SAF & CCRKBA Alerts Oct 08
2008 GRPC Audio Recordings (and more!) Now Available
Audio recordings of the 2008 Gun Rights Policy Conference, and for prior conferences going back to 2003, are available from Charles Heller of LibertyWatchRadio.com. The whole conference is on one data disc in MP3 format.
Please print this form out and mail it with cash or check for $27 for 2008 conference, or $52 for 2003 - 2008 conferences, payable to: Charles Heller, 7311 E. Brooks Dr. Tucson, AZ 85730. Additional audio selections are also available, as noted on the order form.
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NEWS RELEASE
CCRKBA CALLS ON OBAMA TO REPUDIATE, REJECT BRADY CAMPAIGN ENDORSEMENT
BELLEVUE, WA – If Democrat Barack Obama truly supports gun rights and the Second Amendment, he should immediately repudiate and reject today’s endorsement by the anti-gun Brady Campaign, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said.
“By accepting an endorsement from the nation’s leading gun ban organization,” said CCRKBA Legislative Affairs Director Joe Waldron, “Barack Obama would be declaring to every gun owner in America that he has lied to them all these months during the presidential campaign. If he accepts this endorsement, Obama may as well spit on the Second Amendment.”
The Brady Campaign announced its endorsement Monday by noting that Obama and his running mate, anti-gun Sen. Joe Biden from Delaware, will “strengthen” the Brady Law, and would once again outlaw commonly-owned semi-automatic sport/utility rifles.
“The Brady Campaign wants to completely eliminate certain types of firearms,” Waldron noted, “which is precisely the kind of thing that was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court’s Heller decision in June. They claim that Barack Obama is the man who can get that done. This is hardly the kind of endorsement that will earn points among target shooters, hunters and gun collectors, who have harmed nobody and broken no laws.
“But the Brady Campaign would make these people criminals on paper simply because they own certain types of firearms,” he added. “Their endorsement of the Obama/Biden ticket to accomplish that goal is tantamount to a home invasion robbery of every gun owner in the United States.
“If Barack Obama thinks gun owners should give him their votes after this endorsement, it is an insult to their intelligence,” Waldron observed. “That seems to be nothing new, however, after he’s had one so-called hunter’s and shooter’s group shilling for him on the campaign trail, to say nothing of his selection of Joe Biden as his running mate.
“Obama should tell the Brady Campaign to get lost, or gun owners will say that loud and clear to him on Nov. 4,” Waldron concluded.
“By accepting an endorsement from the nation’s leading gun ban organization,” said CCRKBA Legislative Affairs Director Joe Waldron, “Barack Obama would be declaring to every gun owner in America that he has lied to them all these months during the presidential campaign. If he accepts this endorsement, Obama may as well spit on the Second Amendment.”
The Brady Campaign announced its endorsement Monday by noting that Obama and his running mate, anti-gun Sen. Joe Biden from Delaware, will “strengthen” the Brady Law, and would once again outlaw commonly-owned semi-automatic sport/utility rifles.
“The Brady Campaign wants to completely eliminate certain types of firearms,” Waldron noted, “which is precisely the kind of thing that was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court’s Heller decision in June. They claim that Barack Obama is the man who can get that done. This is hardly the kind of endorsement that will earn points among target shooters, hunters and gun collectors, who have harmed nobody and broken no laws.
“But the Brady Campaign would make these people criminals on paper simply because they own certain types of firearms,” he added. “Their endorsement of the Obama/Biden ticket to accomplish that goal is tantamount to a home invasion robbery of every gun owner in the United States.
“If Barack Obama thinks gun owners should give him their votes after this endorsement, it is an insult to their intelligence,” Waldron observed. “That seems to be nothing new, however, after he’s had one so-called hunter’s and shooter’s group shilling for him on the campaign trail, to say nothing of his selection of Joe Biden as his running mate.
“Obama should tell the Brady Campaign to get lost, or gun owners will say that loud and clear to him on Nov. 4,” Waldron concluded.
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NEWS RELEASE
CCRKBA HAILS WASHINGTON AG OPINION ON NICKELS’ PROPOSED GUN BAN
BELLEVUE, WA – The Bellevue-based Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is hailing an opinion issued this week by Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna that says cities cannot enact local laws to prohibit the possession of firearms on city property or in city-owned facilities, effectively nixing a plan by Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels to do just that by executive fiat.
The opinion was written in response to an inquiry from several state lawmakers. It was signed by Deputy Solicitor General William B. Collins.
CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb said the opinion, dated Monday, Oct. 13, “confirms what we said in June regarding the mayor’s proposal.” CCRKBA said then that the Nickels proposal would violate the state’s model preemption statute, one of the first and most effective such laws in the nation.
“We advised the mayor in a letter that his proposed ‘executive order’ would run afoul of the law, and that we would take legal action,” Gottlieb recalled. “Thanks to the attorney general’s opinion, that no longer appears necessary.”
“The opinion,” added CCRKBA Legislative Affairs Director Joe Waldron, “stands not only as a detailed explanation about why Mayor Nickels’ plan was legally unsound, but it also demonstrates why Washington’s preemption statute is a monument to legislative wisdom. Washington’s law has been duplicated by more than two dozen other state legislatures that saw the sensibility of statewide uniformity in the regulation of firearms, so that cities and counties could not create a confusing and even contradictory legal patchwork of local gun ordinances.
“This opinion should also have a spill-over effect on local ordinances banning firearms in parks and other municipal property and buildings in cities like Federal Way, Lacey and in the Seattle City Library,” Waldron said.
Gottlieb noted, “We have a law, and it works. It recognizes the right of individual citizens to keep and bear arms as affirmed in both the state and federal constitutions. Mayor Nickels was wrong to think he could usurp legislative authority through executive edict. We expect state lawmakers to zealously protect their authority if Nickels comes lobbying in Olympia in January.”
The opinion was written in response to an inquiry from several state lawmakers. It was signed by Deputy Solicitor General William B. Collins.
CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb said the opinion, dated Monday, Oct. 13, “confirms what we said in June regarding the mayor’s proposal.” CCRKBA said then that the Nickels proposal would violate the state’s model preemption statute, one of the first and most effective such laws in the nation.
“We advised the mayor in a letter that his proposed ‘executive order’ would run afoul of the law, and that we would take legal action,” Gottlieb recalled. “Thanks to the attorney general’s opinion, that no longer appears necessary.”
“The opinion,” added CCRKBA Legislative Affairs Director Joe Waldron, “stands not only as a detailed explanation about why Mayor Nickels’ plan was legally unsound, but it also demonstrates why Washington’s preemption statute is a monument to legislative wisdom. Washington’s law has been duplicated by more than two dozen other state legislatures that saw the sensibility of statewide uniformity in the regulation of firearms, so that cities and counties could not create a confusing and even contradictory legal patchwork of local gun ordinances.
“This opinion should also have a spill-over effect on local ordinances banning firearms in parks and other municipal property and buildings in cities like Federal Way, Lacey and in the Seattle City Library,” Waldron said.
Gottlieb noted, “We have a law, and it works. It recognizes the right of individual citizens to keep and bear arms as affirmed in both the state and federal constitutions. Mayor Nickels was wrong to think he could usurp legislative authority through executive edict. We expect state lawmakers to zealously protect their authority if Nickels comes lobbying in Olympia in January.”
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