Bill To Repeal "Sporting Purposes" Clause

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Hang on, let me sell all my HK's first. You're gonna drop the bottom out on some of my guns!!!
:eek: :mad: :D
 
Wrote my Rep, and wrote both Committees this bill is sitting in right now. This is my first post here by the way. :D

I've been trying to drum up support for this on a couple of other boards. One didn't seem to give a crap, and the other was all over it. I'm pretty pleased at how many people have said they contacted their Reps on this, but I have no illusions about how hard this is going to be. It's the last thing on anybody in Congress's mind right now with Social Security and other issues at the forefront. But let's be loud and visible. Hell, lets be annoying. The squeaky wheel gets the grease.
 
3) Brady Bill (NICS) would be gone.
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If it does that, I cannot see it passing. That would simply cause too much of an uproar. Can you see the headlines? 'Paul recommends ending background checks on firearm purchases'. The message of removing the sporting clause, which most people probably could care less about, would be hidden in the back.
 
If it does that, I cannot see it passing. That would simply cause too much of an uproar. Can you see the headlines? 'Paul recommends ending background checks on firearm purchases'. The message of removing the sporting clause, which most people probably could care less about, would be hidden in the back.
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They did the Trojan Horse to us with the Hughes Amendment. So just don't meantion anything about NICS. If they can't read the bill and look up its implications... why are they even serving in Congress?

These days, no one is caring much about gun control laws at a federal level.
 
I love Ron Paul like a brother, but when Paul introduces a bill, you know one thing for a fact: It ain't going nowhere. :banghead:

His "own" party routinely funds challengers against him. He's the little boy shouting "The emperor has no clothes!" in Congress. And you know what happened to that little boy in the real life story?

He got dragged into an alley and beaten, and everybody continued admiring the emperor's wardrobe.

Ron's lucky, they just ignore him.
 
Brett Bellmore,

If I'm not mistaken Paul was a Libertarian before he became a Republican.

Hence no love by the party.
 
This would make building up AKs a whole lot less complicated. Heck, you wouldnt have to build them, you could just buy new ones. Plus we could import some more nifty pistols. Heck there are some awesome rifles out there too that are just begging to be importable.
 
In my communication to my congresscritter I'm going to reference the DOJ study/memo that affirms the 2A as an individual right.

BTW, after the anthrax incidents in DC, email is preferable to snail mail IMHO. I sent an email to Sen Hagel a couple of weeks ago about securing the borders against illegal immigration. Got a call a few days later from one of his staffers thanking me for the email and announcing that my Senator planned to introduce legislation to curtail illegal immigration. Don't know what happened to the legislation, but it was nice to find out that they actually read my email and gave it some consideration.
 
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Brett Bellmore,

If I'm not mistaken Paul was a Libertarian before he became a Republican.

Hence no love by the party.
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Well, yes; I worked on his campaign as a volunteer.

They'd probably have showered him with rose petals if he'd rejoined the Republican party in spirit, as well as in name, but he pisses them off by continuing to be a small "l" libertarian, constantly pointing out to them when they're violating their oaths of office. And in my experience, there's nothing that pisses off a member of Congress more than suggesting to them that maybe that oath they swore ought to actually mean something.
 
If I'm not mistaken Paul was a Libertarian before he became a Republican.
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I'd say he still is a libertarian in Republican clothing so he can get elected. Works for me.
 
Re the gentleman whose congress critter is Cynthia McKinney, seems to me that congress persons can be voted out of office. Might be difficult, but it can be done, and has been done.

As to this entire "Suitable or readilly adaptable to sporting purposes", in-so-far as I know, "sporting purposes" has never, anywhere been defined.
 
Saw an informative comment reputed to be from David Hardy on this and opining that this bill was DOA.

Author said he proposed a similar attack, concentrating on the words "generally recognized" in the phrase "generally recognized as suitable for sporting purposes". This "general recgonition" is used as an excuse why your USAS-12 is not recognized as having a "suitable sporting purpose" even though it is really fun for 3-gun.
 
Good gad... How much do they pay to type those laws out?
Not enough, obviously, that must've taken hours... :) Even as a pretty seasoned politiko, I can't make heads or tails of that gibberish. The patriot act was decidedly more comprehensible (and disturbing).
 
Phones congressman Paul's offices to offer congratulations/support. Also phones the offices of "my" senators and congresswoman.

I believe that attaining passage will be a very long, hard slog, but it has to start someplace, sometime.
 
Sporting purposes

I use a Mauser C96 and M1A1 carbine in vintage military target matches:
qualifies as sporting porpoises in my aquarium. If civilian gun ownership
were limited to "sporting purposes" why does BATFE publish the "Curios
and Relics" list and recognize dummy grenades and bazooka rockets as
"ornaments," not weapons, with legitimate collector interest? Civilian
Marksmanship preparedness and historical collection are legitimate purposes.

[Cracking down on the armed criminal, not the arm owner, would be a
legitimate law enforcement purpose. Gun control is legal restriction on
legal sales, legal purchase and legal ownership: it does not affect
criminal behavior, except to redefine law abiding gun owners as criminals
by changing legal definitions.]
 
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Sporting purposes origin from "guess who?"

The Jews for the 2nd amendment revealed that the "suitable purposes" term
was taken word for word from Hitlers' gun control act!
Boy, wouldn't you know that our ignorant politicians would shove this "CRAP"
down our throats. :fire:
 
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