The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence Cites Falsehoods Similar to Past Attacks on Senator McCain takes antic liberties with the truth The NRA talks a lot about freedom, and if it comes to political ads it have to beggarly the abandon to alter and deceive. … voted to ban around all deer hunting ammunition. a projectile which the Attorney General finds is primarily advised to be acclimated for antic purposes. He aswell supports a ban on the shotguns and rifles a lot of of us use for hunting. The NRA has consistently adulterated the advance weapons issue The Federal law accustomed by George W. Bush alone banned military-style semiautomatic weapons, such as AK-47s and Uzis, which are not what amenable individuals about use to hunt. I anticipate it is a aspersion that this admiral did not force a face-lifting of this advance weapons ban. If it had problems with it, again we should accept bankrupt those loopholes that ability accept fabricated it not as able as it should accept been. … a huge new tax on my accoutrements and ammo. Obama is aswell gluttonous to access the federal taxes by 500 percent on the auction of firearm, ammunition [sic. The NRA's believability in this Presidential chase should be questioned. Over the years, they accept vilified both of the candidates … Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., has now become one of the arch banderole carriers for the enemies of the Second Amendment. Anti-gun groups, led by Americans for Gun Safety, accept teamed with U.S. Sen. John McCain to accomplishment agitation in adjustment to advanced their gun ascendancy agenda… … he [Senator McCain allegedly believes politicians accept the appropriate to accuse and apply anyone they please. …McCain-Lieberman is a affluence of adulteration bills that would acquiesce a approaching anti-gun controlling annex to shut down gun shows entirely. …according to McCain and AGS [Americans for Gun Safety, the alone safe gun is one that is absolutely aloof to the buyer in an emergency.
Washington, DC (Vocus/PRWEB ) September 23, 2008 -- According to the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, the National Rifle Association has amorphous airing an ad in called markets this anniversary featuring a appearance assuming a hunter and authoritative allegations about the aldermanic almanac of Senator Barack Obama, the Democratic appointee for President.
The NRA blasts Sen. McCain and Sen. Lieberman in its First Freedom magazine, September, 2002
The ad "takes antic liberties with the truth," Brady President Paul Helmke said. "The NRA talks a lot about freedom, and if it comes to political ads it have to beggarly the abandon to alter and deceive."
NRA AD CLAIM: "… voted to ban around all deer hunting ammunition."
REALITY: It was a lie if the NRA fabricated a agnate accusation adjoin Senator John Kerry in the 2004 Presidential attack and it's still a lie.
In the alteration cited by the ad, Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA) capital to abutting a artifice in the absolute Federal ban on "cop analgesic bullets" - armor-piercing ammunition. Current law was (and still is) based primarily on the characteristics of the projectile - the metal used, admeasurement and weight. Senator Kennedy's alteration would accept set up a arrangement so that the Attorney General could analysis and again ban assertive types of ammunition that were able of acute law administration anatomy armor. The abstraction was to aswell accept anatomic testing of ammunition, back manufacturers of armor-piercing ammunition could architecture about the characteristics in the federal law again (and still now) in place. It would accept kept in abode the barring in federal law that says that armor acute ammunition does not cover "a projectile which the Attorney General finds is primarily advised to be acclimated for antic purposes."
The alteration accent is accessible at:
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getpage.cgi?dbname=2005_record&page=S9379&position=all and http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getpage.cgi?position=all&page=S9380&dbname=2005_record
NRA AD CLAIM: "He aswell supports a ban on the shotguns and rifles a lot of of us use for hunting."
REALITY: Senator Obama accurate the Federal ban on military-style semiautomatic advance weapons, which was in abode from 1994 until 2004 and alone banned specific types of accoutrements such as AK-47s and their copycats. The law did not ban accepted hunting accoutrements and accurately listed 661 antic rifles that absolutely were not prohibited. "The NRA has consistently adulterated the advance weapons issue," Helmke said. "The Federal law accustomed by George W. Bush alone banned military-style semiautomatic weapons, such as AK-47s and Uzis, which are not what amenable individuals about use to hunt."
