—– Original Message —–
From: “Neal Knox” <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 4:27 PM
Subject: California Registration Bill Up

> Jan 5 update — Legislatures across the nation are opening
> this week, but the most attention is being paid to Colorado and
> California, for both are being pushed by politicians and the news
> media to pass new gun laws.
>
> The Rocky Mountain News today released an inane poll of
> lawmakers that wanted to know who owned guns, had used guns, and
> even if they had ever shot anyone. One legislator who refused to
> answer said he considered such questions in the category of how
> often do you go to church.
>
> Next week the California Assembly Public Safety Committee will
> bring up Kevin Shelley’s bill to require a four-year license to
> handgun owners and a companion annual handgun registration
> requirement. Assemblyman Jack Scott on Monday inserted a similar
> provision in an anti-crime bill.
>
> I pray that you Californians will start talking and writing
> about the 1968 Supreme Court Case, Haynes v. U.S., which declared
> that such registration and licensing laws cannot be used against
> criminals, mental incompetents, wife-beaters or others prohibited
> by law from possessing a firearm — thanks to the 5th Amendment’s
> protection against self-incrimination.
> ———–
>
> During a New Hampshire debate with Al Gore Monday, supposedly
> intellectual Bill Bradley made one of silliest statements
> imaginable: “I have proposed a plan to register all handguns, for
> only when we are safe can we walk without fear.”
>
> I wonder if he would consider himself able to safely walk
> along without fear through the Lower East Side or Harlem areas of
> New York City — where all handguns have been required to be
> registered for almost 90 years — or Washington, D.C. or Chicago
> where handguns were registered for decades, and now almost no one
> except a criminal may possess a handgun.
> ———–
>
> The forestry company which holds controlling interest in Sako,
> the Finnish sporting arms company, has sold all its shares to
> Beretta, the parent company of Beretta USA.
> ———–
>
> Huzzahs to Mike Yacino and Gun Owners Action League of
> Massachussets for yesterday kicking off a radio campaign focussed
> squarely on the right to self-defense.
> ———–
>
> As long expected, Elizabeth Dole endorsed George W. Bush
> yesterday, undoubtedly angling for the vice presidential slot if he
> wins the Republican nomination.
>
> Gov. Bush needs to be reminded that Mrs. Dole’s favorable
> ratings nosedived as soon as she came out for banning so-called
> “assault weapons.”
>
> The governor isn’t gunowners’ favorite candidate to begin
> with, but picking Mrs. Dole as his running mate would turn
> significant numbers of the firearms fraternity away from him and
> the Republican party.
>
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