CCRKBA News Sep 2008

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23rd Annual Gun Rights Policy Conference - Updated Agenda

September 26-28, 2008
Sheraton Crescent — Phoenix, Arizona

FRIDAY, September 26, 2008—Phoenix Ballroom

7:00 p.m. Registration Table Opens

7:00–10:00 p.m. Buffet Reception with Cash Bar
Co-hosted by National Rifle Association and Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms
-Landis Aden, president, Arizona State Rifle Association
-Arizona State Representative John Kavanaugh (R-Scottsdale)
-Sydney Hay (R) - State Mining Association Executive Director, candidate for First Congressional District

SATURDAY, September 27, 2008—Crescent Ballroom

7:30 a.m. Registration Table Opens
Continental Breakfast hosted by Women & Guns Magazine

8:15 a.m. CALL TO ORDER
Moderator—Julianne Versnel Gottlieb, publisher of Women & Guns and Journal on Firearms & Public Policy
-Trooping the Colors by Buckeye Union High School Air Force JROTC
-Pledge of Allegiance by Landis Aden, president, Arizona State Rifle Association
-Invocation—Reverand Gregory Curtis, Largo Christian Center

8:30 a.m. State of the Gun Rights Battle
Welcoming Remarks
-The Road Traveled—Joseph P. Tartaro, editor of Gun Week, president, Second Amendment Foundation (SAF)
-The Road Ahead—Alan M. Gottlieb, chairman, Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) and founder, SAF

9:00 a.m. Federal Affairs Briefing
-Charles H. Cunningham, director, federal affairs, NRA Institute for Legislative Action
-John Velleco, legislative director, Gun Owners of America
-Joe Waldron, special projects director, Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms
-Ralph Walker, treasurer, National Muzzle Loading Rifle Association

9:45 a.m. State Legislative Affairs Briefing
-Landis Aden, president, Arizona State Rifle Association
-Scott Bach, NRA director, president, Association of New Jersey Rifle & Pistol Clubs
-Ken Hanson, Esq., legislative director, Buckeye Firearms Association
-Chuck Michel, Esq., legislative chairman, California Rifle & Pistol Association
-Richard Pearson, executive director, Illinois State Rifle Association
-Jim Wallace, executive director, Gun Owners Action League (GOAL) Massachusetts

10:15 a.m. Break and Refreshments
hosted by KeepandBearArms.com

10:30 a.m. United Nations and International Affairs Briefing
-Mark Barnes, Esq., counsel to Firearms Importers Roundtable (FAIR)
-Tony Bernardo, executive director, Canadian Institute for Legislative Action (CILA)
-David Kopel, Esq., author and research director, The Independence Institute
-Howard Nemerov, author and blogger

11:15 a.m. Questions and Answers on Federal, State and International Lawmaking

11:30 a.m. Special Address
-Arizona State Senate President Timothy S. Bee, candidate for Congress in the Eighth Congressional District

11:45 a.m. Recess and break to prepare for box luncheon

Noon Awards Lunch
Hosted by Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms and Second Amendment Foundation
-Alan Gura, Esq., counsel of record, D.C. v. Heller and attorney for plaintiffs in McDonald et al., v. City of Chicago
-Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ), surrogate for Presidential Candidate John McCain
-David Schweikert (R), Maricopa County Treasurer, candidate for Fifth Congressional District

1:30 p.m. Recess

1:45 p.m. Intellectual Ammunition
-John R. Lott, Jr., PhD, author of More Guns, Less Crime, The Bias Against Guns and Straight Shooting

2:00 p.m. Firearms Civil Rights Court Strategies
-David T. Hardy, Esq., author, constitutional scholar and video producer
-David Kopel, Esq., author and research director, The Independence Institute
-John Monroe, Esq., vice president, GeorgiaCarry.org

2:30 p.m. Litigating Gun Cases after the Heller Decision
-Donald Kilmer, Esq., constitutional issues litigator
-Virgil McVicker, CPA, president, Madison Society Foundation
-Chuck Michel, Esq., counsel to CRPA, NRA, CCRKBA and SAF

