From cknox@crl.com Tue Jun 7 22:23:00 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 WAA05765 for ; Tue, 7 Jun 1994 22:22:58 -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 WAA25317 for ; Tue, 7 Jun 1994 22:22:57 -0700 Received: from crl.crl.com (crl.com) by mail.crl.com with SMTP id AA20191 (5.65c/IDA-1.5 for ); Tue, 7 Jun 1994 22:13:18 -0700 Received: by crl.crl.com id AA16596 (5.65c/IDA-1.5); Tue, 7 Jun 1994 22:12:50 -0700 From: "Christopher W. Knox" Message-Id: <199406080512.AA16596@crl.crl.com> Subject: FCO 6-3-94 To: cknox@crl.com (Blind CC sent to the Firearms Coalition Online) Date: Tue, 7 Jun 1994 22:12:49 -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: 11468 Status: R -----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 3, 1994 Release 1.13 ======================================================================== In this issue: * State action -- California and New Jersey * Crime Bill horse trading * NRA News -- Knox in as 2nd Vice President ======================================================================== A note from Chris Saturday's Phoenix Gazette tells of a fellow riding his Harley in ritzy north Scottsdale when a pickup pulled alongside and the driver motioned that something was wrong with his bike. The motorcyclist pulled over and one of the occupants of the pickup shot him in the side and tried to steal the bike. Our unnamed motorcyclist returned fire from his .45, apparently wounding the thief and then rode wounded to his wife's office. She drove him to a nearby hospital where he was treated and released. "Luckily I was carrying my gun," the paper quoted him. "I've never even had to think about using it before." The suspect, who at last report was still at large, was described as in his fifties with long grey hair and numerous tatoos. The description failed to mention where he sported a.45 hole. The paper implied that the suspect was wounded, but no word of how seriously. Don't you just love it when the good guys win? This is one of the few car -- er -- vehicle-jackings we've had in Arizona in the past year. There was a rash of incidents last year, but several ended with would-be victims effectively defending themselves. It'd be interesting to graph Arizona and Nevada carjackings against California over the past few years. And Now, A Word From Our Sponsor Times are changing -- as usual. Between all manner of restrictions being placed on lobbyists and Neal Knox's election as Second Vice President of NRA it becomes necessary for Neal Knox to change the way he does business. Not what he does, only how he does it. You'll notice some minor changes to the blurb at the end. We'll keep you posted here and in the "Hard Corps Report." Meanwhile, The Firearms Coalition remains Neal Knox's primary means of making a living. If you like what he does, if you use the information he sends you either via the Net or through the mail, I hope you can help support this work. ======================================================================== Roberti pushes semi-auto/magazine ban June 2 update -- California Sen. David Roberti tried yesterday to pass a Feinstein-type semi-auto and magazine ban yesterday. He go 19 votes -- two fewer than he needed. He will try again within the next two or three weeks. New Jersey Republicans have a clear choice I'll be speaking at a get out the vote dinner for Frank LoBiondo in retiring anti-gunner Bill Hughes' (D-NJ) district Satur- day night. Tuesday's primary will have national significance because it's the first head-to-head election of a pro-gunner and anti-gunner since the Schumer-Feinstein vote in the House. Assemblyman Gormley, LoBiondo's opponent, was the sole Republican to vote for New Jersey's so-called "assault weapon" ban. LoBiondo was Assembly co-sponsor of the bill to repeal that law. The political pundits had rated the election as a walkover for Gormley, but now it's a horserace. NRA has jumped in with an endorsement letter and a radio campaign in hopes of tipping it Frank's way. [At last report -- June 7, around 10:00 PM Eastern time -- LoBiondo was leading by a seventy percent margin. cwk] ======================================================================== (Shotgun News Column) NEAL KNOX REPORT Crime Bill Wrangle By NEAL KNOX WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 1) -- Though Congress is formally recessed until next week, there's increasing behind-the-scenes sparring over when the House-Senate crime conference committee will meet, and what firearms and death penalty provisions that still-unfinished bill will contain. Also, Crime Subcommittee