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utah-firearms-digest    Tuesday, November 30 1999    Volume 02 : Number 168




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Date: Fri, 19 Nov 99 14:50:00 -0700
From: [e-mail] (SCOTT BERGESON)
Subject: FW: Mandatory Gun Law A Proven Success

Please do not construe my forwarding of this as condoning brandishing.

Scott

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To: [e-mail]
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 09:52:05 -0600
Subject: LPU: FW: Mandatory Gun Law A Proven Success
From: "Jim Dexter" <[e-mail]>

Mandatory Gun Law A Proven Success
Why Doesn't The Media Visit Kennesaw?

By Chuck Baldwin
11-6-99

The New American magazine reminds us that March 25th marked the 16th
anniversary of Kennesaw, Georgia's ordinance requiring heads of households
(with certain exceptions) to keep at least one firearm in their homes.

The city's population grew from around 5,000 in 1980 to 13,000 by 1996
(latest available estimate). Yet there have been only three murders: two
with knives (1984 and 1987) and one with a firearm (1997).

"After the law went into effect in 1982, crime against persons plummeted 74
percent compared to 1981, and fell another 45 percent in 1983 compared to
1982. And it has stayed impressively low. In addition to nearly
non-existent homicide (murders have averaged a mere 0.19 per year), the
annual number of armed robberies, residential burglaries, commercial
burglaries, and rapes have averaged, respectively, 1.69, 31.63, 19.75, and
2.00 through 1998."

With all the attention that has been heaped upon the lawful possession of
firearms lately, you would think that a city that requires gun ownership
would be the center of a media feeding frenzy. It isn't. The fact is I
can't remember a major media outlet even mentioning Kennesaw. Can you?
The reason is obvious. Kennesaw proves that the presence of firearms
actually improves safety and security. This is not the message that the
media want us to hear. They want us to believe that guns are evil and are
the cause of violence. The facts tell a different story.

What is even more interesting about Kennesaw is that the city's crime rate
decreased with the simple knowledge that the entire community was armed.
The bad guys didn't force the residents to prove it. Just knowing that
residents were armed prompted them to move on to easier targets. Most
criminals don't have a death wish. There have been two occasions in my own
family when the presence of a handgun averted potential disaster. In both
instances the gun was never aimed at a person and no shot was fired. Yet,
in both cases the thugs bent on criminal mischief decided to take their
ambitions elsewhere and my family remained safe. Only God knows what would
have happened if a firearm had not been handy.

Yes, there are times when gun accidents occur. There are many more
accidents involving automobiles, airplanes, bathroom shower stalls and
backyard swimming pools, however. And let's not forget that freedom is
risky business.  Freedom allows people to make mistakes recognizing that
the alternative is worse.

A local newspaper columnist recently said that other nations are free
without possessing firearms. He fails to see the obvious fact that people
who are not free to own firearms are not free. Many people live their
entire lives and never know a day of real freedom. And, while I'm sure that
there are those who would choose to live without freedom, there are some of
us who would rather die free than live enslaved.


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Date: Fri, 19 Nov 99 14:50:00 -0700
From: [e-mail] (SCOTT BERGESON)
Subject: FW: Gun Injury Researcher at CDC Fired

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To: [e-mail]
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 15:57:08 -0600
Subject: LPU: FW: Gun Injury Researcher at CDC Fired
From: "Jim Dexter" <[e-mail]>

I'm not sure of the source, but this is good news, if true.

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Gun Injury Researcher at CDC Fired
11/16/99

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) quietly fired
Mark L. Rosenberg, its top gun violence researcher, on Sept. 1, the Probe
newsletter reported Nov. 1.

Rosenberg, who was fired by CDC Director Jeffrey P. Koplan, M.D., initiated
CDC's research into gun violence in the early 1980s, looking particularly
at the causes and prevention of gun violence.

"Mark has been a giant on the world scene in saying that the peril of gun
injury is a public health issue that can be approached like any other such
issue, by doing research, designing interventions, and then modifying them
if necessary," said Rebecca Peters of Australia, an attorney and a gun
control advocate who is a visiting fellow in justice studies at the Soros
Foundation in New York.

She added, "There is a widespread perception among the public health
community that the reason Rosenberg was so unceremoniously dumped is because
he's been identified by the gun lobby as their enemy. I don't think this
ouster is a coincidence, given the upcoming presidential election."

