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Three months ago, AWBansunset.com launched its first letter drive to let Congress know where we stood. Shortly afterwards, Tom DeLay made the comment that any '94 ban renewal would not pass the House. We'd like to think we may have had a part provoking this statement. Now it's time to remind our elected officials of our steadfast opposition to any assault weapon ban. Are you ready for the next evolution? By August 17th, write letters to any and all of the elected officials listed below. On Monday, August 18th, place them in the mail. For you busy gunowners, there are...

June 06, 2003 Guns & Indians A review of Times-Dispatch editorials on two subjects in recent years has disclosed certain variations. We should like herewith to make our positions clear. Guns - specifically assault weapons: We concur generally with President Bush's position in support of a ban on the sale and possession of truly automatic (assault) weapons - e.g., those weapons that fire multiple rounds when the trigger is pulled but once, and keep firing until the trigger is released or the magazine spent. Revolvers, semi-automatics, rifles, and shotguns for self-defense and hunting, with instant background checks at time of...

Today the Republicans in Loudoun County, Virginia, held a convention to select nominees for various county-wide offices. 1,357 delegates attended. Several resolutions were also passed, including the one listed below that I introduced. It, along with the following cover letter, will be mailed to the appropriate elected officials on Monday. June 2, 2003 President George W. Bush 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500 Dear Sir: On May 31, 2003 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. the Loudoun County Republican Committee convened a convention to select nominees for nine county-level offices, including members of the Board of Supervisors, Sheriff, and...

The first thing you have to understand about proposed gun legislation in Washington is that it isn't necessarily proposed to get passed. Not when it can be used as voter bait during a presidential election. Anti-gun Democrats have been known to sabotage anti-gun bills so that they can blame Republicans as a means of wooing soccer moms. That happened in 2000 after the Senate passed, then alleged purists in the House killed, a bill that would have required background checks for purchase at gun shows. Dems bolted -- ostensibly in protest of a provision to mandate 24-hour background checks in...

CNN just aired a documentary piece by John Zarella titled "Gun Battle", subtitled "Assault Weapon Ban set to expire in 2004".The piece featured Broward County Florida Sheriff Ken Jenne and deputies at a live firing range. The deputy demonstrated a "banned Chinese AK-47" on FULL AUTO, firing bursts into a stack of concrete blocks.Sheriff Ken Jenne held up a semi-auto hunting shotgun in one hand and the illegal full-auto AK-47 in the other hand and stated that the full-auto AK was "the type of gun covered by the ban".Sheriff Jenne used the phrase "these weapons have no place on the...

Broad Coalition Calls for a Strengthened Assault Weapons Ban 5/7/2003 Press Release Consumer Federation of America 1424 16th Street NW Washington, DC 20036 Contact: Susan Peschin: (202) 939-1017 Doctors Against Handgun Injury 1875 Connecticut Avenue, NW Suite 1012 Washington, D.C. 20009 Contact: Rebecca Bruno: (202) 232-3319 Groups Representing Consumers, Children, Civil Rights, Health Professionals, and Women call on Senator Feinstein to Support a Strengthened Assault Weapons Ban. Washington -- Fifty organizations, led by Consumer Federation of America and Doctors Against Handgun Injury, delivered letters to Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA) urging her to introduce legislation that would not only reauthorize the...

Senators Feinstein, Schumer, Chafee, Boxer, Durbin Introduce Legislation to Reauthorize the Assault Weapons Ban - Bill would also close loophole in 1994 law that has allowed millions of large capacity ammunition clips to be imported into this country - May 8, 2003 Washington, DC - U.S. Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Lincoln Chafee (R-RI), Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), and Dick Durbin (D-IL) today introduced legislation that would reauthorize the federal assault weapons ban and close a loophole in the law that has allowed millions of large-capacity ammunition clips to be imported into this country. The 1994 assault weapons ban...

WASHINGTON, May 7 — President Bush and the National Rifle Association, long regarded as staunch allies, find themselves unlikely adversaries over one of the most significant pieces of gun-control legislation in the last decade, a ban on semiautomatic assault weapons. At issue is a measure to be introduced by Senate Democrats on Thursday to continue the ban. Groundbreaking 1994 legislation outlawing the sale and possession of such firearms will expire next year unless Congress extends it, and many gun-rights groups have made it their top priority to fight it. Even some advocates of gun control say the prohibition has been...