New Report Details Reagan's Efforts on Behalf of Assault Weapons Ban

[Harry Tuttle]

New Report Details Reagan's Efforts on Behalf of Assault Weapons Ban
8/27/2004


Press Release
Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence
1023 15th St. NW, Suite 600
Washington, DC 20005
www.csgv.org

Contact:
Blaine Rummel
Phone: 202-408-0061

Reagan ensured passage of ban, which is set to expire next month unless President Bush acts

Washington, DC - The Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence today (Wednesday) released "Reagan's Gun Legacy," a report detailing the Gipper's surprising efforts to pass the federal assault weapons ban and other gun laws, including the Brady Bill. The Educational Fund released the report on the eve of the Republican National Convention, where conservatives will no doubt pay homage to the 40th President.

The full report, including Ronald Reagan's record and rhetoric on the gun issue, can be accessed here http://www.csgv.org/document.cfm?documentID=285.

The conservative icon, who Guns & Ammo Magazine once referred to as "The Gun Owner's Champion," was instrumental in passing several gun safety laws, including the landmark assault weapons ban and Brady Law. In rebukes to the gun lobby, Ronald Reagan:
Directly lobbied members of the House of Representatives to support the 1994 federal Assault Weapons Ban. The ban passed by only two votes; at least two House members publicly credited Reagan's direct appeals for their "aye" votes.

Personally urged Members of Congress in the early 1990s to pass the Brady Law, a major gun safety initiative vigorously opposed by the gun lobby.

Banned cop-killer bullets, undetectable handguns, and the manufacture and sale of machine guns.

"This report details how, on many occasions, Ronald Reagan put public safety above the extreme interests of the gun lobby," said Joshua Horwitz, Executive Director of the Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence. "President Reagan's actions stand in stark contrast to those of the current President. President Bush has repeatedly promised to ban assault weapons, yet has refused to lift a finger to save the ban."

The assault weapons ban is scheduled to expire on September 13 unless President Bush and Congress act.

Date of Release: August 25, 2004

 

[F4GIB]

Apparently he had early onset Altzheimers right after he left office..

 

[sharpie613]

This must be in that parallel universe where the odius assault weapon ban actually banned AP ammo, plastic guns and the production and sale of machine guns. I'm not sure if this is an outright lie or just plain idiocy...never mind, it's an outright lie. I saw

Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence

and I knew it smacked of BS.

Receiving your information about Reagan's opinion regarding the assault weapon ban from the

Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence

is just like believing politicians or lawyers or other people who are pathological liars for a living.

 

[Standing Wolf]

If not for lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, and plain old-fashioned fraud, leftists would have nothing to say.

 

[Triad]

I think you guys missed something.

This

Ronald Reagan:
Directly lobbied members of the House of Representatives to support the 1994 federal Assault Weapons Ban. The ban passed by only two votes; at least two House members publicly credited Reagan's direct appeals for their "aye" votes.

Personally urged Members of Congress in the early 1990s to pass the Brady Law, a major gun safety initiative vigorously opposed by the gun lobby.

Banned cop-killer bullets, undetectable handguns, and the manufacture and sale of machine guns.

is a list of things that Reagan did, not a list of things effected by the AW ban.

 

[MP5]

sharpie613, Reagan's positions on the issue have been widely reported, not just by this one group.

 

[Sergeant Sabre]

Banned cop-killer bullets, undetectable handguns, and the manufacture and sale of machine guns.

What is a "cop-killer" bullet (and does it exist outside of Hollywood)?, undetectable handguns don't exist, and isn't the manufacture and sale of machine guns regulated under the NFA of 1934? That's a bit early for President Reagan to have been lobbying...

These people have no shame...

 

[DMF]

Before dismissing this article out of hand, anyone care to state which statute prohibited the sale of and transfer of fully automatic weapns made after 1986? Anyone care to state which president signed that statute into law?

 

[Pinned&Recessed]

anyone care to state which statute prohibited the sale of and transfer of fully automatic weapns made after 1986? Anyone care to state which president signed that statute into law?

It was the Hughes Amendment to the Firearm Owners Protection Act of 1986 (FOPA-86). It is now entrenched as Title 18 USC 922(o).

President Reagan signed the bill into law. President Reagan took away our Machine Guns.

 

[DMF]

Thank you for pointing out the alleged white and black in these debates has more gray than most here like to admit.

The photo Reagan holding a gun on Air Force one that so many here love, has as much relevance to the issue of fighting additional gun control laws as the photo of Kerry shooting trap/skeet. Both were nothing more than opportunistic photo ops to appease a certain block of voters.

 

[roscoe]

Don't forget that Reagan signed the Mulford Act as governer of California, the most restrictive gun control measure in that state to date.

 

[Rebar]

Errrr... so what? The man is dead.

