BBS/infolett
| File Name: | infolett |
|---|---|
| Author: | Unknown |
| Date: | May 15, 1997 |
| Posting BBS: | Unknown |
| Key Words: | Politics |
May 15, 1997
The following is a letter from NRA First Vice-President Charlton Heston to NRA Board Member Colonel Bob Brown.
May 12, 1997
Dear Colonel Brown,
Thank you for asking me for a clarification of my comments in an interview on KGO radio. When I spoke of AK-47 firearms on May 6th, I was talking about the Soviet military rifle -- a fully- automatic, not a semiautomatic, firearm -- and what I thought was common knowledge. Namely, that federal law has strictly regulated the private ownership of such fully automatic firearms for 63 years.
I didn't favor a cap put on this procedure in 1986 by the United States Congress because no legally owned fully-automatic firearm has ever been used in a crime.
Regrettably, the distinction between classes of firearms is still not understood thanks to the distortions spread by the media and those who'd destroy the Second Amendment.
That's why I lobbied against the Clinton gun ban as a private citizen in 1994, and that is why I'll be honored to continue defending the Second Amendment as First Vice President of the National Rifle Association.
Sincerely,
(Signed)
Charlton Heston
This information is provided as a service of the National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action, Fairfax, VA.
This and other information on the Second Amendment and the NRA is available at: http://WWW.NRA.Org