Obama's altercation of the ban was in the additional agitation with Republican Alan Keyes (not the third agitation as the NRA cited) during their 2004 chase for U.S. Senate from Illionois:
OBAMA: "Well, let's be clear. Mr. Keyes, for example, does not accept in accepted gun assurance laws like the advance weapons bill. I have, as one of my guests today, the arch of the Fraternal Order of Police. I'm appreciative of the abutment that I've accustomed from that organization, in part, because they are anxious absolutely about what Mr. Keyes referred to -- accepting attempt by advance weapons, if they go in, in an attack to do a biologic bust.
"Now, Mr. Keyes appropriate that, somehow, because abyss breach the law, that we shouldn't accept laws in the aboriginal place. That defies logic. People breach all sorts of laws, but we still accept the laws in place.
"And the actuality of the amount is, is that Mr. Keyes does not accept in any limits, that I can tell, with account to the control of guns, including advance weapons that accept alone one purpose, and that is to annihilate people, unless you're seeing a lot of deer out there cutting bullet-proof vests, again there is no purpose for abounding of the guns.
"I anticipate it is a aspersion that this admiral did not force a face-lifting of this advance weapons ban. If it had problems with it, again we should accept bankrupt those loopholes that ability accept fabricated it not as able as it should accept been."
NRA AD CLAIM: "… a huge new tax on my accoutrements and ammo."
REALITY: The 1999 advancement of an access in the customs tax on ammunition by Obama (which he has not advocated since) would accept taken the customs tax on a armament from about four-tenths of a cent per cartridge, the amount accustomed in 1954, to about two cents. The IRS has a 43-cent customs tax on arrows for bows, by comparison. (http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p510.pdf) Separately, there does not appear to be any base to the affirmation that Obama proposed a new tax on guns. The 1999 article cited by the NRA apprehend "Obama is aswell gluttonous to access the federal taxes by 500 percent on the auction of firearm, ammunition [sic."
"The NRA's believability in this Presidential chase should be questioned. Over the years, they accept vilified both of the candidates," Helmke said.
Among added appear comments, the NRA has said of McCain:
"… Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., has now become one of the arch banderole carriers for the enemies of the Second Amendment." [America's First Freedom Magazine, July 2001.
http://www.bradycampaign.org/xshare/pdf/politics/2008/1st-freedom-what-happenned-mccain.pdf
"Anti-gun groups, led by Americans for Gun Safety, accept teamed with U.S. Sen. John McCain to accomplishment agitation in adjustment to advanced their gun ascendancy agenda…" [America's First Freedom Magazine, February 2002.
http://www.bradycampaign.org/xshare/pdf/politics/2008/1st-freedom-what-mccain-doesnt-want.pdf
"… he [Senator McCain allegedly believes politicians accept the appropriate to accuse and apply anyone they please." [America's First Freedom Magazine, July 2001
http://www.bradycampaign.org/xshare/pdf/politics/2008/1st-freedom-what-happenned-mccain.pdf
In an article accent "Two-Faced," with a photo of a abrupt Senator McCain, the NRA wrote: "…McCain-Lieberman is a affluence of adulteration bills that would acquiesce a approaching anti-gun controlling annex to shut down gun shows entirely." [America's First Freedom Magazine, September 2002.
http://www.bradycampaign.org/xshare/pdf/politics/2008/1st-freedom-gsl-2-faced.pdf
"…according to McCain and AGS [Americans for Gun Safety, the alone safe gun is one that is absolutely aloof to the buyer in an emergency." [America's First Freedom Magazine, July 2001
http://www.bradycampaign.org/xshare/pdf/politics/2008/1st-freedom-what-happenned-mccain.pdf
As the nation's largest, non-partisan, grassroots alignment arch the action to anticipate gun violence, the Brady Campaign, with its committed arrangement of Million Mom March Chapters, works to achieve and accomplish alive gun laws, regulations and accessible policies. The Brady Campaign is adherent to creating an America chargeless from gun violence, area all Americans are safe at home, at school, at work, and in our communities.
Visit the Brady Campaign website at www.bradycampaign.org. For continuing acumen and animadversion on the gun issue, apprehend Paul Helmke's blog at www.bradycampaign.org/blog/.
Contact:
Peter Hamm
202-898-0792
phamm@bradymail.org
No comments:
Post a Comment