The CDC's gun violence work has been strongly opposed by Republicans in
the U.S. Senate. In 1995, the U.S. Congress cut the CDC's budget by $2.6
million, the exact amount the center requested for research on gun-related
injuries. Among the senators who attacked the gun study program were Bob
Dole (R-Kan.), Trent Lott (R-Miss.), Christopher Bond (R-Mo.), Ted Stevens
(R-Ala.), and Lauch Faircloth (R-N.C).

The program also was opposed by the National Rifle Association (NRA).
According to Peters and other experts, the firing of Rosenberg means the
NRA/GOP agenda to stop or curtail research on gun-related injuries has
been achieved.

According to CDC spokeswoman Mary Ann Fenley, the remaining budget for
limited research and analysis into gun violence provided by the U.S.
Congress is $1 million annually. The cuts come at a time when gun violence
at schools, in the workplace and in communities has increased.

[Dexter note: This is not true. Violence in schools, especially deaths,
is actually decreasing, but the exceptions are headline-grabbers.]

Rosenberg is now working in a non-federal job at a collaborative center for
childhood well-being that is run by Emory University and the Carter Center
near Atlanta, Ga. He also retains his U.S. Public Health Service title of
assistant surgeon general.

Fenley said the center's new chief and acting director is family
practitioner Stephen B. Thacker, M.D. It appears Thacker has little
experience in gun violence studies.


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Date: Fri, 19 Nov 99 14:50:00 -0700
From: [e-mail] (SCOTT BERGESON)
Subject: FW: No Rise in Workplace Violence

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To: [e-mail]
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 09:55:47 -0600
Subject: LPU: FW:  No Rise in Workplace Violence
From: "Jim Dexter" <[e-mail]>

Subject: excerpt from the "Daily Labor Report"

An excerpt from the "Daily Labor Report" on workplace violence (quoting
the Washington Post).  William Weber, quoted below, is one of the senior
executives at BLS.  The data presented is from my department.  "It's
more the high-visibility and shocking nature of the incidents," Weber
says, "rather than the numbers, that are driving all the concern."

I beg to differ.  If I were quoted in the Post (and this is why I'm
not!), the quote would read something more like this:  "It's more the
Unconstitutional gun-grabbing, media-sensationalizing nature of the
incidents, rather than the reality of the situation, that are driving
all the concern."

I've done the math on "going postal": You're twice as likely to be struck by
lightning than you are killed by a coworker.  (It's a misleading statistic,
and it's comparing apples and oranges, but that hasn't stopped anyone else!)

Workplace homicides were 1,044 in 1992; peaked at 1,080 in 1994; have
declined ever since to 709 in 1998.  Not all were gun related, and the
majority were robberies, not coworker tirades.

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"Going Postal" hits the private sector, and tensions are rising across a
spectrum of workplaces, says an article by Rene Sanchez in the Washington
Post (Nov. 7, page A3). ...  Yet for all the growing alarm over bloody
sprees in the workplace, they remain rare.  In fact, there is evidence
that they are not soaring in number every year, contrary to perceptions.

Homicide is the second-leading cause of workplace death in the nation, but
it's at its lowest point in seven years, according to BLS.  In 1998, 709
people were slain on the job, down from 860 the previous year.  Most of the
killings occurred during store robberies.  A closer look at the government
statistics shows that the number of deadly assaults in the workplace by
enraged co-workers, customers, or clients is a much lower and fairly stable
figure.

Last year, BLS recorded 98 such killings nationwide, 17 more than the
previous year, yet almost on par with the annual average from the past
six years of 105 victims. ...  "These types of incidents still account
for only about 10 percent of workplace homicides," said William Weber,
the BLS assistant commissioner of safety, health and working conditions.
"It's more the high-visibility and shocking nature of the incidents,
rather than the  numbers, that are driving all the concern."  But homicide
totals do not tell the full story of how tense workplaces across the
country seem to be getting. There were also hundreds of nonfatal shootings
and stabbings of workers on the job last year and more than 8,000 serious
assaults, according to labor statistics. ...



