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Instant Background Check: Kill It, Don't Expand It
RugerNiner
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I don't know if the rest of you get this newsletter in your E-mail, so I'm posting my E-mail here. I hope it's of interest to you.
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Instant Background Check: Kill It, Don't Expand It
Gun Owners of America E-Mail/FAX Alert
8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151
Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408
http://www.gunowners.org
(Tuesday, August 13, 2002) -- Charlie Schumer is at it again. He's
found a way to keep more Americans from purchasing guns by further
propping up the unconstitutional Brady Law.
The Democrat Senator from New York has baptized his anti-gun agenda
with the name of a Catholic Church in which a priest and another
person were murdered. S. 2826 has been dubbed the Our Lady of Peace
Act.
For Schumer, no guns = peace.
Among other things, the bill will help FBI officials to effectively
stop thousands upon thousands of Americans from purchasing a
firearm. Already, millions of Americans have been disarmed by the
Lautenberg Gun Ban which President Bill Clinton signed in 1996.
Because of the Lautenberg ban, people who have committed very minor
offenses that include pushing, shoving or, in some cases, even
yelling at a family member have discovered that they can no longer
own a firearm for self-defense.
But the anti-gun nuts in Congress are upset because many of the
states' criminal records are incomplete. As a result, the FBI does
not access all of these records when screening the background of
someone who purchases a firearm from a gun dealer.
So S. 2826 will grant millions of dollars to the states to improve
their criminal records. Specifically, the bill would send taxpayer
monies to the states so they can provide the FBI with the names of:
those people who are disqualified by the Lautenberg gun ban, those
who have been adjudicated as being mentally defective (for example,
those who have been diagnosed with Alzheimer's or certain treatments
for depression), those who have been dishonorably discharged, etc.
In fact, the FBI could well demand all of a state's employment
records, in the guise of searching for illegal aliens.
If the Second and Tenth Amendments were to be obeyed, the Federal
government would be prohibited from passing such laws.
Incidentally, the "Our Lady of Peace" murders were committed by a
man who had not been arrested for two previous violations of a
restraining order, offenses that would have carried jail time had he
been arrested.
Instead of rebuking the judicial system and fixing that, Schumer is
looking for a new way to disarm millions of Americans.
A companion bill introduced by anti-gun Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY)
has been passed by the House Judiciary Committee by a vote of 30-2!
[Pro-gun Reps. John Hostettler (R-IN) and Bill Jenkins (R-TN) were
the only dissenting votes.]
Schumer has three co-sponsors of the bill: Senators Larry Craig
(R-ID), John McCain (R-AZ) and Edward Kennedy (D-MA). The House
bill, H.R. 4757, could be voted on by the full House some time in
September.
ACTION: Please contact your Representative and two Senators. The
House and Senate are in recess for the month of August, so there is
plenty of time for the grassroots to rise up against this
legislation.
Please forward this alert to as many as you can, so that your
friends, acquaintances and family members can also contact their
Senators and Representatives. Congressmen must hear that this
legislation is unacceptable.
To identify your Senators and Representative, as well as to send a
message via e-mail, see the Legislative Action Center at
http://www.gunowners.org/activism.htm on the GOA website.
--- Pre-written message ----
Dear Senator:
I am outraged that Sen. Schumer is trying to prohibit more Americans
from owning guns with his S. 2826. This bill spends millions of
dollars to further prop up the unconstitutional Brady Law, but there
is no authority for the Federal government to do this under the
Second and Tenth Amendments.
The Instant Background Check should be banned, not expanded. Please
oppose this bill.
I would appreciate hearing whether you plan to oppose this bill.
Gun Owners of America will keep me informed about any votes on this
dangerous measure.
Sincerely,
--- Pre-written message ----
Dear Representative:
I am outraged that Rep. Carolyn McCarthy is trying to prohibit more
Americans from owning guns with her H.R. 4757. This bill spends
millions of dollars to further prop up the unconstitutional Brady
Law, but there is no authority for the Federal government to do this
under the Second and Tenth Amendments.