3:15 p.m. Break and refreshments hosted by KeepAndBearArms.com

3:30p.m. Concealed Carry on Campus: The New Battleground
-Michael Fancher Arizona State University leader, Students for Concealed Carry on Campus
-Michael Guzman, Texas State University, president, Students for Concealed Carry on Campus
-Katie Kasprzak, public relations director, Students for Concealed Carry on Campus

4:00 p.m. Know Your Enemies and Their Targets
-Manny Fernandez, Esq., board member National Rifle Association
-Joseph P. Tartaro, editor of Gun Week, president, SAF
-Timothy Wheeler, MD, pres., Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership, a project of the Claremont Institute

4:30 p.m. Stand Your Ground and Castle Doctrines
-Robert Corbin, Esq., past-president NRA, former Arizona Attorney General
-Dave Workman, senior editor, The New Gun Week
-David Young, historian and author of The Founding Fathers View of the Second Amendment

5:00 p.m. Presidential and Congressional Elections 2008
-Charles Cunningham, director, NRA Political Victory Fund
-Alan M. Gottlieb, chairman, American Political Action Committee
-State Sen. Sam Slom (R-HI), board of trustees, Second Amendment Foundation

5:30 p.m. Questions & Answers on Saturday afternoon sessions

6:00 p.m. Announcements and Adjournment

6:30-9:30 p.m. Reception with Cash Bar—Phoenix Ballroom
Hosted by National Shooting Sports Foundation and Second Amendment Foundation
-Entertainment by the Cartridge Family band
-Speaker: Bob Barr, Libertarian candidate for President

SUNDAY, September 28, 2008—Crescent Ballroom

8:00 a.m. Registration Table Opens
Continental Breakfast hosted by The New Gun Week

8:50 a.m. CALL TO ORDER
-Moderator, Peggy Tartaro, editor, Women & Guns, board member, CCRKBA

9:00 a.m. ATF: Thinking Forfeiture and Fabrication
-David T. Hardy, Esq., author, constitutional scholar and video producer
-Jeff Knox, operations manager, Firearms Coalition
-John Velleco, federal affairs director, Gun Owners of America

9:30 a.m. Countering the Media Bias against Guns
-Tim Graham, Media Research Center
-Tom Gresham, host of Gun Talk radio show, board member, CCRKBA
-Kirby Wilbur, KVI talk show host and trustee of SAF
-Malia Zimmerman, editor, Hawaii Reporter

10:15 a.m. Gunowners at Risk on Ranges, Hunting Grounds, Parks
-Dennis Fusaro, executive member, Virginia Civil Defense League
-Don Turner, project manager, Clark County Shooting Park, former mgr. Ben Avery
-Dave Workman, senior editor, The New Gun Week

10:45 a.m. Marketing the Second Amendment to the Public
-Alan Korwin, author of Gun Laws of America, and The Heller Case: Gun Rights Affirmed
-Guy Smith, author and marketing & media consultant
-Nikki Stallard, representing Pink Pistols

11:15 a.m. Freedom of Choice: Concealed and/or Open Carry
-Scott Hattrup, Esq., board member, National Association of Arms Shows
-Joe Waldron, board member and special projects director for CCRKBA

11:30 a.m. Questions & Answers

Noon Report of the Resolutions Committee
-Ken Hanson, Esq., Buckeye Firearms Association
-Genie Jennings, Women &Guns columnist
-Jay Knox, The Firearms Coalition
-Richard Pearson, president, Illinois State Rifle Association
-Herb Stupp, board member, CCRKBA
-Timothy Wheeler, MD, director, Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership
-Robert Wiest, Second Amendment Foundation board of trustees, Tennessee activist

1:00 p.m. Closing remarks and adjournment
-Alan M. Gottlieb and Joseph P. Tartaro

NRA: Defend Freedom

NEWS RELEASE

CCRKBA TO BIDEN: IT’S NOT YOUR GUN OBAMA WANTS, IT’S EVERYONE ELSE’S

BELLEVUE, WA – Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden was trying to convince rural Virginians the other day that he’s a devoted gun owner who will not allow presidential nominee Barack Obama to “fool with my Beretta.”

