For your review:
Allegheny County Sportsmen's League, Inc. **PA Sportsmen’s Association
PA Federation of Sportsmen’s Clubs **Lehigh Valley Firearms Coalition
PA Firearms Owners Association
ACSL ** PSA ** PFSC ** LVFC ** PAFOA
March 24, 2008
***RALLY ALERT***
Harrisburg Gun Control Juggernaut Rolling Again--Gunowners Help Needed
John:
Throughout the Rendell administration gun owners have been the misdirected focus of efforts to control and stop crime. With the willing help of his accomplices in the Philadelphia legislative Caucus Ed Rendell has been able to block our Pro-Gun legislation and introduce a myriad of unconstitutional bills (35 anti-gun bills in the House and 18 in the Senate) that represent the cream of the crop of gun control as advanced by Sarah Brady, Josh Sugarman and their teams. Just this past Monday (March 17th) Rep. Parker and Rep. Levdansky ganged up on gun owners and gun dealers by trying to criminalize failure to report a lost or stolen firearm and forcing gun dealers to pay for the distribution of this gun law and then to require them to counsel each and every gun owner about the law prior to purchasing their firearm WITH criminal penalties for the dealer. WE FOUGHT THIS BILL TO A STANDSTILL ON THE FLOOR! Debate has been delayed until session resumes on March 31st.
Last November and early December ‘thousands’ of law-abiding Pennsylvania firearm owners, disgusted by the small but vocal radical Rendell element within the General Assembly and their continued attacks on our rights, descended (by ‘every’ form of communication possible) on the PA House Judiciary Committee members to stop the gun control bills before them AND IT WORKED. This has allowed us to take your voices and passion and stop the gun control as represented in the virtual daily attacks on us that occurred in the PA Legislature and in particular the PA House Judiciary Committee in 2007. This was achieved by the direct involvement of gun owners working together throughout the state.
Now we ask your help again as WE ARE AT A CRITICAL POINT for gun owners to step up and let your voices be heard in the halls of power in the Harrisburg capital building! There is an old saying that “you are NOT paranoid IF they are really out to get you” and that is truly the case with the Governor and the Philadelphia Legislators.
On Monday, April 7, 2008 the Second Amendment-Second to None Rally in Harrisburg starts at 10AM in the rotunda (plan on being there at 9AM) to celebrate our constitutional right to bear arms and to advance our mutual interests in freedom and legislation we have asked to be introduced that would achieve those goals. We cannot get there without your help! The last two rallies have shown an increasing interest in the direct involvement of gun owners with each rally building upon the last. What we are looking for this time is a dramatic example of the desire of citizens to protect the freedoms that are an inseparable part of our heritage. We would like to see thousands of gun owners devote one day of their time in an election year to coming to Harrisburg and joining with us in making a statement that will be heard nationwide.
This is an opportunity for all of us to be able to say to those in Harrisburg who would limit or take from us the right to bear arms-NO MORE! This is a statement that will be heard not only in the halls of Harrisburg but in every election race for the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, the Pennsylvania Senate, Congress and indeed even President. It is also an opportunity for you to express through the media and your attendance at this rally YOUR support for this most basic freedom to the United States Supreme Court that they should support what the founding fathers have bequeathed all of us and overturn the insane gun control laws in Washington, DC and reaffirm that we have an individual right to bear arms for the protection of ourselves, our loved ones and our nation.
In the end it is all up to you as to whether or not you believe this right is important enough to turn off the TV or push away the keyboard and learn how to really fix politics because at this rally each one of you will have the opportunity to join in the team that goes around and personally makes a political statement to each legislative office in the capital. This is a grassroots rally! It is meant to be your presence that is important and that is why we are going to show you how Pennsylvania gunowners practice politics. While you will obviously see many politicians at this rally as well as, hopefully, the invited representatives from every national gun rights organization, in reality the real focus of this rally is to bring YOU to Harrisburg so that you can involve yourself in this process and learn what it takes to defend freedom. We will teach you how to wield REAL political power effectively, in Harrisburg to engage the legislators directly, ask questions, and explain why these flawed concepts won’t work. We will be there right with you shoulder to shoulder and we will show you what has made us the most important state in the nation in stopping these attacks on our freedom but in the end it is all up to you and we hope you make the right choice.
Right now we have a slim majority in the legislature who will act appropriately when gun control is brought before them and the key leaders within this majority (special commendation here to Rep. Metcalfe) have worked tirelessly to set up this rally and to advance and promote legislation that will achieve those goals. This is a pivotal moment in Pennsylvania history and with your help we will make it a defining moment for not only the second amendment but the Pennsylvania constitutional right to bear arms, article 1 section 21 wherein it states "the right of the citizen to bear arms in defense of themselves and the state shall not be questioned". It is important to remember that the Constitution is really ‘only’ a piece of paper, what gives it true power is the citizens belief in it and willingness to stand by it at critical moments and this is one of those moments!
