alan
March 30, 2003, 01:17 AM
September 2004 is the scheduled "sun set" date for the ban on so-called "assault weapons", and restrictions on the capacity of "ammunition feeding devices", also known as detachable magazines. Given that neither of these pieces of legislation have accomplished any worthwhile ends, the public welfare has not been served by their enactment, the sun should set on them, which is to say that they must die. Let your "elected things" know.
The foregoing aside, there reside in the federal statute books, all manner of garbage, that should also be sent away, as there is, unfortunately no sun set provision attached to them. They will have to be repealed, as was The Prohibition Act, something that the country is all the better for. Unfortunately, The Prohibition era did serve as the incubator for what has come to be known as Organized Crime, which will likely remain with us for a very long time.
Re repeal, may I refer your attention to a historical novel, one where the author, one John Ross has his history correct. The title of the novel is Unintended Consequences, and is 861 pages long, sort of rivaling the works of James Mitchener. While I found the book quite interesting, I offer only the following. That you read a 12 page section, beginning at page 349. After reading these 12 pages, that you get on to your senators and congress person, urging that they too read these 12 pages. Having done that, that they then seriously propose and push the repeal of the National Firearms Act of 1934, along with all amendments thereto, including the 1968 amendments, otherwise known as The Gun Control Act of 1968. In addition to this, that all other existing federal law regarding the sale, possession and lawfull use of firearms, except perhaps for hunting regulations, and the barring of arms to convicted criminals be repealed too.
Repeal will likely take some work, for empires have been built upon these laws, and people who occupy the seats of power wish to remain so seated, however as with repeal of prohitition, the nation will be better off without dumb laws on the pages of it's statute books. By the way, talking of dumb laws, the proposed imposition of "ballistic fingerprinting", contained in both S. 22 as well as H.R. 24 make no sense whatever. Even Bill Lockyer, the anti-gun Attorney General of California, that strange place where all manner of idiot ideas first see the light of day, has finally admitted that a "ballistic fingerprinting database is simply not feasible as a tool for law enforcement". Talk about something being damned with faint praise. If it isn't of use in law enforcement, then what valid public purpose might it actually serve? Perhaps your "elected things" might offer some ideas, if asked.
Anyhow, with some help from interested parties, the sun will set. Let's not forget other aspects though, for they are all inter-related, and equally unacceptable.
By the bye, if you or anyone you know gets materials from JPFO, have a look at their latest in the Gran'pa Jack series, #8, entitled Is america Becoming a Police State?
The foregoing aside, there reside in the federal statute books, all manner of garbage, that should also be sent away, as there is, unfortunately no sun set provision attached to them. They will have to be repealed, as was The Prohibition Act, something that the country is all the better for. Unfortunately, The Prohibition era did serve as the incubator for what has come to be known as Organized Crime, which will likely remain with us for a very long time.
Re repeal, may I refer your attention to a historical novel, one where the author, one John Ross has his history correct. The title of the novel is Unintended Consequences, and is 861 pages long, sort of rivaling the works of James Mitchener. While I found the book quite interesting, I offer only the following. That you read a 12 page section, beginning at page 349. After reading these 12 pages, that you get on to your senators and congress person, urging that they too read these 12 pages. Having done that, that they then seriously propose and push the repeal of the National Firearms Act of 1934, along with all amendments thereto, including the 1968 amendments, otherwise known as The Gun Control Act of 1968. In addition to this, that all other existing federal law regarding the sale, possession and lawfull use of firearms, except perhaps for hunting regulations, and the barring of arms to convicted criminals be repealed too.
Repeal will likely take some work, for empires have been built upon these laws, and people who occupy the seats of power wish to remain so seated, however as with repeal of prohitition, the nation will be better off without dumb laws on the pages of it's statute books. By the way, talking of dumb laws, the proposed imposition of "ballistic fingerprinting", contained in both S. 22 as well as H.R. 24 make no sense whatever. Even Bill Lockyer, the anti-gun Attorney General of California, that strange place where all manner of idiot ideas first see the light of day, has finally admitted that a "ballistic fingerprinting database is simply not feasible as a tool for law enforcement". Talk about something being damned with faint praise. If it isn't of use in law enforcement, then what valid public purpose might it actually serve? Perhaps your "elected things" might offer some ideas, if asked.
Anyhow, with some help from interested parties, the sun will set. Let's not forget other aspects though, for they are all inter-related, and equally unacceptable.
By the bye, if you or anyone you know gets materials from JPFO, have a look at their latest in the Gran'pa Jack series, #8, entitled Is america Becoming a Police State?