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From: "Christopher W. Knox" <cknox@crl.com>
Subject: FCO 2-21-95
To: fco@Mainstream.com (Firearms Coalition Online)
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 1995 23:06:34 -0700 (MST)
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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
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February 21, 1995 Vol. 2, No. 2
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In this issue:
* In memory of Bruce Nelson
* Clinton Says NRA caused GOP congress
* Republicans plan broad agenda
* Speaker pledges help
* House Firearms Legislation Task Force meets
* BATF on carpet over dealer records
* Treasury Considering BATF cuts Or merger
* Right To Carry laws moving in States
* NRA files Michigan "assault weapon" ban suit
* D.C. Kicks off another gun push
* Fewer threats seen in state assemblies
* Chairman Hatch plans ATF/FBI probe
* Rhino Ammo -- Hoax or ploy?
* A leftover update from last year
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A note from Chris
It's taken two months, but it's finally here. Those of you who
are still awake, thanks for your patience.
The absence from the Republican crime bill reform of any mention of
gun control stirred up quite a ruckus among gun rights movement. Having
seen the McClure-Volkmer reform to the Gun Control Act of 1968 languish
for two years in the Republican-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee
with a majority of the Senate co-sponsoring it, I certainly felt a sense
of deja vu.
Fortunately, Wayne LaPierre, Tanya Metaksa and Neal Knox felt the same
thing. The last paper version of _Hard Corps Report_ (January 17)
included a letter blasting the Republicans for wanting to wait until May
to roll out a gun law reform and urged Second Amendment activists to
confront their elected servants on this issue. That edition of HCR was
(we hope) out of date only a week after it hit the streets. The
Republican leadership has laid out a strategy to reform the Crime Bill
and to educate Congress and the People with hearings on Waco, Ruby Ridge
and other BATF abuses.
I know that there are those among us who say this is just another
dastardly Republican trap. I tend to suspect it myself On the other
hand, we really don't have the votes right now to override a veto.
After three months of hearings that flog BATF and shine light into some
previously dark corners, the votes may well be there. I'd rather see
real results three months from now than to make a valiant gesture that
goes nowhere today.
Meanwhile, we need to make sure that the Republicans hold up their end
of the deal. It couldn't hurt to call your Representative. Remind him
of an old political adage: "You dance with the one who brung you."
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In memory of Bruce Nelson
Bruce Nelson of Tucson died suddenly last week. Bruce was a former
cop and firearms instructor, holster-maker and husband of NRA Director
Sandra Froman. He was a great guy and a good personal friend. The
funeral will be at 9 a.m. Tuesday.
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Clinton Says NRA caused GOP congress
[In the following, portions in CAPS are added notes by Neal Knox
to a story that was out of date soon after it ran. Look at the dates on
all of these stories. --Chris]
FOLLOWING FROM HARD CORPS REPORT OF 1/17/95 -- LEAD ITEM,
THE ALERT TO GET SEMI-AUTO AND MAG BAN ON REPUBLICAN CRIME BILL
REFORM WAS OUT OF DATE A WEEK LATER DUE TO MEETING/AGREEMENT
BETWEEN NRA AND GINGRICH.
THE REPUBLICANS BROKE THE CRIME BILL INTO PARTS TO PREVENT
ENDLESS AMENDMENTS FROM DEMS (AND US) AND TO FORCE CLINTON TO
IDENTIFY JUST WHICH PARTS OF CRIME BILL HE DIDN'T LIKE, AND WHY.
