California 50 Caliber Ban

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50 Caliber Ban DEFEATED!!! Well, that was last year - 2003. This is this year, and we've finally lost that battle. Effective January 1, 2005, Californians will no longer be able to purchase 50 caliber rifles, as they have been banned by the legislature and signed into law by our "friend" Arnold Schwarzenegger. Now all we can say is GET 'EM WHILE YOU CAN!!! Click here for inofmraiton on all the 50 caliber rifles available in California before the end of the year. See our FAQS page for Answers to your Frequently Asked Questions.
While I don't have any particular details on this yet, EDM Arms has informed me that the committee voted on AB2222 and it has been defeated!!! I'll let you know more as soon as I find out!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! The committee has received over 950 "OPPOSED" letters. Awesome!! Whether those letters will make a difference remains to be seen. Regardless, this has been quite an experience for all involved. And we're not done by a long shot. We have to keep up the pressure on these lawmakers so they don't keep treading on our rights. The next task at hand will be the proposed 5 cent ammunition tax. As soon as we hear any news about AB2222, I'll post it online. Thanks again to everyone for all your help. Just remember, it's not over. Thank you!!! Frank & Jolynne Anti-Gun LA Times article - Who would have figured?
John Burtt's response to the LA Times anti-gun article Readers Representative: readers.rep@latimes.com Editorial Desk: letters@latimes.com Dear LA Times, My name is John Burtt and I was recently mentioned in an April 18th story on gun control. I am writing the Times for two reasons: First, I believe the article inaccurately and unfairly portrayed my discussion with the author. Second, I feel quite strongly that the article directly advocates on behalf of specific legislation before the California Assembly. The article's own headline states an opinion that advocates for the passage of this specific legislation. This legislative advocacy, was run in the news section of your paper. If my organization were to pay for similar space in the LA Times, we would be required by law to comply with California political disclosure guidelines. I believe it is unethical that your paper gets an exemption, particularly when this opinion is found in the news section of the paper. I have enclosed my response to the piece which I would respectfully ask you publish in order to offer fair dialogue on the subject. Sincerely, John Burtt Chairman Fifty Caliber Shooters' Policy Institute
(From John Burtt, Chmn FCSPI.org, 4-17, 8:43 pm) Everyone, AB 2222 was heard today in the Assembly Committee on Public Safety in Sacramento. Assemblyman Koretz introduced his amended version of the bill (to read the amended version go to: www.fcspi.org). Tom Diaz from the Violence Policy Center was allowed to address the committee for 20, minutes and he was followed by Andre Soto from the Trama Center. Opposition statements to the bill were limited by the Chairman to "just a few" selected speakers. We had anticipated this and several of us were prepared with statements covering a wide range of (but different) objections. The bill was then held over for further amendments (by the author) and will come back up for committee discussion next Tuesday the 23rd of April. It was agreed the bill is flawed badly with the amendments that have just been added and it is my impression the author is not really sure of the ramifications of his own bill. From our consolidated point of view, the bill is a bad bill based on terrible presumptions and it has been badly written. I will leave any further analysis until we receive the new language when AB 2222 is re-amended. To synopsize what occurred today, I would have to say the efforts that have been put forward by a lot of people paid off. Virtually every pro-gun organization was there today in opposition to this bill and based on our conversations with everyone (except Assembly member Jackie Goldberg) the committee members have received an incredible amount of calls, emails, faxes and letters in opposition to this bill. We received a lot of support from Assemblyman Jay La Suer and Assemblyman Dick Dickerson. Both of them asked very pointed questions about the language and intent of this bill and Assemblyman La Suer was very strong in his opinions relating to the proponents misrepresenting the "crisis" surrounding the fifty caliber. We all need to take the time to express our thanks to both of them for their support of our point of view. I would also like to recommend that everyone make a call to Assemblyman Washington's office and thank him for allowing us a great deal of latitude in our opposition to the bill. He could very easily restricted our opportunity to speak today. Speakers in opposition included Tom Miller (retired ATF Agent), Ronnie Barrett (owner of Barrett Firearms) and myself. We also had another speaker from the group that regularly gets together for fun shoots at Angeles Shooting range. I was negligent in not getting his name, but he is an attorney and presented his arguements very well.