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- From: ahgrabow@apgea.army.mil (Alexander H. Grabowski <ahgrabow>)
- Newsgroups: dc.general
- Subject: Re: Gun owners lose CT case
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.132853.5320@apgea.army.mil>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 13:28:53 GMT
- References: <1885@tnc.UUCP>
- Organization: CBDA, Edgewood, Md
- Lines: 58
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- In article <1885@tnc.UUCP> m0102@tnc.UUCP (FRANK NEY) writes:
- >
- >I have posted six times to the dc.talk.guns newsgroup with no
- >indication that the system is posting the messages properly.
-
- I think, dc.talk.guns is a bogus newsgroup, but am not absolutely sure. This
- might be the reason for your problems.
- >
- [...]
- >
- > The US District Court of Connecticut ruled in July against gun
- >owners in an extremely important case. A victory could have set
- >a precedent for overturning many of the gun control laws in this
- >country.
- > The case involved Douglas Oefinger, a member of the
- >Connecticut Free Militia (CFM) whom Gun Owners Foundation has
- >assisted.
- > The laws of Connecticut (and federal law) recognize that
- >citizens between the ages of 18 and 45 are members of the
- >'unorganized militia.' Oefinger, as a member of the 'unorganized
- >militia,' had applied for permission to import 30 M-14s.
-
-
- What on earth should a (two-handed) man do with *30* guns?
- How is he supposed to handle them [:-)]? This smells like a
- business.
-
- >Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF) said no.
- > Oefinger took his case to court, stating that the Second
- >Amendment recognizes a person's right to own these types of guns.
- >The Bush Administration opposed Oefinger, claiming that federal
- >law prohibits individuals from importing automatic firearms and
- >that the Second Amendment does not guarantee individual rights.
- >
- [...]
-
- > In fact, had the Court
- >examined the experiences of Switzerland and Israel, it would have
- >seen a completely different picture.
-
- No. The gun control in Switzerland is *absolute*. Every man who is in
- the military reserve has got his assault rifle at home, but he has
- to be 'clean' as far as his past is concerned to be allowed to
- do so. Every single round he may have is marked with a number and
- counted for. There is no way of just going into a store, buying a gun
- and getting it couple days later.
-
- >
- [...]
-
- >
- >Either way, we've lost this round.
-
- Yes, and I'm happy about that.
-
- [...]
-
- Alexander
-