“Senator Biden must think America’s gun owners are dumber than rocks,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “Here is a man who has supported every restrictive gun control and gun ban law that ever landed on his desk, suddenly telling Virginia residents that he’s a gun owner, and very pro-gun.

“Biden tried to sound folksy in Virginia, talking about his ‘little over and under’ Beretta,” Gottlieb noted. “Senator, it’s not your Beretta that concerns American gun owners, but their own Colts, Smith & Wessons, Kimbers, Winchesters, Marlins, Remingtons, Mossbergs, Springfields, Kahrs and Brownings.

“If Biden really does own an over-and-under Beretta, has he fired it lately,” Gottlieb wondered. “What model is it, what’s it chambered for, and where is it? Why does he think that’s a more worthy gun to own than, say, an AR-15, or a Benelli semi-auto? What makes a Beretta shotgun more deserving of protection against Draconian legislation than a .45-caliber Model 1911, a .357 Magnum Ruger Blackhawk, a .50-caliber Thompson/Center or a .22-caliber Colt Diamondback? Would Joe Biden know the difference between any of these guns if he saw one?

“Joe Biden has spent the last three decades on Capitol Hill voting not merely against guns, but against the law-abiding American citizens who own these guns,” Gottlieb stated. “He has voted against their civil rights, and against their traditional values, and now he is running as second fiddle to a Chicago suburbanite who has dismissed such citizens as bitter, and clinging to their guns and religion.

“And now we are supposed to believe that Joe Biden is a gun-toting defender of the Second Amendment, after years of trying to dismantle it,” Gottlieb concluded. “This guy has spent a career in Washington, D.C. assaulting the civil rights of gun owners. Now he’s insulting their intelligence.”

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NEWS RELEASE

CCRKBA ASKS WA. DEMOCRATS WHY THEY OPPOSE GUN RIGHTS FOR D.C. RESIDENTS

BELLEVUE, WA – When the House of Representatives adopted legislation Wednesday to force the District of Columbia to abide by a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the Second Amendment earlier this year, five Washington State Democrats turned their backs on their colleagues who supported this important civil rights measure.

The Bellevue-based Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said Evergreen State voters deserve to know why. CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb suggested that voters in the state’s First, Second, Sixth, Seventh and Ninth congressional districts ask Reps. Jay Inslee, Rick Larsen, Norm Dicks, Jim McDermott and Adam Smith why they have a problem with District of Columbia residents exercising their right to keep a firearm in their home for personal protection.

“This legislation was written by Rep. Travis Childers, a Mississippi Democrat, co-sponsored by some 50 Democrats and supported by 85 Democrats, including Washington’s own Third District Rep. Brian Baird,” Gottlieb noted. “In June, the Supreme Court struck down the District’s 30-year-old handgun ban as a violation of the Second Amendment. This bill makes it possible for District residents to exercise their regained civil right.

“Every one of these Washington State Democrats, perhaps with the exception of McDermott, tells voters in their districts that they support the Second Amendment,” he observed. “But when the opportunity came to demonstrate that support by voting for a bill that strengthens gun rights for their fellow citizens living in the District of Columbia, all five of these men turned their backs on the Constitution, a document they swore an oath to uphold.

“Representative Baird joined 84 of his fellow Democrats and voted for this measure,” Gottlieb stated. “Also supporting this important legislation were Washington Republicans Doc Hastings, Cathy McMorris Rodgers and Dave Reichert.

“We can only surmise that Dicks, McDermott, Smith, Inslee and Larsen either succumbed to the hysteria launched against this measure,” Gottlieb concluded, “or that their professed support for the Second Amendment is empty rhetoric, used only at election time, to fool voters in their district. Those voters deserve an explanation.”

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