All I see is a lame left wing attempt to tarnish the memory of a man held dear to Americans. Sure, you can dig up dirt from decades ago, and put a spin on it to make him look bad. And defenders can refute it. I fail to see any relevence to todays issues or to todays times.

If the gun-grabbers have to reach this far to make their arguments, on the back of a man who when alive was the object of their scorn, it shows the utter bankruptsy of their positions.

 

[Tamara]

Pinned&Recessed,

It was the Hughes Amendment to the Firearm Owners Protection Act of 1986 (FOPA-86). It is now entrenched as Title 18 USC 922(o).

President Reagan signed the bill into law. President Reagan took away our Machine Guns.

By that logic: President Reagan signed the bill into law. President Reagan gave us back our Garands, Mausers, Enfields, FN-49's, SKS's, Lugers, P-38's, and any other weapon that was currently overseas that had seen military service. He also got rid of the damnable ammunition logs one had to sign in order to buy ammo. And uniformized gun laws for legitimate travellers.

Yes, a 'poison pill' amendment was stuck into FOPA at the last minute to 86 new machinegun registrations, but even with that, I'd've signed the damn thing myself, given the balance of what it contained. It's the only pro-gun piece of Federal legislation that has ever benefitted me in any way, shape, or form.

 

[Pinned&Recessed]

President Reagan gave us back our Garands, Mausers, Enfields, FN-49's, SKS's, Lugers, P-38's, and any other weapon that was currently overseas that had seen military service

I would trade all of that for $700 M16s.

But who cares about artificially-expensive Machine Guns when the people get their $100 SKSs and $60 Nagants?

I have a C&R and buy old rifles, but I'd trade all of it for new-production Machine Guns. Hell, I'd sell my soul to Satan to have cheap Machine Guns.

Paying $12,000 for a $700 gun is ludicrous. Soon Machine Guns will be toys of the filthy-rich, out of the reach of regular, working-class people.

I do agree on the ammo logs and travelling bit though.

 

[Tamara]

...of course, without FOPA you'd still have to submit to a rubber-glove exam to get those '16s (which Colt would've stopped producing under political pressure anyway.) Full auto HK's would still be $3k plus, because who cares how cheap the sear is when the base gun has been banned from import since '89? Meanwhile, DCM would have run out of '03s and carbines decades ago, and beater Garands would be going for $2500 and up.

Ya picks yer poison.

 

[sendec]

"Sure, you can dig up dirt from decades ago, and put a spin on it to make him look bad. And defenders can refute it. I fail to see any relevence to todays issues or to todays times."

Hmmmmm........

Might this same logic apply to the riverine exploits of a certain Presidential candidate, all of which occured decades ago?

I thought Reagan could do no wrong around these parts, after the wailing and gnashing fteeth here that accompanied his death. All this just goes to proves Sendec's theorem: All politicians are scum, some just have a thicker coating than others.

 

[redhead]

Don't look now, but ammo logs (SB1152, registration of ammunition purchases - fingerprint, name, address, date of birth) are on their way back unless the governator can be persuaded to veto it.

 

[Rebar]

Might this same logic apply to the riverine exploits of a certain Presidential candidate, all of which occured decades ago?

Maybe, if Reagan rose from the grave and tried to run for office based on that record. Otherwise it's a rediculous statement.

 

[sendec]

That Swishing Sound

is your credibility circling the bowl.

Nice try

I love the smell of hypocrisy in the afternoon, it smells like, politics in general.

Its cool dude, both candidates pretty much suck equally.

 

[Rebar]

is your credibility circling the bowl.

And your credibility to question my credibility is, what?

Kerry made his Vietnam service an issue, no one held a gun to his head. If he brings it up, and makes it the central pillar of his campaign, then it becomes fair game.

How this equates to Reagan's record from decades ago, being used out of context by an anti-gun group today, is incomprehensible.

Your insistance that it does speaks to your credibility.

 

[Hkmp5sd]

Please note that for whatever reasons, Reagan, "Directly lobbied members of the House of Representatives to support the 1994 federal Assault Weapons Ban," after leaving office. Unlike Bush (41), he kept his campaign promises to gun owners. He offered to veto the '86 FOPA when the MG ban was added and the NRA told him to go ahead and sign it.

 

[rick_reno]

Democrats/Republicans - they're heading to the same station - one of them takes a express train, the other a steam engine.

 

[Tamara]

Don't look now, but ammo logs (SB1152, registration of ammunition purchases - fingerprint, name, address, date of birth) are on their way back unless the governator can be persuaded to veto it.

Can't help you there, redhead, that's a local problem. Generally in the rest of America, gun laws are getting better, not worse.

 

[sendec]

Rebar, ya little wildman,

Just don't track it into the house

 

[Foreign Devil]

Maybe we should concentrate on repealing the current bans, rather than worrying about what Reagan did 18 years ago.