[BackupPC-users] E-blast from GOCRA

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 05:04:02 -0800

Good Evening Minnesota,

 

Thanks to all of you who took a minute to send the legislature an email about HF3324 and SF2989, the new proposed gun registration bills. Emails from everyone is needed if we are to stop these bills. This may be your first email, welcome.  

 

I have something for those of you who for whatever reason, still have not stood up for your rights. It is a video history lesson. When looking at the Cambodia segment, I noticed a similar change there being proposed now for Minnesota concerning the lending of firearms. I know nothing this drastic will probably ever happen here, but I can only say that with confidence if everyone takes action while there is still time to stop these very bad bills.

 

Watch the following video to the end  http://blip.tv/file/313529 The video is historically graphic. Our GOCRA Banquet guest speaker this year is Dr. Suzanna Gratia Hupp whose story begins at the 38 minute mark in the video. Mark your calendars and come to the GOCRA banquet on April 5th at Majestic Oak Country Club and meet her.

 

After watching the video if you decide you can live with broad gun registration becoming law in Minnesota because you still believe gun registration will never lead to gun confiscation here, just do nothing. However if you are concerned and you want the legislature to clearly understand we never want this bill to become law, ever, you and all your friends must send an email. All of our friends in the legislature are willing to help us if you are willing to help them by improving their chances to stop these bills.

 

The three points we need to make to the legislature right now are:

 

1.  We OPPOSE these bills.  The Solon/Paymar bills are GUN REGISTRATION bills designed to hassle Minnesota's 1.25 million law-abiding gun owners.  The ultimate goal is to make owning a gun too much trouble (legally, financially, and socially). It doesn?t hassle criminals at all.

 

2.  There is no actual need for these bills.  Legitimate private sales have been regulated in Minnesota since 1994 by Minn. Stat. sec. 609.66, subd. 1f. There is no evidence that existing law doesn't work with respect to law-abiding sellers.

 

3.  These bills will not stop criminals nor insane people.  Gang members and other criminals acquire their guns through the same illegal black-market that supplies drugs.  Everything inner city criminals do regarding firearms is already illegal and these bills will not change a thing.  The only thing that stops them is incarceration or shot placement.  No amount of hassling the good guys will stop the bad guys.  Furthermore, every mass shooting incident in the past year has involved an insane person who had passed a background check to acquire their gun.  Another background check ! would not have made any difference.

 

You must help stop gun registration of lawful transfers from becoming law in Minnesota by emailing the legislators in St. Paul and express your opposition to this bill. If you use our newly redesigned email tool at http://www.gocra-mn.org/! legislation.php  your email will be sent to the entire legislature just by clicking on the ?both? button (House and Senate). Please take a moment to send an email. Do not think your voice is unimportant, it is very important that our legislators hear form you.

 

Copy and paste the sample email below and personalize it as you wish. Be polite.

 

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I am writing to you because I oppose HF 3324/SF2989. These bills are a solution in search of a problem.   

 

Guns used by criminals to commit crimes are rarely if ever lawfully purchased. Every mass shooting incident in the past year has involved an insane person with no criminal history who had passed a background check to acquire their gun.  Another background check wouldn't have made a difference. The recently passed NICS Improvement Act mandates what information the states must report and provides the funding to Minnesota to implement.

 

This bill does not force background checks or the recording of any transfers of guns sold illegally in the black market or by gang members to their friends, which is a major flaw in these bills.

  

Enacting a broad gun registration system will not prevent any known criminal from buying all the guns they want right here in Minnesota

 

Minnesota should only require that all illegal firearms transfers between persons who are not otherwise eligible to possess a firearm under state or federal law, be recorded and traced. These bills totally fail to track illegal transfers.

 

Minnesota does not need a gun registration law for those citizens who are already law abiding sellers and owners. Please do not support these bills and work hard to stop them.

 

Thank You

 

Your Name

Address

 

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 This is very important. Please forward this email to all your gun owning friends.

 It?s About Liberty, Your Liberty.

Gene German

Executive Director