Bill to repeal CA AWB!

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I just hope they aren't antis. I know they'll pick up on it even without the email I just sent. If they're pro gun, I'll never listen to another CD or radio station in the car again. :)
 
I've created what I feel is an improved flier... it's one page, contains a little more contact info for the Democratic members of the Public Safety Committee, and leaves off the Republicans (we already know that Jay La Suer and Todd Spitzer are going to vote correctly... we can focus our efforts on the others). I also left off any info about other Legislators... it's premature to contact them, I think. I believe we should focus all of our efforts on the Public Saftey Committee like a laser beam... if we clear that hurdle, then let's worry about our local lawmakers!

I do want to give a huge thank-you to UberPhLuBB for getting the ball rolling... this is something I'd been meaning to do, but seeing someone else do it first gave me a kick in the rear! :)

http://shooting.forsandiego.com/Repeal_AWB.pdf
 
Jim, chime in! You should try for a guest spot on KFI AM’s John and Ken or a similar show. Huge listener base in the LA and surrounding areas.
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I like KFI’s John & Ken Show, but their big issue is illegal immigration. They think gun control is an issue meant to distract the people from more important things. John Kobelt said as much just a day or two ago.

~G. Fink
 
Art, maybe you misspelled Assemblywoman Goldberg’s name.

I just got receipt confirmations from Dymally, Leno, Cohn, and Ruskin. No bounces yet this time.

~G. Fink
 
I've got a batch of these going out tomorrow. Thanks for the mailing addresses, jnojr.

I'm posting this in hopes of spurring people into writing letters or at the very least calling to say "Hey, why don't y'all vote aye on AB 448? That would be super."

Again, anyone is free to use as much or as little as you like.

Committee Member [insert name], I strongly urge you to vote for bill AB 448 when it is heard in the near future. Recently, the United States of America (save California) decided it's decade-old "assault weapon" ban was not fit to be renewed. There was no public outcry, there was no storm of murders, there was no change other than hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of firearms owners overrun with jubilance.

It is a fact that so-called "assault weapons" (which are so catagorized not by the cartridges they use, nor by any manner of lethality, but by the cosmetic features they bear) are used in less than 2% of all crimes involving firearms. There are myriad firearms available in California which use the same popular cartridges that "assault weapons" do. They are no more or less powerful than their non-California-legal counterparts posessed throughout the country. A cosmetic feature such as a pistol grip or flash hider (which does not in fact hide any muzzle flash) does not change the ballistics of the round exiting the barrel. They do not make a firearm more dangerous or threatening.

So-called "assault weapons" are subject to the same background check and/or Dealer's Record of Sale as any other firearm. They are no more available to criminals than any other firearm. Again, Committee Member, I very strongly urge you to vote YES, AYE or FOR Bill AB 448. California's unjust, unconstitutional ban on "assault weapons" has gone untended long enough.
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My PDF has been fixed.

Here's what I just banged out...

Dear Assemblymember ____________________,

I am writing to urge you to allow Assemblymember Jay LaSuer's AB 448 to pass through the Public Safety Committee. Californias ban on "assault weapons" has done aboslutely nothing to stop any crime. All it has done is hurt millions of Californians who are no longer able to buy rifles that are widely used for sporting purposes (some hunting, many competitions). Further, thousands of honest, hard-working, law-abiding, and voting Californians have been turned into unwitting felons, not because they've done something "bad", but because they own a piece of metal and plastic that later became illegal.

The Federal "AWB" sunsetted and was not renewed because the facts have borne out that so-called "assault rifles" are generally used in crime... a very few, very publicized cases have occurred, but the criminals choice of rifle does not bear upon the rifle itself. In most states of the Union, any law-abiding citizen can purchase one of these firearms freely, and there is no wave of crime because of that. Further, even the California Department of Justice is constantly tied in knots trying to decide what's an "assault rifle" and what isn't... California citizens receive conflicting opinions based on whom they speak with, and when. This is a poorly-written, confusing law that does absolutely nothing for the common good. Please... allow this bill to go to a vote before the full Assembly.

Thank you for your time and attention to this matter.
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I came late onto this piece of news.

The .50 BMG was incorporated into existing CA AWB, right? Thus if the thing goes away the .50 can once again walk in the light?

This Texan has a fair amount of money pushed down that ab50 fight chuckhole and I'd love to see some good come of it.

