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=20 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Charles Hardy Subject: "GOP" mayor workman attacks RKBA: S.L. County ordinance impacts home F Date: 12 Apr 2004 16:34:43 GMT I'd suggest calls to Mayor Workman's office and the County Council members. Contact info below. Unlike some businesses, a home based FFL is not likely to generate a lot of extra traffic. Nor is it likely to affect the outward appearance of a home. Gunsmithing is an ideal job for many physically handicapped individuals. An FFL also allows the serious hobbyist to buy and sell guns across State lines or an unlimited number of transactions at gun shows without fear of being charged with dealing guns without a license. Such FFL holders may NEVER see a customer at home--indeed, may not even want it widely known they have such a license or any guns at home--but the FFL license requires a physical address where records can be inspected. While I take no personal position in this email about some of the other home based businesses being targeted, there are simply no legitimate reason to prohibit gun related businesses from home businesses. This is an anti-RKBA ordinance, plain and simple. If you happen to be a SLCo county delegate, make sure and let the mayor know that. Also let the council members know if you happen to be a deleagate to their political party. Contact info: Mayor Workman contact: Hours: 8 am - 5 pm Phone: 801 468-2500 Fax: 801 468-3535 Main number, county council: FAX 801-468-3029 Phone 801-468-2930 A Randy Horiuchi (801) 468-2936 Steve Harmsen (801) 468-2934 C Jim Bradley (801) 468-2939 1 Joe Hatch (801) 468-2933 2 Michael Jensen (801) 468-2932 3 David Wilde (801) 468-2931 4 Russell Skousen (801) 468-2937 5 Cortland G. Ashton (801) 468-2935 6 Marvin Hendrickson (801) 468-2938 Charles ================== Charles Hardy ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- S.L. County ordinance would simplify licensing process for home businesses [NL] By Lisa Carricaburu The Salt Lake Tribune Home-business operators in unincorporated Salt Lake County no longer would have to complete conditional-use reviews to qualify for business licenses under proposed ordinance changes outlined by the county. The changes, which Mayor Nancy Workman will present to the County Council on Tuesday, aim to simplify the licensing application process, thereby encouraging more home businesses to apply for licenses as required by law, said Jeff Daugherty, director of the county's Planning and Development Services Division. Rather than complete a lengthy and sometimes costly conditional-use review, business owners under the proposed changes would simply be able -- either in person or online -- to complete an application that asks them to verify their businesses meet certain criteria, he said. The proposed revision clearly defines which types of businesses are not allowed in neighborhoods, such as vehicle repair businesses, junk yards, sexually oriented businesses, towing operations and foundries. A checklist asks applicants whether their businesses would violate regulations prohibiting significant customer traffic, major home renovations, or outdoor storage of inventory, for example. If complying with the rules poses no problems, licensing can occur quickly. "This . . . is the kind of positive change we'd like to make throughout our ordinances," Workman said in a statement. While the changes seek to make the application process easier and more efficient, rules still would "protect the business owner's family members from feeling they no longer live in a home and protect neighbors from feeling they no longer live in a neighborhood," said Tom Schafer, a senior planner for the county who drafted changes to the ordinance. The county's proposal "makes a lot of sense and is long overdue," said Peter Corroon, president of the Vest Pocket Coalition, a Salt Lake City-based group that advocates for small business. Salt Lake County could go even further to remove bureaucracy that impedes small businesses, which make up a majority of Utah enterprises, said Corroon, who will challenge Workman in November's election. For example, a restriction that still is part of the ordinance says home-based businesses may not have any employees who do not reside in the home if the home is on a street that is not at least 80 feet wide. Presumably, the restriction seeks to prevent parking problems caused by nonresidents driving into an area, "but what if the employee takes the bus?" Corroon asked. lisac@sltrib.com Not at home Salt Lake County's proposed ordinance says the following won't be allowed as home businesses: * Motor vehicle, trailer or boat repair * Manufacture or sale of firearms, explosives or ancillary products * Junk yards * Mortuaries or crematoriums * Sexually oriented businesses * Short-term rentals * Lawn mower or small engine repair * Auto body and/or