(if anyone knows his name, please pass it back to me). By far the most compelling speaker on our behalf was Ronnie Barrett. His assessment of this bill and the people behind the efforts to take our guns was straight from the heart and were compelling. He was able to effectively attack the veracity of the author and Mr. Diaz in eloquent fashion. Chairman Washington has indicated the opposition will be given more of an opportunity to address the committee next week. Just to give you an idea of the supporters who were not able to speak that we had in the committee room lined up to address the committee members: NRA CRPA GOA CCRKABA Safari Club Second Amendment Sisters Rock McMillan-Owner McBros Rifle Co. Bill Ritchie-Owner EDM Arms Jim Schmidt-Owner Arizona Ammunition I'm sure there are others I have forgotten, but the support was impressive. I want to thank everyone who helped us out today and I want to thank all of you out there who took the time to write a letter, call, send faxes and emails. Every single voice counts. I would also like to ask everyone to continue the pressure. We need to turn up the heat a little bit on most of the committee members. I think we really made an impression on most of them today. (Mr. Cedillo and Jackie Goldberg were not present). It was also obvious from body language and facial expressions during the testimony that Mr. Diaz doesn't really care about your right to own your target rifle. The remainder of the committee members were attentive and appeared to be concerned with the proceedings. Another favor if I may. It has been asked by the staff in Mr. Dickerson's office and Mr. La Suer's office to let them off the hook from your wrath. I assure you, both of them are our friends. If you want to communicate with them, be nice and thank them for their help. They have been swamped!! Enough for now. To each of you, thanks for helping out when it counted. John Burtt, FCSPI
(From Barry Laws, Second Amendment Sisters) Tuesday, April 16, 2002 4:34 PM SUBJECT: AB 2222 Assembly Bill - Good news so far.... SOME GOOD NEWS.... Straight from Dionne, our press coord here in Calif. A big personal thanks for going to the meeting and representing us all! After reading what follows, to send Faxes, be sure to send one first to the "General Fax line" for the Public Safety Committee below... don't skip this step... this fax # gets to the "letter counter" who says how many have written in support and how many have written in opposition etc... Our letters obviously have an influence as the update shows. Congrats on the pressure. Lets win this one!!!!!! Please, One more fax, and address to: Assembly Public Safety Committee. fax # 916 319 3745 (Add verbiage similar to this to your brief letter: "PLEASE COUNT THIS LETTER AS AN OPPOSITION TO AB2222 FOR YOUR NEXT MEETING") Please as a minimum send this one fax. A thank you fax to the players mentioned below would be great. Barry Laws Los Angeles Coord, Second Amendment Sisters UPDATE FROM DIONE: Yes, it was my quote... amazing. Anyway, I just got home from the hearing and it was kind of a zoo. There were only three people there in support of the bill - including Koretz: one was none other than Mr. "Voting from the Rooftops" himself, Tom Diaz. He flew all the way from D.C. to support this bill so even though the committee knew they would not be voting on it today, they let him and his meat-puppet from the Trauma Center, Andre Soto, testify. They lied, of course, and it was sickening. To be fair, they had to let Mr. Barrett and the others who had flown in from out of state testify against the bill. They were great! Mr. Barrett is every bit a southern gentleman and his testimony was very compelling. The best part was when Assemblyman Jay La Suer ripped this bill apart limb from limb. He is great and deserves many letters of thanks from our side. They did not act on the bill today, but held it over until next Tuesday. That is when the rest of us will get to have our say. The supporters are really going to turn up the heat this week so do not relax your efforts! I think the proponents of the bill are going to get everyone they can to come and testify next week because they were so grossly outnumbered today. The committee does not seem supportive of this bill - in fact, Speaker Pro Tem Fred Keeley (a very powerful and well-respected Assemblyman) has REMOVED his name from this bill. That is not characteristic of his past record on gun issues - this means he has serious doubts about this bill and is willing to listen to us. Please be very polite to him and his staff, they are very nice people! Ed Worley doesn't think he will have the final amendments to the bill until next Monday so there won't be much as far as new information to use in our opposition letters that need to be sent this week - but it doesn't matter. Send letters anyway; don't let them forget that we oppose this bill! ; ) Dionne
REGISTER YOUR 50BMG RIFLE or relinquish at your nearest police station. AB2222 has been amended to outlaw only the 50 BMG Rifle and Cartridge. You've got to read it for yourself. Please check back often I will update info as often as I can, time permitting. Web development takes a back seat to customers in the store, but I'm doing my best. Thanks for your understanding. Click here to go to the 50BMGstore.com MAIN PAGE Click here to subscribe to ARM USA's Freedom Reporter Online Click here for past issues See bottom of Page for note on Don Perata - the epitome of hypocrisy You can come in or call the store for more information (714) 520-4600 See below for links and info on MORE proposed legislation!!!