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Date: Fri, 19 Nov 99 14:50:00 -0700
From: [e-mail] (SCOTT BERGESON)
Subject: FW: Utah Shooting Sports Council E-mail Action Alert

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Utah Shooting Sports Council E-mail Action Alert

The Utah Shooting Sports Council is looking for volunteers to help
distribute literature at the November 20th and 21st Crossroads of the West
gun show being held at the Salt Palace. In exchange for helping you will
receive free admission to the show. You do not need to be a USSC member to
volunteer.

The upcoming Utah legislative session is going to be a difficult one.  In
addition to fighting the usual assaults on law abiding gun owners, we are
going to be promoting a number of pro gun bills.  Even though the Utah
legislature has been very supportive of gun owners in the past we cannot
assume that this will continue in the future.  The anti-gun zealots have
been very active this past year trying to scare everyone into believing that
you and other gun owners are responsible for the Columbine tragedy. Our most
effective means to counter the gun control fanatics is to have thousands of
gun owners contacting legislators during the upcoming session. To understand
the impact that phone calls have on lawmakers, consider Representative Marty
Stephens comments that appeared in the July 22, 1999 Salt Lake Tribune.  The
article concerned the legislatures refusal to go along with Governor Mike
Leavitt's call for a special legislative session to pass more gun control
laws.

"Despite numerous public-opinion polls showing a large majority of Utahns
support gun-control measures, including barring legally concealed weapons
from public schools, Republican legislators are skeptical. "That's not what
the people in our districts are telling us", said Stephens. "Instead,
residents oppose a special session on gun control by a 30-1 margin", he
added.

Our best method of mobilizing gun owners is to have as many  pro Second
Amendment people as possible signed up for our free e-mail action alerts.
That way we can tell people what legislators to contact, when to contact
them and what bills need their attention.  At the upcoming gun show we will
be distributing flyers that will encourage people to sign up for our e-mail
action alerts and educate them on current issues. To have success during the
next legislative session it is imperative that we reach as many people as
possible at the upcoming gun show.  The best way of reaching the several
thousand people who attend this show is to have a large number of people
passing out literature to people as they leave the show. If you've always
wanted to do something to preserve your rights now is your chance.  Please
volunteer to pass out flyers for a few hours at the upcoming gun show. To
help or get more information send an e-mail to [e-mail] with your
name and phone number.  If you can help out for two hours you will receive
free admission to the show courtesy of Crossroads of the West Gun Shows. The
gun show will be held on Saturday November 20th and Sunday November 21st.

If this action alert was forwarded to you from anyone other than USSC E-mail
Action Alert, you are not on our action alert list.  To be sure that you
continue to receive the latest alerts please sign up for our free E-mail
Action Alerts by sending a request to: [e-mail].  If you know
someone who does not have e-mail capability but would still like to keep
informed you can have them call our legislative hotline: [phone]. For
more detailed information on legislative issues visit our web sight at
www.UtahShootingSports.org/USSC.  Please forward this e-mail action alert to
as many of your pro gun friends as possible.  Our best chance for
preserving our Second Amendment rights is to have as many people as possible
receiving these action alerts.  If you wish to be removed from the USSC
E-Mail Action Alert list, or your address has changed, send an e-mail to:
[e-mail]



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Date: Fri, 19 Nov 99 16:10:00 -0700
From: [e-mail] (SCOTT BERGESON)
Subject: FW: NEA gun poll and letters

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To: [e-mail]
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 12:02:12 -0600
Subject: LPU: FW: NEA gun poll and letters
From: "Jim Dexter" <[e-mail]>

Check it out, the NEA didn't 'fudge' the poll results.
You might want to view this poll from the NEA and read some of the
comments before you pass any more anti 2nd Amendment gun law. The people
do not seem to support more gun laws and in fact want many of them
repealed.

Sincerely,

John L. McKenney
810 W. Huron
Vassar, Michigan 48768

http://www.nea.org/neatoday/9910/debate.html#vote

Letters about the gun control debate...

http://www.nea.org/neatoday/9911/letters.html



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Date: Sun, 21 Nov 99 10:06:00 -0700
From: [e-mail] (SCOTT BERGESON)
Subject: FW: Cheap CCW training for Teachers

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To: [e-mail]
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1999 19:10:59 -0600
Subject: LPU: FW: Cheap CCW training for Teachers
From: "Jim Dexter" <[e-mail]>

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Please distribute this far and wide to every educator you know.
Also, feel free to have it put into any of your local papers.
Normally CCW instructors charge a minimum of $35 to $50 per student.
This will be an excellent class, requiring that participants shoot
live ammo, and it will give a good dose of the laws pertaining to
self defense. Let's fill this class. It's a great opportunity to
win at least a few educators over to our side.

