5/21/2007

Breaking News: Frearms in immigration bill

This part of the immigration bill reminds me of RICO. RICO was originally designed for organized crime (just as these new gun laws are supposedly designed for), but it soon became clear that the RICO requirements could be applied to any company. What does it mean below to say "an ongoing group, club, organization, or association of 5 or more persons"? Could that be a gun club?

SEC. 205. INCREASED CRIMINAL PENALTIES RELATED TO GANG VIOLENCE AND REMOVAL.
(a) DEFINITION OF CRIMINAL GANG– Section 101(a) of the Immigration and Nationality
Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)) is amended by inserting after subparagraph (51) the following:

“(52) The term “criminal gang”
(a) means an ongoing group, club, organization, or association of 5 or more persons--
(1) that has as 1 of its primary purposes the commission of 1 or more of the criminal offenses described in subsection (b); and

(2) the members of which engage, or have engaged within the past 5 years, in a continuing series of offenses described in subsection (b);

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Blogger toyfj40 said...

The June-2007 issue of the NRA
"1st Freedom" magazine has their cover-story
on 'Rico'

"Get Ready for RICO"
by James O.E. Norell
Anti-gun politicians, led by
Sen. Charles Schumer, want to apply RICO racketeering statutes -- designed to prosecute organized crime figures -- to federal firearm law in an all-out effort to put the bite on all American gun owners.

5/22/2007 12:11 AM  

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