URGENT!!! California is attempting to ban 50 Caliber rifles and armor piercing ammo!! What is determined to be armor piercing coule be ANY centerfire rifle round! Your help is urgently need NOW to keep AB2222 from getting out of the Public Safety Committee!! See the update on FSCPI.org
I received an update from John Burtt of FCSPI.org . Everyone, While in Sacramento for the past three days I learned that many legislators would find it a lot easier to support our right to keep our guns if the guns were being used for hunting purposes.(in addition to competition) I don't have time right now to get involved in a lengthy discussion on the political correctness of this arguement, but I'm asking for help from any of you that hunt with your guns or if you have friends that hunt with theirs . What we want to do is create a section on the FCSA web page for hunters. One of the things I found in Sacramento was most legislators have our web page bookmarked. When speaking with the Chief of Staff of the Assembly Speakers office, he just clicked on the FCSA web page from his bookmarks and started asking me questions. If you have photos, stories or experiences that you can forward to us, we'd like to be able to use them. If you have friends who hunt with their guns, ask them to share their stories or photos. You can forward them to me at my email address or to Will Ray who is also listed in the header of this message. Will is the web page master for FCSA. Send what you can, let us figure out if we can use it. Thanks. John Burtt FCSPI *So, if you've been hunting with your 50, that would be superb support for our side of this issue. I've had customers come in an talk about taking out a boar with the LAR Grizzly Big Boar at about 1500 yds. Now we just need pictures and personal hunting stories. If you've got anything to contribute, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Jolynne *
Assembly Public Safety Committee - The staff is responsible for taking information (FACTS) from your letters and creating an information packet for the Members to review. Please fax your "Facts" and general opposition. You can address this letter simply to "Assembly Public Safety Committee". Emotional pleas don't matter here. She (staff) is looking for valid FACTUAL information concerning public safety. NRA Research/Facts on 50 BMG http://www.keepandbeararms.com/images/gunfacts.pdf Direct emotional pleas, as well as "public safety" facts, to individual committee members below. All methods of communication will help, but in order of effectiveness: 1. Snail mail 2. Faxes 3. Telephone Calls 4. Email
CA .50 Caliber Bill Put Off Until April 16th All, The Bill to ban .50 caliber target rifles in CA (AB 2222-Koretz) has been rescheduled for hearing on April 16th instead of April 2nd as originally scheduled. The Bill will still be heard in the Committee for Public Safety, but has just been put off two weeks. FCSPI will still be attending the hearing, but we are asking everyone to help us out on this issue. I'm asking everyone to write a one page letter expressing your opposition to this bill and mail the letter to every member on the committee. Please write letters, send faxes and emails to the members of the Committee on Public Safety. For the names of everybody in that committee just link to: <http://www.assembly.ca.gov/acs/acsframeset8text.asp> Once you know who's on the committee, just go back to: <http://www.assembly.ca.gov/acs/acsframeset7text.htm> and it will provide you the info to call them, send letters or emails. Calling