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From: VCDL President Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 8:48 PM Subject: VA-ALERT: Tragedy strikes GOA --------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe or change your email address, please follow the directions at the end of this message. --------------------------------------------------------------- Sorry to bombard everyone with another alert item, but this one is time sensitive. Erich Pratt, who is the director of communications for Gun Owners of America and son of GOA's Executive Director, Larry Pratt, has just lost his 23 month old son in a tragic drowning accident. (Shortly before his death little Luke Pratt was last seen throwing a baseball in his yard and happily...
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Gov (D) Timothy M. Kaine - Responded Gov (I) H. Russ Potts, Jr. -No Response Gov (R) Jerry W. Kilgore - No Response Lt Gov (D) Leslie L.- Byrne No Response Lt Gov (R) William T. "Bill" Bolling - Responded AG (D) R. Creigh Deeds - Responded & NRA Endorsed. AG (R) Robert F. "Bob" McDonnell - No Response See how incumbents running for reelection answered the survey. House Survey Results - 2005 VCDL House Survey Results Statewide Survey Results - 2005 VCDL Statewide Survey Results
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"The National Rifle Association yesterday endorsed Republican Jerry W. Kilgore to be Virginia's next governor, while members of a key gun-rights lobby fumed over remarks about their leadership made by the Kilgore campaign.... But some grass-roots members of the Virginia Citizens Defense League (VCDL) say they will not vote for Mr. Kilgore Nov. 8 because one of his staffers said the VCDL's president has "no credibility" on Second Amendment issues. "I am pro-life, reeling from the great tax hike of 2004, a staunch Second Amendment defender and wild horses could not drag me to vote for Kilgore," said Mike Downey,...
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Sprechen sie Deutsch The posted ban on firearms in town parks has sparked an odd, multilingual e-mail skirmish between Town Manager Brannon Godfrey and a Richmond-based gun rights group. Both sides are standing by their guns when it comes to the age-old debate of state law superseding local law, but it looks like the town is going to have to fold on its firearms ban in parks. Signs in Yowell Meadow and Mountain Run Lake parks will be modified within two weeks to remove the “no firearms†restriction - it’s state law. In the meantime, both sides are wrangling over words....
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The Virginia Citizens Defense League is non-partisan. We are only asking all the candidates to take a position on specific issues of concern to Virginia's gun owners, so that gun owners might make an informed choice. We believe this to be a reasonable request, and remain perplexed by the hostility that this has generated from the Kilgore campaign. The emails on which I have been cc'ed from gun owners across the state run the gamut from *pleading* with Mr. Kilgore to answer the VCDL survey and take a stand on gun rights, to furious gun owners saying that they have...
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A key Virginia gun rights lobby said yesterday that it will not endorse a candidate in the gubernatorial race but is urging its members not to sit out the election, as many did in 2001... Mr. Kilgore will not be seeking the group's [VCDL's] endorsement, campaign spokesman Tucker Martin said. "While we have great respect for the members of the VCDL, their President Phillip Van Cleave unfortunately has no credibility on Second Amendment issues and that is why we did not participate," Mr. Martin said, declining to elaborate.
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----- Original Message ----- ----- Original Message ----- From: "VCDL President" <philip@virginiasystems.com> To: <va-alert@listbox.com> Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 10:52 PM Subject: VA-ALERT: ACTION ITEM! New Orleans DISARMING the Public! > --------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe or change your email address, please follow the > directions at the end of this message. > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > > VCDL tries to stay within the bounds of Virginia as much as possible. > However, once in a while, we have to deal with the fact that we are > Americans above all else. Our fellow citizens matter to us and >...
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CNSNews.com) - Virginia State Police records confirm that at least seven gun show "sting" operations since July of 2004 have targeted gun buyers in the Richmond, Va., area. The documents support allegations that protected information may have been illegally shared with local police and gun buyers' relatives and neighbors. Cybercast News Service previously reported that nearly 500 Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) agents, state troopers, county and city police officers participated in an "ATF Task Force" targeting the Showmasters gun show in Richmond, Va., on Aug. 13 and 14. Following that initial report, Cybercast News Service obtained...
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A Federal Agency Out of Control The reputation of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (BATFE) has been less than stellar for many years. Agents seem to take great pleasure in harrassing law-abiding citizens while those citizens are exercising their rights to purchase and own legal products, i.e., guns. And the management of the agency appears to allow their agents to run out of control. BATFE may very well have a legitimate role to play in homeland security and law enforcement, that role does not give them the authority to trample our rights with impunity. I will not...
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The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (BATFE), who seem to go out of their way to alienate gun owners with their heavy-handedness, behaved in a shameful manner this last weekend at the Showmasters' gun show in Richmond. I had reports from members of police going to their houses while the member was waiting for their approval to purchase a gun at the show! The police asked the spouse and other family members questions about the purchases and filled in a survey! "Did you know your husband was going to a gun show today?" "Did you know your husband...
