RELH
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As some of you know, I do not own any so called "assault rifles", but I support the right of other law abiding citizens to own them.
I am addressing this to all of you that do own rifles that our goverment consider being "assault rifles".
It has come out now that the school shooter did in fact use his bushmaster 223 cal. rifle to kill the children and school staff. Because of that, I do forsee a concerted effort on the part of our liberal members of Congress and the President to make a serious attempt to out right ban any rifle that they can describe as a "assault rifle". If they follow the example of CA. when Gray Davis was Govenor, that description could include semi auto hunting rifles such as the Remington 740 & 7400 and Browning BAR. Semi auto centerfire with detactable magazine and 2/3 portion of the pistol grip laying below a horizontal line below the upper trigger guard.
Our liberal anti gun lawmakers in CA. tried to sneak that description though in a bill after Gray Davis stated as Governor he would not pass any bill that would take away hunting rifles from hunters. Only a last minute letter writing to the Governor by law enforcement agencies was able to have that portion dropped where it did effect hunting rifles mentioned above. I was one of those officers that drafted the letter sent to the Governor by my department stating it was not effective in curbing violent crime and it was a sneaky attempt to include certain hunting rifles. Hunting rifles won out, but we ended up having to register the black rifles and a 10 round mag only allowed in this state.
This battle over the so called assault rifles is going to be a battle fought in Washington D.C. with Obama and Congress. Only the NRA has the power to fight for us there, not so much our state organizations. I look for the Democrats to go with Obama, even the ones from western states. I also look for some GOP members to go along with it for fear of being branded that they are blood thirsty minons of the NRA and condone the shooting down of 20 children ages 5-6 years old. A title they would fear having when coming up for re-election and you can bet the Democrats would use it to defeat them.
At best I am hoping the NRA has enough strengh in member's voices to check Obama at a outright banning of all assault weapons, but I do feel there will be restrictions on assault rifles and high capacty magazines.
At best I look for Obama to kill two birds with one stone if checked by the NRA voice. First would be a ban on new assault weapons and hopefully the ones here now will be grandfathered in with some restrictions.
That second bird will be that the owners of assault rifles will have to register them and Obama will gladly place a fee on them similar to the one on full auto weapons and that fee is $200.00 to the owner and everytime they change hands.
I know some of you will pi$$ and moan that it could not happen, I think you are going to get it shoved down your throat this time as most voting citizens will buy into Obama's plan as a way to curb mass killings of our children. What we know as gun owners will not amount to a pot to pi$$ in as the average voting non gun owning citizen thinks banning them will work and facts will not change their minds because they will not get involved enough to check facts.
So now is the time to decide if you want to fish or just cut bait and rant and rave while your assault rifles are placed in jeopardy. You have the choice of giving the NRA 35 bucks in membership fees or risk losing, or having to register your rifles and possibly paying a 200 dollar register fee to the Feds.
Your choice! As for me I a NRA member for the past 30 years and I am going to sign up my son who is a school teacher and feels the same as I do about firearm ownership. My other son, the cop, is already a NRA member.
RELH
I am addressing this to all of you that do own rifles that our goverment consider being "assault rifles".
It has come out now that the school shooter did in fact use his bushmaster 223 cal. rifle to kill the children and school staff. Because of that, I do forsee a concerted effort on the part of our liberal members of Congress and the President to make a serious attempt to out right ban any rifle that they can describe as a "assault rifle". If they follow the example of CA. when Gray Davis was Govenor, that description could include semi auto hunting rifles such as the Remington 740 & 7400 and Browning BAR. Semi auto centerfire with detactable magazine and 2/3 portion of the pistol grip laying below a horizontal line below the upper trigger guard.
Our liberal anti gun lawmakers in CA. tried to sneak that description though in a bill after Gray Davis stated as Governor he would not pass any bill that would take away hunting rifles from hunters. Only a last minute letter writing to the Governor by law enforcement agencies was able to have that portion dropped where it did effect hunting rifles mentioned above. I was one of those officers that drafted the letter sent to the Governor by my department stating it was not effective in curbing violent crime and it was a sneaky attempt to include certain hunting rifles. Hunting rifles won out, but we ended up having to register the black rifles and a 10 round mag only allowed in this state.
This battle over the so called assault rifles is going to be a battle fought in Washington D.C. with Obama and Congress. Only the NRA has the power to fight for us there, not so much our state organizations. I look for the Democrats to go with Obama, even the ones from western states. I also look for some GOP members to go along with it for fear of being branded that they are blood thirsty minons of the NRA and condone the shooting down of 20 children ages 5-6 years old. A title they would fear having when coming up for re-election and you can bet the Democrats would use it to defeat them.
At best I am hoping the NRA has enough strengh in member's voices to check Obama at a outright banning of all assault weapons, but I do feel there will be restrictions on assault rifles and high capacty magazines.
At best I look for Obama to kill two birds with one stone if checked by the NRA voice. First would be a ban on new assault weapons and hopefully the ones here now will be grandfathered in with some restrictions.
That second bird will be that the owners of assault rifles will have to register them and Obama will gladly place a fee on them similar to the one on full auto weapons and that fee is $200.00 to the owner and everytime they change hands.
I know some of you will pi$$ and moan that it could not happen, I think you are going to get it shoved down your throat this time as most voting citizens will buy into Obama's plan as a way to curb mass killings of our children. What we know as gun owners will not amount to a pot to pi$$ in as the average voting non gun owning citizen thinks banning them will work and facts will not change their minds because they will not get involved enough to check facts.
So now is the time to decide if you want to fish or just cut bait and rant and rave while your assault rifles are placed in jeopardy. You have the choice of giving the NRA 35 bucks in membership fees or risk losing, or having to register your rifles and possibly paying a 200 dollar register fee to the Feds.
Your choice! As for me I a NRA member for the past 30 years and I am going to sign up my son who is a school teacher and feels the same as I do about firearm ownership. My other son, the cop, is already a NRA member.
RELH
