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THERE IS, HOWEVER, one provision in the proposed gun decontrol bill which the NRA wants you to pay particular attention to. The mandatory sentencing provision is the cornerstone of the NRA mentality, as the bill shows...
Following the NRA's logic, an ideal gun law allows sportsmen, hunters, and honest citizens attempting to defend themselves easy access to guns. This protects the rights of folks like you and me. Criminals, on the other hand, should be punished heartily for any abuses they commit with handguns...
...NRA claims that out-of-state sales are essential to sportsmen and hunters. To figure out their real motivation, however, we need only look at another provision of McClure-Volkmer. That provision would restrict law-enforcement authorities to one surprise inspection of gun dealers per year. So if you are a gun dealer, and your shop has already been inspected, feel free to relax your standards for the sake of sales; the NRA will do its part to be sure that the law protects your laxness. Clearly more than protecting honest sportsmen is at stake...
...NRA, it seems, is seriously committed to punishing those who use guns to violate the law. But then take a look at what the House Judiciary Committee has determined about the NRA's bill: the NRA mandatory sentencing provision "is unnecessary and, as drafted, it weakens and confuses current law." The mandatory sentencing aspects of the bill are far more effective as propaganda than as law enforcement; in 1985, President Reagan signed into law a bill mandating a 5-year prison term for those who possess firearms while committing a crime...
...just what is the NRA up to when it attaches a duplicate of an already existing law to a handgun decontrol bill? It seems transparent that the provision in question is there so that our centerfold, Robert Kliesment, can go on about how the NRA is making our streets safe for good honest citizens by locking criminals behind bars. Without this bogus provision, the NRA ad would have been impossible...