[Durham INC] Please write Durham city council with support for the Bullet Ownership Bill

[Melissa Rooney]

Hi folks. And happy new year.

There is an initiative in Durham to have NC require identification (based on background check) for the purchase of bullets as well as guns. This item will be considered by the city council at their legislative session (during which they determine the issues they will push with the NC State legislature) tomorrow at 11 AM.

I have attached an article that gives detailed information regarding this bill, as well as the email I sent to the city council this morning.

I have been told that city council has received a plethora of emails in opposition to this bill and that the NRA has begun a campaign against it. So our gov't officials really need to hear from those who are in favor of the bill.

Please take a moment and offer support for this bill by emailing the city council TODAY, and ask others to do so: 
council at ci.durham.nc.us

Thanks!
Melissa

Melissa Rooney, Ph.D.
301 Spring Garden Drive
Durham, NC 27713
mmr121570 at yahoo.com


--- On Wed, 1/7/09, Melissa Rooney <mmr121570 at yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Melissa Rooney <mmr121570 at yahoo.com>
Subject: Please support the Bullet Ownership Bill
To: council at ci.durham.nc.us
Date: Wednesday, January 7, 2009, 10:18 AM

I am writing with strong support for Reverend Whitley's ongoing fight to require ID cards for the purchase of bullets.

Convicted felons are not permitted to own guns, so why on earth would they need bullets? 

It is ridiculous that our country, not only our state, doesn't require registration for both. If this results in ammunition labs, as argued by Paul Valone's Herald Sun guest column (Dec 21, 2008), then the latter is a far more serious crime than buying bullets, and it should result in the arrest, conviction and punishment of the culprits who should not be buying guns, bullets, or any other such deadly materials in the first place. Furthermore, it must be significantly more difficult to build such an ammunition lab than to buy bullets from the nearest Walmart. By Mr. Valone's arguments, teenage alcohol distilleries should be a common
 occurence.

Surely the number of people dying from bullets discharged by those who aren't allowed to own guns in the first place, would equal or surpass the dangers associated with these hypothetical ammunition labs. 

Given the state of our probation system, in which inadequate staff cannot even account for the whereabouts of many on probation, we should at least put this minor hurdle in the path of criminals wishing to acquire ammunition.

Please push the NC legislature to at least require a minimal background check for people who purchase bullets. If they need to register to purchase a gun in the first place, then it should not be a major production to require presentation of their gun registration in order to purchase bullets. I had to go through at least that much effort in order to get a Durham County Library card (photo id, utility bill, etc.).

Sincerely,
Melissa Rooney

Melissa Rooney, Ph.D.
301 Spring Garden
 Drive
Durham, NC 27713
mmr121570 at yahoo.com







      


      
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