Real quick lets look at some quick California history. In September of 2004...
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Accurate.
However, this happened in December of 2004:

http://www.usdoj.gov/olc/secondamendment2.htm

I realize left coast upbringers could give a wet slap what the Feds say, much less the Ashcroft Justice Department, but this is the Office of Legal Counsel fercryinoutloud which might (really reaching here, I realize) carry a half-pint of water in the Ninth Circuit.

One minor difference between September and December is that the CA AWB isn't quite as constitutionally unassailable as it once was.

::Texan thread bump.::
 
Assault pistols in New Jersey being banned? Assault pistols? Good grief

.50 cal ban in Illinois, but muzzle loaders exempt. Divide and conquer

100 Iowa police chiefs want a statewide Assualt Weapons Ban?

Washington state is working on a $6.00 per box tax on shotgun shells

Redefining Assault weapons in New York to any semi-auto? Including Garands? 1911's? Banning and confiscation?

All this just on the first page of "Legal and Political"


I think of what the "new media" of the Blogoshere and what they have accomplished in exposing kerry, cbs, rathergate, ny times etc.

My thinking is with this Internet thingy and the co-ordination of efforts across the country we can put our cyber backs into the big push and accomplish quite a bit.
Gun control and gerrymandering must be defeated. The fights are all at the state and local level, they have been divided into smaller morsels (or targets) by the sunset of the national AWB.

Keep talking to people you come in contact with and get a couple of new shooters a month is all we ask.

Count me in.

Writing and calling.

Vick
 
Keep talking to people you come in contact with and get a couple of new shooters a month is all we ask. Count me in. Writing and calling.
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It's been a bad week. This mid-50ish Texan needed that. Thanks.

There's hope for these left coasters, after all.
Carry on!
 
I haven't been able to find any news articles online, but I just heard on the news that a "gunman" in Los Angeles used an "AK-47" to fire 30-something bullets into a conveniance store, with no apparent purpose. 3 people are injured, no deaths (yet). A ".45" was fired with the "AK-47."

I'm still trying to decide if this is good or bad news. It's almost too timely to be a coincidence...

On one hand, it clearly illustrates how futile and asinine the California AWB is (AK-47 with a regular capacity magazine). But on the other hand, I get a visual image of Helen Lovejoy from The Simpsons screaming "Think of the CHILDREN!" Once the media hears word of AB 448, they will no doubt use today's news as a throwback to skew reality so as to connive people into being outraged when they have no right to be. Call me crazy, but I doubt the media will take the opinion that the AWB was pointless.

*sigh* For the first time, I got a sinking feeling in my gut. What terrible timing.
 
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There is WAY too much at stake to give up. It is unlikely that AB448 will pass, but we must keep trying. If we give up, the antis will have won. If, on the other hand, we keep trying, we will eventually get our rights back (persistence, redistricting, etc...).

If the only thing the fence-sitters hear is the message of the antis, that is what they will believe. If they hear a balanced message about the reality of the effectiveness of AWB's, then we will make our case--sooner or later.

"Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent." ~ Marilyn vos Savant
 
If the only thing the fence-sitters hear is the message of the antis, that is what they will believe. If they hear a balanced message about the reality of the effectiveness of AWB's, then we will make our case--sooner or later.
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Hear, hear!!!
 
...and here I thought the AK47 was supposed to be the penultimate Sturmgewehr, capable of killing women and children on sight. Thirty rounds fired should have resulted in 60 deaths, so the brady bunch would have us believe, 30 fatal hits with 30 passthroughs to 30 more fatal hits.

30 rounds with 3 injuries goes to show that the "assault weapons" aren't the super-efficient killers they want us to believe. In fact, I'll bet dollars to donuts that the 3 injuries were hits from the .45.
 
Mark Leno, Chairman, (916) 319-2013, 455 Golden Gate Ave Ste 14300, San Francisco, CA 94102

Rebecca Cohn (916) 319-2024, 100 Paseo De San Antonio Ste 319, San Jose CA 95113

Mervyn M. Dymally (916) 319-2052, 322 W. Compton Boulevard Ste 100, Compton CA 90220

Jackie Goldberg (916) 319-2045, 106 North Avenue 56, Los Angeles, CA 90042

Ira Ruskin (916) 319-2021, 5050 El Camino Real Ste 117, Los Altos, CA 94022

Todd Spitzer (916) 319-2071, 1940 North Tustin Street Ste 102, Orange, CA 92865

Contact info for the commitee.
 
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