GA Anti-Gun SB1 Trigger Lock Bill Dead For This Year

Citizens For Safe Government ^ | 4/26/03 | CSG email alert

[from occupied ga]

(Atlanta, Saturday, April 26) -- The SB1 Stealth Triggerlock bill ran out of gas yesterday before it reached the finish line. Coming to the floor early in the afternoon, the measure was tabled after House Pro-Gun Leader Bobby Franklin (R-Marietta) and others began piling up amendments on it and debate became chaotic.

Then a beefed-up team of CSG legislative volunteers moved into action in the House lobby, calling out uncommitted Reps. one after the other, and leaning on them to support the Self-Defense amendment. The volunteers kept the heat on for hours, knowing the bosses would want to wait until the pressure eased off before moving to take up the bill again.

The moment never came, and when Gov. Sonny Perdue headed up the aisle before midnight to herald the end of the session, everybody knew time had run out. Now the session's over, and SB1 is dead until next year.

If you were one of the many, many activists who helped fight the Stealth Triggerlock bills SB1 and HB197 this session, you can savor the sweetness of victory--it belongs to you.

Stay tuned: we'll be back in a few days with full details on the final showdown, and where things go from here.

Citizens for Safe Government, Inc.

P.O. Box 813764

Smyrna, GA 30081

csg@arms.org

[from occupied ga]

The "powerful gun lobby" (this means YOU) actually won one for a change. Congratulations!!

This was done without any assistance from the NRA in fact they initially opposed the pro-gun Franklin Amendment and later turned neutral when they saw that local forces had a good chance of defeating the bill. The so called "powerful gun lobby" that the media refers to is just ordinary gun owners fed up with having politicians and bureaucrats piling more and more restrictions on us.

This crap will be back. Freedom haters Wendell Willard and Moo Moo Oliver with financial backing from her ultimate limousine liberal sugar daddy, Arthur Blank, aren't going away. They are no doubt already plotting how to get their stealth trigger lock enacted into law.

[goldstategop]

They'll try to pass it through quietly next time with a nod from Rodney King Republicans in Georgia...

[FreedomPoster]

Excellent news. This whole episode has been an example of "no one is safe while the legislature is in session".

[from occupied ga]

Congratulations Georgians, WE did it!!

Not the NRA, but you. Everyone who called their representative, e-mailed their representative and wrote their representative can take pride in the fact that you and you alone stopped the liberals' trigger lock bill hiding under the guise of so called "child protection". (The give away was when the porcine Oliver whined that the self defense amendment would "keep them from prosecuting gun owners for not having trigger locks")

Everyone who passed this information on to friends was doing at the grass roots what a certain national organization should do but doesn't. You are the gun lobby and I'm proud to know you and be part of you.

I'm also proud to be a member of CSG who did the organizing and lobbying to stop this police state nightmare. Thanks to Bobby Franklin*, Brian Joyce*, Marsden Tuck, Bill Phillips, George Hills and all the rest who did such a great job

*, please give them a "thank you."

[FreedomPoster]

Thanks to all y'all at CSG!

[from occupied ga]

I messed up the typing here. Bobby Franklin and Brian Joyse are legislative members of CSG and deserve special thanks for all of their hard work

[marktwain]

Congratulatons! I am surprised that the NRA didn't jump in at the last minute and try to take credit for the whole effort. Maybe they will learn from this to listen to local activists more, but I doubt it.

[backhoe]

Thank you, neighbor- and rest assured, they will try this rubbish again. I've been in the RKBA wars since about 1968, and they never, ever quit.

[freedomlover]

Does anyone know if it could be raised again if Purdue pulls a "special session? - I would doubt it as the special session would probably only be for the budget.

But it could be snuck in under some pork project I guess.

[freedomlover]

BTW do any of you GA posters belong to River Bend Gun Club in Dawson County? I'm trying to get in.

[from occupied ga]

Does anyone know if it could be raised again if Purdue pulls a "special session?

That depends on what Perdue sets as the agenda for the special session. If he says it's for the budget only, then no it can't. If he says it's for budget and child endangerment then yes it can. I suspect he will go for budget only if he calls one.

[freedomlover]

Thanks Hopefully it will just be for the budget.

I'm wondering how much this Flag hullabaloo had an effect on this stealth legislation.

[from occupied ga]

I just found out that the NRA tried for a last minute betrayal of gun owners. They had their rep, John Thomas sitting in the LT Gov's office Friday (the last day of the session), while the lt gov, Mark Taylor, called all of the rural dems and flip flop republicans telling them that the NRA was OPPOSED to the gun owners' protection amendment and that if anyone wanted to check he could talk to the NRA's rep in his (Mark Taylor's) office. The anti-gunners damn near get the bill passed with the help of the closet anti-gunners in the NRA.

[freedomlover]

If this is verifiably true I will call someone at the NRA about it. It this he-said she-said they-said kinda stuff or is it easily verifiable?

[from occupied ga]

If this is verifiably true I will call someone at the NRA about it. It this he-said she-said they-said kinda stuff or is it easily verifiable?

I got it verbally. They officially put out a letter saying that they were neutral on the bill itself, but the letter didn't mention the self defense amendment, so no, it's not easily verifiable. I's more in the he said she said category liike most of the NRA's sell outs - they don't like to get them in writing. You might want to ask what John Thomas was doing in Mark taylor's office Friday. You might want to ask your rep if he got a call from Mark Taylor on it.

[freedomlover]

This is probably a stupid question, but what is an NRA sell-out (a moderate?) and why do they have any clout or position. IMHO the NRA needs to play fast and hard with its opponents because that the way the other side plays. As for trying to get your opponent to like you - forgettaboutit

[from occupied ga]

This is probably a stupid question, but what is an NRA sell-out (a moderate?) and why do they have any clout or position.

I use the term ambiguously. To me it can mean for for a legislator to say they're pro gun, and when it comes down to the wire vote for gun control (like Republican Don Balfour). Or it can mean that the NRA reps take your membership money under false pretenses - pretending that they are hard line pro-gun, when in reality they are all for gun control as long as there is some acess to guns left. The NRA wouldn't have any problems at all if all guns were required to be locked up in gun clubs and only used at the club.

At least the NRA is doing one thing right, and that is opposing passage of the "assault weapons" ban renewal. But I wonder if at the last minute they'll find some way to compromise on this too.

[demosthenes the elder]

thanks - nice to know all those letters, e-mails, and phone calls actually have an effect now and then.

[demosthenes the elder]

ok, gotta ask: what is a "Rodney King Republican"?

[demosthenes the elder]

you seem to have a Georgia "bang" list.
please add me to it.
thanks.

dte
Quitman, GA