GINGRICH IS UPHOLDING HIS END OF DEAL, SUCH AS BY APPOINTING
TASK FORCE TO DEVELOP PRO-GUN PROGRAM, BUT JUST IN CASE, WE'RE
ALSO SUPPORTING STOCKMAN/CHAPMAN/BARTLETT REPEAL BILL AND A
REVISED BREWSTER BILL, WHICH REWRITES CRIME BILL BY STRIKING
EVERYTHING EXCEPT PURE ANTI-CRIME STUFF LIKE PRISONS -- AND DROPS
ALL GUN STUFF FROM LAW. BREWSTER HAS WIDESPREAD APPEAL. AFTER
45 DAYS -- REPEAL VOTE PROMISED IN MAY -- A DISCHARGE PETITION
COULD BE STARTED ON BREWSTER BILL. -- NK
[A discharge petition is a process to force the Speaker to bring
a bill directly to the floor, bypassing the committee process,
and in effect over-ruling the Speaker of the House. The petition
has to be signed by a substantial number of members (can't recall
the number), and it sits directly in front of the Speaker's podium
so he gets to look in the eye those who would defy him. Needless
to say, it's a rare event.
- -- Chris]
(January 17 HCR)
The headline completely across the Jan. 14 Cleveland Plain
Dealer screamed in 72-point type "Clinton Blames Losses On NRA."
"The NRA is the reason the Republicans control the House,"
the President told reporters and editors of Ohio's largest
newspaper.
"The fight for the assault weapons [sic] ban cost 20 members
their seats in Congress," he said during a break from a trade
conference. [You'll recall the same statement in his State of the
Union speech. -- Chris]
Although columnist Bob Novak had earlier quoted a
Congressman who said the President had told him substantially the
same thing (he supposedly said "21 seats"), it was the first time
Clinton had made such a statement on the record. Alert Plain
Dealer editors made the story their banner headline.
The newspaper's lead paragraph succinctly summed up: "the
historic Republican takeover of the House was made possible
because the National Rifle Association targeted Democrats who
supported his crime bill."
NRA-ILA Executive Director Tanya Metaksa responded: "For
once the President and I agree."
She told the newspaper that Congress had passed the crime
bill "last fall amid Democratic boasts that the power of the NRA
had been broken," but that the gun ban in the crime bill proved
to be the "crux of the election," and the "main problem for the
administration."
The Plain Dealer wrote that Rep. Eric Fingerhut "has said he
was one congressman who paid for his support of the crime bill,
which banned so-called assault weapons capable of firing many
bullets."
NOTE:
IT SHOULD BE REALIZED THAT CLINTON'S REASON FOR
BLAMING/DEMONIZING NASTY NRA FOR GINGRICH AND GOP HOUSE IS TO
DIVERT ATTENTION/BLAME FROM HIS POLICIES WHICH CAUSED COUNTRY TO
BE RIPE FOR CHANGE. NK
Republicans plan broad agenda
(January 17)
Traditionally, the opening day of Congress has consisted of
swearing-in ceremonies, parties, then a long recess while members
hired staff, got accustomed to new quarters and waited for the
President's State of the Union Speech to establish the
legislative agenda for the year.
This opening day session didn't end until 2:25 a.m. Not
only did the Republican majority significantly change the House
rules -- such as by eliminating proxy voting in committees --
they introduced most of the legislation to back up the GOP
"Contract With America" 100-day plan.
That "100-day program" is going to be about the only thing
Congress does over the next two years, other than hold
investigative hearings (the bully pulpit) and appropriate funds
(Bill Clinton can't veto dollars that aren't spent).
That's why it is critical that repeal or significant reform
of the gun laws, and other issues of concern to gun owners, be
included in the initial Republican agenda -- and NRA-ILA
lobbyists are scrambling to get their baggage on that train
before it pulls out of the station.
Key issues on gunowners minds are how BATF and Justice
Department conducted themselves at the Waco and Ruby Ridge
atrocities, how BATF is enforcing the new gun laws and dealing
with importers and dealers, how BATF has illegally computerized
gun records, how EPA has launched an attack on the use of lead
shot and bullets, how the Interior Department and Forest Service
and their branches are trying to shut down hunting and access to
Federal lands, how the Civilian Marksmanship program will fare
during declining defense budgets, and much else.
