Taking a quick break between "Project Gunwalker" posts to pass along an urgent alert from VCDL, passed on to me. Sorry, no time to purty it up:
Can you punch out to your groups? This is Schumer's way of stopping McConnell's vote against Obamacare, and I can see the Dead Elephants saying "the symbolic win on Obamacare is worth the ire of the nut-job community."
> From: philip@virginiasystems.com
> Subject: VA-ALERT: URGENT ALERT - Federal Magazine Gun Ban!
> Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 11:48:28 -0500
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> I just got word that there may be an attempt to slip a magazine ban similar to the one proposed by anti-gun Congresswoman Caroline McCarthy into a normally benign Federal Aviation Administration bill using an amendment in the U.S. Senate.
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> They can't really "sneak" it on without a vote on the amendment and therein lies our defense against it.
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> I contacted Senator Warner's and Senator Webb's office and they confirmed that they have gotten phone calls on this issue this morning from concerned constituents. They say nothing is on the docket for *today* and they can't yet confirm the validity of the rumor, but they are working on doing so.
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> Either way, we need to play this safe and flood both offices with calls letting both Senator Warner and Senator Webb know that magazine bans are not acceptable and to please oppose any effort to impose such a ban in any way.
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> Call Senator Jim Webb's office at: 202-224-4024 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 202-224-4024 end_of_the_skype_highlighting
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> Call Senator Mark Warner's office at: 202-224-2023 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 202-224-2023 end_of_the_skype_highlighting
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> Let's Roll!
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