The following is a letter that is being promoted on the Net. Any comments? ______
January 6, 2008 TO: Mr. Henry M. Paulson, Jr. United States Department of the Treasury 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D. C. 20220 Subject: Correction of abuse of discretion by predecessor Certified Mail No. _____________________________ Dear Mr.Paulson: Your predecessor, Lloyd Bentsen, Jr., committed an abuse of discretion as Secretary of the Treasury in 1994 that is long overdue for correction. He issued an administrative finding that several 12-gauge shotguns, the USAS-12, the Striker-12, and the Street Sweeper, are "destructive devices" subject to mandatory registration. Congress never intended that any 12-gauge shotgun be so classified. The apparent motive for this was that these weapons had characteristics that put them under the Law enforcement Act of 1994, removable magazines and a pistol grip. However, that Act expired September 13, 2004 and has not been renewed. For many years the BATFE took no steps to enforce the finding. Then, about 1989, began circulating notices that it would begin to accept registrations, and setting a deadline to register. However, the notices were inadequate, and the forms they offered for registration had several defects, failing to allow for ownership by a corporation, and even requiring the registrant to sign, under penalty of perjury, that he was the manufacturer, when he might only be a purchaser. Such a ruse must be rejected as constitutionally infirm. I urge you to rescind the finding. Besides demonstrating a willingness to take seriously your oath to defend the Constitution at a time when such willingness in this Administration is suspect, it would avoid prosecutions that would be manifestly unjust. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Constitution Society 7793 Burnet Road #37, Austin, TX 78757 512/299-5001 www.constitution.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ To post, send message to [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/firearmsregprof Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed as private. Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages that are posted; people can read the Web archives; and list members can (rightly or wrongly) forward the messages to others.
