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Our fight began in 1999 when Senator Diane Feinstein made her first attempt to ban .50 caliber rifles. A fledgeling FCSPI rose to the challenge and won. To date at the federal level, we have successfully defeated proposed bans in the the 106th, 107th and 108th Congress. Now the battle has spread nationwide. The anti-gun lobbyists are forum shopping an looking for the best locations that their agenda can be spread. FCI will fight for your rights as long as we can, but we need your support to continue. If you would like to donate to FCI so that we can keep up the fight, then click here.

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Congress Defeats Moran (D-VA) Amendment to Ban the Export of .50 Caliber Rifles
June 16, 2005
On June 16th, US Rep. Moran (D-VA) introduced an amendment to an appropriations measure in the US House of Representatives to "prohibit the use of funds appropriated in H.R. 2862 for licensing the export of .50 caliber rifles to nongovernmental entities". The amendment was soundly defeated by a vote of 278-149, but this amendment is a good example of how some of our elected officials are working diligently to undermine the efforts of our govt. to protect the US in the war against terrorism. In addition, this amendment is an affront to the men & women who wear the uniform of the United States of America.

The Moran amendment would do absolutely nothing to make America safer, and would seriously damage the State Department and Pentagon's ability to assist friendly foreign nongovernmental entities.

The NRA-ILA office was monitoring this amendment from the beginning and wasted no time sending word to 'Capital Hill' of their opposition. Without their quick action this back door amendment by Rep. Moran might have slipped under the rug unnoticed in this appropriations bill. Gun owners across America owe NRA-ILA a vote of thanks for a job well done.

The Fifty Caliber Institute (FCI) and the fifty caliber community are opposed to this kind of representation from our elected officials and we applaud the other members of Congress who took a strong stand against this back door circumventing of the policies of our govt.

The Fifty Caliber Community has maintained a strong relationship with our Military and Law Enforcement agencies for many years and is responsible for passing on valuable information to our military that has helped many times in the development of the tools they need to fight the war on terrorism. We strongly resent those elected officials who continue to try to handcuff those allies willing to help the US fight to protect this country.

We ask all members of our community to contact their representatives in the US Congress and express your outrage regarding Congressman Moran's Amendment.

http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-house-rollcall-super-rifles,0,3424527.story?page=2

http://www.biggerhammer.net/barrett/wwwboard/index.cgi?read=174513