Gun Owners Alliance The R E S T of the Story!

If there was ever a time you took your gun rights serious, it is now.

And if there was ever a time for you to take your NRA membership serious, it is now. I quote from Neal Knox at http://www.gunownersalliance.com/BoD-1.htm
 

    While Bill Clinton and Al Gore were making a frontal
    attack on gun rights, a subtle, equally dangerous
    infringement of the Second Amendment was being proposed
    from an unexpected quarter:

   "First, we believe in absolutely gun-free, zero-tolerance,
    totally safe schools. That means no guns in America's
    schools, period ... with the rare exception of law
    enforcement officers or trained security personnel.

   "We believe America's schools should be as safe as America's
    airports.  You can't talk about, much less take, bombs and
    guns onto airplanes.  Such behavior in our schools should
    be prosecuted...."

    NRA Executive Vice President Wayne R. LaPierre, Jr., made
    those damaging statements during his nationally televised
    speech at the Denver NRA Members Meeting May 1, 1999.

    All across the country, school boards and state legislators
    are doing precisely what LaPierre suggested:  shutting down
    school riflery programs, prohibiting historical firearms
    displays, forbidding hunter safety training with unloaded
    guns, and banning gun possession by teachers and other
    adults with carry licenses.

    LaPierre said NRA "believes in no unsupervised youth access
    to guns, period. We have always supported holding adults
    responsible for willfully and recklessly allowing access
    to firearms."

    By his standards, our parents were reckless for deciding
    we could be trusted to "access" the family guns - or hunt
    or shoot alone with our own guns.  We don't need laws
    prohibiting parents from allowing responsible teenagers
    to possess firearms.

    LaPierre also blessed gun show background checks by saying:

   "We will consider instant checks at gun shows when, and
    only when, this Administration stops (charging for NICS
    checks) and stops illegally compiling the records of
    millions of lawful gun buyers."

    The next day President Charlton Heston flatly said on
    ABC "This Week" that he was "in favor" of gun show
    background checks.

    Within six weeks, gun show background checks - and
    "youth gun access" bans - had been approved by both
    houses of Congress!

    [snipped for brevity]

    Where NRA goes, we all go. When NRA goes in the wrong
    direction, we all go in the wrong direction.  That's
    why it is sheer foolishness for members to resign their
    memberships. That's why you should vote in NRA Board
    elections.

    Who sits on the NRA Board is important - if they don't
    just sit.

    We're in the middle of the biggest fight in Congress
    since the 1968 Gun Control Act. NRA has already conceded
    in principle, and both Houses have accepted virtually
    everything in the Senate-passed Juvenile Justice bill.
 

It is a MUST (mandatory) that you read the rest of this article for a better understanding of the comments above. The article can be found at:

http://www.gunownersalliance.com/BoD-1.htm

This article also has a list of candidates that will help to defeat such NRA compromises, if they are successfully elected to the NRA Board of Directors. The elections are slated for May 2000. Ballots for eligible voting NRA members are now in the March 2000 NRA magazines. If you do not receive a ballot by March 5, 2000, e-mail the NRA at membership@nrahq.org or call their headquarters at 1-800-NRA-3888.

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Gun Owners Alliance has alerted you of MANY SERIOUS INFRINGEMENTS of your gun rights as found at http://www.gunownersalliance.com/NRA.htm which NRA wholly endorses! It was most recently, we WARNED you of NRA's Project (Exile) Gun Gulag found at:

http://www.gunownersalliance.com/gun_gulag-1.htm

http://www.gunownersalliance.com/gun_gulag-2.htm

Now we find that HCI inc., headed by Jim and Sarah Brady, are in TOTAL alliance with the NRA's position on NRA's Project (Exile) Gun Gulag! If the article below does not wake up your passions to be a strong activist to derail NRA's Project (Exile) Gun Gulag, let me know, so I can call the neighborhood undertaker, because you are simply dead! How is it, that the NRA and HCI are now in bed with one another??

The ONLY way we will derail such a hideous plot is to VOTE FOR A STRONG, NO COMPROMISE NRA BOARD OF DIRECTORS! The people that resign their NRA memberships out of disgust are exactly the members that can cast the vote to throw the compromisers out of the NRA!

Gun Owners Alliance
Chris W. Stark - Director
 

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http://www.denverpost.com/news/news0223a.htm
 

Project Exile attracts opposites

By David Olinger
Denver Post Staff Writer

Feb. 23 - Jim Brady and Wayne LaPierre rarely share a political cause, let alone a podium.

But the archenemies in the guncontrol debate will take the stage together in Colorado next month to promote a program promising prison time to criminals caught with guns.

Brady, founder of Handgun Control Inc., and LaPierre, top staff official of the National Rifle Association, will highlight a March 6 news conference officially launching Colorado Project Exile, a strategy to reduce gun crimes by combining an aggressive advertising campaign with aggressive prosecution.

U.S. Attorney Tom Strickland, who is heading the prosecutorial effort, said he thinks this is the first time Brady and LaPierre have agreed to speak jointly for any gun-related program.

Handgun Control and the NRA think so, too.

"To our knowledge, that may be their first appearance at the same event for the same cause," said Brian Morton, a spokesman for Handgun Control.

NRA spokesman Bill Powers recalled that LaPierre, the association's executive vice president, appeared with Brady's wife, Sarah, once in the 1980s when both endorsed a new Virginia law to conduct instant background checks on gun buyers.

But he could not recall an instance when LaPierre and Jim Brady had appeared jointly to promote any program.

Brady, a former aide to Ronald Reagan, was disabled by a bullet when John Hinckley attempted to assassinate the president. He and his wife became leaders of the national gun-control movement, and the 1994 congressional act mandating background checks on gun buyers nationwide is called the Brady law.

Handgun Control supports tougher prosecution of criminals in conjunction with stricter gun laws. The NRA supports Project Exile as evidence that gun violence can be reduced without new laws. "What's appealing to us is that it works,"

Powers said. "Nothing else that's been proposed has had that proven, dramatic success." Project Exile originated three years ago in Richmond, Va., which reported a dramatic decline in its homicide rate after carrying out an advertised threat to put people with illegal guns behind bars. The Richmond model spread quickly to five states and more than a dozen cities.

NRA President Charlton Heston, who was met by protesters when the association convened in Denver days after the Columbine High massacre, may return next month to help kick off Colorado's version of Project Exile.

"It is likely that Mr. Heston will be there for this event," Powers said. "He's trying to clear his schedule." The Columbine shootings last April triggered a national debate about the causes of gun violence and the prescriptions for avoiding similar tragedies. While the NRA and gun-control groups dispute the need for legislative change, both endorse the Project Exile premise: that criminals with guns should be exiled, in prison cells.

"As polarized as the debate about more gun control laws is, there is broad consensus that we should have vigorous enforcement of the laws we have now," Strickland said.

"In many respects, Colorado is ground zero nationally" for the gun debate, he said. "People are waiting to see how Colorado responds to the tragedy of last April 20. This is a very responsible approach." The Colorado program, like the Richmond model, will use an advertising campaign financed by a private fund-raising effort to broadcast warnings that illegal guns mean mandatory prison time. Unlike the Richmond program, which promised criminals carrying guns five years in prison, the television and billboard ads in Colorado will not specify a sentence.

Lee White, chairman of the board of civic and business leaders raising money for those ads, said the group is well on its way to a budgeted goal of $1 million in cash and in-kind donations. "People will be seeing a lot of us through Labor Day," he said.

The Colorado campaign slogan: "Pack an illegal gun. Pack your bags for prison."

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