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WHY THE McCAIN-LIEBERMAN BILL IS BAD LEGISLATION
by Bob Templeton,
Crossroads of the West Gun Shows
The McCain-Lieberman bill is a direct attack on the lawful gun owners of the United States. Senate Bill 890 is the bill which purports to be "reasonable legislation" to control individual collectors and gun owners who may want to buy, sell or trade a firearm at a gun show. The real motivation behind the bill is to restrict and regulate gun shows in a step-by-step procedure which will quickly lead to California-type laws and regulations. In California, every gun transfer must be processed by a licensed dealer and the government must approve any gun buyer. Even neighbors of thirty years or more may not buy or sell a gun to each other without government approval. What this and all other legislation on the state and national level to regulate activities at gun shows is about is restricting lawful Americans access to firearms.
What Senators McCain and Lieberman and their gun-control allies throughout the country really want to do is restrict and eventually eliminate gun shows because they are a gathering place for people to assemble and share their views on the Second Amendment. Gun shows are viewed by the advocates of gun control as the places where gun owners gather and mobilize like-minded people to oppose their gun control agenda. The First Amendment protects freedom of speech and freedom of assembly, and the Second Amendment protects our right to keep and bear arms. McCain, Lieberman, Feinstein and Schumer would deny us both Constitutional freedoms under their view of what "reasonable gun legislation" is all about.
The McCain-Lieberman Bill purports to close the "gun show loophole" which gives individual collectors and gun owners the right to sell or trade a gun at a gun show without asking the federal government's permission. This so-called "gun show loophole" exists only in the rhetoric of those anti-gun forces who would deny us the right to own and use firearms. It simply is not a problem. The federal government's own statistics confirm that less than two percent of guns used in crimes can be traced to a gun show. Individuals who sell or trade guns from their personal collections at gun shows are not the problem.
In order to obtain new guns from manufacturers and wholesalers you must be a federally licensed firearms dealer. Individuals may not, under any circumstances, obtain new guns for resale from these sources. This leaves only the few collectors and individuals who may sell used guns from their personal collections as the persons who will be impacted by this proposed law. It is the first step in the liberal Democrat / "moderate" Republican agenda for America to require the defacto registration and, ultimately, licensing of all gun owners. Schemes such as the one proposed by McCain, Lieberman and their gun-control cohorts in Congress serve only to lay the groundwork for further invasive government action to register, license and eventually confiscate all privately-held firearms in America.
There is a very real potential for serious privacy violations if this bill is enacted into law. In California, where individuals may not sell a firearm to another individual without conducting a background check through a licensed dealer, the story is told of a father who wanted to know more about the young man his daughter was dating. He offered to pay a licensed dealer to conduct a background check on his daughter's friend, even though there was no firearm sale or exchange involved. If individuals have access, either directly or indirectly through a licensed firearms dealer to the Federal N.I.C.S. System, there will be nothing to stop these kinds of privacy abuses.
Before we subject law-abiding collectors and gun owners to this kind of intrusive government activity, we should insist that local, state and federal prosecutors aggressively prosecute felons, particularly violent felons, who attempt to buy a gun and are denied through a federal Brady check. Only when these known felons understand if they attempt to buy a gun or if they are found in possession of a gun they will go to prison, will we be able to keep guns out of their hands.
It is important that you contact your U.S. Senators and express your desire that they oppose the McCain-Lieberman Gun Show Bill, S. 890. Be polite and firm in your messages, and let them know that America's gun owners will not accept any backdoor gun registration schemes such as this one. Your voice must be heard on this important issue.if McCain-Lieberman is enacted, it could mean the end of gun shows as we know them.
http://www.libertybelles.org/events/gunshows.htm
copyright c 2001-2002
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
WHY THE McCAIN-LIEBERMAN BILL IS BAD LEGISLATION
by Bob Templeton,
Crossroads of the West Gun Shows
The McCain-Lieberman bill is a direct attack on the lawful gun owners of the United States. Senate Bill 890 is the bill which purports to be "reasonable legislation" to control individual collectors and gun owners who may want to buy, sell or trade a firearm at a gun show. The real motivation behind the bill is to restrict and regulate gun shows in a step-by-step procedure which will quickly lead to California-type laws and regulations. In California, every gun transfer must be processed by a licensed dealer and the government must approve any gun buyer. Even neighbors of thirty years or more may not buy or sell a gun to each other without government approval. What this and all other legislation on the state and national level to regulate activities at gun shows is about is restricting lawful Americans access to firearms.
