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Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 09:37:04 -0600
From: "David Sagers" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Fwd: Re: Lott/Olin Connection

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If I recall, someone on this list was looking for a rebuttal of the
Lott/Olin?Winchester-Western connection.  Following is the letter from the
President of the Olin Foundation, printed in the WSJ, that did a number on
that.

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Wall Street Journal
Letter to Editor
September 6, 1996

An Insult to Our Foundation

As president of the John M. Olin Foundation, I take great
umbrage at Rep. Charles Schumer's scurrilous charge (Letters
to the Editor, Sept. 4) that our foundation underwrites
bogus research to advance the interests of companies that
manufacture guns and ammunition. He asserts (falsely) that
the John M. Olin Foundation is "associated" with the Olin
Corp. and (falsely again) that the Olin Corp. is one of the
nation's largest gun manufacturers. Mr. Schumer then
suggests on the basis of these premises that Prof. John
Lott's article on gun control legislation (editorial page,
Aug. 28) must have been fabricated because his research
fellowship at the University of Chicago was funded by the
John M. Olin Foundation.

This is an outrageous slander against our foundation, the
Olin Corp., and the scholarly integrity of Prof. Lott. Mr.
Schumer would have known that his charges were false if he
had taken a little time to check his facts before rushing
into print. Others have taken the trouble to do so. For
example, Stephen Chapman of the Chicago Tribune looked into
the charges surrounding Mr. Lott's study, and published an
informative story in the Aug. 15 issue of that paper, which
concluded that, in conducting his research, Prof. Lott was
not influenced either by the John M. Olin Foundation or by
the Olin Corp. Anyone wishing to comment on this controversy
ought first to consult Mr. Chapman's article and, more
importantly, should follow his example of sifting the facts
before reaching a conclusion.

For readers of the Journal, here are the key facts:

The John M. Olin Foundation, of which I have been president
for nearly 20 years, is an independent foundation whose
purpose is to support individuals and institutions working
to strengthen the free enterprise system. We support
academic programs at the finest institutions in the nation,
including the University of Chicago, Harvard, Yale, Stanford,
Columbia, the University of Virginia, and many others. We do
not tell scholars what to write or what to say.

The foundation was created by the personal fortune of the
late John M. Olin, and is not associated with the Olin Corp.
The Olin Corp. has never sought to influence our
deliberations. Our trustees have never taken into account the
corporate interests of the Olin Corp. or any other company
when reviewing grant proposals. We are as independent of the
Olin Corp. as the Ford Foundation is of the Ford Motor Co.

The John M. Olin Foundation has supported for many years a
program in law and economics at the University of Chicago Law
School. This program is administered and directed by a
committee of faculty members in the law school. This committee,
after reviewing many applications in a very competitive process,
awarded a research fellowship to Mr. Lott. We at the foundation
had no knowledge of who applied for these fellowships, nor did
we ever suggest that Mr. Lott should be awarded one of them. We
did not commission his study, nor, indeed, did we even know of
it until last month, when Mr. Lott presented his findings at a
conference sponsored by a Washington think tank.

As a general rule, criticism of research studies should be
based on factual grounds rather than on careless and
irresponsible charges about the motives of the researcher.
Mr. Lott's study should be evaluated on its own merits without
imputing motives to him that do not exist. I urge Mr. Schumer
to check his facts more carefully in the future.

Finally, it was incorrectly reported in the Journal (Sept. 5)
that the John M. Olin Foundation is "headed by members of the
family that founded the Olin Corp." This is untrue. The trustees
and officers of the foundation have been selected by virtue of
their devotion to John Olin's principles, not by virtue of
family connections. Of our seven board members, only one is a
member of the Olin family. None of our officers is a member of
the Olin family--neither myself as president, nor our secretary-
treasurer, nor our executive director.

