Date: Fri, 26 May 1995 20:37:30 -0400 From: alerts@gatekeeper.nra.org (NRA Alerts) To: firearms-alert@shell.portal.com Subject: ALERT! *Urgent* Senate Considering anti-firearms 'counter-terrorism' Bill! May 26, 1995 URGENT LEGISLATIVE ALERT! Little more than two weeks ago, President Bill Clinton spoke on the need for effective counter-terrorism legislation. He said: "Nothing can justify turning this bill into a political football. We have kept politics completely out of our fight against terrorism ... and we must keep it out of this legislative effort." Wrong, wrong and wrong again. Just today, Clinton clones and other anti-gun politicians in the U.S. Senate spilled onto the Senate floor with scheme after scheme aimed at up-ending your constitutional rights. Details are sketchy at this time, but here's just a sample of what surfaced in the U.S. Senate this afternoon alone! - An amendment by Senator Ted Kennedy imposes a limit to your Second Amendment rights by making it unlawful to purchase more than one-gun-a-month -- a scheme that can work only by erecting a central registry of gun purchasers run by the Federal government. How can gun rationing impact terrorists? Another proposal by Senator Bob Kerrey of Nebraska boosts funds for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Why should funding to this agency be increased before hearings can get at the truth about cases of alleged BATF mismanagement and abuse of civil rights. More controls on honest gun dealers were proposed by Senator Paul Simon. An end to the Civilian Marksmanship Program was launched by Senator Frank Lautenberg. Even a ban on the hunting rounds -- in the guise of a "performance-based" ban on ammunition -- was by Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey. To borrow the President's own words, how do these anti-gun Senators "justify turning this bill into a political football"? And while NRA has voiced serious concerns that the chemicals of small plastic tags, when applied to gun powder, create an accidental fire hazard, Senator Diane Feinstein is pushing forward to require "taggants" be inserted in black and smokeless powder. NRA takes no position on introduction of "taggants" into explosives or fertilizer. But we ask, why is this decades-old technology being forced into propellants used by the lawful gun-owning community -- without so much as a smattering of testing to assure our safety? Please call your U.S. Senators today (202-224-3121) and register your concerns. Mark your calendar to call next week as more details become available. Urge the Senate to fight terrorism. Use the president's own words: keep "politics completely out of our fight." Counter-terrorism legislation must accomplish two goals: help authorities zero-in on criminal terrorists, and honor the rights and the safety of law-abiding citizens. In the unbearably long list of victims of the atrocity in Oklahoma City, we should never see named our constitutional rights. =+=+= This information is presented as a service to the Internet community by the NRA/ILA. Some useful URLs: http://WWW.NRA.Org, gopher://GOPHER.NRA.Org, wais://WAIS.NRA.Org, ftp://FTP.NRA.Org, mailto:LISTPROC@NRA.Org (Send the word help as the body of a message) Information can also be obtained by connecting directly to the NRA-ILA GUN-TALK BBS at (703) 934-2121. NRA.org is maintained by Mainstream.com mailto:info@mainstream.com __ Date: Tue, 30 May 1995 00:34:42 -0700 From: Jeff Chan To: firearms-alert Subject: LETTER: To Senate against Counterterrorism bill [I'm faxing this to the list of Senators below. This bill is turning into a real &%*&^$%^&. I suggest you write/call/fax/email (fax is best). If you use my letter, please rewrite it significantly so it looks like your own. For a full database of Congress contact info, including office numbers, fax numbers, email, etc, see: ftp://ftp.shell.portal.com/pub/chan/federal/104/congress.txt == http://www.portal.com/~chan/federal/104/congress.txt -- Jeff C.] __ Jeff Chan P.O. Box xxx xxxxxxxxxxxxx, xx xxxxx (xxx) xxx-xxxx xxxx days (xxx) xxx-xxxx evenings REPLY