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Organization: City University of New York
Date: Wednesday, 21 Apr 1993 14:17:47 EDT
From: <JCEHC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Message-ID: <93111.141747JCEHC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns
Subject: Should Anybody be Permitted to Own a .50 BMG rifle?
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   For the moment, forget about BATF incompetence or FBI hubris.  Did
anybody catch Rep. Charles Shumer on the news last night holding up
a .50 BMG cartridge and rhetorically asking if anybody should be allowed
to own one of these.  (I presume he meant the rifle for which it is chambered
and not the cartridge which you can get for a buck.)

  So what's your guess for the upcoming anti-gun agenda:

1.   A ban on heavy caliber rifles. (read .50 BMG)

2.   A ban on "sniper rifles"

3. A ban on "stockpiling" guns and ammunition.


BTW: Shumer is perhaps the most misinformed congressman I have seen on
     the news. I wonder how he finds the floor in the morning.
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MICHAEL F. GORDON
JCEHC@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU

"Vote as you shot."  (19th Cent Republican campaign slogan )


Shumer is not mis-informed, he knows full well what he is doing.

If you look at his other votes, and positions as an agent of redistribution
of wealth & property in this country, to him guns and personal freedom 
are incompatible with his obvious world-view. They are a threat to the
'order' he would impose.

	R

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"It [collectivism vs individualism] is an ancient conflict. Men have come
close to the truth, but it was destroyed each time and one civilization fell
after another. Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The
savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe.
Civilization is the process of setting man free from men."
    -- Ayn Rand : 'Roark's speech from the _Fountainhead_'
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