Brady org: Armalite ready to serve America's extreme psychotics

[Harry Tuttle]

ASSAULT WEAPONS BAN HASN'T EXPIRED,
BUT SHARKS ARE CIRCLING FOR BLOOD
http://www.bradycampaign.org/press/release.php?release=578


For Immediate Release:
08-12-2004

Contact Communications:
(202) 289-7319


Why wait until something's legal to order it? One Illinois company
is ready to serve America's extreme psychotics right away.
Have your credit cards ready.


Washington, D.C. - Tomorrow, there will only be 30 days until the assault weapons ban expires, and our nation will face a new era of criminal and terrorist attacks with assault weapons unless President Bush keeps his campaign promise and gets the law renewed. And some Americans are simply drooling at the notion of deadlier guns.


The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence today sent the following letter to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives about ArmaLite, Inc., a company contemptibly catering to those who are desperate for extraordinary firepower.


The text of the letter follows.


August 12, 2004


Carl J. Truscott, Director
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
U.S. Department of Justice
650 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20226


Dear Director Truscott:


I am writing to urge the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives ("ATF") to immediately enforce the Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act of 1994 ("Assault Weapons Act") against ArmaLite, Inc., which appears to be acting in clear violation of this law.


ArmaLite, Inc. is a manufacturer of assault weapons located in Geneseo, Illinois. It is currently advertising a promotion that violates the federal Assault Weapons Act. This promotion is called "The ArmaLite 'Prepaid-PreBan' Rifle Program" and is described on ArmaLite's website at http://www.armalite.com/library/postpostban.htm (attached as Exhibit 1). Under this program, customers "order PreBan configuration ArmaLites, in both .308 and .223 calibers, for delivery immediately upon expiration of the current law...." ArmaLite states that, for each customer who prepays for a banned weapon, ArmaLite "will purchase and stock components for immediate final assembly if the law sunsets."


As you know, the federal Assault Weapons Act makes it unlawful "to manufacture, transfer or possess a semiautomatic assault weapon." 18 U.S.C. § 921(v)(1). ATF has interpreted this provision to prohibit the manufacture of complete assault weapons or the grouping of assault weapon parts together for later assembly of a banned weapon. ATF policy states:


Semiautomatic assault weapons in knockdown (disassembled) condition consisting of a receiver and all parts needed to assemble a complete semiautomatic assault weapon are subject to regulation if the parts are segregated or packaged together and held by a person as the parts for the assembly of a particular firearm.


ATF Frequently Asked Questions (accessible at http://www.atf.gov/firearms/faq/index.htm). This policy was enforced against gun manufacturers after passage of the Assault Weapons Act in 1994 to prevent them from gathering together unassembled assault weapon parts for later assembly into complete weapons.


ArmaLite's program states that it will presently "purchase and stock" all of the components necessary to manufacture a banned assault weapon for each civilian customer who pre-orders a weapon. The parts will apparently be segregated for use in particular firearms that have been pre-ordered and reserved by individual civilian customers. ArmaLite is clearly gathering "all parts needed to assemble a complete semiautomatic assault weapon," for a specific civilian customer. This collection of the parts necessary to manufacture a currently banned weapon is plainly prohibited by the Assault Weapons Act, as stated by ATF in its Frequently Asked Questions. ArmaLite is prohibited from gathering together and reserving assault weapons parts for later assembly into assault weapons for civilian customers as long as the Act is in effect.


Please immediately inform ArmaLite and other gun manufacturers that any programs which involve the gathering together of the parts necessary to manufacture a semiautomatic assault weapon are illegal unless that weapon will be transferred to law enforcement or persons presently authorized to possess such weapons under the Act. I look forward to your response to my letter and quick action to enforce the Act and order ArmaLite to immediately cease its unlawful 'Prepaid-PreBan' Rifle Program.


Sincerely,
Dennis A. Henigan
Director, Legal Action Project

 

[Blackcloud6]

Oh goody, I'm an "extreme psychotic." When I purchased my Armalite M-15A2 NM at Perry last month I made sure I would get the deal to add the flash suppressor.

Stuff it you Brady Loons!

 

[Shield529]

I'm drooling, any ideas on prices?

 

[Finch]

Seriously, it sounds like grade school.

 

[nico]

Would it be in poor taste if I emailed the brady bunch thanking them for notifying me about the great deals that Armalite is offering?

 

[madcowburger]

At least they didn't say "Uzis and AK-47s" again.

MCB

 

[R.H. Lee]

HA! Finch beat me to it. What a bunch of whiners........

 

[Justin]

If the world view peddled by the Bradyites is sanity, I will happily take up company among the lunatics.

 

[Tamara]

I must say, that just raises the bar for hysteria to new heights, takes the gold medal in Hand Wringing, and may set a new record in the Knee Jerk.

Appropriate for an Olympic year, no?

 

[natedog]

our nation will face a new era of criminal and terrorist attacks with assault weapons

I'd say 90% or more of the population will awake on September 14th to find the world exactly the same as it was the previous day, and will go on about there buisness like usual.

 

[Tamara]

I'd say 90% or more of the population will awake on September 14th to find the world exactly the same as it was the previous day, and will go on about there buisness like usual.

The other ten percent will be standing in line at their local gunshops, still hung over from staying up to watch the ball drop the night before.

