Ammo Control question

[Covey Leader]

http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Federal/Read.aspx?id=4265




Just a reminder and worth checking


Read the last sentence also!!!!!! (below the link)


Snopes is still researching this, as of 01/04/2009



Ammunition Accountability Legislation


The bill that is being pushed in 18 states (including Illinois and Indiana ) requires all ammunition to be encoded by the manufacture a data base of all ammunition sales. So they will know how much you buy and what calibers..
Nobody can sell any ammunition after June 30, 2009 unless the ammunition is coded.


Any privately held uncoded ammunition must be destroyed by July 1, 2011. (Including hand loaded ammo.) They will also charge a .05 cent tax on every round so every box of ammo you buy will go up at least $2.50 or more!


If they can deprive you of ammo they do not need to take your gun!


This legislation is currently pending in 18 states: Alabama, Arizona, California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Washington.


Send to your friends in these states AND fight to dissolve this BILL!!


To find more about the anti-gun group that is sponsoring this legislation and the specific legislation for each state, go to:



http://ammunitionaccountability.org/Legislation.htm

 

[Yo Mama]

Sent email

address is: [email protected] , I think, they made it hard to find!

Letter sent:

Dear Sir or Ma'am,

I'm appauled at your tactic to disarm Americans by sneakily going after ammunition encoding. You are directly responsible for your actions, and disarming citizens that rely on lawful use of firearms for protection will not be able to defend themselves or their families. I don't care what your reasons are, you're wrong.

Sportsmen and women actually enjoy shooting. Your legislation would not allow this, as cost would skyrocket out of normal citizens ability. I guess your agency is elitist, and only caters to the rich.

I loved the quote on your website, "saving lives one bullet at a time". These are my thoughts exactly! Guns save lives you morons! Get this already!

You're scum, and I hope you have to live with the deaths as a result of your hazardous legislation.

 

[Hutch]

That form letter won't do us any good with misspelled words in it. Kinda reinforces the stereotypes others have of us...

 

[BeeGee]

What Hutch said!

I agree. If you wish to send a letter to a representitive to complain give them solid statistics and BE NICE BUT FIRM in your standing. There are plenty of stats available to show that these kinds of regulatory statutes do not now or have they ever worked. Make sure you show yourself as an intelligent voter who would not keep in office someone who would take away our right to defend our families and our country. I believe the people still RULE this land.
BeeGee

 

[kingpin008]

As others have said, if you're going to send a letter, try to follow these simple rules when you do so:

1. Spelling and grammar count. If you're not sure, consult a dictionary or spell-check.

2. Have a clear, concise point. If you aren't direct, the reader will get bored and not bother with the rest of your letter.

3. Try to refrain from calling people "morons" and "scum". It's not very nice, and portrays you (and us) as a bunch of childish idiots who can't put forth a proper argument without hurling insults.

And I'm not trying to twist the knife here, but if you can't spell the words in your own letter correctly, and you go and call someone a moron...well, how does that look?


Also - this ammo accountability thing has been going around forever. It's a non-issue. People should really do a search for it before they post about it again. There are multiple threads discussing it already.

 

[Old Fuff]

Most legislators that I know are not worried so much about the spelling as they are a letter’s subject. By all means do write using a spelling checker, but never forget that the core points have nothing to do with perfect English. Anyone that get elected to public office either knows, or quickly learns, that a perfect command of language is not a requirement to vote, and in their lives votes are everything.

Note: This message has been examined and passed my word processor’s spelling checker. If you find a problem take it up with it…

 

[Yo Mama]

Understood.

Doesn't matter though, as I got this message back:

<[email protected]>:child status 100...The e-mail message could not be delivered because the user's mailfolder is full.

Seems I wasn't the only one to complain.

 

[Covey Leader]

Bump

 

[drizzico]

Now I'm not a lawyer, but on another forum site I saw a reference to ex post facto laws and that they are unconstitutional.

And so I did a search on what Ex Post Facto was and the first site I went to gave this definition:

An ex post facto law is a law passed after the occurrence of an event or action which retrospectively changes the legal consequences of the event or action.

So based on that definition wouldn't any law that required

Any privately held uncoded ammunition must be destroyed by July 1, 2011. (Including hand loaded ammo.)

be a law that ran a foul of this clause to our Constitution?:banghead:

Dave

 

[Hawaiian]

This has been around for awhile. Most of the states killed the legislation when it became apparent that the individuals lobbying for it was the company that owned and patented the machines that do the identifying stamping.