fender work * Towing operations * Vehicle sales or rentals * Welding, iron works, foundries * Major appliance repair * Home day care * Home preschool * Any use involving the raising, breeding, training, housing, keeping or care of animals -- Source: Salt Lake County ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Charles Hardy Subject: Fw: [goutah] GOUtah! Alert #204 Date: 12 Apr 2004 19:26:33 GMT More on Mayor Workman's gun business ban from GOUtah! Please act now to make a phone call or three. Charles ================== Charles Hardy ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- GOUtah! Gun Owners of Utah Utah's Uncompromising, Independent Gun Rights Network. No Compromise. No Retreat. No Surrender. Not Now. Not Ever. GOUtah! Web Site: http://www.goutahorg.org To subscribe to or unsubscribe from GOUtah!'s free e-mail Alerts, send a blank e-mail message to one of the following addresses: goutah-subscribe@yahoogroups.com goutah-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com Send comments to: goutah@goutahorg.org _________________________________________ GOUtah! Alert #204 - 12 April 2004 Today's Maxim of Liberty: "The freemen of America will remember, that it is very easy to change a free government into an arbitrary, despotic, or military one; but it is very difficult, almost impossible to reverse the matter - very difficult to regain freedom once lost." -The Freeman's Journal, Philadelphia, March 5, 1788 S.L. COUNTY MAYOR PLANS TO BAN ALL HOME-BASED GUN BUSINESSES. PLEASE CALL HER ASAP. According to an article in today's Salt Lake Tribune, Salt Lake County Mayor Nancy Workman will present the County Council with new regulations for home-based businesses tomorrow (Tuesday). The main purpose of these new regulations, which will apply to all unincorporated areas of Salt Lake County, is to streamline the process of applying for a business license for a home-based business and make it significantly easier for most home-based business owners to obtain a license. GOUtah! does not have a problem with this. The revised regulations would continue to prohibit a home-based business, regardless of the type of business, if it would draw too much traffic to a residential neighborhood, or if it would cause parking problems in the neighborhood, or if it would result in the storage of large amounts of inventory in a person's yard. GOUtah! does not have a problem with this, either. However, fifteen specific categories of home-based businesses would be completely banned under the proposed regulations, even if they comply with all of the above requirements. Examples of such banned businesses include: Junk yards Mortuaries or crematoriums Towing operations Welding, iron works, foundries Manufacture or sale of firearms, explosives or ancillary products Do you notice anything here that GOUtah! might have a problem with? While we might share the Mayor's concern about the prospect of someone setting up a business in his condominium to manufacture large quantities of mining explosives, or establishing a commercial junkyard in his front yard in the middle of a subdivision, we see absolutely no reason for a complete ban on home-based gun-related businesses. Although the Clinton Administration tried to drive small gun dealers out of business in the 1990s by making the requirements for a Federal Firearms License (FFL - a required license for anyone who sells or trades firearms as a business) ridiculously difficult and expensive to comply with, there are still quite a few FFL holders in Utah who list their private residence as their business address. Many of these dealers conduct most of their actual business at gun shows around the western United States. Others are collectors who use their FFL to purchase firearms from private residents of other states - something which cannot be legally done without an FFL. Others have a regular "day job" but obtain supplemental income by selling a few guns out of their homes every now and then. All of this must be done in compliance with federal gun-dealer laws, including background checks for all buyers, recording of all transactions, compliance with inventory storage requirements, etc. If a home-based federally-licensed dealer were to attract a large enough stream of customers to his home to cause traffic and parking problems in the neighborhood, then he could be denied a county business license based on the general restrictions listed under the proposed rules. However, it makes no sense for the county to implement a complete ban on home-based gun businesses. In addition to FFLs, what about someone who reloads ammunition at home and sells it at gun shows? What about someone who engraves firearms or gun stocks in his own home? Such activities could be defined as the "manufacture or sale of ancillary products" under the new regulations, and would be banned. Mayor Workman is running for reelection this year, as are many members