| NRA-ILA FAX ALERT |
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| Vol. 7, No.18 |
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5/5/2000 |
FLURRY OF ANTI-GUN ACTIVITY EXPECTED
IN U.S. SENATE |
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As we have mentioned in previous FAX Alerts, the U.S. Senate is expected to
take action next week on S. 2 -- "The Educational Opportunities Act." Sponsored
by Senator James Jeffords (R-Vt.), the bill seeks to reauthorize the Elementary
and Secondary Education Act of 1965. Not wanting to miss any opportunity to
load up pending legislation with anti-gun amendments this election year,
anti-gun Senators are poised to offer a slew of restrictive "gun control"
proposals to S. 2.
Amendments that could be offered include:
- the Lautenberg gun
show ban language;
- an import ban on "high-capacity" magazines;
- the repeal of
large parts of the 1986 Firearms Owners' Protection Act (under the guise of
Senator Schumer's [D-N.Y.] so-called "ENFORCE" Act, which, in a classic
"Catch-22," would shut down all non-storefront FFLs and also classify many
individuals who engage in occasional sales as FFLs, thus precluding them from
getting an FFL since they lack a storefront business premise);
- a one-gun-a-month
scheme; and
- a resolution that advocates further limits on places where lawful
permit holders could carry -- clearly intended to bolster Vice President Gore's
recent political attacks on Right To Carry laws.
While these and other
amendments could be offered at any time, it certainly has not been lost on
anti-freedom Senators that
the "Million Mom March" is but one week away, and
therefore,
we expect these restrictive amendments to be offered over the course
of the next week and the week after to maximize media coverage of the gun issue.
Please contact your U.S. Senators at (202) 224-3121 and urge them to oppose any
and all "gun control" amendments to the "Educational Opportunities Act," and
instead, to concentrate their efforts on enforcing existing laws against violent
criminals. You may also e-mail your Senators, whose e-mail addresses are
available at the "Write Your Reps" feature at
www.NRAILA.org. Using this
feature you can obtain your Senators' e-mail addresses and e-mail them directly
from our site.
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