Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 10:32:30 EST From: freemanaz@aol.com Subject: [lpaz-discuss] FACT Legislative ALERT - McCain and gun shows - March 28, 2001 To: lpaz-discuss@yahoogroups.com Cc: wwalker@primenet.com, Essprsogal@aol.com Reply-To: lpaz-discuss@yahoogroups.com
Subj: FACT Legislative ALERT - McCain and gun shows - March 28, 2001 Date: 3/28/01 6:10:49 AM US Mountain Standard Time From: rineer@QuixNet.net (Kenneth Rineer) Reply-to: rineer@QuixNet.net (Kenneth Rineer) To: wood@myblueheaven.com (Scott Wood), r.destephens@worldnet.att.net (Rick Destephens), murphy@brassroots.org (Phil Murphy), Amdalgic@earthlink.net (Ken Knight), mk19gunner@juno.com (Gary Taylor), carlos@theriver.com (Carlos Alvarez)
Firearms Action Committee - Tucson P.O. Box 27321 Tucson, Arizona 85726 (520) 740-9387
March 28, 2001
Dear proponents of the right to self defense:
Below is a short article that is a must read.
We need to let Senator McCain know again that we don't want his interference in state matters as well as requiring background checks on person-to-person sales or the transfer of private property from one individual to another.
If they place this requirement on individuals at gun shows, the sales will move away from the gun shows. Then there will be need for a law to require individuals to go through a FFL in order to transfer a firearms (like Kalifornia) and so on and so on.
If we do not stop buy the argument that we must compromise for the sake of public safety or that background checks are a good thing, we'll all wake up one day and think we live in Kalifornia or Massachusetts rather than America.
Go to http://www.senate.gov Then follow the links by clicking on "Contacting the Senate" then scrolling down to Senator McCain.
You can try his email address directly, but sometimes it doesn't go through. john_mccain@mccain.senate.gov
Better yet, look up his office in the blue pages of your phone book and call his office. Let them know in disagree with his actions on this matter.
Sincerely,
Ken Rineer President, Firearms Action Committee - Tucson
Printed in the Arizona Republic March 28, 2001
Group urges checks at weapons shows
Dallas Morning News March 28, 2001
WASHINGTON - A showdown may be brewing on Capitol Hill over gun-control legislation.
But unlike past battles where gun-control advocates squared off against the National Rifle Association, this time the fight may be in the family.
Americans for Gun Safety, a new face in the gun-control movement, is working closely with two Senate celebrities, Republican John McCain and Democrat Joe Lieberman, to draft a measure that would require criminal background checks for all sales made at gun shows.
While applauding efforts to close the so-called gun-show loophole, other gun-control groups fear that the draft being worked up by the senators and Americans for Gun Safety amounts to a tepid version of a measure narrowly approved by the Senate in 1999.
The Million Mom March and the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence recenty issued "action alerts" asking supporters to contact McCain and Lieberman to express concern over the gun-show proposal.
The gun-control activists are particularly troubled because Americans for Gun Safety has been working behind closed doors with Senate aides to craft the legislation, declining to share details with others in the cause, as traditionally has been the case.
"I am personally greatly concerned that no one else in the movement has any idea what McCain and Lieberman are up to," said Michael Bard, president of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence. "It's sort of strange to have a major piece of legislation that most of the major players in the field haven't had a chance to review."
Copyright 2000, The Arizona Republic. All rights reserved.
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