Word: nra
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THERE IS, HOWEVER, one provision in the proposed gun decontrol bill which the NRA wants you to pay particular attention to. The mandatory sentencing provision is the cornerstone of the NRA mentality, as the bill shows...
Once again--in lobbying for the McClure-Volkmer "Firearms Owners Protection Act" which NRA pin-up Kliesmet is advertising--the NRA has demonstrated its knack at introducing ambiguity into a straightforward issue...
...matter how it's packaged, the NRA bill does absolutely nothing to make federal gun law more enforceable. In fact, it will make nightmarish any attempts by government--federal, state, or local--to prevent easily concealable handguns from getting into the hands of Hinckleys, lunatics, and criminals...
Despite the assurances of macho men such as Robert Kliesmet, the NRA is attempting to deregulate handguns to stimulate an otherwise tight firearms market. Their bill weakens a dozen provisions of the Gun Control Act of 1968, passed after the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. Most important, it allows the sale of handguns to out-of-state residents, something presently illegal. Under this new law, someone desperate for a gun, or someone who wants to avoid having his record checked, can simply travel to another state...
...NRA claims that out-of-state sales are essential to sportsmen and hunters. To figure out their real motivation, however, we need only look at another provision of McClure-Volkmer. That provision would restrict law-enforcement authorities to one surprise inspection of gun dealers per year. So if you are a gun dealer, and your shop has already been inspected, feel free to relax your standards for the sake of sales; the NRA will do its part to be sure that the law protects your laxness. Clearly more than protecting honest sportsmen is at stake...