Violence Against Women's Act to Expire in Sept. 2005
Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2005 5:04 pm
The 1995 Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) is set to sunset (expire) in September 2005, unless reenacted by Congress. This statute should be allowed to sunset, so folks need to start making phone calls and sending letters, faxes and emails.
The attached article does a decent job of setting out some of the many problems with this terrible legislation, so I won't go over it in detail. It does not go into the unreasonable and unjustified denial of Second Amendment rights. I want to point out that even a conviction for misdemeanor simple assault, if committed against a family member or intimate partner, will prohibit you from owning firearms, ammo, and even reloading components for life! What many people don't realize is that if you were divorced even 20 years before this law went into effect and your divorce decree has any injunctive language prohibiting the parties from harming the other, then you're committing a federal felony by having so much as a single primer in your home, not to mention a firearm. Millions of divorced couples, including women, who have never been convicted of “family violence� and who never once raised a hand to their ex-spouse, are committing a federal felony, simply because their attorneys included customary biolerplate language in their divorce decrees two decades ago! This is wrong, flat wrong.
But be ready to face the heat when NOW and others in the "women's movement" argue you don't care about their safety.
Here's the Fox News article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,160968,00.html
Regards,
Chas.
The attached article does a decent job of setting out some of the many problems with this terrible legislation, so I won't go over it in detail. It does not go into the unreasonable and unjustified denial of Second Amendment rights. I want to point out that even a conviction for misdemeanor simple assault, if committed against a family member or intimate partner, will prohibit you from owning firearms, ammo, and even reloading components for life! What many people don't realize is that if you were divorced even 20 years before this law went into effect and your divorce decree has any injunctive language prohibiting the parties from harming the other, then you're committing a federal felony by having so much as a single primer in your home, not to mention a firearm. Millions of divorced couples, including women, who have never been convicted of “family violence� and who never once raised a hand to their ex-spouse, are committing a federal felony, simply because their attorneys included customary biolerplate language in their divorce decrees two decades ago! This is wrong, flat wrong.
But be ready to face the heat when NOW and others in the "women's movement" argue you don't care about their safety.
Here's the Fox News article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,160968,00.html
Regards,
Chas.