From cknox@crl.com Tue Jun 21 22:15:12 1994 Received: from nova.unix.portal.com (nova.unix.portal.com [156.151.1.101]) by jobe.shell.portal.com (8.6.4/8.6.5) with ESMTP id WAA04891 for ; Tue, 21 Jun 1994 22:15:11 -0700 Received: from mail.crl.com (mail.crl.com [165.113.1.22]) by nova.unix.portal.com (8.6.7/8.6.5) with SMTP id WAA17981 for ; Tue, 21 Jun 1994 22:15:11 -0700 Received: from crl.crl.com (crl.com) by mail.crl.com with SMTP id AA10064 (5.65c/IDA-1.5 for ); Tue, 21 Jun 1994 22:08:04 -0700 Received: by crl.crl.com id AA07141 (5.65c/IDA-1.5); Tue, 21 Jun 1994 22:07:32 -0700 From: "Christopher W. Knox" Message-Id: <199406220507.AA07141@crl.crl.com> Subject: FCO 6-19-94 To: cknox@crl.com (Blind CC sent to the Firearms Coalition Online) Date: Tue, 21 Jun 1994 22:07:31 -0700 (MST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 6670 Status: RO X-Status: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- ======================================================================== Online Report to the F I R E A R M S C O A L I T I O N Box 6537, Silver Spring, MD 20916 ======================================================================== June 19, 1994 Release 1.14 ======================================================================== In this issue: * Quick update on the Crime Bill ======================================================================== A note from Chris The Crime Bill is in Conference Committee where the Senate and House versions will be reconciled. This note is the script for the latest telephone update. If you called and got no answer, it was because of a power glitch that scrambled every electonic gadget in the house, including an answering machine. It should go without saying that your elected servants need to hear from you -- again. As I prepare to send this out I'm hearing initial reports of the Air Force base shooting. I've never been one for conspiracy theories, but I'm ready to make an exception. And Now, A Word From Our Sponsor I hate getting those repetitive long letters that don't say a thing except to send money. I promise never to pretend that Dad and I were talking about you the other day. That ought to be worth a couple of bucks all by itself. ======================================================================== Crime Bill Before Conference Committee June 19 update -- Tuesday's Senate hearings on the Biden- Schumer handgun registration bill, which is part of Brady II, were cancelled -- probably because that bill could scare off some votes for the so-called "assault weapons" ban that's likely to become part of the crime bill. The House-Senate crime bill conference started Thursday with only opening statements. The real work is scheduled to begin Tuesday. The staff has prepared a draft bill that includes many contentious provisions -- particularly huge chunks of money for prisons, for social programs and for police scholarships. But the working draft does not yet include the two thorniest sections -- the so-called "assault weapons" ban and the so-called "Racial Justice Act." The opening statements reveal the range of disagreement: House Chairman Jack Brooks said the bill will have "limited impact." Senate Chairman Joe Biden said it is of great import, but on a limited scale -- whatever that means. Rep. Don Edwards talked only about the racial quota for the death penalty, calling for "eliminating the last vestige of slavery." Sen. Edward Kennedy talked only about "assault weapons" and "racial justice," deploring the fact that more blacks are on death row, and ignoring the fact that more blacks are murderers -- and murder victims. Sen. Howard Metzenbaum said there is nothing useful in the crime bill except the gun ban. And all those guys are Democrats. As I've been saying, this bill is a long ways from law. It probably will become law, but it won't be quick, and there's no telling what gun provisions -- or anything else -- will be in it. -30- ======================================================================== Copyright 1994 by Neal Knox Associates P.O. 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