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Subject:
        Re: Question re: Dianne Feinstein
   Date:
        Mon, 12 Apr 1993 23:50:51 -0700 (PDT)
   From:
        Peter Alan Kasler <tmi@crl.com>
     To:
        Bob Leone <leone@gandalf.ssw.com>
    CC:
        firearms-politics@cs.cmu.edu




On Mon, 12 Apr 1993, Bob Leone wrote:

> 1) For our planned libertarian newsletter, we would like to have a segment
> titled "hypocrite of the month". One person who comes to mind for this honor

> is anti-gun senator Dianne Feinstein. I seem to remember that when
California
> banned a certain type of gun a few years ago, it turned out that she owned
one!
> Alas, my memory isn't that good and I can't find any information about this.

> Does anyone remember this or am I imagining it?

        In 1982, when Dianne was mayor of SF, she wanted to institute a
city/county-wide ban on all handguns except those possessed by cops. She
was told by various authorities that such an ordinance would be illegal.
Among those so advising her were the California Attorney General, the
Legislative Counsel for California, the SF City Attorney, and numerous
private lawyers generally "on her side." Nevertheless, she persisted and
got the ordinance (CCSF 3500 et seq.) enacted. Almost immediately the
California AG wrote and AG's opinion stating that the new ordinance was
illegal. The Second Amendment Foundation engaged Don Kates to attack the
ordinance (and similar ones enacted about the same time in Palo Alto and
Berkeley). Doing what he does so well, Kates jumped on it and within a
startlingly short time it was overturned. Di took it to the Appellate
level, lost, and there it died.

        Two points of interest: 1) the ordinance is still on the books; it
has never been repealed by CCSF. Only a political entity as absurd as San
Francisco could behave this way. If you ask the City Attorney, any number
of CCSF officials, and about half the SFPD, you'll be told "SF has an
ordinance on the books that makes it illegal to have a handgun in the
City/County unless you're a police officer." While this is technically
true, that fail to tell you that the ordinance was struck down and cannot
be used as the basis for prosecution.

        Point 2: In the short time the ordinance was in effect, Di called
a press conference to publicize it and wallow in her victory. While she
then had a SF-issued CCW (one of the very few), she asked the Police Chief
to get a gun for her to use in the next day's photo opportunity and press
conference. Holding the "drop gun" the PD got for her by the barrel
between her thumb and forefinger as if it were a dead rat being held by
the tail, she dropped it into a garbage can, symbolically "trashing" her
gun in obediance of the new ordinance. Her real carry gun was in her
purse, and her bodyguards, seen in some photos of her, were carrying as
well. By the way, she acquired her CCW when she was a councilperson after
her house was machinegunned while she was out of town. Such rationale is
consistent with such people; her little 5-shot .38 Spl will do a lot of
good against a few assailants with automatic weapons, won't it?

        Dianne Feinstein is one of the worst of the hypocritical anti-gun
pigs in California.

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DZM wrote:

> The senior Senator form the People's Republik of Kalifornia.
>
> I'm sure you've seen this before but just in case you haven't here's the
> kind of elitists who would disarm us.
>
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