them and expressing your opposition doesn't hurt either. I'm including below the information to send faxes to each members office. Carl Washington, Chair Fax: 916-319 2152 Jay La Suer, Vice Chair Fax: 916-319 2177 Richard L. Dickerson Fax: 916-319 2102 Fred Keeley (Speaker Pro Tem of the CA Assembly) Fax: 916-319 2127 Gil Cedillo Fax: 916-319 2146 Manny Diaz Fax: 916-319 2123 Jackie Goldberg Fax: 916-319 2145 If you want to read a copy of the bill, just go to our web page at: <www.fcspi.org>. If you reside in CA, please contact your own Assemblyman and let them be aware of your opposition. I can't stress enough how important it is that they know in Sacramento how we feel on this issue. Thanks. John Burtt FCSPI
California Assembly Public Safety Committee contact information Committee Email: public.safety@assembly.ca.gov Committee Phone number: (916) 319-3744
http://www.assembly.ca.gov/committee_hearings/ State Assembly Daily File Carl Washington, Chair Dem-52 (916) 319-2052 Email: Carl.Washington@assembly.ca.gov Capitol Office State Capitol P.O. Box 942849 Sacramento, CA 94249?0001 Phone: (916) 319-2052 Fax: (916) 319-2152 District Office 145 East Compton Boulevard Compton, CA 90220 (310) 223-0759 Fax (310) 223-0765 Jay La Suer, Vice Chair Rep-77 (916) 319-2077 Assemblymember.Lasuer@assembly.ca.gov Capitol Office: State Capitol Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 319-2077 fax 916-317-2177 District Office: 5360 Jackson Dr., Ste. 120 La Mesa, CA 91942 (619) 465-7723 (619) 465-7765 FAX Richard L. Dickerson Rep-2 (916) 319-2002 Assemblymember.Dickerson@assembly.ca.gov District Office: 100 East Cypress Ave., Suite 100 Redding, CA 96002 (530) 223-6300 Capitol Office: State Capitol, Room 5160 Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 319-2002 fax 916-319-2102 Fred Keeley Dem-27 (916) 319-2027 Fred.Keeley@assembly.ca.gov Capitol Office: State Capitol Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 319-2027 (tel) (916) 319-2127 (fax) Keeley's Santa Cruz County District Office: 701 Ocean Street, 318-B Santa Cruz, CA 95060 (831) 425-1503 (tel) (831) 425-2570 (fax)		Keeley's Monterey County District Office: 100 Campus Center Building #58 CSUMB Seaside, CA 93955 (831) 384-1980 (tel) (831) 384-2913 (fax) Gil Cedillo Dem-46 (916) 319-2046 [NO EMAIL] District Office 617 S. Olive Street Suite 710 Los Angeles, CA 90014 (213) 833-2900 fax 213-833-2907 Capitol Office State Capitol P.O. Box 942849 Sacramento, CA 94249-0001 Phone: (916) 319-2046 Fax 916-319-2146 Manny Diaz Dem-23 (916) 319-2023 Assemblymember.Diaz@assembly.ca.gov Capitol Office State Capitol Room 2170 P.O. Box 942849 Sacramento, CA 94249-0023 Phone: (916) 319-2023 Fax: (916) 319-2123 District Office 100 Paseo De San Antonio Suite 300 San Jose, CA, 95113 Phone: (408) 269-6500 Fax: (408) 277-1036 Jackie Goldberg Dem-45 (916) 319-2045 assemblymember.goldberg@assembly.ca.gov District office: 106 North Avenue 56 Los Angeles, CA 90042 (323) 258-0450 fax: (323) 258-3807 Capitol Office: State Capitol, Rm. 5155 Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 319-2045 fax: (916) 319-2145
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		Don Perata, the legislator who proposed the $.05 PER BULLET ammunition tax is a HYPOCRIT! This is his request for CCW renewal! Click on the letter for full-sized view. These are the people that are trying to LIMIT OUR rights, but it's OK for THEM to have guns. It's ok for them, but not the PEASANTS to be able to protect themselves!!!
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