Dave

Press Release:

November 21, 1999

Several Concealed Carry Weapon license instructors are offering CCW
classes to Utah area educators for the cost of materials only. The $15
cost covers classroom rental and copying costs for the state laws and
application. Participants may bring their own handgun and ammunition
or can rent a handgun and ammunition from the instructor for $10 to
$15, depending on the caliber. Most applicants choose to qualify for
both revolver and a semi-automatic type firearms. If the student wishes
to take care of the notary, fingerprints, and photographs at the class,
this service will be available at an additional cost of $20. This class
will fulfill the requirements for Utah's CCW permit.

The in-class instruction is on Dec. 10 (Friday) from 7:00-9:00 p.m.
and the range instruction is on Dec. 11 (Saturday) from 9:00 a.m. until
around 12:00 a.m. All students will be required to demonstrate handling
proficiency with live ammunition on the range. Participants must provide
proof of being an educator (for example, a teaching certificate) to take
this class. Spouses of educators are also welcome at the same cost.

There will be three instructors. Steve Beckstead is an NRA Training
Counselor, Hunter Education, and CCW instructor. Michael Gourley is
a retired teacher and is also an NRA training counselor and Utah
CCW instructor. Terry Tate, president of the Utah Hunter Education
Instructors Association (UHEIA), is certified to teach CCW and
Personal Protection classes for both women and men.

The class will be at the Lee Kay Hunter Education Center on 2100 S.
6000 W in Salt Lake City. To register for this class, educators should
contact Terry Tate at 963-8864 or Steve Beckstead at 280-1863.


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Date: Thu, 25 Nov 99 08:33:00 -0700
From: [e-mail] (SCOTT BERGESON)
Subject: FW: On-Line Petition Against More "Gun Control"

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To: [e-mail]
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 10:50:50 -0600
Subject: LPU: FW: On-Line Petition Against More "Gun Control"
From: "Jim Dexter" <[e-mail]>

Here's another petition:
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Petition Against Gun Control & Frivolous Lawsuits

We the undersigned are strongly opposed to any further restrictions on
our right to bear arms. We are also strongly opposed to the frivolous
lawsuits being filed against gun manufacturers by various cities. We will
be limiting our purchases from companies in these cities as well as
avoiding these cities for business and vacation purposes.
We will be keeping an eye on the politicians who vote against our wish's
and will vote for or against them accordingly.

http://www.e-thepeople.com/petition.cfm?PETID=270694


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Date: Sun, 28 Nov 99 22:50:00 -0700
From: [e-mail] (SCOTT BERGESON)
Subject: FW: Gun Control in Michigan

How Gun Control Came to Michigan
by Tim O'Brien, State Chair, Libertarian Party of Michigan

Black history can provide timely lessons that put today's policy debates
in a new light. Take, for instance, the African-American experience with
the right to self-defense.

The story starts in September 1925, when Dr. Ossian Sweet moved his
family into a two-story home on the corner of Garland and Charlevoix on
Detroit's east side. A prominent gynecologist and a graduate of Howard
University medical school, Dr. Sweet had studied and worked in Europe,
including a stint with Nobel Prize winner Madame Curie in Paris, before
settling in Detroit.

One might expect that Sweet would be out of place in the poor, working-class
neighborhood. And he was. But it was not so much because of his wealth
and education as the fact that he was black and the neighbors were white.

After Sweet moved in, a mob of hundreds gathered across the street and
grew increasingly ugly. The Waterworks Park Improvement Association, as
the mob called itself, had driven another black doctor out of his Detroit
home some weeks before.

Anticipating trouble, a dozen police officers cordoned off the area for
three blocks around and walked up and down the street between the mob
and the Sweet residence.

The Sweet family did their best to maintain an air of normalcy. Mrs.
Sweet was in the kitchen preparing dinner, and several family and
friends were helping unpack, when the crowd started howling and stones
began pelting the house.

