2nd Amendment Rights

ATTENTION READERS! WE MAY BE LOSING MORE 2ND AMENDMENT RIGHTS AT THIS VERY MOMENT!

I recently read an article in "American Handgunner" magazine in the July/August 2007 issue that has me outraged and concerned. Located in the back of the magazine on page 122 I discovered an article titled "Gun-Ban Forces Fire the First Round" written by Roy Huntington. It explains how Rep. Carolyn McCarthy introduced a bill known as H.R. 1022 "Assault Weapons Ban and Law Enforcement Protection Act of 2007" (a clever name obviously meant to capture the sympathy of the less educated) which will attempt to ban any "semiautomatic assault weapon" and then a very lengthy list of firearms begins including the AR-15 and any "copies or duplicates thereof". Here is the address to view the H.R. 1022 Bill:

http://www.shootingindustry.com/Pages/IndWtch.html

Now there is little to no media coverage on this bill, it's difficult find any information, and frankly I'm beginning to wonder how many more like it are out there, which is the reason for admitting this article here and several other sites and forums. I hope that similar and perhaps better informed readers will post any information related to the raping of our second amendment rights. I'm losing faith in our politicians who don't openly oppose or at least openly expose these attempts to go behind the backs of American citizens and further take away our rights. Now I agree that perhaps M60's and S.A.W.'s don't belong in the hands of civilians but the list of weapons they propose in banning is outrageous (severe understatement) and un-called for and as Mr. Huntington said "the impact on the firearm industry would be staggering. Crippling." and obviously that's the intention of the anti-gun forces. Now is when we must fight even harder to secure our rights as citizens of this fine yet deteriorating country.