I likethe part where Ruger was commended for his anti-legal sales at
gun shows policy.
I will never believe that Ruger is anything but a pragmatic business man
who wants to make money and keep his business, no matter who’s ass he
has to kiss or who’s interests he has to betray, even his own. The 2nd
Amendment doesn’t mean squat to him. But we know that.

—– Original Message —–
From: “Neal Knox” <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 6:34 PM
Subject: Senate Rejects Anti-Gun Bankruptcy Amendment

> Feb. 2 update — The Senate today overwhelmingly rejected –
> by 68-29 — Sen. Carl Levin’s (D-Mich.) amendment to prohibit
> firearms manufacturers from using the bankruptcy laws to reorganize
> and remain in business (particularly if they lost a city’s lawsuit.)
>
> Advocates made it clear that it was a “gun control” vote, with
> much of their commentary focussed on the evils of guns rather than
> the technical merits of the amendment. Levin stressed the support
> of Handgun Control Inc., the Violence Policy Center and the
> National League of Cities.
>
> Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) used the opportunity to push
> his gun show background check bill and praised Sturm, Ruger for
> prohibiting its distributors from selling to retailers who sell at
> gun shows.
>
> Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) pointed out that the amendment
targets
> lawful,
> responsible gunmakers rather than gun misusers.
>
> Sens. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Larry Craig (R-Idaho) said the
> amendment was intended to make bankruptcy law “politically
> correct.”
>
> Vice President Gore had been in the chair to ceremonially
> preside over the 80-vote passage of an amendment to prevent
> bankruptcy protections by perpetrators of abortion clinic violence,
> but he was nowhere to be seen when the gun amendment came up for
> defeat.
>
> (Vote Tally Below)
> ———-
>
> Yesterday’s surprise New Hampshire victory over Gov. George W.
Bush by
> Sen.
> John McCain has television commentators and establishment newspapers
> turning handsprings.
>
> What caught my attention was that “one in three” Republican
primary
> voters were Independents, according to press reports, and of those,
> three out of four went to McCain. If those reports are true,
> nearly half of McCain’s votes came from Independents, and without
> them George W. would have won.
>
> Gov. Bush unquestionably hurt himself with New Hampshire gun
> activists when he (like McCain) stayed away from the Gun Owners of
> New Hampshire Presidential Candidate Dinner and Forum. Forbes,
> Keyes, Hatch and Bauer all attended — and all candidates usually do.
> (In 1980, we had all 10 candidates there — everybody except President
> Jimmy Carter who sent one of his sons, and Teddy Kennedy.
>
> The GO-NH January magazine, “Firearms and Freedom,” said
> “While McCain’s people at least made a token effort with a couple of
> volunteers and some signs, the Bush Campaign simply insulted New
> Hampshire’s Gun Owners by snubbing the Forum.”
> ———-
>
> A study by the Baltimore Sun last week showed that Baltimore
> prosecutors routinely dropped the heavy penalty charge of using a
> gun in some 3,000 armed robberies, carjackings and attempted
> murders. Most perpetrators received far less than state-mandated
> five years for gun misuse.
>
> Yesterday an embarrassed Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend,
> who is a drumbeater for more gun laws, appropriated more than $1
> million to state and city prosecutors, as well as police, to crack
> down on gun-using criminals.
> ————
>
> A Utah House committee yesterday rejected a bill that would
> have outlawed even licensed guns in schools and churches, causing
> advocates to shift their efforts to a petition drive to put the
> question on an election ballot.
>
> But unless advocates can get signatures from 10 percent of the
> voters in 20 of the state’s 29 counties — which is considered
> unlikely — the initiative won’t qualify.
> ———–
>
> And here in Virginia, the reorganized — some say stacked –
> House Militia and Police Committee overwhelmingly rejected a
> similar bill to prevent licensed concealed firearms or gun training
> on school property.
> ————
>
> In Colorado, the full House approved a preemption bill
> particularly designed to set aside Denver’s ordinance prohibiting
> transport of firearms through that hub city. Republican Gov. Bill
> Owens has said he will veto the bill.
> ———-
>
> In a November Playboy interview, Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura
> made a crack about organized religion being a sham, causing the
> left wing to cheer. Yesterday, in a second article from that same
> interview he infuriated the left by calling “gun control” advocates
> “ignorant” — singling out Rosie O’Donnell.
> ———–
>
> A man abducted a 33-year-old woman from a Chandler, Ariz. Wal-
> Mart parking lot Monday, raped, shot her, and left her for dead — but
she
> survived. He then drove her car to Apache Junction where he broke
> into a home and tried to rape another woman.
>
> That second victim — who was also raped according to some
> reports — then shot and killed him.
>
> Are any feminists paying any attention? Naw.