Dr. Sweet grabbed a gun and dashed to an upstairs window to get a better
and safer view of what was going on outside his new home. Just as he saw
a car with his brother, Henry, and a family friend pull up to the curb,
a rock smashed through the window and showered him in shards.

The now-terrified doctor ran back downstairs to let his brother and
their friend into the house as the crowd was screaming, Here's niggers!
Get them! Get them!

That's when the first shot rang out. In the ensuing pandemonium, no one
is certain how or in what order events then unfolded.

It is certain that six of the 11 people inside the house fired their
weapons, as did at least one police officer outside; in fact, he emptied
his revolver. Two people in the mob were struck, one fatally. The police,
who until gunfire erupted had been little more than spectators, stormed
the house and arrested everyone inside, charging them all with murder.

The sensational case polarized the city, but it ended up assigned to
a judge whose integrity and personal courage would one day make him a
Michigan legend. This is the opportunity of a lifetime to demonstrate
sincere liberalism, remarked the unflappable presiding Judge Frank
Murphy, who immediately released Mrs. Sweet on bail.

Nor were the defendants wanting for high-powered representation.
Clarence Darrow came into Detroit to handle the case. This pioneer in
the cause of equal protection before the law spent three weeks on jury
selection alone, most of it in a painstakingly detailed recounting of
the history of the black man in America.

Following a seven-week trial and three days of often acrimonious
deliberations by the all-white jury, Judge Murphy ruled that a verdict
could not be reached and declared a mistrial.

Prosecutors decided to retry only Ossian's brother, Henry, who had
freely admitted firing his gun.

At the second trial, Darrow never denied that his sole remaining client
may have fired the fatal shot, but argued that the defendant was
justified and acting in self-defense. The second jury (also all-white)
took barely three hours to return a not-guilty verdict.

As a consequence of this incident, the Ku Klux Klan, which operated
much more openly in those days, lobbied for and obtained the first round
of restrictive gun legislation in Michigan. The Public Acts of 1927
included the requirement that citizens obtain government-issued purchase
permits following mandatory safety inspections. Even then, the
opportunity to legally carry the weapon would be granted only at the
whim of unaccountable county gun boards.

Following racial unrest in major American cities across the country in
the early to mid-60s, culminating in the long, hot summer of 1967 the
next round of restrictions came from the federal government in the form
of the Gun Control Act of 1968. This legislation was modeled on the
German Weapons Law of 1938 enacted by the Nazi government.

A revealing feature of the contemporary gun control movement has been
the persistent drive to ban inexpensive handguns, often disparagingly
called Saturday Night Specials, an epithet based on an old racist line
that any kind of riotous going-on was a Niggertown Saturday Night. And,
indeed, it is pretty obvious that, at the least, a ban on inexpensive
weapons targets poor people, if not strictly minorities.

None of this has proved effective in stemming violent crime because
criminals, by definition, do not respect the law. Nevertheless, those
who want to fully disarm the law-abiding have discovered a new tactic.

Since the courts have been unwilling and the Legislature unable to
accomplish the goal of gun control advocates, several major cities
have decided that perhaps civil litigation will hold gun manufacturers
responsible for the misuse of their products and choke off the
marketplace of firearms.

People are waiting to see whether the mayor of Dr. Ossian Sweet's
hometown may follow suit. Had Detroit Mayor Dennis Archer done so last
week, it would have provided a tragically ironic end to Black History
Month. For, as Jews have already discovered, disarming a people is only
the first phase in attempting to end their history entirely.


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Date: Sun, 28 Nov 99 22:50:00 -0700
From: [e-mail] (SCOTT BERGESON)
Subject: ADVICE ON STAYING FREE

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From: "Weldon Clark" <[e-mail]>
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 13:23:02 -0500

ADVICE ON STAYING FREE
UNREGISTERING YOUR GUN: LIMIT GOVERNMENT

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What To Do If The Police Come To Confiscate Your Militia Weapons
see http://www.2ndamendment.net
For legislative updates contact www.nealknox.com and go to
"Scripts from the Firearms Coalition Legislative Update Line"
Writing your congressman can now be accomplished at the
speed of light, thanks to WorldNetDaily's new Legislative
Action Center. http://congress.nw.dc.us/wnd/
You can call your two Senators at [phone] and your
Representative at [phone] at the Capitol Switchboard.
Here is the URL for Congressional Telephone Directory:
http://clerkweb.house.gov/106/mbrcmtee/members/teledir/members/cdframe.htm
Here's an e-mail link to Congress. http://in-search-of.org/
http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/
http://www.gunowners.org/mailerx.html
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The Life and Times of John Hawkins by Weldon Clark

(Any resemblance to persons living or dead is intentional.)

