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			    RKBA-ALERT Digest 529
Topics covered in this issue include:
  1) ALERT: AL - Why You Should Support HB 32 by NRA Alerts 
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Topic No. 1
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 14:26:15 -0500 (EST)
From: NRA Alerts 
To: rkba-alert-real.nra
Subject: ALERT: AL - Why You Should Support HB 32
Message-ID: 
February 2, 1998
ALABAMA
                  WHY SHOULD YOU SUPPORT HB 32?
     
     There are a lot of misconceptions being spread about Alabama
House Bill 32.  The National Rifle Association supports HB 32
because it's good for gun owners.  Here's the truth about HB 32:
*    HB 32 will abolish ALL waiting periods on the purchase of
     firearms, allowing law-abiding citizens to exercise their
     rights without delay.
*    HB 32 will extend Alabama's preemption statute to ALL
     firearms.  Currently, only handguns are protected.  The
     State Legislature should have authority over all of
     Alabama's gun laws, not just those governing handguns. 
     However, localities are currently free to pass their own
     laws on long guns.  Where there are no uniform state laws,
     the result is a complex patchwork of gun laws that change
     from one jurisdiction to the next.
*    HB 32 will keep the Federal Government out of gun sales in
     Alabama.  Under the Brady Act, the Federal Government will
     establish a national instant check system for ALL firearms
     purchases by November 1998.  Any state which does not have
     its own background check system must participate in the
     Federal Government's.  Instant Check is coming to Alabama --
     it's just a matter of who will be operating the system.  And
     who do you trust to implement a better, more efficient
     system?  Washington bureaucrats? Or Alabama's own law
     enforcement officials?
*    HB 32 will cap the fee charged for performing background
     checks on prospective gun buyers, the Brady Act allows the
     Federal Government to set the price.  Under Brady, the FBI
     is given authority to decide how much it will charge
     firearms dealers to perform background checks.  Unless the
     legislature intervenes, who knows what fees Alabama's gun
     owners will face in November, when the Federal system goes
     on-line.
     HB 32 insures that your rights are protected, and that YOUR
ELECTED OFFICIALS, not civil servants in Washington, have
authority over YOUR system.  HB 32 is good for Alabama's gun
owners!
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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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