Guess who's back?

[BPTactical]

In the words of Elton John:
"The Bitch is Back"
Ms. Feinstein, Your favorite Anti from the land of Fruits and Nuts........

On Tuesday, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) sent a letter to President Barack Obama, urging him to have the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives review its interpretation of the federal law that provides for the importation of firearms "generally recognized as particularly suitable for or readily adaptable to sporting purposes." Adopting a narrower interpretation of the law would, Feinstein claimed, help reduce violence in Mexico and the United States .
As the Supreme Court said in District of Columbia v. Heller (2008), the Second Amendment protects the right to keep and bear arms primarily for self-defense. This means the "sporting purposes" limitation imposed by the Gun Control Act of 1968 is constitutionally suspect, to put it mildly. What makes matters worse is that BATFE repeatedly misinterprets the law to serve political ends, which is precisely what Feinstein has in mind.

January 31, 2011

The Honorable Barack H. Obama

The White House

Washington, D.C. 20500

Dear Mr. President:

I write to urge you to review enforcement of the Gun Control Act of 1968 (GCA) provision, 18 U.S. Code Section 925(d)(3), which prohibits the importation of firearms except those that are “generally recognized as particularly suitable for or readily adaptable to sporting purposes.” Previous Administrations have used this authority to limit the importation of military-style assault firearms, and it could once again be a helpful tool in preventing the gun trafficking that is fueling the horrific gun violence in Mexico, the Southwest border region, and many cities and towns across our nation.

Since December 2006, more than 30,000 people have been killed in Mexico in drug-related violence. Every day, there are reports of ruthless and brutal gun murders as Mexican drug trafficking organizations (DTOs) fight for control of smuggling routes and terrorize anyone who might get in their way. The DTOs have killed mayors, judges, and other officials who have tried to stop the carnage. They have even targeted young people, murdering 14 teenagers at a birthday party in Ciudad Juarez in October of last year.

Regrettably, firearms trafficked from the United States help fuel the violence in Mexico. Of the firearms recovered by the Government of Mexico and traced through ATF in the past 4 years, more than 50,000 were manufactured in, or imported into, the United States prior to being recovered in Mexico. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and other federal, state and local law enforcement are working to stop this gun trafficking and related violence, but they need additional help. The Administration recently took an important step forward with ATF’s initiative to collect information on multiple sales of semi-automatic assault rifles from Federal Firearms Licensees (FFLs) in California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. I applaud you for this initiative. However, much more must be done.

Under the GCA, the Administration has the authority to prohibit the importation of non-sporting firearms. In 1989, in response to growing drug gang violence, the ATF under President George H.W. Bush denied applications to import a series of semiautomatic rifles that it found were designed and intended to be particularly suitable for combat rather than sporting applications. Similarly, in 1997, President Clinton used this authority and ordered ATF to conduct an expedited review to determine whether modified semiautomatic assault-type rifles were properly importable under the statutory sporting purposes test. In April 1998, ATF determined that rifles with the ability to accept a detachable large capacity military magazine “are not generally recognized as particularly suitable for or readily adaptable to sporting purposes and are therefore not importable.”

Since the Clinton Administration’s efforts, the GCA’s prohibition against non-sporting firearms has not been aggressively enforced, and many military-style, non-sporting rifles have flowed into the United States civilian market. Some of the rifles are cheap AK-type variants from former Eastern bloc countries, while others are more expensive, high-tech weapons. All of them, however, share military-style characteristics that should make them ineligible for import. Furthermore, it appears that some importers are bringing in rifle parts and reassembling them with a small number of domestically manufactured components. This practice has gone unchecked, despite Section 922 (r) of the GCA, which prohibits using imported parts to assemble any semiautomatic rifle or any shotgun which is identical to any rifle or shotgun prohibited from importation under 18 U.S. Code Section 925(d)(3).

I urge you to review enforcement of the GCA and take any regulatory steps necessary to stop the both the importation of all military-style, non-sporting firearms, and the assembly of those firearms from imported parts. We must ensure that law enforcement has all the necessary resources and tools needed to stop the gun violence that is taking a deadly toll in Mexico and in our country. I look forward to working with you toward that goal. Thank you for your attention to this urgent issue.

Sincerely,

Dianne Feinstein

Chairman

United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control

cc: Eric Holder, Attorney General

Kenneth Melson, Acting Director of the ATF

Lying F#%&ing Bitch..................................

[DSB OUTDOORS]

FFFFFFFFF---------CCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKK That Bitch!!!!!!!!!!!!

[2008f450]

That bitch just wont go away. I couldnt stand her when I lived in the peoples republic and she just wont stop. Didnt she get caught doing favors for her husbands company? why cant they get rid of her?

[Troublco]

Couldn't let Mexico deal with Mexico's problems, now could she? After all, she and her fellow elitists have to save everyone else from everything. The world's too dangerous a place without her trying to protect everyone.

Can't believe I actually got that out without

[TFOGGER]

She's harder to get rid of than the villain in a slasher movie....

[Irving]

I also urge them to review the 1968 Gun Control Act, but for entirely different reasons.

[DOC]

That bitch. Her letter says nothing more than she hates American freedoms and this is what she wants to see go away. And this is the lame ass excuse for violating people rights. I would like to see a ban on her trying to look younger using the sporting clause. No way would it get passed.

[BushMasterBoy]

The second amendment was written with the intent of allowing the people the power to protect themselves from a tyrannical form of government. It wasn't written so you could go shoot a deer!
It was also the intent that the states could call its citizens to serve in the defense of the state as a militia. But above all it gave a citizen the right to self defence. When we lose the right to self defence, we cease to be first class citizens.
One must wonder if the motivation of politicians to curtail the right to keep and bear arms is from foreign influences designed to weaken our resolve. We will just have to be vigilant.

[Geology Rocks]

In vermont they want to charge people $500 for not carrying or owning a firearm. They also wanna make them register as a non gun owner.

joe

[theGinsue]

In vermont they want to charge people $500 for not carrying or owning a firearm. They also wanna make them register as a non gun owner.

joe

^^^ Now that's the way to do it!

I wish Dianne Feinstein would just die - 'cuz she's kiling me.

We will just have to be vigilant.

While I agree that it's important to be ever vigilant, a proper response requires more. On Dec 7, 1941, a couple of radar operators were vigilant. They identified what they would later learn was the incoming Japanese fighters/bombers. 2400 American lives could have been saved that day had the vigilance of those radar operators been taken to the next step of properly interpretting the information and taking appropriate action.

My point is that the rights of gun owners are under attack as much now as they ever have been.

Our vigilance keeps us aware of these activities - like the actions of the dis-Honorable Senator Feinstein.

Now, we need to properly interpret this information. Is this a potential threat to our rights? You bet it is.

So, what action should we be taking? Since the BATFE has claimed the right to legislate via executive privledge they've taken to passing any new restriction and limitation on our Rights they, or our sitting President, choose. This is how I expect them to come after our Rights in response to recent national events and requests by the other elected elites.
We need to hound our ELECTED officials (Senators & Representatives) to pull in the reins of executive branch entities like the BATFE. Remind these agencies that only our ELECTED officials have the right to legislate. Remind our members of both houses of Congress that we will not be denied our non-revokable Rights and we will hold them accountable to protecting those Rights come each and every election.