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From: "Dave Kuehne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: GORE WANTS YOUR GUNS
Date: Thursday, September 28, 2000 12:56 AM
From: "Weldon Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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THE GORE GUN AGENDA:
Al's ultimate objective would be to abolish all firearms
privacy.
By Dave Kopel, Independence Institute
What's in the future for the anti-gun agenda, should Al Gore
be elected President? Just drop by the website for Handgun
Control, Inc., to find out.
There's only a short interval from the keyboards at HCI to the
lips of the President and Vice President. On the site, you'll
find details about what comes next - but not what comes after
that. Nor will you find any details on what HCI Chair Sarah
Brady says is her long-term objective: a "needs- based
licensing" system, in which gun ownership is allowed only
when the police determine that the would-be owner "needs"
the gun.
How does one get from the current Clinton/Gore/HCI
program to the needs-based licensing system? In other
words, what would a Gore administration push for, if it
achieved the current items on the anti-gun agenda?
Perhaps the best guide is the 1994 report of the White House
Working Group, a secret memo which was uncovered by
U.S. News and World Report. Here's the long-term strategy:
Complete Gun Licensing and Registration
First, the attack on the non-existent "gun show loophole" is
only a warm-up. The ultimate objective is to abolish all
firearms privacy. Every firearms transfer - including a
Christmas gift from one's cousin - would have to be routed
through a federally-licensed dealer, and recorded by the
federal government.
A government license would also be needed to purchase
ammunition.
All currently owned firearms would have to be registered with
the federal government, and non-registration would be a
federal crime. During the Democratic primaries, Bill Bradley
called for national gun registration, while Gore rejected
Bradley's plan as politically unrealistic. Gore was correct; for
registration to be politically possible, it needs to be built on an
existing system of licensing. Salami tactics are the essence
of successful gun control.
The Clinton/Gore proposal for a national ID card for handgun
purchasers is a sensible "moderate" and "common-sense"
step toward the goal of total licensing and registration for all
guns. Politically speaking, it is best if the initial stages of gun
licensing can be implemented liberally (as rifle licensing was
in Britain in the 1920s and 1930s) so that most people can
get the license. Once licensing is in place, the bureaucracy
can take care of gradually tightening the licensing process
(without ever needing to ask the legislature to change the
law), so that hardly anyone qualifies for a license (as rifle
licensing currently is enforced in Britain).
Hunting Restrictions
While the White House licensing and registration system
would apply to all guns, especially strict rules would be
imposed on owners of handguns and for self-loading long
guns (such as the Marlin Camp Carbine or the Ruger .22
rifles). Appropriating a term of art from Canadian gun law, the
White House would designate all handguns and all self-
loading long guns as "restricted weapons." Owners of
"restricted weapons" could possess them only at home, at
work, or at a target range.
In other words, it would be a federal crime to go bird hunting
with a Remington 1100 shotgun. Handgun hunting, which is
legal in every state in the Union, would vanish.
President Clinton and Vice President Gore strenuously insist
that none of the laws which they have signed, and none of
the regulations they have created, have interfered with
hunting. Although Clinton and Gore are not correct in their
claim, their "restricted weapons" agenda would remove their
pro-hunting mask, and take away the primary sporting arms
of millions of American hunters.
Bans on Defensive Gun Use and Possession
It would also be a federal crime to carry a handgun in public
for protection - even for people with state licenses authorizing
them to carry.
The White House memo also recommends consideration of a
federal law to outlaw "the carrying of firearms in...work sites."
The White House proposal would override current laws of
many states, which allow a person who runs a dry cleaning
shop that stays open late to choose to carry a concealed gun
for protection. Or an accountant who stays at work late during
March and April, can choose whether to keep a handgun in
her desk, and carry it with her when she walks to the parking
lot late at night.
The White House Working Group praises the 1976 Bartley-
Fox law in Massachusetts. This law imposes a mandatory
one year term in prison for carrying a gun without a permit. In
one notorious case, the law was applied to a man who
started carrying a gun after a co-worker assaulted him, and
repeatedly threatened to kill him. The co-worker did attack
later, and the victim successfully defended himself. The crime
victim was then sentenced to a mandatory one year in prison
for carrying a gun without a permit. This is the kind of law that
the Clinton/Gore administration wants to apply nationwide.
Banning More Guns
The Clinton/Gore memo states that domestic manufacture of
guns should be brought under the federal government's
regulatory standards for product designs. The White House
memo predicts that such regulation would outlaw "Many
handguns now manufactured in the United States for civilian
use." With great applause from the White House, a
forerunner of the White House plan was recently imposed in
Massachusetts, by the administrative edict of the state
Attorney General. The result of the new standards was to ban
the sale of all handguns except the Smith & Wesson models.
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