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11250 Waples Mill Road    ·Fairfax, Virginia 22030    ·800-392-8683www.NRAILA.org Important Statement From NRA Chief Lobbyist and Chairman of NRA’s Political Action Committee Chris W. Cox on Virginia’s Gubernatorial Race Tuesday, August 30, 2005  The National Rifle Association-Political Victory Fund would like to congratulate Jerry Kilgore on the successful launch of “Sportsmen for Kilgore.” Every election year, many candidates work overtime to persuade hunters, sportsmen and gun owners to vote for them.  While some, like Tim Kaine, try to bury anti-freedom and gun control records with rosy rhetoric and glossy photo-ops; others do have a proven record of helping advance and preserve the...

Republican candidate for governor unveils a rival pro-gun group VINTON -- A shootout for gun owners' votes escalated yesterday when Republican gubernatorial candidate Jerry W. Kilgore announced the creation of a "Sportsmen for Kilgore" coalition that will counter a similar group working for his Democratic rival. Democratic Lt. Gov. Timothy M. Kaine announced the formation of "Sportsmen for Tim Kaine" on Friday. But whereas Kaine's group kicked off its campaign last week by arguing that being pro-sportsmen means protecting wildlife, rivers and forests in addition to the Second Amendment, Kilgore's group put its focus squarely on the right to bear...

The GOP candidate had an NRA official standing by at his "Sportsmen for Kilgore" announcement. Jerry Kilgore fired no weapons on Tuesday while promoting himself as a champion of gun owners' rights. Instead, the unarmed Republican nominee for governor surrounded himself with GOP lawmakers and a National Rifle Association official to announce the formation of a "Sportsmen for Kilgore" committee that will handle that task for him. "Protecting the Second Amendment is not just some issue I stumbled upon in an election year," Kilgore, a Scott County native, told a small crowd of supporters at Box Tree Lodge in Vinton....