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Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 21:41:53 -0800
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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: SLS: GOA Federal Alert -- 03/12/97 (fwd)
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>> Chenoweth Introduces Full Lautenberg Repeal
>> -- Your work helps deliver 11 Cosponsors!
>>
>> by Gun Owners of America
>> 8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102
>> Springfield, VA 22151
>> http://www.gunowners.org
>>
>>
>> (Wednesday, March 12) -- Rep. Helen Chenoweth (R-ID)
>>yesterday introduced a full repeal of the Lautenberg gun ban.
>>Thanks to your help, phones have been ringing off the hook on
>>Capitol Hill, and 11 Representatives have signed on to her bill
>>as original cosponsors.
>>
>> [By contrast, the other leading bill to repeal the
>>Lautenberg gun ban only had one original cosponsor when it was
>>introduced earlier this year. That bill, introduced by Rep.
>>Bob Barr (R-GA), would only repeal the retroactive part of the
>>gun ban, leaving the ban in place for the future. While
>>opposing the retroactive part of the ban, Rep. Barr endorsed
>>the underlying principle behind the Lautenberg gun ban last
>>Thursday (3/6/97) in USA Today, calling it "important and
>>worthwhile legislation."]
>>
>> Rep. Chenoweth's bill (H.R. 1009) repeals the ENTIRE
>>Lautenberg ban. Entitled the "States' Rights and Second and
>>Tenth Amendment Restoration Act of 1997," the bill lays out 17
>>findings that help advance the pro-gun cause. For instance,
>>the bill states that,
>>
>> * "Law-abiding citizens use guns to defend themselves
>>against criminals as many as 2.5 million times every year. Of
>>these self-defense cases, as many as 200,000 are by women
>>defending themselves against sexual assault."
>>
>> * "The Lautenberg Amendment oversteps federal authority,
>>violating states' rights . . . [and] violates all notions of
>>constitutional Due Process and constitutes an ex post facto
>>law."
>>
>> * "The Lautenberg Amendment does not deal with a subject
>>delegated to Congress under Article I, Section 8 of the
>>Constitution of the United States and is therefore
>>unconstitutional under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution,
>>as interpreted by United States v. Lopez."
>>
>> HERE'S WHAT TO DO:
>>
>> If you're Representative is not listed below, keep on him.
>>Get your friends, neighbors, family, gun clubs, etc. to support
>>the Chenoweth repeal bill. And remember to emphasize that the
>>Chenoweth bill (H.R. 1009) is the only bill to *completely*
>>repeal the Lautenberg gun ban from the federal code. All the
>>other half-baked repeals would still leave the ban in the federal
>>code for the future.
>>
>> WHO HAS COSPONSORED THE CHENOWETH BILL ALREADY?
>>
>> 1. Rep. Tom Coburn (R-OK)
>> 2. Rep. Barbara Cubin (R-WY)
>> 3. Rep. John Doolittle (R-CA)
>> 4. Rep. Jim Gibbons (R-NV)
>> 5. Rep. Virgil Goode (D-VA)
>> 6. Rep. Wally Herger (R-CA)
>> 7. Rep. John Hostettler (R-IN)
>> 8. Rep. Ron Lewis (R-KY)
>> 9. Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX)
>> 10. Rep. Joe Skeen (R-NM)
>> 11. Rep. Don Young (R-AK)
>>
>>
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