Early action prudent and necessary
Congressmen and women, led by representative McCarthy of New York, are trying to institute another ‘assault weapons ban’. For those of you around when the first one went into effect in 1994, you know how useless it was in preventing/stopping crimes from occuring or continuing, even escalating.
Please, support the online petition to send a message to congress, declaring that we will NOT allow the government to circumvent our Human Right, under the Constitution of the United States, to protect ourself, our families and our friends, even innocent strangers, from those that would wish them undue harm.
The petition which I signed this morning as #1779 (at the time of posting, the number of petition signers was 5589): http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/409898348
The following link is the full text of the bill they want to pass: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h110-1022
You should read through the things they want to ban, it may suprise the heck out of you, as it did me. The one that got me is this bit:
`(L) A semiautomatic rifle or shotgun originally designed for military or law enforcement use, or a firearm based on the design of such a firearm, that is not particularly suitable for sporting purposes, as determined by the Attorney General. In making the determination, there shall be a rebuttable presumption that a firearm procured for use by the United States military or any Federal law enforcement agency is not particularly suitable for sporting purposes, and a firearm shall not be determined to be particularly suitable for sporting purposes solely because the firearm is suitable for use in a sporting event.’.
What that means is rifles such as the M1 Garand that brought home millions of Americans safely from Germany and the Pacific would be banned from sale or purchase.