Anyone know what's being done to repeal the "Sporting Purposes" law?

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Can anyone say "overbreadth doctrine?" It's a Constitutional Law doctrine that invalidates as "overbroad" any legislation so sweeping that, along with its allowable prohibitions (in this case, product configuration prohibitions at the point of importation), it also restricts constitutionally protected rights (in this case, the right to keep and bear arms, and for an end user to generally make alterations as he sees fit to his property, which is fundamental both to the right of private property and of privacy). Any legislation is invalidated by this doctrine that is "fairly capable" of being applied so as to punish people for constitutionally protected conduct. A law is void on its face if it "does not aim specifically at evils within the allowable area of government control [Which evils are being targeted by this law, by the way, and are said "evils" within an allowable area of Federal control?] but [instead] sweeps within its ambit other activities that constitute an exercise [of a protected right]." I contend that this legislation is more than capable of so "sweeping" with regard to the rights mentioned above.

What are we doing to repeal this clearly unconstitutional regulation? Anyone know? Has it ever been challenged on this basis?
 
What "sporting purpose" law are we talking about? The one that says that bores over 1/2" (12# excluded) must have a sporting purpose?
 
Hawkeye - you must not have listened to the State of the Union speech. President Bush spoke about the need to remove all onerous gun legislation and a return to the orginal meaning of the Constitution. I don't remember the exact wording he used in the speech, but for examples he suggested Congress to look at all the restrictive fiream legislation that were eliminated in his first five years in office. President Bush and his freedom loving band of merry Republicans are leading the charge to remove this legislation as I type. It should make the front page of the major news sources any day now, right after hell freezes over.
 
Hawkeye - you must not have listened to the State of the Union speech. President Bush spoke about the need to remove all onerous gun legislation and a return to the orginal meaning of the Constitution. I don't remember the exact wording he used in the speech, but for examples he suggested Congress to look at all the restrictive fiream legislation that were eliminated in his first five years in office. President Bush and his freedom loving band of merry Republicans are leading the charge to remove this legislation as I type. It should make the front page of the major news sources any day now, right after hell freezes over.
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Yes, Rick, it's sure a good thing we all voted for him, isn't it? So good to have a real conservative in the Whitehouse, and pro-gun too. Thanks for the reminder. I almost forgot about that State of the Union speech. :D See you in Wyoming. Molon Labe.'
 
Yeah, think about it. We, the American gunowner, gave the repubs total control of the govt.( white house and both houses of congress) for four years. What have they done for us? The only thing they have done for us is ALLOW the AWB to expire. Oh yeah, they haven't passed any new legislation. Ridiculous!!
 
The bill is HR 1703. Intro'd by Ron Paul.

I have contacted my Rep. (Tom Price M.D. (R-GA6) on three occasions to co-sponsor HR1703.

1) Visited the district office. The girl working the reception desk had brown hair but she was really a blonde.

2) Called DC. I could tell 'Ryan', if he was actually writing my comments down, was only marginaly literate.

3) Used Tommy-boy's e-mail system to send him a request to co-sponsor under the heading 'Civil Rights'.

The only response I have EVER recieved is a call, interupting my supper, from his 'Chief of Staff' to whine about how he couldn't run Tommy-boy's district office.

He's still not a co-sponsor!

I've done all I can. With the exception of contibuting to ALL his opponants and voting NOTA. Which I'm gonna do and tell Tommy-boy about them

Wiley aka Disgruntled in GA.
 
President Bush spoke about the need to remove all onerous gun legislation and a return to the orginal meaning of the Constitution.
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"It makes no sense for assault weapons to be around our society."
George W. Bush, Houston Chronicle, August 12, 1999
 
What "sporting purposes' law are we talking about?
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That arbitrary and subjective clause in the GCA '68 that gives BATFEces the whimsical power to to deny importation of certain firearms based on ill-defined subjective and arbitrary criteria.:fire: :banghead:

It's the clause that:cuss: Bush 41 used by Executive Order to the BATFEces to implement the Import Ban.:cuss: :cuss: :cuss:
 
Does the sporting purpose law apply to ANY domestic firearms?

I seem to think Senator Dodd excluded them because he had several gun makers as constitutents
 
Does the sporting purpose law apply to ANY domestic firearms?

I seem to think Senator Dodd excluded them because he had several gun makers as constitutents.
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No, it is a law relating to imports. You are thinking of the expired Assault Weapons Ban.
 
[No, it is a law relating to imports. You are thinking of the expired Assault Weapons Ban.
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Thanks.

I thought there was something but I guess not.
 
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