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