SAF update: House passes bill stripping D.C. of gun authority

**tuck0411** · September 17, 2008, 14:57

Email update from SAF...

HOUSE RIGHT TO VOTE ON D.C. GUN REGS, MAKE COUNCIL BEHAVE, SAYS SAF

BELLEVUE, WA – House passage of a bill that strips away authority from the District of Columbia Council was both proper and expected for a number of reasons, the Second Amendment Foundation said today.

“What did the council expect,” observed SAF founder Alan Gottlieb. “The city has stonewalled, delayed and done everything in its power to make it difficult for citizens to register legal handguns, and the House justifiably voted to put an end to that nonsense. The city council’s vote to amend its own restrictive gun registration requirements was a pitifully transparent attempt to avoid having Congress take over, and it was too little, too late. Now the House has rightfully assumed responsibility for enforcing the Second Amendment in our nation’s capitol city.

“However, gun owners are not so foolish to believe that House Democrats embraced this legislation just because it was the right thing to do,” Gottlieb added. “Many voted for H.R. 6691 to give themselves some pro-gun-rights cover for the upcoming election, and they know it.

“Those Democrats are fully aware that chances of this bill getting through the Senate during this session of Congress are virtually nil,” Gottlieb added, “but this issue gave them a chance to cast a pro-gun vote they can brag about on the campaign trail over the next seven weeks. You can bet your gun collection that Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will block a vote on this measure.”

Gottlieb is co-author of These Dogs Don’t Hunt: The Democrats’ War on Guns, a book that rips the Democratic party’s long history of supporting gun control, on political, socio-economic and racial grounds.

“We are certainly pleased that the House adopted this measure,” Gottlieb stated, “because it is a responsible step toward a sensible resolution of the District’s effort to dance around the Supreme Court ruling. It will come as a pleasant surprise, indeed, if the Senate passes this bill and sends it to President Bush before Congress adjourns. It is time for the District to live up to the Supreme Court ruling, and allow its citizens to rejoin the United States and fully exercise their constitutional right to own firearms for personal protection.”

**tuck0411** · September 17, 2008, 15:21

Only news story I can find so far

September 17, 2008, 14:57	#1
tuck0411 Curio & Relic Bronze Contributor Silver Contributor FALaholic #: 29165 Join Date: May 2007 Location: WA Posts: 2,003	SAF update: House passes bill stripping D.C. of gun authority Email update from SAF... HOUSE RIGHT TO VOTE ON D.C. GUN REGS, MAKE COUNCIL BEHAVE, SAYS SAF BELLEVUE, WA – House passage of a bill that strips away authority from the District of Columbia Council was both proper and expected for a number of reasons, the Second Amendment Foundation said today. “What did the council expect,” observed SAF founder Alan Gottlieb. “The city has stonewalled, delayed and done everything in its power to make it difficult for citizens to register legal handguns, and the House justifiably voted to put an end to that nonsense. The city council’s vote to amend its own restrictive gun registration requirements was a pitifully transparent attempt to avoid having Congress take over, and it was too little, too late. Now the House has rightfully assumed responsibility for enforcing the Second Amendment in our nation’s capitol city. “However, gun owners are not so foolish to believe that House Democrats embraced this legislation just because it was the right thing to do,” Gottlieb added. “Many voted for H.R. 6691 to give themselves some pro-gun-rights cover for the upcoming election, and they know it. “Those Democrats are fully aware that chances of this bill getting through the Senate during this session of Congress are virtually nil,” Gottlieb added, “but this issue gave them a chance to cast a pro-gun vote they can brag about on the campaign trail over the next seven weeks. You can bet your gun collection that Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will block a vote on this measure.” Gottlieb is co-author of These Dogs Don’t Hunt: The Democrats’ War on Guns, a book that rips the Democratic party’s long history of supporting gun control, on political, socio-economic and racial grounds. “We are certainly pleased that the House adopted this measure,” Gottlieb stated, “because it is a responsible step toward a sensible resolution of the District’s effort to dance around the Supreme Court ruling. It will come as a pleasant surprise, indeed, if the Senate passes this bill and sends it to President Bush before Congress adjourns. It is time for the District to live up to the Supreme Court ruling, and allow its citizens to rejoin the United States and fully exercise their constitutional right to own firearms for personal protection.” __________________ "Posterity! You will never know, how much it cost the present Generation, to preserve your Freedom! I hope you will make a good Use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven, that I ever took half the Pains to preserve it." -- John Adams "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined." - Patrick Henry "It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds." -- Samuel Adams "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their consciences." -- C.S. Lewis

September 17, 2008, 15:21	#2
tuck0411 Curio & Relic Bronze Contributor Silver Contributor FALaholic #: 29165 Join Date: May 2007 Location: WA Posts: 2,003	Only news story I can find so far __________________ "Posterity! You will never know, how much it cost the present Generation, to preserve your Freedom! I hope you will make a good Use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven, that I ever took half the Pains to preserve it." -- John Adams "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined." - Patrick Henry "It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds." -- Samuel Adams "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their consciences." -- C.S. Lewis

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