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Today's Topics:
1. Bush Justice Department Sides with DC to Supremes!
(Firearms Coalition)
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 18:18:07 -0500
From: Firearms Coalition
Subject: [Fcalerts-list] Bush Justice Department Sides with DC to
Supremes!
In typical, "screw your friends and appease your enemies,"
Republican fa****on, the Bush Justice Department has filed an amicus
brief defending the DC gun ban in the DC v. Heller case currently before
the Supreme Court. The Justice Department calls on the Court to
acknowledge the Second Amendment as an individual right, but asks that
the Circuit Court's decision in the case be reversed and remanded
(thrown out and sent back to the Circuit Court) with instructions to
determine whether DC's laws unreasonably restrict resident's ability to
exercise their rights. It appears that the "pro-gun," Republican
Department of Justice fears that any decision from the Supreme Court
which held that banning any class of weapons was an infringement of the
Second Amendment, might open the door to challenges against bans on
dreaded machineguns.
It is worth noting that Congress recognized back in 1934 that
banning machineguns would be a violation of the Second Amendment so they
instead devised a plan whereby they could control such firearms with
burdensome taxes and paperwork restrictions. It was not until 1986 that
the first ever federal firearms ban was enacted when NRA accepted a ban
on private purchase or possession of any newly manufactured machineguns
as an amendment to the McClure-Volkmer, Firearms Owner's Protection
Act. At that time, NRA-ILA chief, Wayne LaPierre declared that repeal
of the machinegun ban would be NRA's top priority in the next session of
Congress. Even though Mr. LaPierre has been the Chief Executive Officer
of the organization for more than 15 years now and receives a
compensation totaling more than a million dollars a year, no bill to
repeal the '86 ban has ever been put forward by NRA.
If the Supreme Court follows the government's request in this
matter, no firm decision about the practical value of the Second
Amendment could be expected for at least another four years; many
thousands of dollars, and at least two new Justices from now.
Republican politicians and operatives across the country need to
hear and feel the wrath of GunVoters over this latest in a long list of
betrayals from our oh-so-reliable, pro-gun friends. Write to the
President, the Vice-President, your Republican Senators and
Representatives, your local Republican officials and your County Central
Committee and let them know that your anger will be reflected at the
ballot box.
This is just another example of why Republicans like Rudy Giuliani,
Mitt Romney, and John McCain are completely unacceptable presidential
candidates and why Republicans are likely to lose the Presidency and
additional Congressional seats due to a poor showing from GunVoters in
the coming elections.
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Yours for the Second Amendment,
Jeff
Jeff Knox
The Firearms Coalition
www.FirearmsCoalition.org
P.S. Special thanks to Dave Hardy, Second Amendment scholar and good
friend (http://armsandthelaw.com/archives/2008/01/government_file.php)
for alerting us to this im****tant development and giving us the, "screw
your friends and appease your enemies," quote. JAK
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