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.
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