All of those issues, and more, were being discussed by NRA
Board members with about 100 Congressmen and Senators who
attended NRA's opening day reception -- which featured Charlton
Heston, a frequent NRA spokesman who had campaigned for many of
them..
One Congressman gleefully told Jay Knox that he thought it
delightful that NRA could throw such a well-attended party, with
so many House and Senate members it had helped elect, just six
months after being written off by the press as defunct.
Speaker pledges help
By NEAL KNOX
(Shotgun News Column)
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Feb. 1) -- Last week the Speaker of the
House gave NRA an unprecedented commitment to work for repeal of
last year's gun ban, and to block future erosion of Second
Amendment rights.
Speaker Newt Gingrich, in a Jan. 27 letter to ILA Director
Tanya Metaksa, said a 1 1/2 hour meeting between the House
Leadership and NRA formed the basis for "a partnership of
strengthening laws against the criminal misuse of firearms, which
everyone agrees is the real problem issue, and eliminating
harassment of law abiding gun owners who are not the problem."
The Jan. 25 meeting was called the day after President Bill
Clinton's State of the Union pledge to block any repeal of the
semi-auto ban.
It wasn't Tanya's good looks that caused the Speaker to call
us in. NRA members -- and many pro-gun Congressmen -- were
demanding that it be attached to the Republican crime bill. Your
letters and calls had gotten their attention.
The leadership had already decided to split the crime bill
into a half-dozen separate bills, mainly to prevent endless
delaying amendments from the Democrats. We were given a choice
of having the gun ban repeal vote as either the first crime issue
vote, or the last, sometime in May -- after a series of hearings
to educate the public and the Congress.
We chose what the Speaker called "a coherent Second
Amendment strategy to define gun ownership as a Constitutional
right, not a duck hunting right."
The next day the leadership began putting together a Second
Amendment Task Force, headed by Rep. Bob Barr (R-Ga.), and
composed mainly of energetic freshmen. The hearings will include
not only the Second Amendment but how BATF and other agencies are
stretching and abusing their regulatory and law enforcement
powers, including what happened to the Branch Davidians and Randy
Weaver.
Since the Republicans are allowing all germane amendments to
be offered, it's a certainty that Rep. Charles Schumer will
attempt to ban or restrict expanding bullets, limit gun
purchases, impose owner licensing or add other parts of "Brady
II."
Having those votes after hearings -- in which witnesses and
issues never before allowed will be heard -- our vote margins on
the gun and magazine ban repeal should improve, and the anti-
gunners will find it more difficult to push their agenda.
Even so it will be difficult to pass a gun ban repeal in the
Senate, where a filibuster is a real possibility.
As for the President's threat to block gun law reforms,
Speaker Gingrich said: "We look forward to taking on Clinton and
his veto strategy. And if we have to zero the budgets of the
offending bureaucrats to get his attention, we'll do it. And you
can quote me."
Others attending the meeting in the Capitol were Majority
Leader Richard Armey (Tex.), House Republican Conference Chairman
John Boehner (Ohio), Whip Tom DeLay (Tex.), National Republican
Conference Committee Chairman Bill Paxon (N.Y.) and Crime
Subcommittee Chairman Bill McCollum (Fla.).
NRA was represented by Senator (and NRA Director) Larry
Craig, Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre, ILA Executive
Director Tanya Metaksa, key staffers and myself, the only
immediately available NRA officer.
Sen. Craig opened the meeting by reading from the Cleveland
Plain Dealer banner article of Jan. 14: "Clinton Blames Losses On
NRA." It quotes the President as saying: "The NRA is the reason
the Republicans control the House" -- with which the leaders
didn't agree, though acknowledging NRA's major role.
Wayne and I detailed the efforts that NRA and its members
had put into the elections of Presidents Bush and Reagan while
each of us had been the ILA Director -- and the fact that both
Administrations had reneged on their promises to gunowners.
That raised some hackles, but Speaker Gingrich thanked us
for reminding him of "the frustrations that my gun-owning
constituents and I felt over our inability to get reforms in the
gun laws and the agencies that enforce them. You have the
Speaker's commitment that it won't happen this time."