(That deafening sound you hear at 12:01 AM will be champagne corks popping and push pins getting clicked home all across America. )

 

[Don Gwinn]

I absolutely hate seeing "LOL," but I literally laughed out loud. Absolute, unfettered stupidity in its purest form. It's impossible to speak of that kind of subhuman mouth-breathing lint-for-brains nosepicking twit in civil terms.

 

[TheOtherOne]

I look forward to your response to my letter and quick action to enforce the Act and order ArmaLite to immediately cease its unlawful 'Prepaid-PreBan' Rifle Program.

I want to see the BATFE's response. I doubt Brady Control will ever publish the response received.

 

[GSB]

ArmaLite's program states that it will presently "purchase and stock" all of the components necessary to manufacture a banned assault weapon

Note to Sarah. They ain't banned in 4 weeks. Eat your heart out.

 

[Third_Rail]

So if they're only stocking these parts for LE/Military until the 14th, then just happen to use them for building the ordered versions, where's the crime?

 

[Soap]

Wow. That article has a point. I feel ashamed at myself and now need to seek mental counseling.

 

[Cool Hand Luke 22:36]

So a US infantryman carrying an M-16 is a proud soldier serving his country, a LEO with an M-16 in the trunk of his or her squad car is a proud public servant serving his or her community, but a law abiding US citizen who wishes to own a semi-auto version of that same rifle is suddenly an "extreme psychotic?"

There's a certain twisted logic that exists amongst the severely mentally ill, people like Sarah Brady, where they see themselves as perfectly sane and the rest of the world outside of their padded cell as "psychotic." And no amount of rational explaination will ever convince them that they are the ones with the mental illness.

Sarah Brady clearly had a psychotic break with reality the morning John Hinckley shot her husband and the President. Today she is semi-functional, but still clearly severely mentally ill.

Brady's irrationality is well illustrated by her mania for the AWB, a law which bans small, lightweight, relatively low power, small caliber rifles based only on how "frightening" they appear to her.

Brady is one sick puppy.

 

[Partisan Ranger]

I think the primary danger in the AWB sunsetting is that the anti-gun leftist extremists know when it sunsets and nothing extraordinary happens -- blood isn't running in the streets, 'bullet hoses' aren't being sold on every street corner -- the Bradys and VPCs of the world will look like the hysterical fools they really are.

This will damage their credibility on the entire gun control issue.

 

[flatrock]

It may be illegal for us commong people to have all the parts to assemble into an assault weapon.

I highly doubt that it's illegal for the manufacturer to have them. After all, they're not law enforcement, but they can have the assembled law enforcement only gun on hand.

This is pure bluster and misinformation.

 

[foghornl]

It's impossible to speak of that kind of subhuman mouth-breathing lint-for-brains nosepicking twit in civil terms.

Oh, come on, Mr. Gwinn. Tell us how you REALLY feel.


P.S. Just for the record, MY opnion of the Brady Bunch, et al cannot be published on The High Road, either.

 

[BerettaNut92]

I'm not only an 'exteme psychotic', I'm an X-Treme psychotic!!!

 

[nico]

This will damage their credibility on the entire gun control issue

somehow I doubt that. Leading up to, and immediately after the expiration, the media will do a bunch of stories about the bullet hoses that are about to/have just been made legal for us whackos (complete with some sherrif firing a machine gun and an AR15 to show the difference between what was allowed by the ban and what was outlawed by the ban). Then, after a month or two you just won't hear anything about it. The sheeple will still have the image of sherrif gungrabber firing that M16 whenever they hear/see anything relating to the ban. I think the pro-gun groups out there could do all of us a great service by flooding the airwaves with ads showing just what the AWB outlaws.

 

[Harry Tuttle]

NPR had a story on this morning where in they interviewed Armalite & Bradys PR dood

Gun Ban Expiration May Affect Industry Little

The 10-year-old law banning so-called assault weapons expires Sept. 13. But the gun industry doesn't expect much to change, because there are firearms legally available now that do what the banned weapons did. NPR's Larry Abramson reports.

http://www.npr.org/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=3&prgDate=current

 

[misANTHrope]

I think the primary danger in the AWB sunsetting is that the anti-gun leftist extremists know when it sunsets and nothing extraordinary happens -- blood isn't running in the streets, 'bullet hoses' aren't being sold on every street corner -- the Bradys and VPCs of the world will look like the hysterical fools they really are.

It's nice to think so, but I doubt this will be the case. The antis will just continue to whitewash, massage, distort, and generally manipulate statistics in an attempt to convince the sheeple how right they were all along. Unfortunately, the only way for Joe Citizen to get an idea of how crime rates and such have changed is for them to look at statistics and studies, and the VPC and such have proven time and time again their ability to launder info to achieve the necessary hysterical conclusion.

 

[Zundfolge]

Lately when I read these Brady org press releases I smile.


Back when they started they sounded sane, reasonable, moderate, thoughtful ... now they sound like some disheveled schizophrenic that stands out on the corner yelling about the coming alien invasion.

They aren't winning any "new converts" and are more and more "preaching to the choir" ... a shrinking choir at that.

They are frightening away the fence sitters ... fence sitters tend to be turned off by extreme rhetoric.


More signs that we are winning