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I recently attended the Gun Rights Policy Conference in Charlotte, North
Carolina. This annual event is sponsored by the Citizens Committee for the Right
to Keep and Bear Arms and the Second Amendment Foundation. The Illinois State
Rifle Association (ISRA) is one of the participating organizations. The
conference is formed around sixteen different panels that cover all types of gun
rights issues - from local to international issues, and from concealed carry to
access to public lands.
The panel on “The International Gun Control” movement was the most disturbing.
One report dealt with an anti-gun fundraiser and was hosted by none other than
Mike Wallace of CBS’s “60 Minutes.” This $50,000 per ticket fundraiser was held
at the French Embassy in Washington, D.C. (The French Embassy is actually in
France, even though it is surrounded by U.S. soil). One of the participants said
he was glad he was in France because it was safe! The criminal rate in France is
75% higher than in the U.S., yet, the French are assisting anti-gun forces right
here in the United States of America, and using diplomatic immunity to do it.
Another international development was exposed by the New York and California
anti-gun initiatives to serial number each round of ammunition. What that means
is that a record of each round of ammunition we buy would be recorded and if
that ammunition ever turned up where it shouldn’t, we would be held accountable,
even if there was an error in recording serial numbers, we would never be able
to prove our innocence. This would also drive gun shops out of business because
of the paper work. Both of these bills failed, but it was discovered that the
millions of dollars it took to push the ammunition serial numbering plan were
donated to the U.S. anti-gun organizations from European sources. England,
Germany, and Finland were the main sources of funding; one Far Eastern country
and Japan also supplied some of the money.
On the U.N. front: their plans to torpedo U.S. gun owners have at least
temporally run aground. They do have a new idea, however. The U.N.’s idea is to
replace every country’s shipping regulations with a new U.N. standard and
companies actually like this idea because it standardizes everything. For gun
owners it could be a disaster. Right now the U.S. operates under Other Regulated
Materials-classification D (ORMD) shipping rules, but the U.N. is trying to
change these rules and get the U.S., as well as other countries, to adopt U.N.
Shipping Regulation 1.4F. If these rules are adopted, they would be so expensive
to ship firearms and ammunition that most of us could not afford it. It’s just
another way to get at U.S. gun ownership.
It does not matter to the European anti-gunners and anti-hunters if you are a
duck hunter, deer hunter, pheasant hunter, or whatever kind of gun owner you are
- they are out to get you! They are trying to kick you out of your tree stand,
duck blind, hunting field, gun club. Even your home is not safe from these
radicals. Get over the idea they aren’t after you – because they are.
These are only some of the anti-gun schemes that have been discovered, who knows
what else is out there? What I do know is that if every hunter, shooter, or gun
owner doesn’t stick together, we are in trouble. I urge all who are not members
of the ISRA to join. The only way gun owners are going to survive is by staying
united. The ISRA is here to represent you. To join the ISRA simply call
815-635-3198 or go to
www.isra.org.
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