I will tell you, my son, that the government of the United
States, your country, has evolved in some very unhealthy
ways. Most of the politicians are not religious and have taken
up worshiping the government. Regardless of party, power
over your life is their objective. They wish to control your
future and the future of your grandchildren. The image they
hold of the future is one in which you and your grandchildren
are dependent on the government for your personal security.
They know you will begin to resent this sooner or later.
Therefore they want you to have as little power to resist them
as possible. This means they want you to have no firearms.
The have confiscated firearms in your country in New York
City, Cleveland, Connecticut and California. Under various
pretexts they confiscate firearms whenever they can using
every excuse. They plan to do this across the whole country.
My father foresaw this.

When he died he did not mention any firearms in his will. I
and my brothers and sisters sat down at a table and parceled
out guns and ammunition to each of us. If the government wants
to know about my father's guns they can try asking him. Of
course, once you are dead the government cannot get answers
out of you. And you can no longer be prosecuted or imprisoned.

I will parcel out my guns to all of you, my children, provided
you promise never to voluntary or involuntarily register them
with any government local, state, or federal. I will leave you a
thousand rounds of ammunition for each firearm.

As each of you goes through life I would like you to keep any
record of firearm ownership out of the hands of the
government. Avoid registration any way you can. When you
trade firearms with your friends make sure they are indeed
your friends. You should know your friends very well, which
means having only a few good ones. Having bad friends is
the most dangerous thing you can do in life.

When you trade a firearm for a similar firearm, say a .38
S&W for a .38 S&W, you have effectively changed the serial
number on the .38 you own. So it is more difficult for the
government to know who has what gun.

When you obtain a firearm from another person do not keep
any record of the transaction. Then store that firearm away
from your residence for a long period of time. In case you
were set up, the evidence will not be in your possession.

Store your firearms securely. I have a cousin named Francis
Drake who is a little bit on the wicked side. He stores his
firearms protected by a 2000 volt electrical charge. Fran has
done some things to politicians who are anti-gun that I of
course would never do. One of his representatives kept
introducing gun bills. Fran had all kinds of things delivered to
his house, like gravel, sand, and lumber. He had a call girl go
to the representative's house at 3 AM. Fran made sure the
politician never knew who did these things and never knew
why they were done. Soon the other politicians began to
notice that the politician had started to behave strangely.
And he was a lot less effective in doing anything, including
waging his anti-gun crusade. With anonymous phone calls,
Fran set up another anti-gun politician to be investigated on
gun charges. When Fran's police chief called him a
"Neanderthal", Fran got back at him by not saying things that
would have helped the chief in his official duties with the
chief's enemies.

My children, in all areas of your life you must follow a strategy
of resisting government power of any kind. So you must vote
in every election, and you must support those politicians who
will reduce the government's power over your life by helping
to finance and run their campaigns for political office. If you
can bear the company, become useful to the political party in
your area. Get a hold of their supporters list and try to meet
these people. Every once in a while you can get a politician's
attention by talking to his supporters.

You should serve on a jury every chance you get. In any
case where the government is trying to prosecute someone
for a paper crime, such as failing to fill our a firearms
registration form, say nothing but vote not guilty regardless of
the judge's instructions. Judging the correctness of the law
as well as the actions of the accused is your moral duty, and
it is an established principle in American jurisprudence. All
judges say you have to do as they say, but you don't. You
are the real judge in a trial, and you should never convict
anyone who is simply trying to live free.

You should exercise your rights every chance you get,
regardless of whether you have done any thing illegal or not,
and regardless of how you have to do it. One time a
policeman asked me to let him search the trunk of my car. I
told him the lock fell out and he would need a screwdriver.
He did not search the trunk.

