Just a quick note to tell you that you are not the only one who is outraged that terrorist, criminals, and those who are mintally ill can openly buy weapons - including high-powered assault weapons -at gun shows. I am too!
So may I tell you a quick story? As you may know, my husband Jim was badly injured and almost killed in the assassination attempt on President Reagan in 1981. Not long after Jim was wounded, my son was in a relative's pickup truck and he found what he believed was a toy gun and played with it.
But, in fact, it was not a toy. It was a real gun. I was terrified, and later that night, even though it was about 10 PM, I picked up the telephone and dialed the National Rifle Associatoin and said, "This is Sarah Brady and I want you to know that I will be making it my life's work to put you out of business!"
I was probably only talking ot a night janitor, but I felt like I was going to explode if I didn't put hte NRA on recored that it did not represent the vast majority of Americans.
And since then, Jim and I have mad it our life's work to put the gun lobby out of business - an dpass and protect sensible gun laws.
We've made real progess - but still, this damnable gun show loophole remains, as does the fact that more than 80 Americans die from gun violence every day!
Even though we were hugely successfful on Election Night 2008, the battle still rages. The American public decisevily told their elected officioals on both national and local levels that they do not want strong gun laws, which means that clsoing the gun show loophole, enacting a strong and comprehensive assault weapons ban, and curbing the large-volume sales that feed gun trafficking.
As Jim says, we don't want what happened to us to happen to anyone else.
It would be a distinct pleasure to wealcome you as a supporting friend of the Brady Campaing to Prevent Gun Violence. I thank you!
Sarah Brady
Chair
PS: Here are 11 Terrifying Reasons to Close the Gun Show Loophole:
1) Mac-10 automatic pistol = $795
2)10% of the guns used in crimes by children were sold at gun shows.
3) Handgun =$595.00
4) Buy a gun...no questions asked!
5) Cop killer bullets = $13.00
6) "I would not have bough a gun for Eric and Dylan if I had had to give any personal information or submit to any type of check at all" - Robyn Anderson who bought the Columbine killers their guns at a gun show.
7)25-50% of the vendors at most gunshows are unlicended dealers.
8) Semi-auto and automatic weapons guides = $7.97
9) No backgorund check required by unlicensed dealers.
10) AK 47 conversion parts = $4.99
11) Assault weapons are back on the streets, and you can get one at your local gun show with no questions asked!
My favorite signs from the tea parties:
"WE CAME UNARMED......THIS TIME!"
"YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW MANY "JOHN GALT's" and "HENRY BOWMAN's" ARE IN THIS CROWD!
BANG!
Personally” I dont think Jim Brady wrote that letter.
drop dead you stupid cow
>4) Buy a gun...no questions asked!
Where do you buy your guns that you don’t have to fill out that long form with LOTS of questions?
>5) Cop killer bullets = $13.00
Where do you find such a good price on them? {$13 for a box of 50 is a good deal!}
>10) AK 47 conversion parts = $4.99
For converting the entire weapon to select-fire? If so please send me a link!
>11) Assault weapons are back on the streets, and you can get one at your local gun show with no questions asked!
What streets are you watching, I haven’t seen much of a rise in people carrying assault weapons... however, I would be strapping on my revolver if I had it handy before going out on the town... after all I llive in an open-carry state.
All private dealers conduct background checks. FFL's have NICS checks in gun shows.
1. Automatic pistols aren't automatic.
2. Your proof?
3. $600? I paid a lot less for mine and it wasn't junk.
4. Then why did they call the FBI when I bought my rifle?
5. WTF do you consider a cop-killer bullet.
6. One person...
7. "Unlicense dealer?" That's a felony.
8. Pure Puffery
9. Unlicense dealer is a felony.
10. Don't you need a Class III for conversion parts?
11. Bullshit.
Jimbo? The NRA didn't put you in a wheelchair. A loon did. Outlaw loons, not guns.
And Sarah? If you spent more time giving a sh!t about your husband and less grandstanding to puff yourself up, Ole Jim would be in better shape and WE wouldn't have to hear your tired old whine anymore.
What are the odds that Jim Brady doesn’t even know that the letter purported to be written by him exists?
With the greatest respect for your service to this country, Mr Brady:
Please take a reeeaaaall long look at the Liberal “head doctors” who think that anyone with ANY KIND of mental illness can be ‘fixed’ with ‘therapy and possibly drugs’.
This is part of the same theory supporting the idea that any sane person can sit down and “talk to the Nutjob running Iran”.
Hundreds of crazies are roaming our streets in America as I write this, and when they snap- there may well be a young mother who is killed or ends up in another wheelchair. All of us out here are at risk from these gangs and crazies. Your supporters have never advocated shutting down the border with Mexico and keeping their CRIMINALS where they came from.
All of your efforts are aimed at taking guns away from the people who are NOT a problem with their guns.
Your focus is entirely wrong——go after all the lawyers who find a reason to plea bargain down the charges against a person with a rap sheet 8 feet long, who is only 23 years old. Look hard at the judge who keeps the revolving doors of the courts running faster than a hamster’s cage.
Tell your side of the story to the 4 widows of the policemen who were shot in Oakland by a perp who should have been inside a jail cell for the rest of his life. He had a rap sheet longer than all the awards of the very best ‘professor’ in the whole country- and he was on parole—AGAIN !!!!!
There is your gun problem, Mr Brady.
Too bad that all your supporters cannot open their eyes a little and see just where the costs of wrong justice are in this country.
You should take the pre-paid envelope and send back one bullet.
Okay Jim, Sarah, since you think the Second Amendment should be done away with, what do you say I get to pick the Amendment I want to do away with. And then we’ll let my good friends here at FR all choose an Amendment they would like to do away with.
Why heck, within an hour we can destroy the whole U.S. Constitution. Isn’t that a great idea.
I am sorry Jim was wounded when Reagan was almost killed. I would have hated to see Reagan killed. We would have lost out on his leadership. But Ronald Reagan never advocated for abolishing the Second Amendment, and neither should you.
The only thing that stands between the total abuse of our rights is our ability to defend ourselves. I will NEVER give up that right. Neither should you.
Brady will not be happy until every person in the US is in immediate danger of being in the same condition he is in.
Right. That's why there are 4 million or so NRA members, and what, like 10 percent of that who belong to gun control organizations?
And since then, Jim and I have mad it our life's work to put the gun lobby out of business - and pass and protect sensible gun laws.
What a waste. You could have spent your life in so many other productive ways. You chose to squander yours trying to deprive me of my rights.
We've made real progress
Again, right. There have never been more gun friendly laws, and more on the way all the time. This is a real Baghdad Bob moment, Sarah. You guys are losing your shirts. I've never been prouder of the NRA.
Gun Show Loophole.
really?? Is there where murderers and gangbangers are getting their guns?
I doubt it.
Any mention of the straw purchase of a shotgun dear sarah made for their son.
Memo to Jim & Sarah(Not the good one). When sending out please advise us as to where these inexpensive items can be found. The only ones I can find are a lot more costly. Where can I find more ammo especially those hard to get armor piercing Black Rinos and RPGs. By the way the NRA has a great gun training video “Eddie Eagle” you might want to buy for your uneducated son.
Lie... he IS angry about being in a wheelchair, and since he cannot take it out on the guy who put him there, he's taking it out on "folks like you."
They would get a truly strongly worded letter from me.
MAC-10s were only in production for civilians for about 16 years before Reagan signed that atrocity of a gun bill. I also doubt they’re available for under a thousand.