He included another pledge in his letter to Tanya: "As long
as I am Speaker of this House, no gun control legislation is
going to move in committee or on the floor of this House."
This battle is far from won, but we have a new and powerful
ally.
---
House Firearms Legislation Task Force meets
AUSTIN, Texas (Feb. 10) -- While I've been in Missouri and
Texas this week pushing for passage of Right To Carry bills, the
U.S. House was taking up the series of crime measures in the
Republican "Contract with America" -- and slapped BATF in the
chops.
And earlier today the Firearms Legislation Task Force held
its first meeting. The Task Force, chaired by Rep. Bob Barr (R-
Ga.), was appointed by Speaker Newt Gingrich and Crime
Subcommittee Chairman Bill McCollum (R-Fla.) as a result of a
meeting between NRA leaders and the entire House Republican
leadership two weeks ago.
Other members are Republican Reps. Roscoe Bartlett (Md.), Ed
Bryant (Tenn.), Helen Chenoweth (Idaho), Fred Heineman (N.C.) and
Steve Stockman (Tex.).
According to a faxed letter from Rep. Barr to ILA Executive
Director Tanya Metaksa, Speaker Gingrich attended and asked the
Task Force to "develop a comprehensive strategy and plan that
will restore the rights of our citizenry to keep and bear arms,
in accordance with the Second Amendment of the Constitution."
Rep. Barr asked Tanya for the help of ILA "and others
sympathetic to our purpose in developing appropriate proposals
for legislation, hearings and oversight."
On Feb. 8 the House passed a bill allowing evidence seized
in an unlawful search to be used as evidence if police believed
the search were valid.
Early in this century the Supreme Court adopted the
"Exclusionary Rule," declaring that if police made a search in
violation of the Fourth Amendment's prohibition against
"unreasonable searches and seizures," no discovered evidence
could be used in court.
Over the years the courts have tightened that restriction to
include minor imperfections in search warrants, causing the
guilty to go free because a magistrate failed to dot an "i" or
cross a "t."
The Republicans' "good faith exception" was intended to
allow such evidence to be used, but many gun owners --
remembering Waco, Ruby Ridge and other no-knock searches for
firearms where law-abiding citizens have been killed -- have been
leery of loosening police restraints.
Rep. Harold Volkmer (D-Mo.), with the help of Rep. John
Dingell (D-Mich) and NRA-ILA, amended the bill so the less-
restrictive standards would not apply to BATF.
The Volkmer Amendment was passed 228-198 by a weird
coalition that included 73 staunchly pro-gun rights Republicans
and 154 Democrats who included both those for and against gun
rights. Opponents included 44 virulently anti-gun Dems led by
Rep. Charles Schumer and mostly pro-gun Republicans who were
committed to all the provisions of the "Contract with America."
In sum, no one can read those votes and determine what they
meant, but it was delightful to be able to stuff one in BATF's
ear.
---
Right to Carry Bills Move in Texas and Missouri
On Monday night I met with Missouri gun rights leaders and
spoke at a well-attended rally in the capital, called by the
grass roots guns groups in the state. Estimates of the crowd by
the organizers ranged from 1,200 to 1,500.
A surly capital police sergeant said "about 150." I told
him I knew that many attendees by their first names.
I met with Gov. Mel Carnahan, who has been dubious about a
more-liberalized bill. Our grass roots groups believe they may
have enough votes to override his possible veto.
The bill, which passed both Houses last year, has a few
imperfections -- accepted to win key votes -- but it would still
be one of the best Personal Protection statutes in the country.
In Texas, negotiations are still going on with the principal
sponsors, but whatever comes out is assured to be infinitely
better than the training-heavy, too-costly licensing bill that
former Gov. Ann Richards vetoed last year. Gov. George W. Bush
Jr. has said he would sign a "proper bill."