The Instant Background Check should be banned, not expanded. Please
oppose this bill.
I would appreciate hearing whether you plan to oppose this bill.
Gun Owners of America will keep me informed about any votes on this
dangerous measure.
Sincerely,
These are the Representatives who are cosponsoring Rep. McCarthy's
gun ban:
Andrews (D-NJ), Blagojevich (D-IL), Brown (D-FL), Capuano (R-WV),
Carson (D-OK), Castle (R-DE), Clay (D-MO), Conyers (D-MI), Crowley
(D-NY), Cummings (D-MD), Davis (D-IL), DeGette (D-CO), DeLauro
(D-CT), Dingell (D-MI), Engel (D-NY), Ferguson (R-NJ), Ford (D-TN),
Frank (D-MA), Gilman (R-NY), Gonzalez (D-TX), Hastings (D-FL),
Hoeffel (D-PA), Israel (D-NY), Jackson-Lee (D-TX), Kirk (R-IL),
Langevin (D-RI), Lantos (D-CA), Lofgren (D-CA), Lowey (D-NY),
Maloney (D-NY), McGovern (D-MA), Meehan (D-MA), Moore (D-KS), Moran
(D-VA), Morella (R-MD), Nadler (D-NY), Norton (D-DC), Pascrell
(D-NJ), Rivers (D-MI), Rothman (D-NJ), Roukema (R-NJ), Roybal-Allard
(D-CA), Rush (D-IL), Schakowsky (D-IL), Schiff (D-CA), Shays (R-CT),
Sherman (D-CA), Tauscher (D-CA), Thompson (D-MS), Towns (D-NY),
Waters (D-CA), Waxman (D-CA), Weiner (D-NY), Wexler (D-FL), Woolsey
(D-CA)
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Remember...Terrorist are attacking Civilians; Not the Government. Protect Yourself!
#####################################################################
Instant Background Check: Kill It, Don't Expand It
Gun Owners of America E-Mail/FAX Alert
8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151
Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408
http://www.gunowners.org
(Tuesday, August 13, 2002) -- Charlie Schumer is at it again. He's
found a way to keep more Americans from purchasing guns by further
propping up the unconstitutional Brady Law.
The Democrat Senator from New York has baptized his anti-gun agenda
with the name of a Catholic Church in which a priest and another
person were murdered. S. 2826 has been dubbed the Our Lady of Peace
Act.
For Schumer, no guns = peace.
Among other things, the bill will help FBI officials to effectively
stop thousands upon thousands of Americans from purchasing a
firearm. Already, millions of Americans have been disarmed by the
Lautenberg Gun Ban which President Bill Clinton signed in 1996.
Because of the Lautenberg ban, people who have committed very minor
offenses that include pushing, shoving or, in some cases, even
yelling at a family member have discovered that they can no longer
own a firearm for self-defense.
But the anti-gun nuts in Congress are upset because many of the
states' criminal records are incomplete. As a result, the FBI does
not access all of these records when screening the background of
someone who purchases a firearm from a gun dealer.
So S. 2826 will grant millions of dollars to the states to improve
their criminal records. Specifically, the bill would send taxpayer
monies to the states so they can provide the FBI with the names of:
those people who are disqualified by the Lautenberg gun ban, those
who have been adjudicated as being mentally defective (for example,
those who have been diagnosed with Alzheimer's or certain treatments
for depression), those who have been dishonorably discharged, etc.
In fact, the FBI could well demand all of a state's employment
records, in the guise of searching for illegal aliens.
If the Second and Tenth Amendments were to be obeyed, the Federal
government would be prohibited from passing such laws.
Incidentally, the "Our Lady of Peace" murders were committed by a
man who had not been arrested for two previous violations of a
restraining order, offenses that would have carried jail time had he
been arrested.
Instead of rebuking the judicial system and fixing that, Schumer is
looking for a new way to disarm millions of Americans.