William E. Simon
President
John M. Olin Foundation Inc.
New York

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Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 09:42:36 -0600
From: "David Sagers" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [Fwd: Houston Chron story on CCW law failure]

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I am forwarding this from Texas Gun Owners List.  It shows, I believe,
one of the chief problems with the permit system (aside from the fact
that such a system is a violation of fundamental right.)  That problem
is that it permits cataloging of supposed offenses and then promotes the
demand for greater regulation and outright repeal.  The demand for
permits will get us into as much trouble as the insta-check law is
creating.

Notice in the following piece that ALL arrests, gun related or not, are
counted against the CHL law.  Notice that there is NO comparison agains
a benchmark such as the arrest records of police.  Notice that they have
tabulated charges and NOT convictions.

The Permit system is NOT the way to go.  A stand for RIGHT is.  Tell the
NRA to wake up!

Larry Ball
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Posted to texas-gun-owners by [e-mail] (schuetzen)
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8:24 PM 7/10/1998=20
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                             Arrest statistics fuel fears over gun
                             law

                             Cases involve 1,600 Texans with
                             permits to carry concealed arms

                             By JOHN W. GONZALEZ=20
                             Copyright 1998 Houston Chronicle Austin
Bureau=20

                             AUSTIN -- More than 1,600 Texans with
permits to carry  concealed handguns have been arrested for state
crimes since the "right-to-carry" law went into effect in 1996, the
Department of Public Safety said Friday.=20

                             The disclosure came with confirmation
that an Austin permit-holder, charged with murder this week after
gunning down a suspected car burglar near the Sixth Street
entertainment district, is the fifth licensee to be accused of murder.


                             Nearly 200,000 Texans are licensed to
carry concealed handguns. Licensees have been arrested a total of
2,203 times, though not all the crimes involved weapons and many
of the charges were dismissed, the DPS said. Nearly 600 of
the arrests were on federal or out-of-state charges and
non-criminal matters such as tax delinquency.=20

                             Opponents of the law find the numbers a
confirmation of their fears.=20

                             "There have been well over 1,000
individuals who had permits who have been charged with crimes --
everything from criminal mischief to disorderly conduct to attempted
murder," said Travis County Constable Bruce Elfant, who
campaigned against the concealed-carry law passed by the
1995 Legislature.=20

                             "My concern is that with as little as 10
hours of training,  we're expecting them to exercise the same level of
judgment as police officers. I don't think that's realistic, and it's
not good public policy," said Elfant, a spokesman for Texans
Against Gun Violence.=20

                             The more serious charges compiled by the
DPS include 97 counts of aggravated assault, 26 counts of aggravated
sexual assault, 24 counts of assault causing bodily injury and nine
counts of attempted murder.=20

                             Although one license has been revoked and
three suspended by DPS because of murder allegations, no
license-holder has ever actually been tried for murder -- a fact that
gun-rights supporters cite as proof the Texas law provides
for adequate screening and training, even in use of deadly
force.=20

                             Last year in Houston, a state district
judge was cleared by a grand jury in the shooting death of a mentally
ill homeless man who attacked him. The judge had pursued the man for
stealing another lawyer's briefcase. The case was referred to
the grand jury with no charges.=20

                             State Sen. Jerry Patterson, R-Pasadena,
the lifetime National Rifle Association member who authored the
concealed-weapon law, on Friday predicted the Austin
shooting would not produce an indictment nor cause
legislative tinkering in 1999.=20

                             Killed with two .380-caliber gunshot
wounds to the back was Eric Demart Smith, 20. Unarmed and carrying no
stolen items, Smith was slain in a downtown alley about 2 a.m.
Wednesday, police said.=20

                             Free in lieu of $100,000 bond after being
jailed on a murder charge is Paul A. Saustrup, 33, a self-employed
mechanic  with a permit to carry a concealed handgun.=20

                             His attorney said this week that Saustrup
was lawfully defending his girlfriend's property when he shot Smith,
whom they caught breaking into the woman's Chevrolet
Suburban. Saustrup used deadly force after Smith refused to
submit to a citizen's arrest and made verbal death threats
and menacing gestures, the lawyer said.=20