Gov. Bush, Lt. Gov. Bullock, Speaker Pete Laney and about
100 legislators were greeted at NRA's reception by all three NRA
officers plus Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre and Tanya.
The objective of that unprecedented display of NRA strength was
to let the Texas legislature know we are serious -- about Personal
Protection laws that are moving in a half-dozen states.
---
BATF on carpet over dealer records
During U.S. House Treasury Appropriations Subcommittee
hearings Wednesday, BATF Director John Magaw and Treasury
Undersecretary Ron Noble admitted the agency is computerizing out-
of-business dealer records. They contend their appropriations
restriction against compiling dealer records does not apply since
they are only the records of former gun dealers.
That sophist argument did not cut any ice with Rep. Ernest
Istook, who has demanded more information. Sec. 926 of the Gun
Control Act, as amended by McClure-Volkmer, also prohibits such
computerization.
Undersecretary Noble thought it was silly for Congress to
impose such a restriction. Back in 1978, when BATF decided to
ignore congressional rejection of registration laws, and tried to
set up a registration system by regulation. We cut the $4.2 million
estimated cost out of their budget.
This time they didn't ask, they just started doing it. And
we have a new Congress which is trying to find ways to save
taxpayer's money. Stay tuned.
Treasury Considering BATF Cuts Or Merger
Treasury Department is considering merging its three law
enforcement agencies -- Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms;
Customs; and Secret Service -- as an alternative to major budget
cuts in BATF proposed by the White House Office of Management and
Budget.
Rabidly anti-gun Assistant Treasury Secretary for
Enforcement Ron Noble, denounced the proposed 600-man cut in BATF
as "stupid" and "completely out of synch with what this President
stands for."
When the Reagan Administration proposed folding BATF into
Secret Service in 1981, the then-chief told Neal Knox: "Mix dirty
water with clean water, you get dirty water."
Right To Carry laws moving in States
Feb. 19 update -- NRA-backed Right To Carry laws passed the
second house in Utah and Arkansas this week and are awaiting
governors' signatures.
A vote on a liberalized Virginia carry bill is scheduled for
Monday in the House Courts of Justice Committee. Action is
expected soon on similar bills pending in Kansas, Texas, Oklahoma
and Missouri.
NRA files Michigan "assault weapon" ban suit
Last week, NRA filed suit in Federal Court in Michigan to
strike down the so-called "assault weapon" ban, challenging it on
grounds of "unconstitutional vagueness" and Tenth Amendment
restrictions on the powers of Congress.
Those grounds are more likely to result in a quick decision,
since the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has already struck down a
similar Columbus ordinance on grounds that the guns are not clearly
defined.
A challenge based on the Second Amendment is in the works.
D.C. Kicks off another gun push
Washington, D.C., until last year the nation's murder
capital, where handguns have been banned for 18 years, is kicking
off yet another effort to "get guns off the streets" -- with a
probably illegal stop and frisk campaign, a "gun court" and at
least some time served for illegal possession.
The plan is based on a Kansas City enforcement program that
supposedly reduced armed crime by 40 percent.
Fewer threats seen in state assemblies
The election day earthquake that rocked Congress also
realigned many state legislatures.
Though various gun laws have been proposed, and special
sessions called -- as in Pennsylvania -- gun activists generally
report greater confidence that restrictive legislation will be
beaten back.
Further, liberal carry license laws are considered to have a
good chance of passage this year -- after several years of
concentrated effort -- in both Missouri and Texas.
A rally in Jefferson City is planned for 10 a.m. Feb. 7 and
NRA will host a reception for legislators in Austin Feb. 8.
Maryland gun owners generally improved their legislative
position, but saw the election of a committed anti-gun governor
who, surprisingly, announced that he did not intend to push any
firearms legislation this year.
Chairman Hatch plans ATF/FBI probe
(January 17)
Senate Judiciary Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) said last
week that he plans early hearings concerning BATF and Justice
Department actions in the Waco and Ruby Ridge tragedies.
