The Brady Campaign is the nation's largest, non-partisan, grassroots organization fighting to prevent gun violence.
On July 21, 2005, Senate Majority Leader Frist claimed in an Order of Business before the Senate that
Without this legislation, it is possible the American manufacturers of legal firearms will be faced with the real prospect of going out of business, ending a critical source of supply for our Armed Forces, our police, and our citizens.
He even asserted that,
Given the profusion of litigation, the Department of Defense faces the very real prospect of outsourcing sidearms for our soldiers to foreign manufacturers.
Neither statement is true.
Another way to phrase it is: Huh?
Lockyer's office fired back Wednesday by calling the impact minimal because most, if not all, of its Sacramento-based officers did not use the range on duty in the past year.
The Folsom Shooting Club, which runs the Sacramento Valley Shooting Center in Sloughhouse, last week sent the Democratic attorney general a letter describing the ban and the group's opposition to two bills designed to trace bullets or cartridges back to a shooter.
The club is opposed to Senate Bill 357 by Sen. Joe Dunn, D-Santa Ana, which would require handgun bullets in California to have a serial number, and Assembly Bill 352 by Assemblyman Paul Koretz, D-West Hollywood, which would require semiautomatic guns to stamp cartridges upon firing.
Merits of the bills aside, closing the club's doors on law enforcement personnel is a pretty odd way to protest a public policy initiative. Some might even view it as a slap in the face to DOJ officers.
But now that the Kill Bill is law in Florida, people in other states are getting worried that the NRA will make good on its promise to drop the bill everywhere else. Maybe we'll all be able to lock the windows and bolt the doors before they slip in.
A law that lets people shoot anyone, any time, anywhere, as long as the shooter feels "threatened"? It's right off the map. (See FindLaw's analysis) This law has got a lot of people wondering exactly who's pulling the strings in Florida.
Florida lawmakers certainly gave their friends in the NRA an impressive jump start for a national campaign. The Florida law, which goes into effect Oct. 1, passed unanimously in the state Senate and 94 to 20 in the House.
- The Register-Guard
Oh. The NRA. Should've guessed. They've been successful in getting more and more guns into more and more hands. Now they need to get more and more people into more and more situations where it's okay to use those guns.
Which makes you wonder if they really think of guns as a deterrent, or as a response.
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