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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (533)	9/6/1999 2:56:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 6418

$600 is punitive imo. A police auto (i.e. semiautomatic pistol) goes for $450 on sale, and they are dumping their revolvers for $200 each. Surely a gun carried to "protect and serve" cannot be cheap. A perfectly good target 22 from a top brand goes for $150 on sale. And that is the price of a bare-bone VCR or DVD. So a "cheap" handgun can't really be nailed by price. How can I be sure that this isn't a "divide and conquer" bit of sophistry being made to sound like common sense by those who would strip us of our legally-owned weapons? First dangerous handguns. Then cheap ones. Then ones that don't pass a State standard. Then ones with a certain capacity. ... And then since there are so few left, there is no meaningful, organized opposition remaining to the original goal of just banning civilian-owned handguns. (...) Guns, period. The really scary thing is that CA is passing some laws designed to punish gun owners without doing a damn thing about crime. And you know what the really amazing thing is? These laws have language exempting the police!! Why should the police be allowed to use guns to protect the citizens, guns that have been ruled "unsafe" for general possession or distribution? Guns subject to registry and confiscation? Double standard at work - and against the voters; write your legislator and demand that the police be held to the general standard.