Gun Ban Vote Scheduled For November 5th

Gun Ban Scheduled in the House for November 5
— Ban would outlaw non-existing gun

ACTION: Please use the pre-written text below to help direct your comments to your Representative. The vote on the gun ban is scheduled in the House for Wednesday, November 5.

It’s outrageous. The Republicans in the House of Representatives tell us they don’t have enough time to pass a concealed carry bill or the Citizen’s Self-Defense Act.

But they have time to take up a ban on guns that don’t even exist.

H.R. 3348, which is scheduled for a vote tomorrow, would renew the unconstitutional ban on plastic guns.

This firearm has never existed, and it may never. Yet the House will consider renewing the ban for another 10 years.

If a totally plastic gun is ever developed, a ban will not keep bad guys from getting their hands on such a firearm any more than the other 20,000 or so gun laws keep murderers and thieves from getting their hands on guns now.

Has the Congress taken care of real problems related to terrorism? Have they gotten the Transportation Safety Administration to arm pilots? Not unless 200 or so pilots (out of 100,000-plus) is their idea of arming pilots.

The real answer to airport security is to arm the pilots. Had they been armed on 9-11, terrorists never would have tried to hijack those four planes.

And how about forcing the TSA to hire the North Carolina college student, Nathaniel Heatwole, to instruct the TSA on how to tighten their “security” procedures at airports. Heatwole is the student who successfully smuggled boxcutters and other weapons on several planes. He was only caught because he e-mailed the Transportation Safety Agency about what he had done.

But before the TSA is made to hire Mr. Heatwole, Congress should do something really useful, such as letting any pilot with a concealed carry permit to take a gun inside the cockpit so we can have effective homeland security. Obviously, we will never have armed pilots as long as Congress tolerates the TSA’s mismanagement of this program.

This is a serious issue. If Congress can exercise unconstitutional power to ban plastic guns, they can do the same with semi-automatic firearms.

Please visit the Gun Owners Legislative Action Center at http://www.gunowners.org/activism.htm RIGHT AWAY to send the pre-written message below to your Representative.

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Dear Representative:

I urge you to vote against H.R. 3348. This bill is unconstitutional, and it is a useless waste of taxpayers’ money and of your time. Plus, the gun it purports to ban doesn’t even exist!

If a totally plastic gun is ever developed, a ban will not keep bad guys from getting their hands on such a firearm any more than the other 20,000 or so gun laws keep murderers and thieves from getting their hands on guns now.

You have much more important things to do. Please, instead of wasting your time banning a gun that does not exist, force the Transportation Safety Administration to arm pilots.

You might also spend your time getting the TSA to figure out how a college student repeatedly got weapons past the “security” points at airports and was only discovered because he sent an e-mail to the TSA.

Perhaps that same student could help your own “security” screeners on Capitol Hill, since they were rather embarrassed by a staffer who inadvertently snuck past them with a toy gun that was part of a Halloween costume.

Gun Owners of America will inform me how you vote. Please vote against H.R. 3348.

Sincerely,

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