A lot of money has been put into studies (mostly by anti-gun groups) that has shown that NO gun law passed in the last 30 years has had ANY positive effect on crime or murder. Over the last 20 years the crime rate (and murder rate) has dropped by about 1/2 while the ownership of guns has about doubled and the number of people carrying concealed has gone up by about 10X. So called "assault Rifles" Have accounted for about 2% of the murders each year since the ban expired. About double that number were killed with hammers (and other blunt objects) About 13% were killed with knives. About 2X as many people were killed by no weapon (hands or feet) as were killed with ALL rifles combined. BUT ALL OF THAT DOSEN'T MATTER BECAUSE THE PRESIDENT AND VP DO NOT HAVE AN OPEN MIND. They don't care about facts- they just want to outlaw private ownership of guns.
Their plan is to separate groups so they have less problem. Push that these are not "hunting" weapons (a lie by the way) so the the hunters will not oppose "reasonable" restrictions. Include major retailers because they will benefit from "Universal" back ground checks.
The biggest problem is that you should not believe that this is about "Assault rifles". The bill that they are pushing. in the Senate is aimed at all semi automatic firearms, pistols, and shotguns. What they are trying to do is outlaw everything then allow us to keep guns on this list of 900 guns. You see most of these gun grabbers think the 2nd gives us the "right" to own guns. Nothing could be further from the truth. The 2nd assumes we have the right to own firearms and says the government can't take that away. In the bill, there is verbiage that outlaws firearms with features like a pistol grip, barrel shroud, and thumbhole stock. That is bad enough but it includes "or capable of accepting" these features. Do you know of any rifles that you can't remove the butt stock? so that would make them "capable of accepting" a thumb hole or pistol grip, right?
There is also a section banning weapons of "military design OR BASED ON MILITARY DESIGN" Can you think of any guns that are not based on a "Military" design? Maybe a pump action rifle- can't think of any military pump rifles, but there are a LOT of military pump shotguns so even that could be included.
The "universal background checks" in other words EVERY gun sale going thru the government. THe figure they keep quoting is that 40% of gun sales don't go thru a background check. Well who made that number up? what do they base it on? They keep hammering gun shows, but if you buy a gun from a dealer at a gun show, you undergo the same background check that you would in a store. At least around me, you can not sell guns at a table in a gun show unless you have an FFL. I do see a lot of guns that are sold without background checks... because I see a lot of people sell guns to the dealers! (that means the NEXT sale (of that gun) will go thru the 4473/FBI back ground check)
I know there are a lot of you out there that are not members of the NRA. And I know they pester the hell out of you to donate $$. But I will deal with deleting a few e-mails from time to time to protect all our rights to own guns. Make no mistake, The ONLY reason we still have the freedoms we have today is BECAUSE of the NRA. I don't care what you might think about the NRA, you should join at once. Right now the NRA can say they repensent 4,000,000 people. If that number were 10,000,000 we would have a lot less of this anti gun crap. JOIN THE NRA!
Don't be taken in by this "gun SAFETY bill" and "reasonable discussion" crap. They are after ALL guns, and are trying to change the rules so they ALLOW us to own certain guns (for now) instead of having the right to own a gun.
Join the NRA, Go to the NRA site and get the contact info for you elected reps and CONTACT them. If every gun owner sent just one e-mail our elected reps would not pass these restrictions.
I would like them pass bills that would force mental health providers to share information with the FBI.
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