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Most Sweeping Gun Ban Ever Hits Congress:Clinton Ban Re-enactment Targets Millions More Guns(NRA)
nraila ^ | 5/10/2004 | nraila

Posted on 05/15/2003 11:54 AM CDT by TLBSHOW

Most Sweeping Gun Ban Ever Hits Congress: Clinton Ban "Re-enactment" Targets Millions More Guns!!!

As we predicted, the anti-gunners have begun the push to further expand the Clinton gun ban of 1994. Not content with merely
re-authorizing the ban, Reps. John Conyers (D-Mich.) and Carolyn McCarthy (D-N.Y.) have drafted legislation that bans millions more
guns! It's a giant step closer to the goal stated by Clinton ban sponsor Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who said on CBS's 60
Minutes: "If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an outright ban, picking up every one of them, Mr.
and Mrs. America, turn them all in, I would have done it." Toward that goal, Conyers/McCarthy would:

Ban every gun made to lawfully comply with the Clinton ban. The Clinton ban arbitrarily dictated the kinds of grips, stocks and
attachments that new guns could have. Manufacturers complied. New guns were made to conform to the Clinton restrictions. Now
prohibitionists want to ban the new guns, too.

Ban guns the Clinton legislation expressly exempted from prohibition. This includes Ruger Mini-14s, Ranch Rifles, and .30 Caliber
Carbines, and entire classes of guns, including fixed magazine rifles, as well as shotguns that hold under five rounds.

Ban guns widely used for target shooting. It bans the three center-fire rifles most commonly used for marksmanship competitions:
the Colt AR-15, the Springfield M1A, and the M1 "Garand."

Ban all semi-automatic shotguns: Remingtons, Winchesters, Benellis, Berettas, etc., widely used for hunting, trap, skeet, and
sporting clays, by banning their receivers (main component).

Ban guns for defense. Bans any semi-automatic rifle or shotgun any U.S. Attorney General one day claims is not "sporting," even
though self-defense is a fundamental right and the federal constitution, the constitutions of 44 states, and the laws of all 50
states recognize the right to use guns for defense.

Ban 68 named guns (Clinton ban named 19 guns); Ban parts used to repair or refurbish guns, including frames or receivers; Ban
importation of ammunition magazines exempt under Clinton ban; Ban private sales of millions of guns, their frames and receivers,
and their parts; Ban semi-automatic rifles under 30" long (useful for home defense); Ban all semi-automatic rifles that can hold
more than 10 rounds.

Ban guns rarely used in crime. State and local law enforcement agency reports have always shown that guns on the Clinton and
Conyers/McCarthy ban lists have never been used in more than a small percentage of violent crime. The
Congressionally-mandated study of the Clinton law concluded that guns it banned "were never used in more than a fraction of all
gun murders." But even if they were, are the rights and liberties of law-abiding citizens to be dictated by the acts of criminals?

Begin "backdoor" registration. Requires manufacturers of banned guns, frames, receivers, and parts to report the names of their
dealers, and requires dealers to report any of those parts they have in stock. The next step is obvious-demanding the names of
gun owners who buy those parts.

Please contact your U.S. Representative at (202) 224-3121 or by using the "Write Your Representatives" feature and urge them
to oppose any attempt to keep alive the Clinton gun ban.