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This bill could get your guns.
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Millions More to Be Barred from Gun Ownership
-- Immediate Action Needed
Gun Owners of America E-Mail Alert
8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151
Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408
http://www.gunowners.org
November 12, 2002
The House has passed H.R. 4757, the so-called "Our Lady of Peace
Act." Its chief sponsor is the rabidly anti-gun Rep. Carolyn
McCarthy of New York.
Not surprisingly, one of the other rabid anti-gunners from New York,
Senator Chuck Shumer (D), has sponsored the companion bill in the
Senate (S. 2826).
The bill would require states to turn over vast numbers of
sometimes-personal records (on potentially all Americans) to the FBI
for use in connection with the Instantcheck. These records would
include any state record relevant to the question of whether a
person is prohibited from owning a gun.
This starts with a large volume of mental health records, but the
FBI could also require that a state forward ALL of its employment
and tax records in order to identify persons who are illegal aliens.
It could require that states forward information concerning drug
diversion programs and arrests that do not lead to prosecution, in
order to determine whether a person was "an unlawful user of... any
controlled substance...."
The bill would also help FBI officials to effectively stop millions
of additional Americans from purchasing a firearm, because they were
guilty in the past of committing slight misdemeanors. You might
remember the Lautenberg Gun Ban which President Bill Clinton signed
in 1996? Because of this 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. The
McCarthy-Schumer bill would change all that and keep millions of
decent, peaceful citizens from owning a firearm because of one
slight offense committed in their past.
The bill also reaches for a gun owning prohibition on nearly 3
million more Americans who have spent time in mental health
facilities. This group has no more involvement in violent crime
than does the rest of the population. But even assuming that those
with (often minor and treatable) mental health histories are "bad"
guys, this bill is NOT about keeping bad guys from getting guns.
Bad guys will ALWAYS be able to get guns, no matter how many
restrictions there are.
This bill is all about control. Schumer and McCarthy want to keep
pushing their agenda forward, making it impossible for more and more
Americans to legally own guns! But if it is OK to ban gun ownership
for certain people who have engaged in a shouting match with another
family member, or who have stayed overnight in a hospital for
emotional observation or who have been written a prescription for
depression, then who will be next on the McCarthy-Schumer hit list?
People who drink an occasional beer? People who take "mind
altering" cold medicines -- Nyquil, TheraFlu, etc.?
H.R. 4757 and S. 2826 are major, anti-self defense bills that will
only make the country safer for criminals while opening the door to
invading the privacy of all Americans.
A near-total gun ban on the island of Great Britain has resulted in
England suffering from the highest violent crime rate of any
industrialized country. Why would a less oppressive form of gun
control work when an outright ban has failed to keep guns out of the
wrong hands?
ACTION:
Please contact your Senators and demand that this bill be stopped.
A pre-written message is provided below. To identify your Senators,
as well as to send the 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 shocked that the Senate has before it a bill (S. 2826) that
would prohibit millions of Americans from owning a gun for
self-defense. Those who would be banned present no greater risk of
committing violent crimes than does the rest of the population. Are
all the rest of us next?
Please vote against this monstrosity (also known as the Our Lady of
Peace bill) if it comes to the floor of the Senate for a vote. Gun
Owners of America will be using this vote for their rating of
Congress.
I would like to hear from you about whether you support this massive
increase in gun control.
-- Immediate Action Needed
Gun Owners of America E-Mail Alert
8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151
Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408
http://www.gunowners.org
November 12, 2002
The House has passed H.R. 4757, the so-called "Our Lady of Peace
Act." Its chief sponsor is the rabidly anti-gun Rep. Carolyn
McCarthy of New York.
Not surprisingly, one of the other rabid anti-gunners from New York,
Senator Chuck Shumer (D), has sponsored the companion bill in the
Senate (S. 2826).
The bill would require states to turn over vast numbers of
sometimes-personal records (on potentially all Americans) to the FBI
for use in connection with the Instantcheck. These records would
include any state record relevant to the question of whether a
person is prohibited from owning a gun.
This starts with a large volume of mental health records, but the
FBI could also require that a state forward ALL of its employment
and tax records in order to identify persons who are illegal aliens.
It could require that states forward information concerning drug
diversion programs and arrests that do not lead to prosecution, in
order to determine whether a person was "an unlawful user of... any
controlled substance...."
The bill would also help FBI officials to effectively stop millions
of additional Americans from purchasing a firearm, because they were
guilty in the past of committing slight misdemeanors. You might
remember the Lautenberg Gun Ban which President Bill Clinton signed
in 1996? Because of this 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. The
McCarthy-Schumer bill would change all that and keep millions of
decent, peaceful citizens from owning a firearm because of one
slight offense committed in their past.
The bill also reaches for a gun owning prohibition on nearly 3
million more Americans who have spent time in mental health
facilities. This group has no more involvement in violent crime
than does the rest of the population. But even assuming that those
with (often minor and treatable) mental health histories are "bad"
guys, this bill is NOT about keeping bad guys from getting guns.
Bad guys will ALWAYS be able to get guns, no matter how many
restrictions there are.
This bill is all about control. Schumer and McCarthy want to keep
pushing their agenda forward, making it impossible for more and more
Americans to legally own guns! But if it is OK to ban gun ownership
for certain people who have engaged in a shouting match with another
family member, or who have stayed overnight in a hospital for
emotional observation or who have been written a prescription for
depression, then who will be next on the McCarthy-Schumer hit list?
People who drink an occasional beer? People who take "mind
altering" cold medicines -- Nyquil, TheraFlu, etc.?
H.R. 4757 and S. 2826 are major, anti-self defense bills that will
only make the country safer for criminals while opening the door to
invading the privacy of all Americans.
A near-total gun ban on the island of Great Britain has resulted in
England suffering from the highest violent crime rate of any
industrialized country. Why would a less oppressive form of gun
control work when an outright ban has failed to keep guns out of the
wrong hands?
ACTION:
Please contact your Senators and demand that this bill be stopped.
A pre-written message is provided below. To identify your Senators,
as well as to send the 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 shocked that the Senate has before it a bill (S. 2826) that
would prohibit millions of Americans from owning a gun for
self-defense. Those who would be banned present no greater risk of
committing violent crimes than does the rest of the population. Are
all the rest of us next?
Please vote against this monstrosity (also known as the Our Lady of
Peace bill) if it comes to the floor of the Senate for a vote. Gun
Owners of America will be using this vote for their rating of
Congress.
I would like to hear from you about whether you support this massive
increase in gun control.
Comments
Death to Tyrants!!!
Jesus Christ believed in the right to keep and bear arms, Luke 22:36.
-Gunphreak