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>Folks please read this and think about it. Even if you don't own a
weapon or
>plan to own one, you have that right which is a right that a citizen of the
>Soviet Union, Cuba, Red China, to name a few, do not have. This right is
>guaranteed us by the U. S. Constitution another thing that separates us from
>the citizens of the above mentioned countries - the word right is something
>else that they have very few of. If we are to keep and preserve ours then
our
>constitution must stay intact. We must stay free or we won't be able to
help
>ourselves and certainly not others, as it has been our custom over the years.
>Feinstein talks about the guns being brought in and squaks about taking away
>other rights. If she was serious she should have stopped her husband, Mr.
>Blum, who is the US partner with a Red Chinese that brought the 35,000 AK47s
>into this country from Red China then at least that many that not have
reached
>our shores. We should also insure that Red China does not build an
ammunition
>factory in California to produce ammunition for these weapons that are
>supposedly illegal in this country. This factory is supposedly being built
>now - it sounds more like a forward resupply source to me. Think and act
>while you can. The gent who forwarded this msg has been throught the wringer
>to bring this information to light and give us a chance to act.
>From: NRA Glock <NRAGlock@aol.com>
>Return-path: <NRAGlock@aol.com>
>Subject: A Time to Write-From Mark (formerly NRANRANRA)
>Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 11:31:57 EDT
>Organization: AOL (http://www.aol.com)
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>Hey everybody! It is time to write our Senators and let them know we are
>against this stupid, communist, Hitler like directive of Bill "communist
>Hitler" Clinton. Let's fight for our freedom! Patrick Henry said, "Give me
>liberty or give me death!" I say, I would rather be dead than Red (communist
>like Red China or North Korea, etc).
>
> <A HREF="http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/">Contacting the Congress</A>
>http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/
>
>" And that said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to
>infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience, or to
>prevent the people of the United Satates, who are peaceable citizens, from
>keeping their own arms" SAM ADAMS 1789
>
>"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The strongest reason for
>people to retain their rights to keep and bear arms is as a lost resort to
>protect themselves against tyranny in government." THOMAS JEFFERSON
>
>"Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who
>would resist us have been totally disarmed."
>-Sara Brady, Chairman, Handgun Control Inc, to Sen. Howard Metzanbaum, The
>National Educator, January 1994, Page 3.
>
>"Gun registration is not enough." Attorney General Janet Reno, December 10,
>1993 (Associated Press)
>
>"Waiting periods are only a step. Registration is only a step. The
>prohibition of private firearms is the goal." - Janet Reno, December 10,1993
>(Associated Press)
>
>
>
>
>Los Angeles Times Wednesday, October 22, 1997
>
>
>Clinton Moves to Limit Import of Assault Guns
>By ELIZABETH SHOGREN, JEFF BRAZIL, STEVE BERRY, Times Staff Writers
>
>NEXT STORY
> W>ASHINGTON--President Clinton plans to sign a directive to limit the influx
>of thousands of foreign-made assault weapons while the federal government
>rethinks its criteria for allowing such firearms into the United States, a
>senior White House official said Tuesday.
> Although the directive has not been finalized, the administration is, at
>the minimum, committed to temporarily suspending the issuance of new permits
>to foreign gun makers, who have exploited loopholes in federal firearms laws
>by making slight modifications to their guns.
> These dealers are "trying to be cute on the assault weapons ban,"
>presidential assistant Rahm Emanuel said. "This strengthens the assault
>weapons ban on the books."
> Emanuel said he expects the president to sign the directive "within the
>week."
> The planned action comes in response to an aggressive drive by Sen.
>Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) to crack down on the importation of modified
>assault weapons from 15 countries. Late last month, Feinstein and 29 other
>senators wrote to Clinton urging him to use his executive authority to
prevent
>such weapons from entering the country.
> Under Clinton's proposed directive, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and
>Firearms will study the use of about 30 so-called modified assault rifles
>which are manufactured abroad. Depending on the outcome, the administration
>may issue tighter rules for keeping nonsporting weapons out of the country.
>Imports of firearms that do not meet those specifications will be banned.
> But Feinstein said Tuesday that while the study is underway, she also
>wants Clinton to put an immediate halt to the importation of all assault
>weapons, even those with valid federal permits.
> "It's virtually worthless," Feinstein said of the proposed directive,
"if
>it does not include pending imports. That's the whole purpose; to stop these
>weapons from coming into the country."
> Feinstein's push came after a series in The Times revealed that deep
>flaws in the nation's assault weapons laws had allowed manufacturers to
>produce so-called copycats, which are slightly different but just as
deadly as
>the banned models.
> Among other things, Feinstein compiled a list of nearly three dozen
>weapons from 15 countries that she believes fall into the category of
modified
>assault weapons. Approximately 35,000 of these guns, primarily modified
>AK-47s, reached America over the last two years, according to the Clinton
>administration.
> Feinstein contends that these weapons not only skirt the 1994 assault
>weapons restrictions but violate a 1968 law banning the importation of
>firearms that have no legitimate "sporting purposes."
> Feinstein and the other senators had specifically asked the president to
>prevent entry from Israel of a couple thousand modified semiautomatic Uzi and
>Galil firearms, which had already been approved by the ATF.
> Emanuel said Tuesday that under the language of the directive, shipments
>that have already been given permits, including the permit for the Uzis, will
>not be revoked.
> "You can't go back on permits you've already issued," Emanuel said.
> Another White House official who specializes in gun-control policy, Jose
>Cerda, added: "We are taking the law and bending it as far as we can to
>capture a whole new class of guns."
> However, former President Bush invoked the same 1968 sporting-purposes
>law in suspending importation of 43 semiautomatic assault rifles in 1989. Gun
>dealers whose permits had been revoked challenged the action in court, but
>lost.
> When questioned about that late Tuesday, one White House official said
>"our assumption . . . was that we were doing as much as we could." The
>official, who asked not to be quoted by name, said, "I'm going to revisit
[the
>directive's scope] before we put this in final form."
> The official added that the administration would have to consider
whether
>the short-term action of banning imports during the review period would
>jeopardize the long-term policy goal of keeping such weapons off the
streets.
> If the directive was expanded to include an immediate ban on imports,
the
>administration would face a certain fight with gun advocates.
> "The president and the folks at the White House need to reexamine the
>Constitution and the 2nd Amendment," said Bill Powers, spokesperson for the
>National Rifle Assn. "There is nothing in the 2nd Amendment about sport. The
>government should not be in business of determining what a sport is."
> Shogren reported from Washington, and Brazil and Berry from Los
Angeles.
>
>
>Copyright Los Angeles Times
>
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