> ———————————————————————-
——–
> —————–
>
> Levin Bankruptcy Amendment Vote
> (To Exclude Gunmakers From Bankruptcy Protections)
>
> Description
> During debate on a bankruptcy reform bill, Senators defeated an
amendment by
> Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) 29-68. It would have prohibited gun
manufacturers from
> discharging debts from lawsuits filed by cities against the
manufacturers.
>
> YEA – 29
> Chafee, Lincoln (R-RI)
> Akaka, Daniel K. (D-HI)
> Biden, Joseph R., Jr.(D-DE)
> Boxer, Barbara (D-CA)
> Cleland, Max (D-GA)
> Daschle, Thomas A. (D-SD)
> Durbin, Richard (D-IL)
> Feinstein, Dianne (D-CA)
> Graham, Bob (D-FL)
> Harkin, Tom (D-IA)
> Hollings, Ernest F. (D-SC)
> Inouye, Daniel K. (D-HI)
> Johnson, Tim (D-SD)
> Kennedy, Edward M. (D-MA)
> Kerry, John F. (D-MA)
> Kohl, Herb (D-WI)
> Lautenberg, Frank R. (D-NJ)
> Levin, Carl (D-MI)
> Mikulski, Barbara A. (D-MD)
> Moynihan, Daniel Patrick (D-NY)
> Murray, Patty (D-WA)
> Reed, Jack (D-RI)
> Reid, Harry (D-NV)
> Rockefeller, John D., IV (D-WV)
> Sarbanes, Paul S. (D-MD)
> Schumer, Charles (D-NY)
> Torricelli, Robert (D-NJ)
> Wellstone, Paul D. (D-MN)
> Wyden, Ron (D-OR)
>
>
> NAY – 68
> Abraham, Spencer (R-MI)
> Allard, Wayne (R-CO)
> Ashcroft, John (R-MO)
> Bennett, Robert F. (R-UT)
> Bond, Christopher S. (R-MO)
> Brownback, Sam (R-KS)
> Bunning, Jim (R-KY)
> Campbell, Ben Nighthorse (R-CO)
> Cochran, Thad (R-MS)
> Collins, Susan (R-ME)
> Coverdell, Paul (R-GA)
> Craig, Larry E. (R-ID)
> Crapo, Michael (R-ID)
> DeWine, Mike (R-OH)
> Domenici, Pete V. (R-NM)
> Enzi, Mike (R-WY)
> Frist, William H. (R-TN)
> Gorton, Slade (R-WA)
> Gramm, Phil (R-TX)
> Grams, Rod (R-MN)
> Grassley, Charles (R-IA)
> Gregg, Judd (R-NH)
> Hagel, Chuck (R-NE)
> Hatch, Orrin G. (R-UT)
> Helms, Jesse (R-NC)
> Hutchison, Kay Bailey (R-TX)
> Hutchinson, Tim (R-AR)
> Inhofe, James M. (R-OK)
> Jeffords, James M. (R-VT)
> Kyl, Jon (R-AZ)
> Lott, Trent (R-MS)
> Lugar, Richard G. (R-IN)
> Mack, Connie (R-FL)
> McConnell, Mitch (R-KY)
> Murkowski, Frank H. (R-AK)
> Nickles, Don (R-OK)
> Roberts, Pat (R-KS)
> Roth, William V., Jr. (R-DE)
> Santorum, Rick (R-PA)
> Sessions, Jeff (R-AL)
> Shelby, Richard C. (R-AL)
> Smith, Bob (R-NH)
> Smith, Gordon (R-OR)
> Snowe, Olympia J. (R-ME)
> Specter, Arlen (R-PA)
> Stevens, Ted (R-AK)
> Thomas, Craig (R-WY)
> Thompson, Fred (R-TN)
> Thurmond, Strom (R-SC)
> Voinovich, George (R-OH)
> Warner, John W. (R-VA)
> Baucus, Max (D-MT)
> Bayh, Evan (D-IN)
> Bingaman, Jeff (D-NM)
> Breaux, John B. (D-LA)
> Bryan, Richard H. (D-NV)
> Byrd, Robert C. (D-WV)
> Conrad, Kent (D-ND)
> Dodd, Christopher J. (D-CT)
> Dorgan, Byron L. (D-ND)
> Edwards, John (D-NC)
> Feingold, Russell D. (D-WI)
> Kerrey, J. Robert (D-NE)
> Landrieu, Mary (D-LA)
> Leahy, Patrick J. (D-VT)
> Lieberman, Joseph I. (D-CT)
> Lincoln, Blanche Lambert (D-AR)
> Robb, Charles S. (D-VA)
>
> Voted Present
> Fitzgerald, Peter (R-IL)
>
> Not Voting
> Burns, Conrad R. (R-MT)
> McCain, John (R-AZ)
>
> >