                             But Austin police and Travis County
prosecutors said Saustrup acted unreasonably. Citing the fact that
Saustrup pursued Smith three blocks before shooting him in the back,
they charged Saustrup with murder, a crime punishable by
up to life in prison. Prosecutors will ask a grand jury to
review the case.=20

                             At least three other Texans licensed to
carry handguns have been cleared of wrongdoing after killing someone;
disposition of a fourth case could not immediately be
determined.=20

                             Saustrup's case likewise should end with
a grand jury  declining to indict him, Patterson said.=20

                             "Would I have done what this gentleman
did? Probably not.   But what he did was lawful," Patterson said.=20

                             "There are a couple of lessons here," he
added. "The first one is, don't steal cars. The second lesson is, if
you have a license and you shoot somebody, you will spend some time
explaining it to a grand jury."=20

                             Saustrup faces a first-degree felony
charge of "knowingly and intentionally" killing Smith, said Assistant
District Attorney Buddy Meyer. He added that Saustrup invoked his
right against self-incrimination in refusing to talk to
investigators.=20

                             Saustrup's attorney, Sandra Ritz,
described her client as "a normal guy, a good kid, one of four
brothers who pretty much raised themselves." She said that 45 to 50
letters from friends attesting to Saustrup's "good character" showed
up at her law office unsolicited within hours of his arrest.=20

                             On Austin talk-radio shows and Internet
chat rooms,  Saustrup has been portrayed both as a vigilante and as a
hero.=20

                             The fact that the fleeing burglary
suspect was shot in the back, blocks away from the crime scene, caused
many to claim the shooting was premeditated and an unreasonable
response to the property damage. But other Austinites
praised Saustrup's bravery and predicted he would not be
indicted.=20

                             Ritz said a 911 recording would prove
Saustrup tried to make a peaceful citizen's arrest but used his weapon
because he feared for his life. She added that autopsy results
should verify his claim that Smith was wheeling around when
shot. Preliminary findings reportedly indicated the two bullets
entered below each shoulder blade and penetrated the
victim's heart.=20

                             The fatal shooting, near the Austin
Convention and Visitors Center, occurred about three blocks from where
Saustrup and his girlfriend claimed they caught Smith ransacking the
woman's Suburban. As they approached, they noticed its
brake lights illuminated and a window broken, Ritz said.=20

                             "Paul pulled his handgun out and told him
to get out of the car. This guy threatened that there were other
`homies' around there and they were going to kill him," Ritz said.=20

                             "Paul made a comment that he was making a
citizen's arrest for burglary of his vehicle and he wanted this person
to get out of the car, lay on the floor and leave his hands where he
could see them."=20

                             She said the man lifted up his T-shirt,
pointed to gang tattoos and said, "Do you know what these are?" and
"My homies are going to kill you."=20

                             Saustrup then asked his girlfriend to
take the cellular phone out of his back pocket to call police, said
Ritz, who added that she stayed on the phone with 911 dispatchers
throughout the ordeal and was only known witness.=20

                             "Paul was obviously fearing for his life
at that point," Ritz said. "This person was digging in his belt and
crotch area and made a sudden sharp turn toward Paul, and at that
time, Paul shot him."=20

                             Unbeknown to Saustrup, the man he
confronted was a property-crime and drug offender on probation with
two felony and five misdemeanor convictions in Dallas, all
resulting in probationary terms, police said.=20

                             Ritz said Saustrup's reaction was based
on his instincts and training and was not an overreaction or the work
of a "vigilante."=20

                             "They try to prevent vigilante-type
situations by educating people. He was as educated as the handgun law
requires.
                             He was educated, in fact, by a DPS
officer," Ritz said.=20

                             "Under the law, he was authorized to use
deadly force at the time he saw him burglarizing the vehicle at night
time. But he didn't use deadly force at that time. He called 911 and
tried to get the law over there.=20

