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[{"user_id": 11626, "stars": [], "topic_id": 21539, "date_created": 1303869965.913348, "message": "http://www.infowars.com/second-amendment-rights-once-again-at-risk\r\n\r\n\r\nSecond Amendment Rights Once Again at Risk\r\nRaven Clabough\r\nNew American\r\nApril 21, 2011\r\n\r\nAmericans continue to watch their Second Amendment rights diminish, this time as the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives ( still known as ATF) launches a campaign to change the definition of \u201cshotgun.\u201d According to the blog Beregond\u2019s Bar, a recently released study by the Bureau will ultimately make shotguns illegal, and may also have negative implications for all guns.\r\n\r\nThe ATF states that the purpose of the study is to \u201cestablish criteria that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives will use to determine the importability of certain shotguns under the provisions of the Gun Control Act of 1968 (GCA) \u2026[which] generally [prohibit] the importation of firearms into the United States.\u201d\r\n\r\nThe study focuses specifically on the sporting purposes of shotguns, just as the ATF 1998 survey provided guidelines for determining the sporting purposes of rifles.\r\n\r\nBeregond\u2019s Bar notes, \u201cSporting is one of the three main thrusts of gun control efforts in America. The other two are racism and those who openly advocate complete bans except for military and police.\u201d\r\n\r\nRead full article\r\n\r\n\r\nhttp://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/clabough2.1.1.html", "group_id": 3920, "id": 820832}]