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

Below, a faithful GOA-Texas subscriber and good friend from Switzerland, voices his opinion over various issues, such as NRA's Project Exile, which Gun Owners Alliance calls Project (Exile) Gun Gulag.

What really should get our attention is his comments, in which I quote:

     "A final note; we watch what you do very carefully here in Switzerland. Pro Tell knows that if the 2nd amendment, i.e. private gun ownership, is demolished in America then it will be only a matter of time before the same thing happens here....as America goes so does the free world (even though Europeans hate to admit it)."

Of course, my friend from Switzerland does not speak in any official capacity, but only on his own behalf.

We should take heed to his comments, and arise to meet the challenge, before our door of opportunity is forever shut. Time is NOT on our side, and we are not meeting the challenge before us. This MUST change.

With Respect,

Gun Owners Alliance
Chris W. Stark - Director
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Here's the letter from Switzerland:

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Chris,

We too have a fight on our hands to save the shooters rights in Switzerland. I am a member of Pro Tell, which is the Swiss equivalent of the GOA ( before I would have said the NRA but I believe they have lost their leadership). Pro Tell has about 8000 members and we lobby vigorously to stop the efforts of the powerful left wing elements of our national government from taking us down the path of the rest of Europe, where private gun ownership is concerned. Like the GOA we are obliged to be extremely vigilant and are working hard.

Since about two years all the cantons must now abide by uniform federal laws concerning the sale, distribution, purchase and carrying of personal firearms and ammo etc.. Whereas before you could go to an unrestricted canton like Fribourg or Bern and buy any semi-automatic pistol or rifle freely, you now no longer have this option. All cantons have the same restrictions presently and cantonal guns laws have been usurped by the federal laws. Nevertheless we do not have the 20,000 various laws you have in the USA. There are presently around 30 new federal laws that affect guns in Switzerland but no government has ever passed up the luxury of adding new ones, and that is what Pro Tell is fighting against. I would just like to say Chris that I think is a mistake in America for pro gun lobby organizations to push the government to enforce the existing laws rather than add new ones. I do not mean to imply that GOA should not fight new gun laws, I merely think that if the US governments and states and federal, did actually say "okay, from now on we will strenuously enforce every gun law", then, with 20,000 laws on the books there is the strong possibility that all those laws combined would essentially eliminate private gun ownership.

In essence all it takes is one law to destroy the ability to freely exercise a God given right. The only thing presently preventing that one law from being enacted is the US constitution. If the 2nd amendment was repealed then your congress could write a simple law e.g." all private ownership of any firearm is hereby prohibited"...or something to that affect. My point being Chris that since "they" have not been able to write one law because of the constitution, they have written 20,000 laws that may, when finally enforced, have the same fatal affect on private gun ownership. I think it would be an interesting exercise to actually collect each and every gun law in the US and have
principled legal experts go through them one by one and then report what would be the actual consequences of active enforcement.

I hope you'll excuse this overly long e-mail Chris as I'm sure you are busy enough with your present activities without reading my shaky theories. A final note; we watch what you do very carefully here in Switzerland. Pro Tell knows that if the 2nd amendment, i.e. private gun ownership, is demolished in America then it will be only a matter of time before the same thing happens here....as America goes so does the free world (even though Europeans hate to admit it).

Bon courage,

Eric Mowrey
p.shooter@span.ch