by John Burtt
Chairman, Fifty Caliber Shooters Policy Institute
[email protected]

The Anti-Gun New York State Representative Naomi Matusow (D-89^th A-District) has introduced A-1534 with the intention of banning individual ownership & possession of all fifty caliber rifles and their metric equivalent, as well as the ammunition for the rifles by all law abiding gun owners in the state of New York. An identical bill, S-742 has been introduced in the New York State Senate by Senator Roy Goodman (R-26^th S-District).

If we (and I mean all shooters) don't take immediate action on these bills, all gun owners stand to lose freedoms that have existed since the beginning of our country. The fifty caliber rifle has been in existence since the mid 1800�s.

We cannot stand by and let this happen. All gun owners must stand united in the protection of freedom, for if our foes are successful in banning the 50 Browning rifles, (and their metric equivalent), tomorrow they will be back for your pre-64 Model 70 30.06.

Gun owners in Great Britain and Australia have learned a horrible lesson. If the Gun Grabbers are not defeated, then they truly will stop at nothing to disarm everyone except the military and the police.

Sponsors of these bills feel very confident because the .50 caliber rifle is the �only� gun they want to ban today. What about tomorrow? And the day after that?

One of the many problems I have with the above-mentioned "legislation" is the wording used by both sponsors of the bills when it comes to the justification to steal our guns. They characterize our guns as being "powerful weapons meant only to be in the hands of the military".  They castigate owners of fifty caliber rifles as "...domestic terrorist organizations, religious cults, (now there's a terrifying catch-all phrase), international drug traffickers, and violent criminals (this after 26.5 yrs as a police officer) where the weapons serve absolutely no purpose other than that of para-military use." Now just how long do you think it's going to take before they tell us the .475 or the .338 or the .308 is "Powerful weaponry"?

Don't you see it coming? This is their new "Assault Weapon" phrase. Anything that can be called a "Sniper Weapon" or "Powerful Weaponry" will be up for grabs next!!!  If you don't think this fight is your fight just because you don't own or shoot a .50 BMG, you're wrong. They just haven't come for your gun yet. But THEY WILL!! If you let them win this battle, will you let them win the next unconstitutional battle too?

They don't even care that the fifty caliber has only been used in one documented criminal incident in the United States. As long as they can paint everyone with the brush of "...domestic terrorist organization, religious cult, international drug trafficker or violent criminal" everything is just fine. Why do you suppose they are trying so desperately to take our "non-crime" guns away from us?

The Fifty Caliber Shooters Policy Institute (FCSPI) needs your help to defeat gun grabbing Politicians today! Please take a moment right now and write, email or call in opposition to these anti-rights gun bans from the links below. We're asking for help from every shooting discipline in America. If the gun grabbers get us, it's just a matter of time before they get everyone. If you don't believe me, just read the language of the bills, linked above and below. The language and the lies are just incredible. The are trying to ban guns that our great grandfathers owned, and we must stop them in their tracks.

Thanks.

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Other Relevant New York Weblinks

The Fifty Caliber Gun Must Stand  
(statements regarding Feinstein's national ban)
by John Burtt, Chairman, FCSPI

New York State Constitution
http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?co=0