I belong to Safari Club International....an organization for hunters and composed of hunters--people who hunt primarily domestically and those that hunt all over the world. I am also the President-elect of the founding chapter (Los Angeles). We instruct our lobbyists both in DC and in Sacramento, as a matter of policy, that we are opposed to any laws that ban or unreasonably restrict the ownership of firearms. Apparently, we need to do a better job of educating hunters that there is no signifigant difference between the guns they "don't like" and the guns they hunt with.
Here in California, the current fight is against the banning of .50 caliber rifles and pistols. Seems our legislators were uninformed that many hunters the world over use rifles of .50 caliber or larger.
At 02:11 PM 10/5/2003 -0600, you wrote:
I can tell you from personal experience that there are large numbers of gun owners who deplore
military style weapons. I've heard the following explanations over the years:
1. "No one needs guns like that." (Usually said by people that regard black guns as "ugly.")
2. "They make gun owners look like kooks." (Usually said by people that watch TV news a lot.)
3. "Guns like that are only used to kill people." (Usually said by hunters.)
The notion of "slippery slope" is not one that many people understand.
- ----- Original Message -----
- From: Ron Moore
- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2003 1:35 PM
- Subject: [inbox] Re: Americans Want President Bush and Congress to Renew the Ban
- I would love to see the data. I can readily believe that much of the non-gunowning public supports such a ban, I find it difficult that many gun owners do given that there just isn't any signifigant difference between a military style semi-auto rifle and the semi-auto rifles and shotguns that millions of gun owners use for hunting and target shooting.
- At 10:41 PM 10/4/2003 -0400, you wrote:
- Americans Want President Bush and Congress to Renew the Ban
- 10/1/2003
- Press Release
- Consumer Federation of America
- 1424 16th Street, NW
- Washington, DC 20036
- www.consumerfed.org
- Contact:
- Naomi Seligman
- Phone: 202-628-7772 ext. 126
- New CFA Survey Finds That Consumers Support Renewing and Strengthening the Federal Assault Weapons Ban
- Washington, DC - A new survey released today by Consumer Federation of America (CFA) found that over a majority of the public supports renewing the federal assault weapons ban and supports new measures to strengthen the ban. An important finding of this survey is that a high percentage of Americans want President Bush to persuade Congress to renew the ban. Another significant finding is that a majority of gun owners supports renewing and strengthening the assault weapons ban. Results of the survey include:
- Sixty-two percent said they favored renewing the ban, including 47 percent who strongly favor its renewal. Just over 50 percent of gun owners support renewing the ban, while two thirds of non-gun owners do.
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- http://www.jointogether.org/gv/news/alerts/reader/0,2061,567042,00.html
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- Last year Naomi Seligman was the VPC's Communications Director
- Ron Moore
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