                             "All he was trying to do was keep this
criminal from fleeing."=20
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Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 10:22:10 -0600
From: "David Sagers" <[e-mail]>
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Posted to rkba-co by Douglas Davis <[e-mail]>
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>Return-Path: <[e-mail]>
>Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 16:46:36 -0400
>From: Gun Owners of America <[e-mail]>
>Reply-To: Gun Owners of America <[e-mail]>
>To: [e-mail]
>Subject: Upcoming Federal Legislation
>
>House to Reconvene Next Week:
>
>Issues affecting your 1st and 2nd Amend.
>Rights soon coming for a vote
>
>by Gun Owners of America
>8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA  22151,
>[phone], http://www.gunowners.org
>
>(Friday, July 10, 1998)
>
>
>ACTION:  Send the letter found below to Sen. Bob Smith
>(R-NH).  He's the number one champion in the U.S. Senate
>defending our rights, and we need to encourage him to remain
>strong against the pressures of the leadership in Washington,
>D.C.!
>
>
>Incumbent Protection Bill to rear its ugly head again (Call
>Capitol Hill: 202-225-3121)
>
>It's often said that two things you can count on are "death and
>taxes."  Well, add another one to the list: "Politicians always
>find ways to keep themselves in power."  Last year, Senators
>McCain and Feingold tried to force the passage of an
>Incumbent Protection Bill, but were thwarted by a minority of
>Senators.  (As you may remember, that bill would have heavily
>restricted the ability of GOA to communicate with its members
>on 2nd Amendment issues.)  Earlier this year, Representatives
>defeated a similar proposal in the House.  But the battle is far
>from over.
>
>A threatened discharge petition has forced the issue once
>again in the House.  Rep. Tom DeLay (R-TX) has done a
>yeoman's job of trying to kill the Incumbent Protection Bill, and
>has organized the introduction of over 400 "killer" amendments
>to the bill.
>
>For example, on Tuesday, July 14, an amendment sponsored
>by Rep. John Doolittle (R-CA) will be voted on.  His
>amendment will preserve the ability of groups - like GOA - to
>provide you with voter guide information near an election.
>[Under the House Incumbent Protection Plan (introduced by
>Reps. Shays and Meehan), these kinds of voter guides would
>be made virtually illegal.]  Ask your Reps. to support the
>Doolittle amendment and to vigorously oppose any so-called
>Campaign Finance Reform like the Shays-Meehan bill (H.R.
>3526) that would trample the 1st Amendment.
>
>
>Pro-gun champion Sen. Bob Smith still has his "hold" on
>Hatch's Horror Bill (S. 10)
>
>Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) called a press conference in late June
>to push his fledgling anti-gun crime bill.  GOA had met with his
>staff - and the staff of Sen. Sessions (R-AL) - to discuss our
>opposition to the bill.  While some positive changes have been
>made, S. 10 still contains anti-gun provisions.  Thus, GOA's
>strong opposition to the bill remains in force.
>
>Meanwhile, Sen. Bob Smith (R-NH) still has a "hold" on S. 10,
>and recently indicated to Gun Owners of America his intention
>to continue fighting for the rights of gun owners.  People should
>write Sen. Smith and thank him for his vigilant defense of our
>constitutional rights.  [See the letter below.]
>
>
>Sen. Smith puts FBI on notice; looks to gut Brady
>Registration Law
>
>In early June, the FBI released its draft proposals for
>implementing the Brady Registration Act.  Among other things,
>the FBI wants to register gun owners for at least 18 months
>and to impose an additional tax on certain gun owners.
>
>After the FBI draft regulations were issued, Senator Bob Smith
>put the FBI on notice regarding his intentions to get an
>amendment placed in an upcoming appropriations bill.  The
>Smith amendment would defund the ability of the FBI to collect
>a tax on gun owners.  Moreover, it would defund any attempt
>by the FBI to use the Brady instant check as a mechanism to
>keep gun owners' names, and requires the "immediate
>destruction of all [gun buyer] information, in any form
>whatsoever."
>
>Finally, the Smith amendment improves upon other proposals
>in Congress that would seek to prevent the FBI from registering
>gun buyers.  Other bills leave the "policing" of the FBI to
>Attorney General Janet Reno.  Not Senator Smith's language.
>His proposal specifically allows for aggrieved private citizens
>to sue the agency and collect monetary damages, including
>attorney's fees.
>
>
>Please send the letter below to Sen. Bob Smith.  Senator Smith is
>going to come under fire from the leadership in Washington for
>the stand he's taken in defending gun owners' rights.
>
>We need to let him know that gun owners stand behind him!  Don't
>let the fact that you live outside of New Hampshire keep you from
>contacting him.  As a Presidential candidate, Senator Smith
>should be happy to hear from you, even if you live outside of his
>home state.
>
>To contact Senator Bob Smith:
>
>Fax:    [phone]
>Email:  [e-mail]
>
>
>-------------- Clip to Fax or E-Mail -------------------
>
>Dear Senator Smith:
>
>I know that statesmanship can sometimes be a thankless job.  And
>so I wanted to make sure you knew that Americans like myself are
>very grateful for your leadership on a couple of issues that
>relate to gun owners.
>
>First, I'm sure that the "hold" you placed on S. 10 is one of the
>main reasons this legislation has not proceeded forward.  As long
>as S. 10 applies RICO to firearms in any way, shape or form, then
>this bill will remain unacceptable!  Even beyond the RICO
>problems, S. 10 still contains a myriad of penalties for innocent
>activity that gun dealers and gun owners might engage in.  These
>penalties range from punishing dealers who make record-keeping
>mistakes, to increasing penalties on gun owners for taking their
>kids handgun shooting without a written note of permission.  It's
>incredible that legislation like this could even pass out of the
>Senate Judiciary Committee!
>
>Second, I agree with you that the FBI needs to be slapped down in
>its attempts to use the Brady Law to register and tax gun owners.
>This registration scheme needs to be completely dismantled.  But
>short of that, your proposal is the next best way to deal with
>bureaucratic abuse - hit them in the pocketbook!  Giving
>aggrieved citizens the ability to sue, and upon winning, to get
>their attorney's fees, is certainly a potent way of keeping
>bureaucrats from violating the privacy of gun owners.
>
>Again, thank you for your efforts on both of these fronts.  If
>you can single-handedly stop S. 10 from moving, then I'm all in
>favor of that.  And, whatever you can do to repeal the effects of
>the Brady Registration Law will be "icing on the cake."  Please
>keep up the fight for our rights, and know that millions of
>Americans like myself appreciate what you are doing.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>___________________________________________
>
>___________________________________________
>
>___________________________________________
>
>
>
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Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 11:43:11 -0600
From: "David Sagers" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Fwd: CS: Pol-Lethal Weapon 4

