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			    RKBA-ALERT Digest 542
Topics covered in this issue include:
1) ALERT: FL - Constitution Revision Commission by NRA Alerts 
2) ALERT: KY - Right to Carry Reform Bill in Committee by NRA Alerts 
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Topic No. 1
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 20:31:22 -0500 (EST)
From: NRA Alerts 
To: rkba-alert-real.nra
Subject: ALERT: FL - Constitution Revision Commission
Message-ID: 
MARCH 19, 1998
FLORIDA:
CONSTITUTION REVISION COMMISSION GIVES INITIAL APPROVAL 
TO CRC-167: THE "LESS TIME FOR GUN CRIME" PROPOSAL
Fooling 23 of her fellow, unelected revisors of Florida's
constitution into believing she is proposing real crime control,
Katherine Rundle and the commission gave initial approval to CRC-
167 on a 24-11 vote this week.  Gone is the threat of government
bureaucrats digging through personal records -- Ms. Rundle
amended the proposal to limit county waiting periods and
background checks to investigations of criminal records.  But the
threat of criminals who abuse our rights spending LESS TIME
BEHIND BARS is very REAL.
CRC-167 would actually REDUCE penalties for gun trafficking and
illegal firearm sales.  Penalties imposed under county ordinances
are limited to misdemeanors.  Violations of state and federal
laws relating to waiting periods and firearms sales are felonies. 
Passing duplicate waiting period/firearm purchase laws on the
county level will have the effect of reducing felony crimes to
misdemeanors.
Criminals who engage in gun-running or firearms sales to minors
and other prohibited individuals should be punished to the
fullest extent of the law.
But what Commissioner Rundle has proposed and what CRC-167 would
do is to give those criminals a lighter sentence!
     Is that the Commission's idea of crime control???
CRC-167 does nothing more than give counties the power to enact
the same laws that already exist and already apply to firearms
sales -- including those conducted at gun shows -- at the state
and/or federal level.
If current federal and state laws relating to firearms sales are
not being enforced or applied at gun shows -- which is
Commissioner Rundle's charge -- what makes her and the commission
think that local laws will? And even if they are enforced -- what
makes her and the commission believe that "less time for gun
crime" is good public policy?
ASK THE COMMISSION MEMBERS LISTED BELOW -- URGE THOSE WHO VOTED
"FOR" CRC-167 TO RECONSIDER; THANK THOSE WHO VOTED "AGAINST" CRC-
167.  Make your calls today -- the commission could reconsider
this proposal at their next meeting on Monday, March 23.
     VOTING IN FAVOR OF CRC-167 (24)
     Chair Dexter Douglass (850)413-7740
     Carlos J. Alfonso (813)247-3333
     Clarence E. Anthony (561)996-6751
     Antonio L. Argiz (305)373-5500
     Martha Barnett (850)425-5620
     Robert M. Brochin (305)579-0490
     Robert A. Butterworth (850)487-1963
     Marilyn Evans-Jones (904)277-4242
     Barbara Ford-Coates (941)951-5638
     Ellen C. Freidin (305)374-5600
     William C. Henderson (407)539-5700
     Gerald Kogan (850)488-0007
     John F. Lowndes (407)843-4600
     Stanley Marshall (850)386-3131
     Jacinta Mathis (407)363-4519
     Frank Morsani (813)873-0003
     Robert L. Nabors (850)224-4070
     Carlos Planas (305)266-5500
     Judith B. Riley (904)678-7812
     Katherine Rundle (305)547-0535
     H. T. Smith (305)324-1845
     Alan C. Sundberg (850)644-3300
     Gerald Wetherington (305)374-0650
     Stephen N. Zack (305)539-8400
     VOTING AGAINST CRC-167 (11)
     Thomas H. Barkdull (305)229-3200
     Pat Barton (941)262-5648
     Kenneth L. Connor (850)681-9550
     Ander Crenshaw (904)355-6691
     Valerie W. Evans (407)843-8379
     Toni Jennings (850)487-5229
     Dick Langley (352)394-4025
     Jon Mills (352)392-2237
     James A. Scott (850)487-5100
     James H. Thompson (850)224-9115
     Paul West (954)316-5888
     
     THOSE NOT VOTING CRC-167 (2)
     Chris Corr (407)566-4038
     Paul M. Hawkes (352)563-2200
               ACT NOW, PUBLIC SAFETY IS AT STAKE!
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This information is provided as a service of the National Rifle
Association Institute for Legislative Action, Fairfax, VA.
This and other information on the Second Amendment and the NRA is
available at: http://WWW.NRA.Org
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Topic No. 2
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 20:32:09 -0500 (EST)
From: NRA Alerts 
To: rkba-alert-real.nra
Subject: ALERT: KY - Right to Carry Reform Bill in Committee
Message-ID: 
%	aktour.o11
{POSTER's note, this was all I got...}
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