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Volume 2, No. 9; March 1st, 2013
In This Issue
Rep Goodlatte frowns on universal background checks
Feinstein Holds Hearings
Poll indicates vast majority of gun owners would defy ban
SAF warns Alabama City to drop disarmament ordinance
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Illinois House considering banning semi-autos

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Next week, the Illinois House will consider extreme anti-gun legislation that would ban commonly owned semi-automatic firearms and standard capacity magazines. The particular language will most likely be attached on the House floor as amendments to shell bills, so no language is currently available.  While under a federal court order to pass a state Right-to-Carry law, anti-gun Chicago politicians continue to play games with your right to self-defense. Rather than working on measures to reduce violent crime, they continue to play politics and attack the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens. The NRA-ILA will continue to send legislative updates as details become available.  However, it is of the utmost importance that you act now to stop this gun and magazine ban and registration scheme.  Your action stopped these attempts in Springfield earlier this year and it is important that you stay vigilant! Contact your state Representative immediately and politely urge them to oppose the banning of any semi-automatics or magazines.

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Rep Goodlatte frowns on

universal background checks

 

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In a February 27th article written for Politico, Kate Nocera reports that House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte [R-VA6] said the Judiciary Committee will discuss gun control during the current session but universal background checks are not likely to be considered. "The fact of the matter is we're going to look at all of these issues, but I think where we're going to find the ability to produce legislation is going to be focused on two things: One is improving the background check system, but universal background checks I do not think will be a part of that," the Virginia Republican said at a breakfast hosted by The Christian Science Monitor. "The other will be improving the efforts to crack down on illegal sales of firearms on the streets." According to Nocera, Goodlatte said he believes that universal background checks would not stop criminals from getting guns, and there is not enough being done to prosecute people who fill out false information in background checks now. He further said he does not support an assault weapons ban and is more interested having current gun control laws enforced.

Feinstein Holds Hearings

on Gun and Magazine Ban

 

On Wednesday, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) held Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on her new gun and magazine ban legislation, S. 150, the "Assault Weapons Ban of 2013." Among those testifying in support of the bill was John Walsh, the U.S. Attorney for Colorado, representing the Obama Department of Justice, Milwaukee police chief Edward Flynn, and Philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter. Testifying against the bill were former U.S. Rep. Sandy Adams (R-Fla.), Fordham University law professor and longtime Second Amendment scholar Nicholas Johnson, and attorney and constitutional scholar David Hardy. Feinstein insisted on holding her own hearings because hearings held a month ago by Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) didn't produce enough support for her bill. In the earlier hearings, NRA Executive Vice-President Wayne LaPierre, University of Denver law professor David Kopel, and attorney Gayle Trotter spoke against banning "assault weapons" and magazines that hold 11 or more rounds, and also against criminalizing private sales, gifts and trades of firearms. At one point Flynn interrupted Sen. Graham to say that prosecuting criminals who illegally try to buy guns was irrelevant. The chief's attempts to cut Sen. Graham off were so disrespectful that Sen. Feinstein herself intervened, banging the gavel and insisting on civility during the proceedings. [Source: NRA/ILA]

Poll indicates vast majority of

gun owners would defy ban

 

If the government were to pass an unconstitutional law purporting to ban firearms, two thirds of Americans with guns in their household say they would defy the lawless legislation and refuse to comply, according to a recent poll conducted by Fox News. In his January 30th New American article, Alex Newman said the poll also indicates that even the majority of Democrat and liberal gun owners would refuse to surrender their weapons. "Most Americans believe that more guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens - not gun bans - would help reduce crime," Newman wrote. The poll interviewed more than 1,000 registered voters in mid-January and more than half of all respondents said there was at least one gun in their household. Among the 52 percent of respondents who admitted to having a gun in their household, the overwhelming majority said they would defy any "law" purporting to require the surrender of firearms. An astonishing two thirds said outright that they would defy the unconstitutional pretended act of legislation. Some 13 percent were not sure, and just 22 percent said they would give up their guns or submit.

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SAF warns Alabama City to drop

citizen disarmament ordinance

 

The Second Amendment Foundation has warned the City of Guntersville, Ala. to drop its effort to pass an emergency citizen disarmament ordinance or face legal action. Guntersville Mayor Leigh Dollar is reportedly working on a proposal - to be discussed at the city council's March 4 meeting - that would allow police to confiscate firearms from allegedly "unruly" citizens during an emergency, such as the aftermath of a storm. "The city of Guntersville has no legal authority to adopt or enforce such an ordinance," said SAF Executive Vice President Alan Gottlieb in a letter to Guntersville City Attorney Dan Warnes. He also asserted that the city's existing tax on firearms dealers and a prohibition on carrying firearms at farmers' markets are also violations of state law. "We recall vividly what happened after Hurricane Katrina," Gottlieb said. "New Orleans police forcefully disarmed peaceful, law-abiding citizens for no good reason until we stepped in with a federal lawsuit and stopped it. Local public officials occasionally need to be reminded that they were elected to serve the public, not rule over their constituents or nullify their constitutional rights.

 
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