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LEGISLATIVE UPDATES (CA,OH)
Josey1
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California Legislative Alert 5/20/02
Your help is needed immediately to STOP two legislative bills of serious threat to the lawful manufacturers and sellers of firearms and ammunition. Senate Bill 682 and Assembly Bill 496 were introduced in this legislative session as a result of last year's California State Supreme Court dismissal of a lawsuit against a firearms manufacturer (Merrill v. Navegar). This lawsuit dismissal was, of course, a just victory for the firearms industry and therefore infuriated the anti-gun crowd.
Their response is SB 682 and AB 496, bills that will strip the firearms manufacturers of current protection in state law granting them limited statutory immunity from being sued. This limited immunity has been on the books since 1983 and was passed originally to halt greedy trial lawyers in their tracks who want nothing more than to pad their bank accounts while putting this nation's lawful firearm manufacturers out of business. Their allies in this fight are the usual anti-gun suspects, including Handgun Control and the Million Mom March. One way or another, they want nothing more than the complete and total destruction of our firearms heritage and see SB 682 and AB 496 as yet one more way to achieve their goal.
This week these bills were approved by each chamber's Judiciary Committee and now are on the fast track to be voted on by the full Senate and Assembly early next week.
Don't Let the Anti-Gun Crowd Get Their Way
Here's What You Need To Do
Voice your opposition to Senate Bill 682 and Assembly Bill 496 NOW. Call your Senator and your Assemblymember and urge them each to vote NO on yet another back door attack on a lawful industry. You can find contact information for your lawmakers by using the "Write Your Reps" box at right. Or you can contact NRA-ILA Grassroots at (800) 392-8683 for a copy of the California Legislative Slate.
http://www.nraila.org/LegislativeUpdate.asp?FormMode=Detail&ID=396
Ohio Legislative Update
On Wednesday, May 22, at 11:00 a.m., Professor John Lott, the author of "More Guns Less Crime," will provide proponent testimony for HB 274, the Right to Carry legislation that is before the Senate Civil Justice Committee. Please make plans to attend this hearing in the North Hearing Room of the Statehouse in Columbus and show your support for HB 274.
http://www.nraila.org/LegislativeUpdate.asp?FormMode=Detail&ID=393
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Your help is needed immediately to STOP two legislative bills of serious threat to the lawful manufacturers and sellers of firearms and ammunition. Senate Bill 682 and Assembly Bill 496 were introduced in this legislative session as a result of last year's California State Supreme Court dismissal of a lawsuit against a firearms manufacturer (Merrill v. Navegar). This lawsuit dismissal was, of course, a just victory for the firearms industry and therefore infuriated the anti-gun crowd.
Their response is SB 682 and AB 496, bills that will strip the firearms manufacturers of current protection in state law granting them limited statutory immunity from being sued. This limited immunity has been on the books since 1983 and was passed originally to halt greedy trial lawyers in their tracks who want nothing more than to pad their bank accounts while putting this nation's lawful firearm manufacturers out of business. Their allies in this fight are the usual anti-gun suspects, including Handgun Control and the Million Mom March. One way or another, they want nothing more than the complete and total destruction of our firearms heritage and see SB 682 and AB 496 as yet one more way to achieve their goal.
This week these bills were approved by each chamber's Judiciary Committee and now are on the fast track to be voted on by the full Senate and Assembly early next week.
Don't Let the Anti-Gun Crowd Get Their Way
Here's What You Need To Do
Voice your opposition to Senate Bill 682 and Assembly Bill 496 NOW. Call your Senator and your Assemblymember and urge them each to vote NO on yet another back door attack on a lawful industry. You can find contact information for your lawmakers by using the "Write Your Reps" box at right. Or you can contact NRA-ILA Grassroots at (800) 392-8683 for a copy of the California Legislative Slate.
http://www.nraila.org/LegislativeUpdate.asp?FormMode=Detail&ID=396
Ohio Legislative Update
On Wednesday, May 22, at 11:00 a.m., Professor John Lott, the author of "More Guns Less Crime," will provide proponent testimony for HB 274, the Right to Carry legislation that is before the Senate Civil Justice Committee. Please make plans to attend this hearing in the North Hearing Room of the Statehouse in Columbus and show your support for HB 274.
http://www.nraila.org/LegislativeUpdate.asp?FormMode=Detail&ID=393
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Comments
As gun owners and sportsmen are aware, your NRA-ILA and Gun Owners Action League (GOAL) have been working with the Massachusetts Joint Committee on Public Safety in an attempt to draft a bill that makes positive reforms to our gun laws. NRA-ILA and Gun Owners Action League ask you to show your support for the positive changes to gun laws outlined in the reformed version of H.1087. Call Speaker of the House Tom Finneran (617-722-2500), Senate President Thomas Birmingham (617-722-1500), and your Representative (617-722-2000) and urge them to support the reformed version of H.1087. http://www.nraila.org/LegislativeUpdate.asp?FormMode=Detail&ID=375
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878