Neal Knox Update Dec 1
From: Neal Knox <[email protected]>
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Date: Wednesday, December 01, 1999 6:49 PM
Subject: Clinton, Hollywood Raises Money For HCI
>
> Dec. 1 update — Bill Clinton whooped it up for more “gun
>control,” and raised a lot of money for Handgun Control Inc. at a
>benefit hosted by Whoopi Goldberg and a string of other Hollywood
>stars last night.
>
> Tickets to a reception celebrating the sixth anniversary of
>the enactment of the Brady law cost $250 each. A seat at the
>subsequent exclusive dinner with Clinton required a $10,000
>donation to HCI.
>
> Clinton and his minions claim the law has prevented the sale
>of “an estimated” 470,000 guns, 160,000 in the one year since the
>”Instant Check” went into effect.
>
> Judging by those numbers, we shouldn’t have any gun crime at
>all in 2000 for the number of blocked sales is getting close to the
>total number of crimes committed with firearms each year — and those
numbers
>mean the crooks have all been disarmed. Right.
>
> At the HCI benefit and at a fundraiser for Democrat candidates in
San
>Francisco Clinton called for passage of the bills that he prevented
from
>passing this year — and upped the ante to include a one handgun
>per month purchase limit.
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>
> Clinton also announced a new BATF database of a million so-
>called “crime guns” that have been the subject of trace requests.
>
> I suspect, but haven’t been able to find out, that the database
>includes all guns that have in any way come to BATF’s attention –
>including checks of recovered stolen guns and the guns reported on
>multiple sales forms.
>
> My name and some of my guns are on those multiple sales lists,
>and I resent that invasion of my privacy.
>
> I suspect the main reason for creation of the database is to
>clear the way for removing the present laws prohibiting creation of
>databases of all firearms sales — which Sen. Charles Schumer has
>ready.
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>
> The Second Amendment Foundation yesterday announced a lawsuit
>against the cities bringing suits against gunmakers — which is
>what the gunmakers should have done when the suits against them
>started.
>
> As Sterling Burnett of the National Center for Policy Analysis
>has concluded, the legal basis against the cities is far stronger
>than the cities’ suits blaming gunmakers for the acts of criminals.
>
> SAF’s suit should convince those cities that filing frivolous
>lawsuits isn’t painless.
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>
> The Los Angeles Police Commission, by a 3-2 vote yesterday,
>came out in favor of a proposed city ordinance prohibiting the sale
>of all ammunition within the city limits — except to police,
>former police, and blanks for the movie industry.
>
>
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