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Gun Owners Alert 2-15-2000

Speaker Hastert Wants Anti-gun Crime Bill Before Easter!
  -- Send the letter below to your Congressmen in opposition

Gun Owners of America E-Mail/FAX Alert
8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151
Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408
http://www.gunowners.org


(Tuesday, February 15, 2000) -- Capitol Hill insiders have told Gun
Owners of America that House Speaker Denny Hastert (R-IL) would like
to push the anti-gun crime bill out of the conference committee
before the Easter recess.

Because this is an election year, the Speaker wants to get this gun
bill "behind him" before the Congressional races heat up this Fall.

It is imperative that you contact your Representative and Senators
now, and remind them that this crime bill is more about gun control
than crime control.

You will remember that GOA members and activists have been on the
front line of opposition to this bill.  But because of the long
Congressional break that included the Christmas holidays, many
Congressmen have not heard from you, the constituents, on this issue
for quite some time.

Now is the time for your elected representatives to hear from you
again!

ACTION:  Please clip and send the letter below to your
Representative and Senators.  You can get contact info for your
legislators on the GOA website.  You can also call them toll-free at
1-888-449-3511; or reach them at 202-225-3121.

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Dear

As long as the anti-gun crime bill (H.R. 1501) remains in a
conference committee, I hope that you will let House and Senate
leaders know that this bill should NEVER see the light of day.
Consider just some of the problems with this bill.

The Senate version of the crime bill -- and the likely conference
report -- would ban the private sale of firearms at gun shows unless
the gun buyer submits to a government-registration background check.
The Senate language could also implement greater gun owner
registration, since the bill includes a new requirement that could
give the government the serial numbers of firearms gun owners have
recently purchased.

The bill would allow federal bureaucrats to slap an indirect tax on
firearms purchasers at gun shows by letting them impose higher fees
on gun show promoters -- fees which, of course, get passed on to the
buyers.

The bill limits self-defense with lock-up your safety requirements.
And it opens the door to BATF harassment of gun owners by committing
$40 million to increasing the presence of that agency -- not to
investigate murders, violent felonies, or crimes of violence, but to
pursue firearms "offenses" (such as record keeping and other
innocuous errors by otherwise law-abiding Americans).

I hope you will totally oppose this anti-gun crime legislation.
Please let me know what you intend to do.

Sincerely,


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