POLITICS - Gun rights alert

[gunslinger598]

Any one else get this
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Gun Rights E-mail Alert
Latest News - 1/16/2008
The Bush Administration supports unconstitutional D.C. Gun Ban; calls private ownership of guns a threat to public safety.
Since "unrestricted" private ownership of guns clearly threatens the public safety, the 2nd Amendment can be interpreted to allow a variety of gun restrictions, according to the Bush administration. The argument was delivered by U.S. Solicitor General Paul D. Clement in a brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court in the ongoing arguments over the legality of a District of Columbia ban on handguns in homes, according to a report from the Los Angeles Times...

(Read the rest of this WorldNetDaily story here: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/artic ... E_ID=59674)

For more on the Bush Administration's support of the unconstitutional D.C. Gun Ban, read the these articles:

* L.A. Times here: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld ... s-national


* National Review Online's John Lott Jr. calls it a "Bad Brief" here: http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=Zm ... QzN2U2YzM=


* "Bush Administration Backs Gun-Control Law" from NewsMax.com here: http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/gun_ ... 64033.html


President Bush signs H.R. 2640, expansion of Brady Registration Act
WASHINGTON -- A rare piece of gun legislation finds the National Rifle Association and the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence on the same side, and President Bush signed such a bill Tuesday.

The measure, Congress' response to last year's Virginia Tech shootings, is the first significant federal legislation in years aimed at tightening gun laws. It seeks to expand the federal database used to screen gun buyers to include the estimated 2 million-plus people, including felons and mentally ill individuals, who are ineligible to buy firearms.

"It's the first gun-control legislation of any sort that Congress has passed in over 12 years," said Paul Helmke, president of the Brady Campaign. But the measure has created an unusual rift among gun-control groups...

(Read the rest of this L.A Times Article here: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld ... ome-center)

For more information about H.R. 2640, read NAGR's analysis here: http://www.nationalgunrights.org/hr2640.shtml

[shdwlkr]

What did you expect Bush to do? He is a lame duck President that no one likes his ideas anymore so he is attacking everything he can while still in office to leave us with his legacy of power.
The Republicans are trying to stay in power and not give it to the Democrats.
Seems everything they try backfires. Hope the Supreme Court has the guts to come to the same conclusion they have for decades that the 2nd amendment does mean that common people can have fire arms and it is up to local governments to decide how restrictive they dare to be.