Possible AWB Renewal Vote Soon in Senate

Sunset News <sunsetnews@awbansunset.com> | 1/27/2004

[RogueIsland]

This was emailed yesterday by the Sunset News mailing list, and I thought it might be interesting to some here.

Possible AWB Renewal Vote Soon in Senate

S.659, the bill that limits junk lawsuits against the firearm industry, will be coming to the floor of the Senate in a month or so. It is almost a certainty that Sen. Feinstein & Co. will attempt to amend the bill with a renewal of the so-called "assault weapons" ban. While it is likely that this "poison pill" amendment, if passed, will not make it through the House/Senate conference committee nor survive a final vote in the House (potentially killing the junk lawsuit bill), we have an opportunity to STOP the ban renewal in the Senate.

A vote on this issue in the Senate would be very close, but could go either way. We need every single vote we can get. Please take just a moment to call both of your Senators, urging them to oppose S.1034 (the standalone bill that renews and slightly expands the 1994 "Assault Weapons" Ban) or any attempt to amend a ban renewal to S.659, the junk lawsuit preemption bill. Even if one or both of your Senators are known to be anti-gun, it doesn't hurt to remind them of how unpopular this issue is.

You can quickly locate your Senators' phone numbers here:

http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

Defeating a ban renewal in the Senate, which is acknowledged as not being nearly as pro-gun as the House, would be an undeniably huge victory for us. Do your part to ensure we win this opening skirmish in the battle to keep the 1994 Clinton semi-auto ban from being renewed. Call your Senators NOW (and encourage your friends to do so too).

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[RogueIsland]

Thought some might be interested in this. I don't know the accuracy of this, but I'm sure it'll be hashed out in the thread.

[RogueIsland]

bang

[TheBattman]

GW, at least publicly, has supported renewal of the AWB. Many here have said that this is a publicity move - because it will never make it through the House.

If this passes, GW has permanently lost my vote - regardless of who is running in November.

[Mr. Mojo]

Please take just a moment to call both of your Senators

I called my senator (Patty Murray), but she didn't like what I called her.

[Mr. Mojo]

And he'd sign the damn thing too. .....Just like he's done with every other bill that has reached his desk. 3 years. 0 vetoes

[11B3]

I call her lots of things, just like Cantwell and Hillary. Ankle is the best term for all three of them.

[Ironsman]

228 days and counting.

[Shooter 2.5]

What are your plans to stop it?

[Dead Corpse]

What are your plans to stop it?

we'll do the same thing we've alwasy done. Write letters and fill their phone banks with calls. They, will do what they have always done. Ignore us and do what they want.

[Shooter 2.5]

Start with the right people in the first place.

Thursday will be the Wisconsin CCW override debate. It will give you a chance to see all of the Republicans voting for the override.

[Dead Corpse]

You mean like Congressmen? Who are so tired of getting letters from me they no longer even bother sending the canned reply mail?

Great... thanks for the advise.

[biblewonk]

ping

[Shooter 2.5]

That's not what they said yesterday.

I'll ping you for tomorrow so you don't miss it.

[Constitution Day]

BUMP

[TC Rider]

I'd call my Senator, John Edwards, but he hasn't been seen in NC in years.

Liddy will be hearing from me.

[newgeezer]

Thanks for the ping. It's just this sort of "poison pill" BS that makes me so-o-o-o-o happy to have Amendments 17 and 19.</sarcasm>

[Travis McGee]

Rino or 'rat, if they pass an AWB extension, we'll know what they are.

[tpaine]

Dead Corpse wrote:
we'll do the same thing we've alwasy done. Write letters and fill their phone banks with calls. They, will do what they have always done. Ignore us and do what they want..

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Its always the same old pathetic political plea.

-- 'You must stop us before we do more harm! -- You voted us into this mess, it's your responsiblity to vote us out of it!'


We hire politicians to guard & honor our constitution, and they spit on it.

[Dan from Michigan]

Although it won't help one damn bit, I'm going to call Lenin and Stabmenow's offices. I'm sure they will listen to what I have to say. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight!

[absalom01]

Heh.

You do that, and I'll call DiFi and Babs Boxer. I'm sure that they'll see the light.