"FCSPI Email Alert
Victory in CA!
Thanks to a last ditch effort by FCSPI and a team of pro-gun leaders, AB-50, California’s 50 caliber ban was defeated today in the Senate Public Safety Committee. FCSPI President John Burtt traveled to Sacramento to testify and was joined by the NRA’s Ed Worley, California Rifle and Pistol Association’s Jerry Upholt, Gun Owners of California’s Sam Paredes and Safari Club’s Kathy Lynch.
AB-50 had been pulled from last week’s committee schedule and in the interim, FCSPI presented Committee members with documented expert testimonials that dispelled the ridiculous anti-gun myths put forth by the backers of the 50 ban. The bill was heard today in Committee and defeated. It is effectively dead for this session, although we expect anti-gun forces to try again next year.
Supporters in California should take the time to thank two Senators whose votes were very important to this victory. Committee Chairman Senator Bruce McPherson (R-15) and Committee Vice-Chair John Vasconcellos (D-13) both took the time to hear the credible testimony and evidence put forth by FCSPI and cast votes that allowed the bill to die in Committee. You can find their contact info at www.sen.ca.gov – be sure to take the time to thank them.
FCSPI Executive Director
Michael Marks
www.fcspi.org"
Another battle won temporarily..........
May selection follows a black sedan from its origins to a Chappaquiddick DWI murder.
May 4, 2003
BY MORTOO D. POINT
FREE PRESS COLUMNIST
How do alcoholic senators get their big black sedans? And what should law-abiding citizens do about it?
One senator, the loudest opponent of guns, has killed more people with his black sedan than 99.999% of gun owners.
Cars don't kill innocent girls--drunk senators do.
George Killen , the State Police Detective-Lieutenant who investigated the accident, said that Senator Kennedy "killed that girl the same as if he put a gun to her head and pulled the trigger."