Finally, my children, you should serve on any boards or
commissions you can get appointed to. And always, always
in everyday life, as a voter, or as an official of any kind speak
up for, and work toward, more freedom. If you do this -- your
own children--and they're children, and theirs -- will thank you
and bless your memory.
*********************************************
This was part 4 of a 5 parts series.
ConfiscationDefense_1.doc
Go On the offensive 10_CAO_2.doc
12_EffectiveLobbying_3.doc
Unregistering your gun 17_AdviceonStayingFree_4.doc
Running Political Campaigns 19_WinningCampaign_5.doc

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Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 10:52:39 -0800
From: Joe Waldron <[e-mail]>
Subject: SAF FILES LAWSUIT AGAINST MAYORS

NEWS RELEASE


Second Amendment Foundation
12500 NE Tenth Place, Bellevue, WA 98005
[phone]  FAX [phone]
http://www.saf.org


For Immediate Release        Contact:  Alan
Gottlieb
[phone]

MAYORS FACE LAWSUIT FILED TUESDAY BY GUN OWNER GROUP

WASHINGTON, DC (Tuesday, November 30, 1999) - The Second Amendment
Foundation (SAF), a firearms civil rights legal defense, research and
educational organization, has filed a federal lawsuit today in
Washington, DC against the U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM) and certain
individual mayors for conspiracy to violate civil and constitution
rights, including the First, Second and Ninth Amendments, as well as the
creation of undue burden on lawful interstate commerce.

"We warned both the USCM and individual mayors of our intent to defend
our rights and those of millions of law-abiding Americans.  We gave them
every opportunity to cease and desist their warrantless attacks," stated
Alan Gottlieb, SAF founder.  "Now, they are being sued; while their
meritless and frivolous lawsuits are being dealt serious blows in the
courts."

The city of Cincinnati earned the dubious distinction of being the first
city to be derailed in their attack against firearm manufacturers,
distributors and trade associations.  The Court firmly held that the
lawsuit was both vague and unsupported by legal precedent.  A large
portion of the Atlanta lawsuit was also dismissed with serious doubts
surrounding the remaining portion of the suit.  In addition, a ruling in
the Bridgeport lawsuit is expected in the next few weeks.

"As more and more of these city mayors' suits are dismissed, the more it
looks like these suits were only intended to financially injure gun
owners and the federally licensed producers and sellers of firearms,"
stated Gottlieb.  "In addition, the USCM readily admits that they are
seeking legislation in the courtrooms, which is a clear violation of the
separation of powers upon which our great country was founded.  This is
cause to hold individual mayors and the USCM responsible for their
conspiratorial and unconstitutional assaults on law-abiding people."

The SAF lawsuit alleges three counts against the groups.  Count 1 is for
violation of lawful interstate commerce.  The mayor's legal challenges
have already forced several gun makers to declare bankruptcy, severely
downsize their product lines, and/or raise firearm prices, thus hurting
consumers - including taxpayer-funded federal, state and local law
enforcement agencies - all across the country.  Count 2 is for violation
of First Amendment rights.  The mayor's lawsuits have prevented the gun
manufacturers from educating consumers about their products out of fear
of seeing ads in the courtrooms, not to mention that many of the mayor's
lawsuits are trying to eliminate or severely curtail the ability of
running ads on firearm products in general.  Count 3 is for violation of
the Second and Ninth Amendment rights.  The Second Amendment is an
individual right to keep and bears according to the recent United States
v. Emerson, 46 F.Supp.2d 598 (N.D. Tex. 1999).  The mayor's attempt to
abridge the right to keep and bear arms by putting gun makers out of
business causes a violation of the individual's means to self-defense
which is recognized in every courtroom and falls under the Ninth
Amendment rights.

Attorney Richard Gardiner, a well-known Washington, D.C. firearms civil
rights attorney, is the lead attorney working this case against the
mayors.  In addition to Cincinnati, Atlanta, and Bridgeport, the cities
affected by the lawsuit are Boston, Los Angeles, Miami, Newark, New
Orleans, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, San Francisco, Berkeley,
Sacramento, Oakland, East Palo Alto, Compton, West Hollywood, Inglewood,
Camden, Wilmington, Gary, and St. Louis.

"The mayors are on notice that their lawsuits will not be free," said
Gottlieb.  "The Second Amendment Foundation and gun owners across the
country will make them accountable for attempting to steal in the
judicial branch what they have failed to rob in the legislative branch."