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    Thot u'd all want to see this:

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>> From: james.woodard
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>> To all gun owners:
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>> Save your money on this one!!!  Not one minute into the movie Mel =
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the
>> movie, Danny Glover is framed with a poster that states that a child is
>> killed every day with a handgun; to make matters worse there is an
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Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 11:51:34 -0600
From: "David Sagers" <[e-mail]>
Subject: It's the Bill of Rights, Stupid

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It's the Bill of Rights, Stupid
Especially the Second Amendment
by L. Neil Smith



Texas congressman Dick Armey is talking up some pretty good ideas --
for a Republican.  According to a recent announcement, he wants to
cut federal income taxes to a flat rate of 17 percent -- which is
too much, but what do you expect?  He would allow generous
exemptions: $10,000 for individuals, $14,000 for single parents,
$20,000 for couples, and so on, meaning that most people would wind
up paying that 17 percent on merely a fraction of their income.  The
best news is that he would replace the hated Form 1040 with a
postcard, and eliminate tax-withholding altogether, something that
would be extremely good for this country.  But what is he going to
do about Kay Bailey Hutchison?

Hutchison, you may recall, is the lady that conservatives were
aflutter over, who humiliated the Democrats by taking Lloyd
Bentsen's Senate seat away from them when he descended to the
Clinton cabinet, and who survived what amounted to an assassination
attempt -- assault-lawyers at thirty paces -- on the part of
Governor Ann "Ma" Richards, more or less by staring the old crone
squarely in the eye and saying, "Let she who is without graft cast
the first aspersion." Great stuff.

