Post by shoreman on Sept 24, 2006 10:26:51 GMT -5
American firearm groups unite during annual meeting to seek political and legislative victories, notes U. S. gun law expert
Charlotte, NC 28217
September 23 2006
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“Major firearm rights groups meeting this weekend are uniting in order to pursue future political and legislative objectives,” gun law expert John M. Snyder observed here this evening.
This weekend marks the 21st annual national Gun Rights Policy Conference (GRPC), co-sponsored by the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) and the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF).
GRPC meets each year in different American cities in various sections of the United States.
Among the scores of participating organizations are the National Rifle Association (NRA), Gun Owners of America (GOA), the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) and dozens of state and local groups from around the country.
Snyder, named “dean of gun lobbyists” by The Washington Post and The New York Times, said, “there seem to be common themes uniting the several hundred firearm rights scholars, activists, journalists, advocates and organizers participating this year in GRPC at the Renaissance Charlotte Suites Hotel in Charlotte, North Carolina.
“The folks realize there is an intrinsic connection between electoral activity and legislative activity at federal and state levels of government. The so-called ‘gun lobby’ really includes, at least potentially, the scores of millions (about 80 million) of law-abiding gun owners in the United States. It’s beginning to dawn on the gun-right activists that it’s important for the grass roots to be so definitively active at the electoral level that future legislative victories will be more likely to occur.”
“America needs legislative initiatives to prevent gun-grabbing mayors such as Michael Bloomberg of New York City from using federal data intended exclusively for use in criminal investigations and prosecutions in third-party civil lawsuits against legitimate firearm manufacturers, distributors and dealers,” Snyder continued. “Bloomberg and company are trying to bankrupt the gun industry with these lawsuits and indirectly undermine the individual Second Amendment civil right of law-abiding American citizens to keep and bear arms for protection of life and property. A bill to undercut that scheme, H.R. 5005, by Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, already has been approved in the House Judiciary Committee by a two-to-one margin and hopefully could come up soon on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives.
“We need a Congress, both House and Senate, which will enact legislation to allow any person with a valid permit or license to carry a concealed firearm issued by a state to carry such firearm in any state if the licensee meets certain criteria. This is the gist of H.R. 4547, by Rep. Cliff Stearns of Florida, and S.3275, by Sen. George Allen of Virginia.”
Snyder added, “We need a Congress that will pass a measure to withhold American funding from the United Nations if the UN abridges or attempts to abridge Americans’ rights recognized by the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution. An example here is the proposed Second Amendment Protection Act, S. 1488, by Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana, and Rep. Charles Boustany of Louisiana.
“Congress also should pass the District of Columbia Personal Protection Act, H.R. 1288, by Rep. Mark Souder of Indiana, and S. 1082, by Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas, to repeal the ridiculous Washington, D.C. handgun ban and allow law-abiding residents of the Nation’s Capital to acquire and use handguns for the protection of their lives and the lives of their loved ones.”
“Congress has a limited time frame within which to enact this and other significant legislation before the end of the current, 109th Congress,” Snyder observed, “and it’s important that they get off their duffs, get on the stick and get moving. If they don’t, some of them, at least, could be replaced with a new, 110th Congress in elections which now are less than two months away”
A former Associate Editor of The American Rifleman, official NRA journal, Snyder is CCRKBA Public Affairs Director, Vice President for Washington Liaison of the National Association of Chiefs of Police, SAF Treasurer, Founder/Chairman of the St. Gabriel Possenti Society, Inc., and the author of Gun Saint, published by Telum Associates, LLC.
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John M. Snyder (GunDean@aol.com)
Manager
Telum Associates, LLC
PO Box 2844
Arlington, VA 22202
Phone : 202-326-5259
Charlotte, NC 28217
September 23 2006
www.expertclick.com/NewsReleaseWire/default.cfm?Action=ReleaseDetail&ID=13938
“Major firearm rights groups meeting this weekend are uniting in order to pursue future political and legislative objectives,” gun law expert John M. Snyder observed here this evening.
This weekend marks the 21st annual national Gun Rights Policy Conference (GRPC), co-sponsored by the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) and the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF).
GRPC meets each year in different American cities in various sections of the United States.
Among the scores of participating organizations are the National Rifle Association (NRA), Gun Owners of America (GOA), the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) and dozens of state and local groups from around the country.
Snyder, named “dean of gun lobbyists” by The Washington Post and The New York Times, said, “there seem to be common themes uniting the several hundred firearm rights scholars, activists, journalists, advocates and organizers participating this year in GRPC at the Renaissance Charlotte Suites Hotel in Charlotte, North Carolina.
“The folks realize there is an intrinsic connection between electoral activity and legislative activity at federal and state levels of government. The so-called ‘gun lobby’ really includes, at least potentially, the scores of millions (about 80 million) of law-abiding gun owners in the United States. It’s beginning to dawn on the gun-right activists that it’s important for the grass roots to be so definitively active at the electoral level that future legislative victories will be more likely to occur.”
“America needs legislative initiatives to prevent gun-grabbing mayors such as Michael Bloomberg of New York City from using federal data intended exclusively for use in criminal investigations and prosecutions in third-party civil lawsuits against legitimate firearm manufacturers, distributors and dealers,” Snyder continued. “Bloomberg and company are trying to bankrupt the gun industry with these lawsuits and indirectly undermine the individual Second Amendment civil right of law-abiding American citizens to keep and bear arms for protection of life and property. A bill to undercut that scheme, H.R. 5005, by Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, already has been approved in the House Judiciary Committee by a two-to-one margin and hopefully could come up soon on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives.
“We need a Congress, both House and Senate, which will enact legislation to allow any person with a valid permit or license to carry a concealed firearm issued by a state to carry such firearm in any state if the licensee meets certain criteria. This is the gist of H.R. 4547, by Rep. Cliff Stearns of Florida, and S.3275, by Sen. George Allen of Virginia.”
Snyder added, “We need a Congress that will pass a measure to withhold American funding from the United Nations if the UN abridges or attempts to abridge Americans’ rights recognized by the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution. An example here is the proposed Second Amendment Protection Act, S. 1488, by Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana, and Rep. Charles Boustany of Louisiana.
“Congress also should pass the District of Columbia Personal Protection Act, H.R. 1288, by Rep. Mark Souder of Indiana, and S. 1082, by Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas, to repeal the ridiculous Washington, D.C. handgun ban and allow law-abiding residents of the Nation’s Capital to acquire and use handguns for the protection of their lives and the lives of their loved ones.”
“Congress has a limited time frame within which to enact this and other significant legislation before the end of the current, 109th Congress,” Snyder observed, “and it’s important that they get off their duffs, get on the stick and get moving. If they don’t, some of them, at least, could be replaced with a new, 110th Congress in elections which now are less than two months away”
A former Associate Editor of The American Rifleman, official NRA journal, Snyder is CCRKBA Public Affairs Director, Vice President for Washington Liaison of the National Association of Chiefs of Police, SAF Treasurer, Founder/Chairman of the St. Gabriel Possenti Society, Inc., and the author of Gun Saint, published by Telum Associates, LLC.
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John M. Snyder (GunDean@aol.com)
Manager
Telum Associates, LLC
PO Box 2844
Arlington, VA 22202
Phone : 202-326-5259