The two BATF supervisors in direct command of the Branch
Davidian assault at Waco were fired, but have been reinstated.
A Justice Department review of the killings of the wife and
14-year-old son of Randy Weaver at Ruby Ridge reportedly had
recommended that at least two FBI agents be criminally prosecuted
for violation of law and the Constitution. But Justice Dept.
declined, and won't allow Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) to see a
copy of their report.
FBI Director Louis Freeh wound up merely slapping various
FBI officials on the wrist, including putting a "letter of
reprimand" into the file of the Washington commander -- the same
"punishment" Freeh received for losing a cellular telephone.
Rhino Ammo -- Hoax or ploy?
The news media went into hysterics after Christmas over a
would-be ammo maker's claims that his "Rhino" bullet would
produce grenade-like wounds -- and that his polymer-tipped "Black
Rhino" design would do it after first penetrating a police
officer's Kevlar vests.
The outgoing chairman of the House Judiciary Crime
Subcommittee, Rep. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), announced he
intended to introduce legislation to ban any bullet that would
penetrate a Kevlar vest. And Sen. Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.)
demanded the elimination of expanding "dum-dum" bullets, either
by legislation or exorbitant tax.
The incoming Republican Judiciary Chairman, Henry Hyde (R-
Ill.), said on ABC "This Week": "I see no useful purpose for
bullets that will penetrate bullet-proof vests. Antelope don't
wear bullet-proof vests."
Of course, any hunting rifle -- and most hunting pistol
loads -- will zing through Kevlar vests, which were never
intended to do more than stop relatively low-powered handgun
ammo.
NRA put out a press release saying the maker's claims --
first made in Newsweek -- "had all the trappings of a hoax."
Amazingly, ABC Nightline agreed. Their laboratory tests
showed the .45 ACP Rhino expanding bullet to produce normal
wounds for hollow point handgun ammo, while performing
erratically.
No one ever saw the fabled "Black Rhino," which ABC likened
to the "mythical unicorn."
Handgun Control Inc. was strangely quiet, causing some to
suspect the flap was actually a legislative ploy.
A leftover update from last year
Dec. 7 update -- More good news and bad news. The bad news
is that the Madison, Wis., city council last night banned future
possession of all handguns with under four inch barrels and all
so-called "assault weapons" -- whatever those are.
Only last year the citizens of Madison rejected a handgun
ban referendum, and two other Wisconsin cities overwhelmingly
rejected handgun ban referendums in last month's elections, but
Mayor Paul Soglin declared this ordinance is what the people
want. He also told council members he would be back for more of
what he wants -- which is clearly a total ban on all firearms.
The good news is that yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court
slammed the Federal Election Commission, upholding an appellate
court's ruling that NRA did not owe a $40,000 fine for an alleged
campaign law violation.
Some more bad news is that one Republican California
assemblyman yesterday switched to Independent, then voted for
Willie Brown for leader -- making the vote 40-40. When Dick
Mountjoy resigns to take his Senate seat, Shrewd Willie may still
be leader..
---
Republicans and Democrats in both Houses have now elected
their leaders and I'm generally delighted with the results.
One disgruntled Democratic Senator said that while
Republicans had elected a lion, Trent Lott as Majority Whip, the
Democrats had elected a lamb, Tom Daschle, as Minority Leader.
In both Houses the Democrats picked the leftists who led
them into the ambush. House Republicans picked mainly pro-
gunners from top to bottom.
---
President Clinton, who continues to be in an advanced state
of denial about Democrat losses in the election, said again
Friday that he would veto any effort to repeal the Brady law or
the semi-auto ban. But according to Bob Novak's Sunday column,
Pres. Clinton has said the "A.W." ban cost Democrats 21 seats.
The anti-gun chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Rep.
Henry Hyde said Friday that he didn't think there would be any
attempt to push such a repeal because the Congress had already
settled the matter and didn't want to resurrect the issue. I
have news for him: this is a new Congress, which is why he is
now chairman.
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