com (Neal Knox) Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 20:17:09 EST
Dec. 8 Neal Knox Update -- Yesterday, one day after hammering Attorney General John Ashcroft for stating National Instant Check System firearms purchase records cannot legally be used for criminal and terrorist investigations, Sens. Edward Kennedy and Charles Schumer introduced a bill to allow it. We've not seen the bill but I'll be surprised if doesn't eliminate the law's requirement that such records be destroyed. General John Ashcroft said he would "consider" such a bill so two of the Senate's leading anti-gunners decided to give him an opportunity. Fox News reported that Immigration and Naturalization Service, a Justice Department agency is going to belatedly give the FBI the names of 315,000 known illegal aliens, none of whom may buy or possess guns or ammunition as a result of the 1968 Gun Control Act. A restricted BATF manual states that the National Alien Information Lookout System, an INS database of aliens excluded from the U.S., is routinely posted in the Treasury Enforcement Communications System, which is supposedly checked by NICS.
The Emerson Second Amendment case will be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, but while the appeal is going up, the trial that Dr. Timothy Emerson is appealing to prevent will probably go forward. The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals on Nov. 30 had rejected Dr. Emerson's request for a hearing by the entire court on whether he should be tried for possessing a firearm while under a restraining order, which is prohibited by the 1994 Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). In October a 5th Circuit panel, in a 2-1 decision, decisively upheld District Judge Sam Cummings declaration that the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms, yet unanimously reversed Judge Cummings' dismissal of Emerson's prosecution on grounds that VAWA is unconstitutional The appeal to the Supreme Court is a high risk for if they agree to hear the case they might strike down the 5th Circuit's decision that the Second Amendment is an individual right. One of Dr. Emerson's attorneys, David M. Guinn Jr., yesterday told me that he faces a "high burden" in getting the Court to accept the case. Guinn, who was also the public defender trial lawyer for Dr. Emerson, and who initially raised the Second Amendment issue, is now in private practice in Lubbock, Texas. Guinn and attorney Aaron Clements will receive some assistance from Second Amendment Foundation, which has established the Emerson Defense Fund and is accepting earmarked tax-deductible contributions at 12500 NE Tenth Place, Bellevue, WA 98005.
We received two reports this week of armed women stopping potentially violent crimes without firing a shot -- typical of most of the two million successful firearms defense cases estimated by Florida State criminologist Dr. Gary Kleck. In Carlisle, Pa., a would-be robber demanded that Erin Moul open the cash register in her used book store. "I don't think so," she told him, pulling a licensed 9mm out of her purse. She said the look on his face was "kind of humorous." And in Norman, Okla., an 18-year-old who had broken into Virginia Delaney's home was stopped by her shotgun as he started crawling out a laundry room window. Maybe he heard her shuck the action.
The Canadian gun law requires that all firearms be registered and their owners licensed by Jan. 1, 2003. There's been massive reluctance to comply and costs have thus far more than doubled estimates -- now exceeding $600 million. In a seemingly desperate effort to increase registration, known gunowners in the balking western provinces are receiving easy-registration forms, and registration fees are being waived. And Canadians can even register online at http://www.cfc.gc.ca/en/default.asp It will be interesting to see how long after guns are registered that confiscations begin. It took over 60 years in England, less than half that in Australia.
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