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                            GENERAL-RKBA Digest 309
Topics covered in this issue include:
  1) FAXALERT: Tuesday, November 4th - Election Day by NRA Alerts 
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Topic No. 1
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 21:31:39 -0500 (EST)
From: NRA Alerts 
To: general-rkba-real.nra
Subject: FAXALERT: Tuesday, November 4th - Election Day
Message-ID: 
                         NRA-ILA FAX ALERT
            11250 Waples Mill Road* Fairfax, VA  22030
Vol. 4, No. 44 * Phone: 1-800-392-8683 * Fax: 703-267-3918 * 
                           GROOTS@NRA.org 
                             10/31/97
              
                     CLINTON IMPORT DIRECTIVE
Word is circulating that President Clinton may possibly issue his
directive to ban certain types of foreign-made firearms from coming
into this country some time this weekend. As noted in previous FAX
Alerts, we believe the White House will move to stop all commerce in
certain semi-automatic firearms that conform in every way to the legal
requirements set forth in both the Clinton Gun Ban of 1994 and the
1989 import ban.  Please keep up the calls to your U.S. Representative
at 202/224-3121 in opposition to the President's attempt to ban more
semi-automatic firearms.
           HOUSE DEMOCRATS BREAK WITH PRESIDENT CLINTON
In a related development dealing with the President's imminent
directive, on October 23, a host of House Democrats signed a letter to
the President urging him not to impose his misguided directive.  The
letter notes the signatories' belief that this action "would adversely
affect law-abiding gun owners in the United States."  The pro-gun
Democrats continue by stating, "the criteria selected to differentiate
banned guns was based on cosmetic criteria with no relevance to the
firearms' capability, availability, or relevance to actual criminal
misuse of a firearm."  The letter concludes with, "We believe further
pursuit of this issue will unfairly label the Democratic party as
anti-gun, which we are not."  The letter was authored by Rep. Bud
Cramer of Alabama and co-signed by Reps.  Goode (Va.), Klink (Pa.),
Sandlin (Tex.), Skelton (Mo.), Danner (Mo.), Boyd (Fla. ), Barcia
(Mich.), Holden (Pa.), Peterson (Minn.), Turner (Tex.), Taylor
(Miss.), Stenholm (Tex.), Rahall (W.V.), Hall (Tex.), Hilliard (Ala.),
Mollohan (W.V.), Wise (W.V.), and Tanner (Tenn.).  Constituents of
these Representatives should be sure to contact them to thank them for
their support of our rights.  A similar letter to the President was
also sent by Sen.  Pat Leahy (D-Vt.). Unfortunately, not all Democrats
are on the right side of this issue.  An Oct. 29 AP story from
Jerusalem reports Israel has declared a three month moratorium on the
sales of certain modified semi-autos to the U.S. Apparently, this
action comes as a direct response to Sen. Dianne Feinstein's (D-Cal.)
letter to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Fax No. 38,
9/19/97).  In announcing this moratorium, Israel's U.S.  ambassador
Eliyahu Ben-Elissar told Feinstein the move was done for "humanitarian
reasons... in light of the special sensitivity of the issue in the
U.S."
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