The Second Amendment Foundation is a tax-exempt education, legal defense
and publishing organization founded in 1974 and has over 600,000
individual citizen supporters nationwide. It previously has funded
successful firearms-related suits against the cities of Los Angeles, New
Haven, CT, and San Francisco on behalf of American gun owners.

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NEWS RELEASE


Second Amendment Foundation
12500 NE Tenth Place, Bellevue, WA 98005
[phone]  FAX [phone]
http://www.saf.org


For Immediate Release        Contact:  Alan
Gottlieb                                                                  =
=20
[phone]

MAYORS FACE LAWSUIT FILED TUESDAY BY GUN OWNER GROUP

WASHINGTON, DC (Tuesday, November 30, 1999) - The Second Amendment
Foundation (SAF), a firearms civil rights legal defense, research and
educational organization, has filed a federal lawsuit today in
Washington, DC against the U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM) and certain
individual mayors for conspiracy to violate civil and constitution
rights, including the First, Second and Ninth Amendments, as well as the
creation of undue burden on lawful interstate commerce.

"We warned both the USCM and individual mayors of our intent to defend
our rights and those of millions of law-abiding Americans.  We gave them
every opportunity to cease and desist their warrantless attacks," stated
Alan Gottlieb, SAF founder.  "Now, they are being sued; while their
meritless and frivolous lawsuits are being dealt serious blows in the
courts."

The city of Cincinnati earned the dubious distinction of being the first
city to be derailed in their attack against firearm manufacturers,
distributors and trade associations.  The Court firmly held that the
lawsuit was both vague and unsupported by legal precedent.  A large
portion of the Atlanta lawsuit was also dismissed with serious doubts
surrounding the remaining portion of the suit.  In addition, a ruling in
the Bridgeport lawsuit is expected in the next few weeks.

"As more and more of these city mayors' suits are dismissed, the more it
looks like these suits were only intended to financially injure gun
owners and the federally licensed producers and sellers of firearms,"
stated Gottlieb.  "In addition, the USCM readily admits that they are
seeking legislation in the courtrooms, which is a clear violation of the
separation of powers upon which our great country was founded.  This is
cause to hold individual mayors and the USCM responsible for their
conspiratorial and unconstitutional assaults on law-abiding people."

The SAF lawsuit alleges three counts against the groups.  Count 1 is for
violation of lawful interstate commerce.  The mayor's legal challenges
have already forced several gun makers to declare bankruptcy, severely
downsize their product lines, and/or raise firearm prices, thus hurting
consumers - including taxpayer-funded federal, state and local law
enforcement agencies - all across the country.  Count 2 is for violation
of First Amendment rights.  The mayor's lawsuits have prevented the gun
manufacturers from educating consumers about their products out of fear
of seeing ads in the courtrooms, not to mention that many of the mayor's
lawsuits are trying to eliminate or severely curtail the ability of
running ads on firearm products in general.  Count 3 is for violation of
the Second and Ninth Amendment rights.  The Second Amendment is an
individual right to keep and bears according to the recent United States
v. Emerson, 46 F.Supp.2d 598 (N.D. Tex. 1999).  The mayor's attempt to
abridge the right to keep and bear arms by putting gun makers out of
business causes a violation of the individual's means to self-defense
which is recognized in every courtroom and falls under the Ninth
Amendment rights.

Attorney Richard Gardiner, a well-known Washington, D.C. firearms civil
rights attorney, is the lead attorney working this case against the
mayors.  In addition to Cincinnati, Atlanta, and Bridgeport, the cities
affected by the lawsuit are Boston, Los Angeles, Miami, Newark, New
Orleans, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, San Francisco, Berkeley,
Sacramento, Oakland, East Palo Alto, Compton, West Hollywood, Inglewood,
Camden, Wilmington, Gary, and St. Louis.

"The mayors are on notice that their lawsuits will not be free," said
Gottlieb.  "The Second Amendment Foundation and gun owners across the
country will make them accountable for attempting to steal in the
judicial branch what they have failed to rob in the legislative branch."


The Second Amendment Foundation is a tax-exempt education, legal defense
and publishing organization founded in 1974 and has over 600,000
individual citizen supporters nationwide. It previously has funded
successful firearms-related suits against the cities of Los Angeles, New
Haven, CT, and San Francisco on behalf of American gun owners.

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