eflatminor
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Folks:
I plan to send this letter to Arnie today but would love your thoughts on it effectiveness. Either way, please write to YOUR governor and encourage him to contact Schwarzenegger opposing the bill. My letter:
September 8, 2007
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
State Capitol Building
Sacramento, CA 95814
Re: “Microstamping” Bill AB1471
Dear Governor:
I write to express my strong aversion to the referenced bill before you. Simply stated, if you sign this bill into law, I will cease to support your future political aspirations as I have in the past. In fact, should this bill become law, I would consider it the final blow to the Republican party in California, at least as far as my vote is concerned.
I am a shooting enthusiast and competitor with aspirations of international contention in the shooting disciplines. I am a member of the NRA, USPSA and IDPA through which I participate in weekly matches. This bill, if it becomes law, would effectively cripple my aspirations for the gold medal by preventing me from obtaining the pistols I will need to compete. I will have to make the touch choice of moving my family and business out of the state of California.
If political support lost is not enough to prevent you from signing this bill, perhaps logic and reason will:
1. Microstamping the shell casing is nearly impossible as the firing pin hits the primer NOT the shell casing.
2. Even if technically possible, a microstamping requirement could never be implemented due to the millions of dollars it would cost manufacturers to retool production lines and to design “California-only” firearms. The bill would effectively ban semiautomatic weapons in California (something I’m sure you realize the bill’s supports know very well).
3. Getting “around” such a law for bad guys would be laughably easy as firing pins can be and are commonly replaced. They are removable in less than 10 seconds with a nail file and replaceable with after-market pins.
4. Of course, such technology would not work for Revolvers that do not eject spent shell casings.
5. This bill will NOT effect crime, criminals, and illegal gun ownership. Guns used by criminals are stolen or handed down through family members and are therefore not easily traceable to the user. This bill will only prevent law abiding, tax payers (and voters!) from acquiring otherwise legal firearms.
6. Lastly, such a law would increase the already widening disparity between Law Enforcement and politically connected "Haves" and ordinary citizens, the "Have Not's". California’s LEO's already can purchase guns NOT on the CA DOJ approved list. In most counties of California, only the famous and politically connected can carry concealed, a clear 14th amendment violation. Please see the big picture here! The Second Amendment was designed as a last line of defense to allow the People to prevent their government from becoming tyrannical. This is increasingly difficult when the People are prevented from bearing arms that are defensible against those held by government officials.
Thank you for your consideration. I hope you will do the right thing and refuse to sign into law AB1471.
Sincerely
I plan to send this letter to Arnie today but would love your thoughts on it effectiveness. Either way, please write to YOUR governor and encourage him to contact Schwarzenegger opposing the bill. My letter:
September 8, 2007
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
State Capitol Building
Sacramento, CA 95814
Re: “Microstamping” Bill AB1471
Dear Governor:
I write to express my strong aversion to the referenced bill before you. Simply stated, if you sign this bill into law, I will cease to support your future political aspirations as I have in the past. In fact, should this bill become law, I would consider it the final blow to the Republican party in California, at least as far as my vote is concerned.
I am a shooting enthusiast and competitor with aspirations of international contention in the shooting disciplines. I am a member of the NRA, USPSA and IDPA through which I participate in weekly matches. This bill, if it becomes law, would effectively cripple my aspirations for the gold medal by preventing me from obtaining the pistols I will need to compete. I will have to make the touch choice of moving my family and business out of the state of California.
If political support lost is not enough to prevent you from signing this bill, perhaps logic and reason will:
1. Microstamping the shell casing is nearly impossible as the firing pin hits the primer NOT the shell casing.
2. Even if technically possible, a microstamping requirement could never be implemented due to the millions of dollars it would cost manufacturers to retool production lines and to design “California-only” firearms. The bill would effectively ban semiautomatic weapons in California (something I’m sure you realize the bill’s supports know very well).
3. Getting “around” such a law for bad guys would be laughably easy as firing pins can be and are commonly replaced. They are removable in less than 10 seconds with a nail file and replaceable with after-market pins.
4. Of course, such technology would not work for Revolvers that do not eject spent shell casings.
5. This bill will NOT effect crime, criminals, and illegal gun ownership. Guns used by criminals are stolen or handed down through family members and are therefore not easily traceable to the user. This bill will only prevent law abiding, tax payers (and voters!) from acquiring otherwise legal firearms.
6. Lastly, such a law would increase the already widening disparity between Law Enforcement and politically connected "Haves" and ordinary citizens, the "Have Not's". California’s LEO's already can purchase guns NOT on the CA DOJ approved list. In most counties of California, only the famous and politically connected can carry concealed, a clear 14th amendment violation. Please see the big picture here! The Second Amendment was designed as a last line of defense to allow the People to prevent their government from becoming tyrannical. This is increasingly difficult when the People are prevented from bearing arms that are defensible against those held by government officials.
Thank you for your consideration. I hope you will do the right thing and refuse to sign into law AB1471.
Sincerely