Working on drafting a letter to my Congressmen

[BondageJaguar]

I live in minnesota (yay, the only state in the midwest to be blue ) and am working on draftign a letter to my Senator, Norm Coleman, and House Rep. John Kline. In the letter I would like to discuss the repeal of the Machine gun registry closing but I forgot the year that the act was voted in, 68 IIRC? In my letter I would suggest that not only would opening the registry be the American thing to do, it would be a good idea! We hear liberals whineing about all these untraceable machineguns out there that criminals have illegally, and machineguns that are registered have an address attached to them, so would it not be possible to push through this repeal under the guise of making machine guns 'traceable'? Afterall, they would gladly hand over all their guns if they were banned according to liberal (il)logic, of course thjey would be happy to register them as NFA items! So in short, any information, stats or related laws anyone could provide for use in my letter(s) would be helpful. Thank you.

P.S. sorry about my poor paragraph formatting, I failed english class

 

[jnojr]

1986

But repealing that is a loooong shot. I say start with asking them to ask President Bush to repeal the Executive Orders that ban importation of "non-sporting" arms. Start with small battles that we can win. That gives "the movement" credibility later to attack bigger issues.

 

[Standing Wolf]

...repealing that is a loooong shot.

So? You don't always get what you ask for, but you never get what you don't ask for.

 

[Smurfslayer]

HTH...

1986 is correct. You may wish to remind them that the Stewart case from the 9th US circuit has held that Congress exceeded it's Authority in this aspect of law...

Here's a letter (pattern) I sent requesting the NPS ban be lifted, immediately. Since it's CFR, and not explicitly backed by statutory law, this should be easIER... Cut out the NPS stuff and model to your needs...

http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=109783

And if you wouldn't mind, hit them up with this letter in support of repealing the NPS ban too...