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When it comes to guns, both Sean Connaughton and Bill Bolling received high marks from the Virginia Citizens Defense League, but there are several key differences between the two candidates for lieutenant governor. Both Republicans checked the anti-gun control option for most of the 13 questions. The dispute is in the three questions they answered differently. Question 3 asked whether the candidates favor repealing laws that allow localities to fingerprint applicants for concealed handgun permits. Bolling answered yes, in favor of repeal and Connaughton answered no. "I'm a strong supporter of the right to bear arms," Connaughton said, noting that...
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Only a slight "flicker of hope" remains in Richmond for the otherwise doomed photo red light program that numerous Northern Virginia jurisdictions, including the City of Falls Church and Fairfax County, have utilized in recent years. The requirement that the state legislature act to extend the program fell short during the just-ended legislative session with the speaker of the house stripped a transportation bill of an amendment that would have preserved it. Falls Church City Manager Dan McKeever, briefing the City Council on the development at its meeting Monday, said that the governor can still add the amendment back in...
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As the gaggle of gun enthusiasts with their assorted handguns sitting openly on their hips dined on hamburgers and chicken tenders at the Fuddruckers restaurant in Annandale, Victor Castellon's eyes grew wide with concern. "I've got to be careful with these guys because they've got guns," he said, sitting at a nearby table with his girlfriend. "It's like the old West." Castellon was observing members of the Virginia Citizens Defense League, an organization that believes gun owners have the right to carry their guns anywhere — including restaurants like Fuddruckers that serve alcohol. Under Virginia law, carrying a concealed firearm...
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No matter how devoted you are to multitasking, some things obviously shouldn't be done simultaneously, such as driving and putting on mascara. State Sen. Kenneth Stolle, R-Virginia Beach, wants to add drinking and hunting to that list. Since it's already illegal in the commonwealth to hunt while under the influence of alcohol or drugs , Stolle's bill (SB 1149) -- which the state Senate passed unanimously -- would set the blood alcohol limit for hunters (.02) even lower than it now is for drivers (.08). Who'd have a problem with that? The Newington-based Virginia Citizens Defense League apparently does. VCDL...
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Gun rights lobbyists said yesterday that they will sue the state for its ban on weapons at the state Capitol. "They've given us no choice, we're preparing to file a lawsuit," said Philip Van Cleave, president of the Virginia Citizens Defense League. The new ban, implemented last year by a handful of powerful lawmakers without a public hearing, forbids anyone without a concealed-weapons permit to openly carry weapons into the Capitol or the General Assembly building nearby.
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Gun control bills at the Virginia General Assembly usually enjoy the fate of a wounded quail in hunting season. It’s only a matter of time ’til death comes calling. Bills piled already on this year’s dust heap include proposals to ban guns in libraries and day-care centers and to close a glaring loophole in gun-show regulation. A companion bill to the latter still lives in the House, but surely not for long.
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This is the text of an alert from VCDL: Guys and Gals, In a bizarre turn of events in yesterday's Militia, Police and Public Safety, several key gun bills did not get heard and will be dead for the year unless we can convince Republican leadership to get the bills heard on Monday (cross-over day is Tuesday and it will be too late then). The most important pro-gun bills that did not get heard are: HB 2424 - Del. Cole's restaurant ban repeal HB 2935 - Del. Cline's bill to remove the Capitol gun ban (Sen. Cuccinelli's bill is dead...
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By taking no action yesterday, two legislative committees left intact a new rule that bans people from openly carrying guns in the Capitol and General Assembly Building unless they hold a "concealed carry" permit. The Senate Rules and the House Militia, Police and Public Safety committees, in concurrent meetings yesterday morning, did not bring up bills that would drop the rule. Neither panel plans to meet again before Tuesday's deadline for the House and Senate to act on their own bills, essentially killing the measures.
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To Philip Van Cleave, a new rule that bans people from openly carrying weapons in the Capitol unless they hold a concealed carry permit defies the Constitution. "Virginia has a proud history of law-abiding citizens being able to carry a gun without having to beg permission from the government," said Van Cleave, president of the Virginia Citizens Defense League. "It flies in the face of the Second Amendment."
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A small country store in rural Georgia became the site of bloodshed yesterday. According to the Associated Press, two men entered Shoats Grocery & Package with the intent of robbing the establishment. When the husband and wife owners failed to give them money quickly enough, one of the robbers shot at the husband, Bobby Doster. Fortunately, he missed. At that point both the Dosters each drew weapons and killed the robbers. While it is a tragedy that lives were lost, no reasonable person can argue that the Dosters were at any fault; the local officials in Georgia agree. It’s sad...
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