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I wonder how "DOA" they'll be when Schumer, Feinstein, McCarthy or Reid attached them to a Bailout bill, or the 2010 Defense Appropriations, or some other "must-pass" piece of legislation as a "rider?" That's how the Firearm Owners Protection Act was used, behind the scenes, to kill civilian-legal machinegun manufacture in May of 1986. The rider was attached, a vote was held in the middle of the night, and by the time anyone who could/would have objected was allowed to -read- the amended legislation, it'd already been passed in the dead of night, just like a congressional pay raise.
The mere existence of these bills is a serious threat, since any of them could be attached in that same manner at any time.
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