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NRA on Veterans' Heritage Firearms Act
From Eric Larson:
NRA supports H.R. 2088/amnesty legislation
Posted By: Eric M. Larson
Date: 12/20/05 18:01
The NRA is doing something for the Class III community. An article entitled "NRA Supports House Legislation To Protect Gun-Owing Veterans," on page 75 of the January 2006 issue of AMERICAN RIFLEMAN gets this legislative word out to, what...some 3.5 million or so people? That's impressive.
The article discusses H.R. 2088, the Veterans' Heritage Firearms Act of 2005, which would provide a 90-day amnesty period during which veterans and their family members could register firearms acquired overseas between June 26, 1934 and October 31, 1968. The bill provides that "in the absence of clear and convincing evidence to the contrary the attorney general shall accept as true and accurate any affidavit, document, or other evidence submitted by an individual to establish that such firearm meets the requirements" under H.R. 2088.
Read that: " . . . shall accept . . . " language. In other words, no arbitrary victimization by ATF or anybody else in the Government, and an opportunity to preserve valuable historical artifacts that are, to many families, irreplaceable heirlooms symbolizing service to the United States in time of war or conflict.
It isn't just a blurb of an article, either---it is 5" of text on the ILA Report pages, or roughly 1/3 of a page.
The article, which is based largely on an earlier press release this year by the bill's Congressional sponsor, Rep. Jim Gibbons (R-Nevada), concludes:
"NRA members are encouraged to contact their representatives and ask them to support N.R. 2088."
I'd say the NRA has just done quite a bit for the NFA community.
4 Comments
So... those fellows write an article, in a gun magazine, about a law which would slightly amend unconstitutional laws to our favor - not actually making it an NRA priority or lobbying for in any way... and this is called doing a lot?
When has any "law" been for the good of the people.
Rights are ignored in favor of laws.
Gun registration is gun registration is gun registration!! The Government has no authority to enact any law that will abridge the constitutional guarantees and any law that is enacted to modify such laws is just another assault on liberty. The Constitution was written by men who understood how difficult it is to depose a tyrannous oppressive government especially if you find yourself unarmed and at the mercy of an aggressively armed enforcement apparatus such as has been the delight of this government to proliferate over the last 40 years. Who ever at the NRA who has talked this bill up needs to be removed from the NRA rolls and fired for cause. By backing this legislation and lending the NRA's reputation and creditability to this type of legislation has done more to destroy liberty and freedom than any BRADY zelot.
David, sorry for seeming to link-whore, but my trackback ping didn't work. I'm less than pleased with this. Yet another law which affirms that the RKBA is conditioned on a state permission slip, in effect treating it as a privilege confered by the state. Further exposition here.