What Senators McCain and Lieberman and their gun-control allies throughout the country really want to do is restrict and eventually eliminate gun shows because they are a gathering place for people to assemble and share their views on the Second Amendment. Gun shows are viewed by the advocates of gun control as the places where gun owners gather and mobilize like-minded people to oppose their gun control agenda. The First Amendment protects freedom of speech and freedom of assembly, and the Second Amendment protects our right to keep and bear arms. McCain, Lieberman, Feinstein and Schumer would deny us both Constitutional freedoms under their view of what "reasonable gun legislation" is all about.
The McCain-Lieberman Bill purports to close the "gun show loophole" which gives individual collectors and gun owners the right to sell or trade a gun at a gun show without asking the federal government's permission. This so-called "gun show loophole" exists only in the rhetoric of those anti-gun forces who would deny us the right to own and use firearms. It simply is not a problem. The federal government's own statistics confirm that less than two percent of guns used in crimes can be traced to a gun show. Individuals who sell or trade guns from their personal collections at gun shows are not the problem.
In order to obtain new guns from manufacturers and wholesalers you must be a federally licensed firearms dealer. Individuals may not, under any circumstances, obtain new guns for resale from these sources. This leaves only the few collectors and individuals who may sell used guns from their personal collections as the persons who will be impacted by this proposed law. It is the first step in the liberal Democrat / "moderate" Republican agenda for America to require the defacto registration and, ultimately, licensing of all gun owners. Schemes such as the one proposed by McCain, Lieberman and their gun-control cohorts in Congress serve only to lay the groundwork for further invasive government action to register, license and eventually confiscate all privately-held firearms in America.
There is a very real potential for serious privacy violations if this bill is enacted into law. In California, where individuals may not sell a firearm to another individual without conducting a background check through a licensed dealer, the story is told of a father who wanted to know more about the young man his daughter was dating. He offered to pay a licensed dealer to conduct a background check on his daughter's friend, even though there was no firearm sale or exchange involved. If individuals have access, either directly or indirectly through a licensed firearms dealer to the Federal N.I.C.S. System, there will be nothing to stop these kinds of privacy abuses.
Before we subject law-abiding collectors and gun owners to this kind of intrusive government activity, we should insist that local, state and federal prosecutors aggressively prosecute felons, particularly violent felons, who attempt to buy a gun and are denied through a federal Brady check. Only when these known felons understand if they attempt to buy a gun or if they are found in possession of a gun they will go to prison, will we be able to keep guns out of their hands.
It is important that you contact your U.S. Senators and express your desire that they oppose the McCain-Lieberman Gun Show Bill, S. 890. Be polite and firm in your messages, and let them know that America's gun owners will not accept any backdoor gun registration schemes such as this one. Your voice must be heard on this important issue.if McCain-Lieberman is enacted, it could mean the end of gun shows as we know them.
http://www.libertybelles.org/events/gunshows.htm
copyright c 2001-2002
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Comments
When Clinton left office they gave him a 21 gun salute. Its a damn shame they all missed....
"The powers delegated by the proposed constitution to the federal governmentare few and defined, and will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace negotiation, and foreign commerce"
-James Madison
I have lost faith in Pres. Bush since he signed the "campain finance reform bill" (of which I thought he would never do). If he signs this bill, he is edging on the border of "Clintonites".
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I quess, if the point is- "buying or selling", I won't buy or sell, but, Charge or be charged a handling fee only (of what the gun is worth) and the gun is free!
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I have no respect for our system of government as I used to. The government breaks more of it's own laws than the people, and ignores the "Law of the land" of the Americans to the point of being in need of replacement by "the people"!