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    And might I add, please tell your fellow hunters to join the NRA.
    I am amazed at the amount of hunters that are not members.
    
    bob
    

Just thought you might like to know what Washington has in mind for
you and your guns.


U.S. SEN. Joseph Biden (Associated Press 11/18/93)

"[Banning guns] is an idea whose tine has come."

U.S. Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders (USA Today 11/19/93)

"Handguns are a public health issue."

U.S.Rep Major Owens (U.S. Congressional Record 11/10/93)

"My bill...establishes a 6-month grace period for the turning in of handgund."

U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (Associated Press 11/18/93)

"[Banning guns] addresses a fundamental right of all Americans to feel safe."

U.S. Sen. Howard Metzenbaum (Senate Hearing 1993)

"Until we ban all of them, then we might as well ban none."

U.S. Rep.Charles Schumer (NBC Nightly News 11/30/93; News Conference 12/8/93)

"We're here to tell the NRA their nightmare is true!" "We're going to hammer
guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy!  We're going to beat 
guns into submission!"

U.S. Sen Bill Bradley (Associated Press 10/6/93)

"[With 25% more taxes on guns and ammunition] $600 millioncould be raised
from these purveyors of violence."

Los Angeles Mayor Richard Roirdan (NBC's Meet The Press 11/28/93)

"We should try to keep handguns in the hands of police."

Sarah Brady, Handgun Control, Inc. (press Conference 11/24/93)

"We needed the Brady Bill for a framework. Now we've got to get to work."

Hillary Clinton (New York Times 11/4/93)

"I'm personally all for [taxing guns to pay for health care coverage]."

U.S. Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (Washington Post 11/4/93)

"[With a 10,000% tax] we could tax them out of existance."

U.S. Rep. Mel Reynolds (CNN Crossfire 12/9/93)

"If it were up to me we'd ban them all."

U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno (Associated Press 12/10/93; ABC's "Good
Morning America" 12/10/93)

"Gun registration is not enough."  "I've always proposed state licensing...
with some federal standards."

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Partial List of Gun Bills in the United States Congress.

S 108 bans many imported guns

HR 1421 bans many rifles, shotguns and handguns

HR 1734 bans many handguns

S 639 bans many rifles, shotguns and handguns

HR 3132 bans all handguns

S653 bans many rifles, shotguns and handguns

HR 1501 bans all handguns

HR 3184 bans many rifles, shotguns and handguns

S892 bans all handguns

HR 1568 bans many rifles, shotguns and handguns

HR 1571 bans many rifles, shotguns and handguns

S 1607 bans many rifles, shotguns and handguns

HR 1706 bans many rifles, shotguns and handguns

HR 3527 bans many rifles, shotguns and handguns

HR 893 bans many rifles, shotguns and handguns


Copied from American Rifleman March 1994 without permission.
    

RE: .2

> "It won't effect ME..."

> If you thought we NRA people were exaggerating in note #1345, read 
> the attached note I copied from FIREARMS.  It is on its way "BRADY II", 
> and it IS going to effect YOU this time.

I don't recall seeing your name in this file very often if at all, but be
aware that most, if not all of the members of this file do read the firearms 
file also, and are aware of whats happing to our RKBA, are probably all NRA 
members, are calling/writing our reps, and are donating $$ when possible.  
So in the future please keep in mind that we are all in this together.  "United
we conquer, divided we fall"...

comments such as "effect YOU this time", and "It won't effect ME..." do nothing 
but turn people off.  For the record, it DID effect US the last time!

Fra

    Fra,
       I believe there are still some members of this file that are not
    members of the NRA. Those that are not members of the NRA need a wakeup
    call. Maybe this might do it. It's sad that with the amount of hunters
    out there that they are not members of the NRA. What are there, 20 to
    30 Million hunters (I'm guessing here) and only 3 million NRA members?
    I would think that percentage wise it would be pretty close in this
    file also. If these people don't join it may be too late. There is
    power in numbers and we need those numbers NOW!
    							Bret
    						member in both NRA & GONH

    
     I heard it was like this:
    
    	17 million hunters
    	70 million gun owners
    	 3 million NRA	
    
    	
    regards,
    
    Gary

    
I did not mean for this to get too political, we are all in the same boat
here.  If my tone or manner sounded as if I were bashing hunters it was not 
meant in that way at all.  I was a hunter long before I joined the NRA, I am a
hunter and my goal was to alert other hunters as to what was happening out 
there.  I know that many, maybe even all HUNTING noters are NRA members and
I did not mean to sound as if few or no noters were NRA members.  The last 
thing I would want to do is to make it seem as if there are two groups here,
we are all one family with one common attribute, we all enjoy guns and gunning 
in some form or fashion and want to continue doing so.  One major goal of the
anti's is to try and separate the people who own guns into different camps.
This was exemplified by Bill Clinton several times when, first when he went 
duck hunting at Thanksgiving and again around the time he signed Brady, when 
he spoke of our heritage of hunting and how he was a part of that heritage.
To me, we are all one, regardless of weather you shoot paper, clay or meat.
If in my editorializing I sounded like a jerk, please forgive me, it was 
brought on by being too afraid of what my happen and too enthusiastic about 
trying to prevent it.  

Cordially,

Paul