of the County Council. If you live in Salt Lake County, the main thing we'd like you to do right now is to contact Mayor Workman's office and register a complaint. If you happen to be a Salt Lake County delegate for the Republican party (of which Workman is a member), please be sure to mention this fact when you contact her office. Then, please contact your own county councilman and give the same message to him. Look on your voter registration card to determine your County Council district number, or go to the map at http://www.slco.org/co/html/distmap.html If you have extra time and energy, please send the same message to Council Chairman Steve Harmsen, who is up for reelection this year. If you still have time left after all this, you can contact the other to councilmen-at-large, Randy Horiuchi and Jim Bradley. You may make phone calls to the appropriate County officials between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. on weekdays, starting with the Mayor. Alternatively, you may use the pre-written letter at the end of this alert to send to the mayor, then send a copy to your councilman. Fill in the blanks, sign it, and send it via fax or e-mail. Contact info is provided below. Salt Lake County Mayor Nancy Workman Phone: 801-468-2500 Fax: 801-468-3535 e-mail: MayorNancy@co.slc.ut.us Salt Lake County Council Main switchboard: 801-468-2930 Fax: 801-468-3029 Council Chairman Steve Harmsen Phone: 801-468-2934 e-mail: sharmsen@co.slc.ut.us Councilman-at-Large Randy Horiuchi Phone: 801-468-2936 e-mail: rhoriuchi@co.slc.ut.us Councilman-at-Large Jim Bradley Phone: 801-468-2939 e-mail: jbradley@co.slc.ut.us Councilman Joe Hatch (District 1) Phone: (801) 468-2933 e-mail: jhatch@co.slc.ut.us Councilman Michael Jensen (District 2) Phone: (801) 468-2932 e-mail: mhjensen@co.slc.ut.us Councilman David Wilde (District 3) Phone: (801) 468-2931 e-mail; dwilde@co.slc.ut.us Councilman Russell Skousen (District 4) Phone: (801) 468-2937 e-mail: rskousen@co.slc.ut.us Councilman Cortland G. Ashton (District 5) Phone: (801) 468-2935 e-mail: cashton@co.slc.ut.us Councilman Marvin Hendrickson (District 6) Phone: (801) 468-2938 e-mail: mhendrickson@co.slc.ut.us _________________________________________ That concludes GOUtah! Alert #204 - 12 April 2004. Copyright 2003 by GOUtah!. All rights reserved. PRE-WRITTEN LETTER BELOW ------------------ Cut Here ------------------------ Fax: 801-468-3535 e-mail: MayorNancy@co.slc.ut.us Dear Mayor Workman: Since your new proposed rules on the licensing of home-based businesses include a blanket ban on "the manufacture or sale of firearms, explosives or ancillary products" (according to The Salt Lake Tribune, April 12, 2004), I will vigorously oppose your reelection this year unless this ban is immediately modified to remove the reference to firearms. Many federally-licensed gun dealers list their home address as their place of business, even though they conduct most of their business at gun shows around the western United States. Others have a regular job but sell a firearm from time to time out of their home to obtain supplemental income. Still others are collectors who use their federal gun-dealer licenses to purchase collectible firearms directly from private individuals in other states - an activity which is a federal felony without such a license. In the unlikely event that a home-based gun dealer were to attract a large enough stream of customers to cause traffic or parking problems in his neighborhood, his county business license could be revoked under other parts of the proposed regulations. Thus, there is simply no need for an across-the-board ban on home-based gun-related businesses. In addition to gun dealers, what about individuals who reload target ammunition in their homes and sell it at gun shows? (Note: ammunition and smokeless gunpowder are not explosives, nor are they regarded as such under federal law.) What about a handicapped craftsman who engraves firearms or gun stocks in his home? Would these activities be considered "the manufacture or sale of...ancillary products" related to firearms, and thus be banned under your proposed regulations? Given that the possession and carrying of firearms is explicitly protected by the U.S. and Utah Constitutions, it is unconscionable that you would prohibit individuals from engaging in legitimate business activities related directly to this protected right. I'll be telling all of my gun-owning friends, neighbors, and relatives in Salt Lake County that you are an anti-gun politician, and I will encourage them not to vote for you in 2004 as long as the reference to firearms remains in the proposed regulations. Thanks for taking the time to consider my views on this matter. Sincerely, --------------------- Cut Here ----------------------- ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Charles Hardy Subject: NRA to start own media company to bypass campaign speech