REQUESTED May 29, 1995 Honorable .first/ .last/ United States Senate Washington DC 20510 Fax: 1-.area/-.fax/ Dear Senator .last/: I'm writing on this Memorial Day to urge you to OPPOSE S.735, the so-called Counterterrorism bill. As you are aware, there are proposals for this bill which include limitations on freedom of association, freedom of expression, expectations of privacy, the right to keep and bear arms, rights of the accused, and other traditional and constitutional American freedoms. Given that this bill is turning into a dumping ground for authoritarian attacks on our freedom I urge you reject it in its entirety. To do otherwise would be to dishonor the memory of those who have given their lives defending our Constitution, our country, and our freedom. Sincerely, Jeff Chan __ Abraham,Spencer,202,224-8834 Akaka,Daniel K.,202,224-2126 Baucus,Max,202,224-1974 Bennett,Robert,202,224-6717 Biden Jr.,Joseph R.,202,224-0139 Bingaman,Jeff,202,224-2852 Bond,Christopher S.,202,224-8149 Boxer,Barbara,202,228-4056 Bradley,William,202,224-8567 Breaux,John B.,202,224-4268 Brown,Henry,202,224-6471 Bryan,Richard H.,202,224-1867 Bumpers,Dale,202,224-6435 Burns,Conrad R.,202,224-8594 Byrd,Robert C.,202,228-0002 Campbell,Ben N.,202,224-1933 Chafee,John H.,202,228-2853 Coats,Daniel R.,202,228-3924 Cochran,Thad,202,224-9450 Cohen,William S.,202,224-2693 Conrad,Kent,202,224-7776 Coverdell,Paul,202,228-3783 Craig,Larry E.,202,224-2573 D'Amato,Alfonse M.,202,224-5871 Daschle,Thomas A.,202,224-2047 DeWine,Mike,202,224-6519 Dodd,Christopher J.,202,224-1083 Dole,Robert,202,224-6721 Domenici,Pete V.,202,224-7371 Dorgan,Byron L.,202,225-1193 Exon,J. James,202,224-5213 Faircloth,D. M.,202,224-7406 Feingold,Russell,202,224-2725 Feinstein,Dianne,202,228-3954 Frist,Bill,202,228-1264 Glenn,John,202,224-7983 Gorton,Slade,202,224-9393 Graham,Bob,202,224-2237 Gramm,Phil,202,228-2856 Grams,Rod,202,228-0956 Grassley,Charles E.,202,224-6020 Gregg,Judd,202,224-4952 Harkin,Thomas,202,224-9369 Hatch,Orrin G.,202,224-6331 Hatfield,Mark O.,202,224-0276 Heflin,Howell T.,202,224-3149 Helms,Jesse,202,224-7588 Hollings,Ernest F.,202,224-4293 Hutchison,Kay Bailey,202,224-0776 Inhofe,James,202,228-0380 Inouye,Daniel K.,202,224-6747 Jeffords,James M.,202,224-8330 Johnston,J. Bennett,202,224-2952 Kassebaum,Nancy L.,202,224-3514 Kempthorne,Dirk,202,224-5893 Kennedy,Edward M.,202,224-2417 Kerrey,Joseph R.,202,224-7645 Kerry,John F.,202,224-8525 Kohl,Herbert H.,202,224-9787 Kyl,Jon,202,224-2207 Lautenberg,Frank R.,202,224-9707 Leahy,Patrick J.,202,224-3595 Levin,Carl,202,224-1388 Lieberman,Joseph I.,202,224-9750 Lott,Trent,202,224-2262 Lugar,Richard G.,202,228-0360 Mack,Connie,202,224-8022 McCain,John,202,228-2862 McConnell,Mitch,202,224-2499 Mikulski,Barbara A.,202,224-8858 Moseley-Braun,Carol,202,224-2626 Moynihan,Daniel P.,202,228-3815 Murkowski,Frank H.,202,224-5301 Murray,Patty,202,224-0238 Nickles,Donald,202,224-6008 Norton,Eleanor Holmes,202,225-3002 Nunn,Samuel,202,224-0072 Packwood,Bob,202,228-3576 Pell,Claiborne,202,224-4680 Pressler,Larry,202,228-0368 Pryor,David,202,228-3973 Reid,Harry,202,224-7327 Robb,Charles S.,202,224-8689 Rockefeller,John D.,202,224-7665 Roth Jr.,William V.,202,228-0354 Sarbanes,Paul S.,202,224-1651 Shelby,Richard C.,202,224-3416 Simon,Paul,202,224-0868 Simpson,Alan K.,202,224-1315 Smith,Robert,202,224-1353 Snowe,Olympia,202,224-1946 Specter,Arlen,202,224-1893 Stevens,Ted,202,224-2354 Thomas,Craig,202,224-1724 Thompson,Fred,202,228-3679 Thurmond,Strom,202,224-1300 Warner,John W.,202,224-6295 Wellstone,Paul,202,224-8438 -- Jeff Chan Internet: chan@shell.portal.com uucp mail: {apple,claris,pyramid}!shell.portal.com!chan +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | We should measure progress not by how many laws | | can be passed but by how little governing people need. | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ http://www.portal.com/~chan/firearms.faq.html <- Firearms Info Guide ftp://ftp.shell.portal.com/pub/chan/ or http://www.portal.com/~chan/ <- Archive mailto:majordomo@shell.portal.com: <- firearms, liberty mailing lists