A companion bill introduced by anti-gun Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY)
has been passed by the House Judiciary Committee by a vote of 30-2!
[Pro-gun Reps. John Hostettler (R-IN) and Bill Jenkins (R-TN) were
the only dissenting votes.]
Schumer has three co-sponsors of the bill: Senators Larry Craig
(R-ID), John McCain (R-AZ) and Edward Kennedy (D-MA). The House
bill, H.R. 4757, could be voted on by the full House some time in
September.
ACTION: Please contact your Representative and two Senators. The
House and Senate are in recess for the month of August, so there is
plenty of time for the grassroots to rise up against this
legislation.
Please forward this alert to as many as you can, so that your
friends, acquaintances and family members can also contact their
Senators and Representatives. Congressmen must hear that this
legislation is unacceptable.
To identify your Senators and Representative, as well as to send a
message via e-mail, see the Legislative Action Center at
http://www.gunowners.org/activism.htm on the GOA website.
--- Pre-written message ----
Dear Senator:
I am outraged that Sen. Schumer is trying to prohibit more Americans
from owning guns with his S. 2826. This bill spends millions of
dollars to further prop up the unconstitutional Brady Law, but there
is no authority for the Federal government to do this under the
Second and Tenth Amendments.
The Instant Background Check should be banned, not expanded. Please
oppose this bill.
I would appreciate hearing whether you plan to oppose this bill.
Gun Owners of America will keep me informed about any votes on this
dangerous measure.
Sincerely,
--- Pre-written message ----
Dear Representative:
I am outraged that Rep. Carolyn McCarthy is trying to prohibit more
Americans from owning guns with her H.R. 4757. This bill spends
millions of dollars to further prop up the unconstitutional Brady
Law, but there is no authority for the Federal government to do this
under the Second and Tenth Amendments.
The Instant Background Check should be banned, not expanded. Please
oppose this bill.
I would appreciate hearing whether you plan to oppose this bill.
Gun Owners of America will keep me informed about any votes on this
dangerous measure.
Sincerely,
These are the Representatives who are cosponsoring Rep. McCarthy's
gun ban:
Andrews (D-NJ), Blagojevich (D-IL), Brown (D-FL), Capuano (R-WV),
Carson (D-OK), Castle (R-DE), Clay (D-MO), Conyers (D-MI), Crowley
(D-NY), Cummings (D-MD), Davis (D-IL), DeGette (D-CO), DeLauro
(D-CT), Dingell (D-MI), Engel (D-NY), Ferguson (R-NJ), Ford (D-TN),
Frank (D-MA), Gilman (R-NY), Gonzalez (D-TX), Hastings (D-FL),
Hoeffel (D-PA), Israel (D-NY), Jackson-Lee (D-TX), Kirk (R-IL),
Langevin (D-RI), Lantos (D-CA), Lofgren (D-CA), Lowey (D-NY),
Maloney (D-NY), McGovern (D-MA), Meehan (D-MA), Moore (D-KS), Moran
(D-VA), Morella (R-MD), Nadler (D-NY), Norton (D-DC), Pascrell
(D-NJ), Rivers (D-MI), Rothman (D-NJ), Roukema (R-NJ), Roybal-Allard
(D-CA), Rush (D-IL), Schakowsky (D-IL), Schiff (D-CA), Shays (R-CT),
Sherman (D-CA), Tauscher (D-CA), Thompson (D-MS), Towns (D-NY),
Waters (D-CA), Waxman (D-CA), Weiner (D-NY), Wexler (D-FL), Woolsey
(D-CA)
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Remember...Terrorist are attacking Civilians; Not the Government. Protect Yourself!
Keep your Powder dry and your Musket well oiled.
NRA Lifetime Benefactor Member.
NRA Lifetime Benefactor Member.
Comments
- Life NRA Member
"If cowardly & dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary...and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
AlleninAlaska
He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
-- Thomas Paine
Edited by - aglore on 08/14/2002 15:35:43
To err is human, to moo is bovine.