laws. Date: 16 Apr 2004 20:22:26 GMT From Fox news. Full article at NRA to Launch News Company Friday, April 16, 2004 WASHINGTON � The nation's gun lobby is creating an "NRA news" company that will produce a daily talk show for the Internet, buy a radio station and seek a television deal to spread its gun-rights message nationwide. Looking for the same legal recognition as mainstream news organizations, the National Rifle Association (search) says it has already hired its first reporter, a conservative talk radio host from Oklahoma. NRANews.com plans to start online broadcasts Friday. The NRA is taking the step to operate free of political spending limits, hoping to use unlimited donations known as soft money (search) to focus on gun issues and candidates' positions despite the law's restrictions on soft money-financed political ads within days of the election. "If that's the only way to bring back the First Amendment (search), we're going to bring it back," Wayne LaPierre, NRA executive vice president, told The Associated Press. Under the nation's campaign finance law, he said, "if you own the news operation, you can say whatever you want. If you don't, you're gagged." [...] ================== Charles Hardy ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Charles Hardy Subject: U still defiant on illegal gun ban Date: 20 Apr 2004 17:02:12 GMT From today's SLTrib. What is it going to take to make these guys obey the law? Almost makes you wonder if the Board of Trustees should not be elected and directly accountable to the people. You might also want to drop the author of the article a note asking why Marla Kennedy is quoted but nobody from the citizen, pro-self-defense side is quoted. Charles U. to keep ban on guns in challenge to new law By Shinika A. Sykes The Salt Lake Tribune University of Utah trustees, in defiance of the Utah Legislature, voted unanimously Monday to maintain its 27-year-old policy prohibiting students, faculty and staff from bringing guns onto the Salt Lake City campus. The U. Board of Trustees directed the administration to pursue a "quick and definitive resolution" of the constitutional claims relating to the school's gun ban -- a process that probably will end up before state and federal courts. "Because we feel strongly about this issue, we must continue the court challenge to find out what they are willing to say about the law and our ability to do this," said trustee and former U.S. Sen. Jake Garn. The U.'s challenge comes in response to Senate Bill 48, passed by the Legislature earlier this year. It was signed into law last month by Gov. Olene Walker, who agrees with lawmakers that only the Legislature -- not U. trustees -- can set gun policy. "Before signing the bill, Walker met with its sponsor, who agreed to relook at concerns she has about concealed weapons in college and university dorms and places where we have youths in state custody, such as foster care and juvenile facilities," said the governor's chief of staff, Lynn Ward. SB48 also was designed to overturn a state court ruling in support of the U.'s policy. The case now goes before the state Supreme Court, according to Assistant Attorney General Brent Burnett,. "[U. administrators] continue to claim the [state] Constitution allows them to disregard the statute," Burnett said. "The issue is whether they have a constitutional right to have a firearm policy that's contrary to Utah law." Garn said the trustees "are not trying to be adversarial. [Their] direction to the administration to exhaust its legal remedies grows out of a concern for the safety and well-being of the university facility, staff and students, and not from a misplaced sense of autonomy from state control." Trustees Chairman James McFarlane said letters, along with the trustees' statement, have been sent to state lawmakers. He declined to make the letters public on Monday, saying trustees wanted to wait until Senate and House members have received them. Senate President Al Mansell said he is not surprised by the trustees' action. "Until better security is provided at all public facilities, the only thing the U. is doing is making [the campus] a gun-free zone for law-abiding citizens and an enforcement zone for people who carry guns illegally." Mansell said. "The law is very clear and, ultimately, I think the state will win." Marla Kennedy, director of the Gun Violence Prevention Center of Utah, said the University is doing the right thing. "Polls have shown that Utahns do not want concealed weapons in classrooms," she said. "They do not want them on schools' campuses, whether it's a public elementary [school] or a university. I applaud the university for doing what the Utah Legislature refuses to do." Last August, 3rd District Judge Robert Hilder sided with the university. The judge held that the Legislature's previous firearms legislation was not meant to interfere with the U.'s internal policies. Then, Senate