calnra: NRA-ILA Legislative ALERT , also a reminder
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URGENT LEGISLATIVE ALERT
Tell Your US Senators to Support the Second Amendment and Oppose Feinstein
Anti-gun extremist Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) is trying today and
probably tomorrow to strip pro-Second Amendment U.S. Senator Richard
Shelby's (R-Ala.) language prohibiting purchase preferences from the
Senate's Treasury/Postal Appropriations legislation (for details on the
Shelby language, see below). It is critical that all pro-Second Amendment
activists contact their U.S. Senators and urge them to support Senator
Shelby's purchase preference prohibition language, and oppose Senator
Feinstein's motion to strike the Shelby language from the Treasury/Postal
Appropriations legislation. You can contact your Senators by calling (202)
224-3121, or by using the "Write Your Reps" feature on NRAILA.org.
DETAILS ON SENATOR SHELBY'S PURCHASE PREFERENCE PROHIBITION LANGUAGE
Last week, U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) was able to attach language
to the 2001 Treasury, Postal Service and General Government Appropriations
bill that will help to derail the anti-gun agenda being promoted by HUD
Secretary Andrew Cuomo. Shelby's language would prohibit the Treasury
Department, Postal Service, and other agencies from granting or
withholding firearms contracts on the basis of gun makers' agreement to
arbitrary "codes of conduct" relating to their operating or design
practices in importing, manufacturing, or dealing in firearms or
ammunition -- such as the coerced agreement signed recently by Smith &
Wesson (S&W). Sen. Shelby, along with Sens. Ben Nighthorse Campbell
(R-Colo.), and Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) deserve credit for thwarting an earlier
attempt in committee by Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) to strip the language
that would prohibit establishing politically-motivated purchase
preferences for government firearms contracts. The Senate language does
not refer specifically to the Smith & Wesson Sellout, but it was clearly
inspired by the concern that the Clinton-Gore Administration would fulfill
its threat to impose purchase preferences on the Department of Treasury,
Postal Service, and all other agencies covered by this bill's
jurisdiction. HUD Secretary Cuomo has already proposed such purchase
preferences for federal law enforcement agencies, and his proposal would
encourage or require the federal government to give highly preferential
procurement treatment to firearms manufacturers, like S&W, who sign
coerced agreements restricting their otherwise legitimate activities.
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SLATE OF COUNTY CANDIDATES TO SPEAK AT NRA MEETING
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Sent on 7/20/2000
Dear California NRA members:
Learn how _you_ can take part in the fight to protect our rights here
in California! This is your invitation, on THURSDAY, JULY 27th, to
meet and talk with a host of legislative candidates and NRA
representatives on issues of interest to the firearms community.
Confirmed to attend are Senate candidate Larry Stirling, Assembly
candidates Jay La Suer, MIchelle Nash-Hoff, and John Steel, as well
as Assemblyman Tony Strickland (R-Thousand Oaks) and NRA State Liason
Ed Worley.
We hope you will take this opportunity to share your ideas, hear
what's happening in Sacramento, and find out what you can do to help
elect candidates who will support our Second Amendment rights on
Election Day, 2000!
The meeting will take place at:
Westfield Shopping Town (formerly UTC)
4545 La Jolla Village Drive
San Diego
Time: 7 PM
For more information about this meeting, please contact:
Tammi Anstees
916-446-2455
tans...@mindspring.com
This event is not a fundraiser, and is sponsored by the NRA Members
Council of East Contra Costa county.
Sincerely,
Randy Kozuch
Director, NRA-ILA State and Local Affairs
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ed. note :
We were unable to pinpoint location of meeting - best info is
"community" meeting room near ice rink.
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Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...
disarm only those who are neither inclined
nor determined to commit crimes...
Such laws make things worse for the
assaulted and better for the assailants;
they serve rather to encourage than to
prevent homicides, for an unarmed man
may be attacked with greater confidence
than an armed man.
--- Jefferson's "Commonplace Book,"
1774-1776,
quoting from On Crimes and Punishment,
by criminologist Cesare Beccaria, 1764