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If you think the anti gun lobby isn't active after the DC Circuit Appeals Court decision, think again - and read the following:

Dear Jim,

Last week, a Federal Appeals Court overturned Washington D.C.’s long-standing restrictions on handguns — a decision that endangers all of America’s gun laws.

This case is most likely headed to the U.S. Supreme Court and we have a tidal wave of work to do before it gets there.

This battle — to its very core — is the most important battle we have ever waged. We need your help today to build a strong Brady Gun Law Defense Fund to save America’s gun laws.

This fight is so critical to the safety and sanity of our nation that an anonymous donor has extended his challenge and will match dollar for dollar all gifts to this Brady Gun Law Defense Fund. Your gift will be fully tax deductible.

The threat to all our gun laws is truly unprecedented. The hypocrisy of the ruling is astounding.

What is at stake for you and your community? An emboldened gun lobby will use the ruling to challenge strong local, state and federal gun laws.

We must prepare for an onslaught of lawsuits in which gun laws will be challenged under this new reading of the Second Amendment — a strategy the gun lobby rarely used because of past legal decisions … until now. And, if the U.S. Supreme Court reverses itself and adopts the “individual right to bear arms” view approved by the Federal Appeals Court, all good gun laws everywhere could be at risk …

... from the long-standing machine gun ban … to the 1968 Gun Control Act … to the Brady Background Check Law.

… to your local and state laws … like the ones in California and New Jersey banning Assault Weapons … and many more.

These and many other life-saving laws promoting public safety are at risk. And we need to be ready for an immediate onslaught of challenges and fight them tooth and nail. We need your help today with a tax-deductible gift!

Why is this ruling so radical? Because the decision defies almost 70 years of legal precedent. All courts before this — save one — have ruled that the Second Amendment is not an individual right to bear arms, and this is the first Federal Appeals Court ever to declare a gun law unconstitutional based on the Second Amendment.

In her dissent, Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson wrote that Second Amendment rights relate to “Those militia whose continued vitality is required to safeguard the individual state.” Unlike Judge Henderson, the two judge majority ruled against decades of legal precedent…

… And completely disregarded the democratically-expressed will of the people of the District of Columbia, depriving D.C. citizens of a strict handgun law enacted thirty years ago.

Talk about judicial activism! We can’t help but note the unbelievable hypocrisy here too. Conservatives cry and gnash their teeth about activism from the bench. This decision is judicial activism at its worst.

Judge Silberman, who wrote the majority opinion, is well-known for his close ties to the right-wing. Now — with quintessential judicial activism from the bench — the gun lobby threatens to achieve through the courts what it has been unable to do in Congress.

This is going to be a long, hard fight, but with your help we will save our nation’s gun laws. We will keep you up-to-date as we confront this extraordinary threat to our efforts to reduce gun violence. But right now, we need your support to build our Brady Gun Law Defense Fund. Remember that right now your gift to this fund will be doubled! Please act now.

Sincerely,
Your Friends at StoptheNRA.com

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Whether or not you like the NRA, they are the only organization we have right now. We need to pay attention to the machinations of our 2nd amendment enemies.

Jim H.

FYI:

There will be a press conference and rally on anti-gun legislation in the PA state capitol, Harrisburg, on April 24th. The organizers are hoping 2,000 pro-gun folks show their support because that is the minimum number the NRA's PR guys need to bring it to the forefront of the nation.

Clubs such as The Allegheny Sportsman's League, Pennsylvania Sportsman's Association, Pennsylvania Fereration of Sportsman's Clubs, Pennsylvania Gun Owners Association, Lehigh Valley Firearms Coalition, United Sportsmen, and Forks of the Delaware are rounding up their membership to attend.

I'll be there. How about you?

I just read there is a move to add a $25 surcharge on handguns in Mass to fund "research" - I don't really know what kind of research they expect to do with the money but it's a wonderful example fo why I need to leave this state...

Member Joined: 02 Feb 2006 Posts: 602 Location: western pa

Davy, Thanks for the heads up in PA. We all know where the Gov. of Philadelphia stands on firearms and by the way PA game Comm. personel told me that Mr. Ed would like us to pay a user fee to use the state game lands that we hunters have already paid for.

Member Joined: 26 Apr 2005 Posts: 743

Sprocket, keep this VERY quiet, because it comes from old but highly reliable intelligence sources . . . but I understand that $25 surcharge in Mass is going to 16 Gauge Guy to conduct research on 16ga wads and loads.

Larry, you crack me up.

Member Joined: 08 Nov 2005 Posts: 3438 Location: Illinois

The anti's favotite tactic is to select a certain type---handgun,whatever and try to get it banned.Don't think for a second your single bbl trapgun or granpa's old revolver is safe from ultimate confiscation Evil or Very Mad

Once they sink their hooks in the rest will soon follow Crying or Very sad