Majority Leader Mike Waddoups, R-Taylorsville, introduced SB48, which clarified the state's control over the issue. As a senator, Garn for many years supported National Rifle Association positions on a variety of right-to-bear-arms issues. On Monday, he said he supports the U.'s position because he believes "schools and churches ought to be able to make those kinds of determinations for themselves, rather than it be mandated by the Legislature." sykes@sltrib.com ================== Charles Hardy ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Scott Bergeson Subject: Disarm the Police - Gary North Date: 22 Apr 2004 11:49:47 -0600 Reminder Disarm the Police by Gary North http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north198.html --- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Charles Hardy Subject: Latest anti-gun, anti-rule-of-law tripe from the SLTrib Date: 26 Apr 2004 16:27:31 GMT So according to this, if the U decided that refusing to admit (too many) women, or blacks, or mormons or jews was essential to "academic freedom" that would trump State laws against discrimination? FWIW, here is Art X, Sec 4 of the Utah State constitution. So now the U is arguing it had a right, immunity, franchise, or endowment, predating Statehood, to prevent its employees and students (but not visitors, they've already conceeded that point) from exercising their God given, Constitutionally protected rights to self-defense? Any who are GOP State delegates should bear in mind that as a member of the board of Regents, GOP Gubernatorial candidate Nolan Karras is partially, directly responsible for this misguided and illegal, anti-gun policy at the U. Jon Huntsman Jr. has made several public comments in support of the policy. (And please remember that his picking Herbert as his Lt. Gov is MEANINGLESS. Who was Bangerter's Lt. Gov? Or Matheson Sr's? Lt. Govs run the elections office (and attend events the gov can't or doesn't want to. PERIOD. The Lt. Gov does NOT get to set policy and does not even necessarily get the governor's ear.) Ditto for Olen Walker. Charles Loaded for court Earlier this year, the Legislature amended the gun laws to make absolutely certain that everyone, including judges, understands legislative intent about firearms on public college campuses. Lawmakers consider themselves to be the supreme authority, indeed, the only authority, on guns, and they want people with concealed-carry permits to be able to pack heat at the University of Utah. Period. Nevertheless, the U. of U. Board of Trustees isn't backing down. Since the trustees can no longer argue with a straight face that there is any doubt about what the Legislature intends or what the state gun laws mean, they will defend the school's gun ban on constitutional grounds. Good for them. Inviting guns into college dorm rooms, football stadiums, hospitals, libraries and classrooms is such a bad idea that U. officials would be ignoring their duty if they did not oppose it. The university's 27-year experience with its gun policy suggests that introducing loaded firearms to campus will increase safety risks, despite the claims of concealed-carry permit holders who believe the opposite is true. They say their guns will provide self-defense against criminals who violate the gun ban. The university has a responsibility to put in place basic safety policies, and its gun ban, which prohibits faculty, staff and students from bringing firearms to campus without the permission of the police chief, is such a policy. In a federal lawsuit, the university has argued in the past that the First and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution protect the university's academic freedom and prevent state law from invalidating the U.'s firearms policy. It also has argued in state court that Article X, Section 4 of the Utah Constitution gives the university the right of self-governance and institutional autonomy, especially as they relate to academic freedom. Central to this right, which pre-dates statehood, is the ability to foster a safe environment for academic debate, free of restrictions imposed by any other state authority. These claims run smack dab into conflict with Senate Bill 48, passed in this year's session, which provides that, unless the Legislature specifically authorizes it by statute, a state entity (such as the university) may not enact a policy that restricts the use or possession of firearms. The U. trustees have instructed the administration to resolve these claims in state and federal court. It is unfortunate that the Legislature's wrongheaded romance with firearms has caused this, perhaps to keep gun activists in the Republican column during an election year, but the university should defend its proven, reasonable policy. ================== Charles Hardy ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! 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