I just received this email from the 9/12 Delaware Patriots.
Call to Action!
We recently received word that SB 163 (the Carney Gun Ban) will be on the Judicial and Community Affairs Committee agenda for Wednesday June 6 th. This bill is being pushed by Senator Townsend. If it gets out of committee, it will most likely be on the Senate floor on Thursday. We think this is an all-out last ditch effort by Sen. Townsend to get something passed. If this passes, it will open the flood gates in this session for the rest of the
anti-2 nd
Amendment legislation that is waiting.
We also believe that they will be putting out SB 209 and SB 210. These 2 companion bills are a rewrite of the criminal code which has an major impact and unintended consequences. The intent is to 'clean up' the criminal code but there are many omissions and vague language. Concealed Carry is one of the many casualties with vague language and omissions.
SB209 Link SB209
SB210 Link SB210
Please call and email your Senators and Reps, R's and D's and ask them to stop SB 163.
There are several democrat senators that don't want to see this bill come to the floor because it will force their vote. That will hurt them in November. They can put pressure on the Committee Chair, Senator Margaret Rose Henry and Senate Leadership to pull the bill.
SB163 Bill
Important to Know before calling your legislators
1. This legislation does nothing to protect kids or stop school shootings. This legislation is strictly feel good legislation that does nothing to stop crime or criminal activities. Maryland's nearly identical law did nothing to stop the St. Mary's shooting.
2. All of the guns listed in the legislation have the same rate of fire as every other semi-auto pistol and revolver not on the list.
3. The term "assault rifle" came from Germany in WWII for their select-fire, full-auto capable military rifle. The guns on the list are not "assault weapons" because they lack 3-round burst and automatic fire rate capability. The term "assault rifle" as used today is a pejorative term designed to scare people who don't know any better.
4. There are 10's of thousands of the guns listed in the legislation owned in Delaware.
5. The legislation proposed is unenforceable without gun registration of the "grandfathered" guns - that's the next step.
6. The vast majority of the guns in the list are used by law abiding citizens for sporting and competition purposes in Delaware.
7. Many of the rifles listed are used by Delawareans for hunting in other states that allow rifle hunting.
8. None of the AR-15 style guns in the proposed legislation have ever been used by any military anywhere in the world as a weapon of war.
9. Many of the guns in the legislation are used for citizen home and business protection and self-defense.
10. Washington Post fact checker even says that not one of these supposedly "common sense" gun restrictions AWB, would have stopped any of the mass murders since 2012.
11. Because these guns may not be re-sold in the Delaware market in which they were originally purchased - every one of them will become absolutely worthless - your investment will be gone. You can't even sell them to a junk yard.
12. The Colt AR-15 was first sold in the United States as a semi-auto hunting rifle in 1964 - the same year Colt sold the select-fire, full-auto capable M-16 to the Army. They are NOT the same rifle.
13. The fact that a deeply divided 4th Circuit Court of Appeals over-turned two other federal courts in MD means nothing - Delaware is in the 3rd Circuit, not the 4th
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Call to Action Guidelines:
Contact your Legislators in the Delaware General Assembly
http://legis.delaware.gov/Senatehttp://legis.delaware.gov/House Letters to the Editors:
Delaware State News
https://delawarestatenews.net/letters-to-the-editor/ News Journal
http://static.delawareonline.com/submitletter/ Cape Gazette
http://www.capegazette.com/column/letters-editor Keep it short and to the point. Keep to the facts and not emotions..... Point is to educate the public. Also our Legislators at Legislative Hall do read these comments to get public opinion. Please take time to send in a short statement.
Join the DSSA
(Delaware State Sportman's Association), the NRA partner in Delaware. See information below. Get up to the minute information and make your voices heard.
http://dssa.us/join-dssa/ Sharpen those pencils and get busy!