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NRA supporting ammo ban

Red223Red223 Member Posts: 7,946
edited February 2004 in General Discussion
NRA Director Sen. Larry Craig's Ammunition Ban Amendment

by Angel Shamaya
Director@KeepAndBearArms.com

February 26, 2004

KeepAndBearArms.com -- While National Rifle Association officials have been denying that they've been orchestrating a sellout in the U.S. Senate, Sen. Larry Craig (R-ID) -- an NRA Director -- has been working on an ammunition ban. On the Senate floor today, he introduced, discussed, defended and tried to justify the "Craig/Frist" amendment. This amendment, said Craig, is needed "to strengthen current armor piercing ammunition law." NRA's point-man in the U.S. Senate says that this is "what the law enforcement community needs."




"We don't want to wipe out the hunting and sporting ammunition," said Craig. The "sporting purpose" test was used before -- as justification for firearm rights infringements via the 1938 Nazi Weapons Law and later copied nearly verbatim in the U.S. Gun Control Act of 1968.

"Let's send a message that armor piercing ammunition is flat off limits," said Sen. Craig.

The NRA Director went on to support strong enforcement of his proposed ammunition ban, using phrases like "prison for life."



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  • PATBUZZARDPATBUZZARD Member Posts: 3,556 ✭
    edited November -1
    What the hell is wrong with the existing laws on the books? We don't need any more stinking gun laws!!

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  • idsman75idsman75 Member Posts: 13,398 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I take everything from "Keep and Bear Arms" with a grain of salt. It's just another "gun rights" organization competing for the dollars that you might be sending to another gun rights organization. Just because they supposedly fight for gun rights doesn't mean they aren't guilty of spin. Money makes the world go round and they want yours just as bad as the NRA does.
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  • pickenuppickenup Member Posts: 22,844 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    What?
    Now it not a question of compromise.
    They are actually INITIATING new laws? [:0]

    Going to have to look into this one. (too)


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  • p3skykingp3skyking Member Posts: 23,916 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    This article is BS. The amendment is for using AP to kill a cop. It only affects you if you shoot a cop with it. Disregard the Chicken Little.

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  • bigdaddyjuniorbigdaddyjunior Member Posts: 11,233
    edited November -1
    I would have thought that shooting a cop would get you a 20-life sentence no matter what ammo you used anyway. Ofcourse shooting a civilian should get you a 20-life sentence too.

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  • mudgemudge Member Posts: 4,225 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Watched most of the day yesterday and Skyking is right. It has to do with AP rounds used to kill LEO's. NOTHING MORE. So far, the "anti's" amendments have all been shot down. (Pun intended.) We gotta' worry about Tuesday. Pound on your Senators again and again.

    Mudge the apprehensive

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  • dakotashooter2dakotashooter2 Member Posts: 6,186
    edited November -1
    I think there are also some differences in the definition of armour piercing. As shooters we interpret "armour piercing" as ammo that is capable of penetrating armoured vehicles while our lawmakers view it as any ammo that will pierce "body armour" BIIIIGGGGG difference.
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  • mateomasfeomateomasfeo Member Posts: 27,143
    edited November -1
    Hell, if ya can't ban guns, just ban the ammo! Constitution sez we have right to bear arms...sez nothing about the right to bear ammo!!



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