But when push came to shove, what kind of conservative, what kind of
Republican, what kind of Senator did Kay turn out to be?  No better
than Ma Richards, really, who earned the contempt of everyone with
an educated concern for the Bill of Rights by vetoing a liberalized
concealed-carry statute passed overwhelmingly by her legislature.
Bailey's first significant act as a United States Senator was to
join one-too-many of her fellow Republicans in voting the Brady Bill
- -- primarily intended to reduce handgun purchases by women -- into
law.  Ironically, the old pre-Waco Bentsen would probably have voted
against it.  And that, of course, set the stage for Republicans to
join the Clinton Gang in its blatantly illegal attempt -- the
Feinstein Amendment -- to outlaw that very class of weapons most
clearly meant to be protected by the Second Amendment.  Now what, I
hear you asking, does Hutchison's dimwitted betrayal of the
Constitution have to do with Armey's good-hearted, high-minded
effort to help Americans keep more of their income?  Simply this:
conservatives frequently -- and erroneously -- assume that a free
economy is the same thing as a free country.  Let no one doubt my
fervent desire for an economy less constrained than any Republican
can imagine, but what good is money if you don't have any rights?
Let me put it another way: the Bill of Rights is basically the only
thing that keeps America from becoming the world's largest banana
republic -- and there are plenty of banana republics that don't have
any income tax at all.  Or let me put it still another way, seeing
as how Armey's proposal isn't good-hearted or high-minded at all,
but just a stab -- and a commendable one -- at taking advantage of
Bill and Hillary's loopy policies of governmental greed and
implacable hatred for individual achievement: most observers on both
sides of the ideological fence were quick to cite George Bush's
broken promise about taxes as a factor in his 1992 defeat; few of
them noticed -- or wanted to discuss publicly -- the fact that he
lost by a margin remarkably similar to the number of gun-owning
single-issue voters he had offended on several occasions.  All
along, it was the Bill of Rights, stupid -- especially the Second
Amendment.  Ancient Rome had some odd institutions, among them the
phenomenon of wealthy slaves.  I don't want to be part of that
particular classical revival, do you?  Tell you what, Dick, make me
an offer I really can't refuse.  Before you volunteer again to let
me keep more of what was mine to begin with anyway, why not try
enforcing the highest law of the land, the Bill of Rights?  Each and
every article.  Lock up -- that's right, arrest, indict, try, and
imprison -- those among your colleagues, Republican or Democrat, who
attempt to vote my liberties away.

I might take you seriously if you do that.

You may not remember, but it's what you promised to do when you took
office.  Until then, I will continue to vote Libertarian -- and work
as hard as I can at persuading others to do the same -- even if in
practical terms it means seeing one slimy, repulsive, liberal
Democrat after another elected to office.  To put that another way,
it may be necessary to destroy the GOP in order to save it.  And
it's preferable to supporting a party that consistently demonstrates
treacherous disregard for certain basic civilities -- as embodied in
the first ten Amendments to the Constitution -- to which we all
supposedly agreed, so long ago.

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L.  Neil Smith is the award-winning author of 19 books including The
Probability Broach, The Crystal Empire, Henry Martyn, The Lando
Calrissian Adventures, Pallas, and (forthcoming) Bretta Martyn and
Lever Action.  An NRA Life Member and founder of the Libertarian
Second Amendment Caucus, he has been active in the Libertarian
movement for 34 years and is its most prolific and widely-published
living novelist.

Permission to redistribute this article is herewith granted by the
author - provided that it is reproduced unedited, in its entirety,
and appropriate credit given.
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Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 12:19:03 -0600
From: "David Sagers" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Fwd: Harass Congress for Free

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FYI -- it'd be a good time to hit them on killing the NICS tax, particularl=
y
in the Senate, where the amendment will have to be shoved into the =
Commerce-
State-Justice Approps. bill on the floor.

PGO'M.
Wash., D.C.

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>1-800-504-0031.=20
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>* 1998 Western Journalism Center=20


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