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Senators Cornyn, Wyden, Vitter, Crapo, Enzi, Merkley, Roberts, and Risch's have introduced an amendment to the Homeland Security Appropriations bill to restrict funding. This would prevent Customs from implementing their proposed ruling that would prohibit the import of assisted and one-hand openers and in the process would broadly re-defined what a Switchblade is to cover almost all pocket knives, with potential far-reaching consequences. We need your help NOW to rally Senate support for this amendment to stop funding for this Customs rulemaking.

We have gotten this far in large part due to your letters that have flooded in to Senate offices. We now need you to write AGAIN in support of this Amendment. Contacting your Senators is critically important to get this Amendment into the appropriations bill.

Please note that multiple members of a household can and should each write separately.

We encourage you to use the sample letter below and copy and paste into the Senators' email forms. If you want to further personalize your letter, please be POLITE and NON-PARTISAN. We can only succeed with the support of both parties. DO NOT yell, don't rant and don't be rude! Stay focused and stay on message. This is NOT the time or place to express your frustrations or make any other political points or complaints.

Locate YOUR OWN Senators and their email forms here:

http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_i ... rs_cfm.cfm

Here is a Sample Letter to your Senators (copy and paste into the email form). If your Senator is one of those listed at the end as co-sponsors, change the closing to THANK them for their efforts co-sponsoring this amendment.:

RE: Amendment Number 1408 to DHS Appropriations H.R. 2892

Dear Senator [Insert Senator’s Name],

As a pocket knife owner, I am extremely concerned about the recently announced Customs ruling, which wrongly interprets federal law and would prohibit the importation of many of the sporting and utility knives that I use and enjoy. Their overly broad and novel new interpretation of what a Switchblade is could make me a felon for carrying a simple pocket knife. Additionally, the economic impact of the ruling on the knife trade would be severe. Pocket knives utilizing assisted or one hand opening technology are the dominant share of the market, and prohibiting the use of the technology would force significant job losses, and the potential loss of entire businesses.

This type of Federal regulation is totally unnecessary. I strongly urge you to accept Senators Cornyn, Wyden, Vitter, Crapo, Enzi, Merkley, Roberts, and Risch’s funding restriction amendment, Number 1408, to the Homeland Security Appropriations bill, that prevents Customs from implementing this ruling.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Sincerely,

[Individual Signature]

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done.

Letters sent. Let's keep up the good work forumites! Keep writing...It only took me 5 minutes.

Letters are in their inbox.

Mails out :cool:

My Dear Friends,

Done. :cool:

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Hannibal

Done. 

Sent yesterday.

Just sent

sent

Thank you Doug.

I'm sorry, but I'm gonna drop the ball. I'm tired of writing these yahoos countless times. I've already sent about 10 letters out. I'll just go back to carrying a swiss army knife or a nice old slipjoint.

Got my e mails sent, hopefully this is the last time we have to send them and these bozos don't start taking more of our rights away. I had to write Senators Boxer and Feinstein, so I think my e mails may have been like peeing into the wind, but I felt I had to do it. I can barely get a gun anymore here in California, and now they are turning pocket tools into weapons. The people that came up with this crap are like this lady I met when I went to my buddy's birthday party. This woman was completely offended I was carrying a pocket knife, and called it a horrible weapon and went on about how only violent people carry knives (my friend borrowed the knife to sample meat being barbequed). It was her house so I respected her and just tucked it in my pocket, but when they were cutting up the ribs and steaks that were barbequed with big chef's knives I really had to hold my tonque about all of those "weapons" she was using that were proliferating in her kitchen, as they sure would make a better attack piece than my puny 3.5" bladed Stretch 2 CF.

Mike

Sent out letters to Arizona Senators Kyl and McCain. Took hardly any time and well worth defending my right to carry my :spyder: .

NRA urges YES vote on the Cornyn-Wyden Amendment 1408 to the Homeland Security Appropriations Bill. See: http://bit.ly/U8HDa

did it

Sent out again to Senators Boxer and Feinstein,

David Lowry wrote:I'm sorry, but I'm gonna drop the ball. I'm tired of writing these yahoos countless times. I've already sent about 10 letters out. I'll just go back to carrying a swiss army knife or a nice old slipjoint.

David, I urge you to rethink your apparent new found apathy.

Done

David Lowry wrote:I'm sorry, but I'm gonna drop the ball. I'm tired of writing these yahoos countless times. I've already sent about 10 letters out. I'll just go back to carrying a swiss army knife or a nice old slipjoint.

David,
I am shocked. :eek:
May be somebody stole David's password and using his account? :confused:
Cannot be David Lowry.

Done.

I get Davids frustration but at least we don't have Senators Feinstein and Boxer (I think I just threw up a little :eek :)

Come on, Buddy.... Brace up!

Ken

I'm just frustrated. On top of this my wife's father died today. And it feels like the country has turned from being run "for the people and by the people" to being run "in what we the government think is best for the people".