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Save the Assault
Weapons Ban
Fight Gun Industry
Immunity
Support Regulation of
Secondary Sales in Iowa
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Save
the Assault Weapons Ban!
The federal ban on military-style, semiautomatic firearms will end in
September of this year (2004) unless Congress and the President take
action. (read more about assault weapons
here)
Here's
what you can do:
1.
Call both of your
Senators and your representative and encourage them to
support the McCarthy-Conyers bill in the House and the Lautenberg bill
in the Senate. Ask your representative to
be a co-sponsor of the bill. (Find your Senators/Congressmen here)
2. Sign the Iowa Assault Weapons
Resolution, below.
Then, take it to: social events,
groups,
and friends. Submit the Resolution to your local
city
council for ratification. Submit the Resolution
to your state and
local
political party for inclusion in the party platform. The
resolution and a sign-up sheet can be downloaded
from the IPGV website: resolution and sign-up
sheet.
3. Write a letter to the editor on your support for an effective
assault weapons ban. See our assault
weapons ban page for more information.
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Fight
Gun Industry Immunity!
Tell your Senators to oppose
S.659 in the
Senate,
which would grant the gun industry blanket immunity from civil lawsuits
filed by cities and individuals seeking to recover the costs of
gun violence. The House has already passed HR 1036, the companion
bill to S.659.
Click here
to find contact information for your Senators and Congressman.
For more information on gun industry immunity legislation,
visit www.justiceforgunvictims.org.
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Support
Regulation of Secondary Sales in Iowa
Bills have been introduced in the
Iowa House
and Senate to regulate the secondary sale of firearms by requiring a
Brady Background check on all gun sales.
The bills are: Senate File 163, introduced by
Senators Hatch, Dvorsky, Bolkcom, and Holveck and House File 207,
introduced by Representatives Greimann and Ford.
Tell your Iowa Senators and Representatives,
as well as the Iowa Senate and House leadership and the Governor,
to support SF 163 and HF 207 to regulate secondary gun sales in Iowa.
Find your Iowa officials here. |
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Things You Can Do
to End Gun Violence
- Stay
Informed. Join
our email list or
subscribe to Jointogether
Online, the best online source for gun violence news.
- Join
a group. Join IPGV or
visit links
to other state, local, national and international gun violence
prevention groups.
- Contact
Elected Officials. Tell
Federal and State Lawmakers that you support gun violence prevention
and encourage them to take strong positions in favor of public policies
that will reduce the risk of gun violence to Iowans and Americans
alike. Find your
representatives here.
- Write
a Letter to the Editor. Visit our legislative
and nonlegislative
positions for a discussion of the current issues. Also, check
out
our Action
Alerts for the most pressing
issues.
- Remove
guns from your home. Studies
have shown that the presence of a firearm
in the home increases the risk of homicide of a family member by a
factor of 3, and the risk of suicide by a family member by a factor of
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Sign Petitions
Iowa Resolution
on
Assault Weapons
WHEREAS,
military style, semiautomatic assault weapons represent an
unreasonable risk to the nation’s law enforcement personnel and the
general public; and
WHEREAS, the current federal assault
weapons ban is due to expire on
September 13, 2004; and
WHEREAS, the failures of the current
assault weapons ban are
well known, allowing gun manufacturers to make minor modifications to
their assault weapons, rename them, and market them as legal post-ban
products; and
WHEREAS, reauthorization of the current
assault weapons ban without
correcting the limitations of the current ban will allow military
style, semiautomatic assault weapons such as the Bushmaster XM-15
assault rifle, Olympic Arms PCR-6 assault rifle (PCR stands for
“politically correct
rifle”) and Intratec AB-10 assault pistol (AB stands for “after ban”)
to
continue to be sold to the general public, and
WHEREAS, gun manufacturers openly
discuss and display their ability to
circumvent the current law.
THEREFORE, be it resolved that we, the
undersigned, call on the 108th
Congress to pass and President Bush to sign legislation that
reauthorizes, strengthens, and improves the assault weapons ban so that
these weapons of war are effectively banned for civilian use.
To
support this resolution, you can:
- Name
- Date
- Address
- City/State/Zip
- Email address
- Short statement: "I support
the Iowa Resolution on
Assault Weapons, calling for the reauthorization, strengthening,
and improvement of the federal Assault Weapons Ban by the 108th
Congress."
- Print out, sign and mail the PDF
version of the resolution to:
IPGV, 4403 1st Ave. SE, Suite 113
Cedar Rapids, IA 52240
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