Please join with us on April 7 and we look forward to working with all of you!
**Here is how the events will unfold on April 7th:
9:00AM Sign up, get your second amendment badges, and organize into groups under team leadership. Getting gun owners organized is a lot like herding cats or stacking marbles on a moving ship in the ocean.
10:00AM Rally/Press Conference with legislators and second amendment leaders (lasting approximately about 1 hour).
*At the end of this press conference ONE lucky **participant will win a Smith & Wesson M&P semi-automatic handgun in their choice of caliber! (Firearm provided by Ace Sporting Goods / George Romanoff) The ticket will be drawn by Rep. Metcalfe.
(**Participants must sign up at tables for tickets and be present for the drawing!)
11:00AM After the press conference everyone will break up into smaller groups under team leadership. Your team leader will take you to specifically assigned state reps so that all 203 of them will hear from gun owners all across the state. Once these assigned legislators are visited then each team will float to other Representatives in the Senate and House including each personal representative. The MOST important point is that ALL 203 Representatives and 50 Senators hear from gun owners, especially the anti-gun legislators that introduce these bills intended to strip your rights away. Your team leader will break around lunch time, after lunch meet up with your team leader to finish up. We plan these legislative lobbying events to run between 9am and 3pm.
Please join with us on April 7 and we look forward to working with all of you!
**Here is how the events will unfold on April 7th:
9:00AM Sign up, get your second amendment badges, and organize into groups under team leadership. Getting gun owners organized is a lot like herding cats or stacking marbles on a moving ship in the ocean.
10:00AM Press Conference with legislators and second amendment leaders (lasting approximately about 1 hour).
11:00AM After the press conference everyone will break up into smaller groups under team leadership. Your team leader will take you to specifically assigned state reps so that all 203 of them will hear from gun owners all across the state. Once these assigned legislators are visited then each team will float to other Representatives in the Senate and House including each personal representative. The biggest issue is that ALL 203 Reps and 50 Senators hear from gun owners, especially the anti-gun legislators that introduce these bills intended to strip your rights away. Your team leader will break around lunch time, after lunch meet up with your team leader to finish up. We plan these legislative lobbying events to run between 9am and 3pm.
You can help even further by doing the following:
Download the flyer(
http://www.acslpa.org/), print lots of copies, take it to your gun clubs and post it, take it your local gun stores have them post it as well, email all of your gun owning friends and relatives, let the word go far and wide across PA -- shout it loudly so that everyone knows the Second Amendment Is Second to None. Also visit the ACSL & PFSC & LVFC & PAFOA Legislative Sections and view the lists of proposed firearm laws pending in Harrisburg.
If you are upset with violent criminals’ being absolved of responsibility for their criminal acts, you are upset that firearms, our freedoms and law-abiding gun owners are being blamed for violent crime, then now is the time for you to act by taking this ONE DAY to prove to legislators that YOU care!
Contact Information (Details & Help with Travel Arrangements)
ACSL - Kim Stolfer (412) 221-3346
PFSC - Melody Zullinger (717) 232-3480
LVFC - Jack Iannantuono (610) 395-6392
(Parking arrangements have been made for the Harrisburg Farm Show parking lot. When you enter the gate make a left and park in the far corner away from the building. Shuttles will be running to the capitol building. You can also park in one of the several lots close to the Capitol building IF your vehicle size is compatible with entrance requirements-generally regular vans and cars)
Deepest Appreciation,
Kim Stolfer Harry Schneider
Legislative Committee, Chairman Legislative Committee, Chairman
Allegheny County Sportsmen's League Pennsylvania Sportsmen's Association
E-Mail --
activist@fyi.net psa@pagunlaws.comWebsite --
www.acslpa.org (412) 221-3346, Home Phone
(412) 257-1099, Home Fax
The grassroots organizations involved with this effort are listed below:
Allegheny County Sportsmen's League (ACSL),
Pennsylvania Federation of Sportsmen's Clubs (PFSC),
Pennsylvania Sportsmen's Association (PSA),
Pennsylvania Firearm Owners Association (PAFOA)
Gun Owners of America (GOA),
Second Amendment Sisters (SAS),
Pennsylvania Rifle and Pistol Association (PRPA),
Pennsylvania Gun Collectors Association (PGCA)
Lehigh Valley Firearms Coalition, (LVFC)
Citizen’s Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA)
National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF)
Philadelphia Federation of Sportsmen's Club, (PhilaFSC)
Pennsylvania Gun Owners Association (PGOA)
Unified Sportsmen of Pennsylvania (USP)
National Association of Firearms Retailers (NAFR),
Pennsylvania State Fish & Game Protective Association,
The Pink Pistols
OpenCarry.org
Western Pennsylvania 30 Caliber League, Inc
Firearms Owners Against Crime (FOAC)
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