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From: “Neal Knox” <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2000 11:08 PM
Subject: LaPierre Does Well On Today’s News Shows

>
> March 19 Neal Knox Update — I was at the Roanoke, Virginia
> gun show all day today, hustling mail and phone calls to Congress,
> and votes for me and the dozen other NRA director candidates on the
> “vote against” list.
>
> So I didn’t see the videotapes of NRA E.V.P. Wayne LaPierre’s
> interviews on Fox Morning News and NBC’s Meet the Press until
> tonight.
>
> Wayne did great. He didn’t back down on his blast at Clinton
> yet he did gently back away by saying he had used strong rhetoric to
> get people to focus on the Clinton Administration’s lack of
> enforcement of Federal gun laws and Bill Clinton’s use of tragedies
> to further his political agenda.
>
> More importantly, LaPierre narrowed who he wanted targeted by
> Federal gun laws, repeatedly limiting “zero tolerance” for gun
> possession and use by “violent felons with guns, drug dealers with
> guns and gang members with guns.” That’s a huge difference from
> demanding all Federal gun laws be enforced.
>
> Those much-needed subtle shifts should help soothe
> Congressional Republicans and the many folks at the gun show who
> thought his “blood on Clinton’s hands” statements were hurting
gunowners.
>
> LaPierre made a strong point of Thursday’s killing of a Georgia
> sheriff’s deputy, and wounding of another, apparently by 1960′s
> anti-government radical H. Rap Brown. LaPierre said local
> authorities asked the Clinton Administration to prosecute Brown as
> a felon in possession of a firearm in 1995, a possible 10-year
> sentence. The Clinton Justice Department declined.
>
> In the 1960′s, we gunowners were objecting to Sen. Tom Dodd’s
> efforts to pass the Gun Control Act’s prohibitions on interstate
> transfers, and blaming “law-law states” for the high crime rates in
> D.C. and New York, while there had never been a single prosecution for
> illegally transporting a firearm into the “strict laws” states.
>
> As I recall, about 1967 the Justice Department brought the
> first-ever prosecution under the 1938 Federal law. The charge was
> for transporting an M1 Carbine from New Orleans to Washington,
> D.C., where the gun was unlawful. The person charged was the same
> H. Rap Brown.
> ———-
>
> The Violence Policy Center is arguing that the Clinton
> Administration got a “bad deal” with Smith & Wesson, because many
> of the items in the agreement are already being done.
>
> But some of those provisions will be costly to gun owners, and
> a lot of folks are talking boycott, both at today’s gun show and in
> my waiting stack of phone calls and emails.
>
> S&W has every right to serve its stockholders by caving in to
> White House extortion to get out from under costly lawsuits.
>
> And we gunowners have every right to purchase our guns from
> someone else.
> ———-
>
> The test of how gunfire, tanks, glass and other debris look on
> infrared video tape was conducted today at Ft. Hood, trying to
> determine the cause of those apparent gunflashes on the FBI
> infrared tape shot during the final attack on the Branch Davidians
> at Waco.
>
> The press or public was not allowed to observe. Davidian
> attorney Mike Caddell had said he would release his copies of
> today’s tapes by tomorrow, but Judge Walter Smith has prohibited
> any copies of the tapes from being given to news madia until the
> court’s own infrared expert prepares an analysis in about 30 days.
>
> That strikes me as most unusual.
>
> However, Caddell and Justice Department may begin discussing
> what they think the tapes show whenever they get them, probably
> tomorrow.
>
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