Chairman Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) is attempting to set up hearings on H.R. 4300, his (and Handgun Control Inc.'s) handgun registration provisions from "Brady II." The bill, titled the "Handgun Control and Violence Prevention Act, is the same as S. 2053 by Sen. Bill Bradley (D-N.J.) Schumer's push for hearings on handgun registration could soften or even block the semi-auto ban, but he -- and the Democrat leadership -- may be planning to provide a repressive gun bill for "moderates" to vote against, to give them political "cover" for their votes for the Brady waiting period and the semi-auto and magazine ban. The hottest political issues in the crime bill are the semi- auto and 11-round magazine bans and the "Racial Justice Act," which amounts to a racial quota for executions. The gun provisions are included in the Senate-passed bill; the House has passed a crime bill with softer provisions on criminals, with an $8 billion sop of grants for urban social programs, plus the death penalty quota. The House has also passed a somewhat-softer standalone version of the Senate "Feinstein Amendment" which Schumer intends to add in the House-Senate conference. Judiciary Chairman Jack Brooks (D-Tex.) is trying to keep all or most the gun provisions off the crime bill, and has delayed the conference. If the death penalty quota provisions are not in the conference bill, the left wing may try to block the crime bill in both houses; if they are included, "conservatives" will try to block it. The gun provisions alone are unlikely to result in a successful filibuster, but if they and "Racial Justice" are in the bill, it would be unlikely to become law. Congressmen and Senators must be made aware that if a gun ban is in the bill, you expect them to vote against it -- no matter how many cops and prisons it promises. While pushing the gun ban, the Clinton Administration is continuing its all-out assault on firearms and firearms owners, using the many non-legislative levers of government -- from trying to prohibit firearms possession on Forest Service lands to closing ranges under Environmental Protection Agency "lead pollution" rules. The latest tool was using the State Department regulations under the Arms Export Act to ban the importation of "munitions" from China. That law prohibits imports of "munitions" from countries to which U.S. munitions may not be shipped. "Munitions" is defined in the July 22, 1993 "Federal Register" as all firearms except "non-combat" shotguns and black powder guns, and all ammunition and components except for shotgun shells. President Clinton banned those imports from China as a bone to the left wing, hoping to mollify their outrage over his breaking a campaign pledge to deny "Most Favored Nation" trading status to China until it improved its treatment of its people. Bear in mind that the only guns still coming in from China had been specifically approved by BATF as "sporting arms." It merely proves what we've been saying, that "sport" has nothing to do with the Second Amendment, but that if government is allowed to ban non-sporting arms, they'll next ban sporting arms. All those hunters and claybirders who think they have no dog in the "assault weapon" fight better pay attention. --- Many of you folks helped re-elect me to the NRA Board of Directors, for which I thank you. At the NRA meetings in Minneapolis last week, ten years after the then-board of NRA kicked me off the board for opposing NRA's endorsement of the gutting of the McClure-Volkmer bill, I was elected Second Vice President. (Okay, I'll admit to being a bit smug about it.) The Board moved Tom Washington up to President, Marion Hammer to First Vice President, and Jim Land was elected Secretary, replacing the retiring Warren Cheek. Wayne LaPierre was unanimously reelected Executive Vice President. Mrs. Tanya Metaksa will continue as the Executive Director of the NRA Institute. If someone tells you that this is a soft or compromising NRA, laugh. ======================================================================== -##- Support Neal Knox Associates and begin receiving the bi-monthly "Hard Corps Report" by contributing to the Firearms Coalition, Box 6537, Silver Spring, MD 20906. For legislative updates call (301) 871-3006. To subscribe to the Firearms Coalition Online Report send email to cknox@crl.com with "subscribe" as the subject line. ======================================================================== Copyright 1994 by Neal Knox Associates P.O. Box 6537 Rockville, MD 20916. 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