Please take just a few minutes to write a message to the DC City Council. Their lawlessness will only encourage other cities to continue fighting against our 2nd Amendment and to ignore the clear "DC vs. Heller" decision.
Please see the article below and the contact information (courtesy of "savetheguns.com") for the DC City Council office:
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Gun Owners of America News Release
For Immediate Release
Contact Ellie McDaniel or Eddie Isler
July 16, 2008
703-321-8585
Gun Owners of America Denounces "Lawless" DC City Council
The Executive Director of Gun Owners of America denounced yesterday's action of the D.C. City Council in response to the Supreme Court's Heller ruling and predicted that its "emergency legislation" would be challenged and overturned.
GOA Executive Director Larry Pratt characterized the council's action by saying: "It is no wonder that the District is awash with lawlessness. The contempt for the law starts in the city council chambers."
The District's emergency action would keep the unconstitutional gun license requirement; keep the unconstitutional semiautomatic ban; and impose new unconstitutional ballistics, testing and fingerprint requirements on those wishing to exercise their right to keep a firearm for self-defense.
But, even more flagrantly, the District would maintain the trigger lock and unloaded gun requirements which were explicitly overturned by the High Court.
"The District appears to be dutifully passing what the Brady folks drafted for it," said Pratt. "But while interim D.C. Attorney General Peter Nickles fancies that they have crafted 'model' legislation, it is in fact a model for litigative defeat and more court-administered humiliation."
Pratt predicted that the council's action would be challenged and overturned. And he also called on Congress to exercise its constitutional responsibility under Article I, Section 8, Clause 17, to rein in the lawless D.C. government.
"The District needs to be reined in for its lawless actions," Pratt said. "It's about time that Congress takes its responsibility to do so seriously."
-GOA-
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WASHINGTON D.C. MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL CONTACT INFORMATION
Online contact:
http://www.dc.gov/mayor/index.shtm
Write to him:
Mayor Adrian Fenty
Executive Office of the Mayor
1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Suite 316
Washington, DC 20004
Call his office:
(202) 727-2980
or email him through this web page: http://www.dc.gov/mayor/index.shtm
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Washington D.C. City Council
E-Mail the Washington D.C. City Council Members here:
http://www.dccouncil.us/gray/contactUs.htm
Call the council:
(202) 724-8032
Call the Washington D.C. City Council Members Individually here:
Vincent C. Gray Chairman-At-Large (202) 724-8032
Carol Schwartz Member-At-Large (202) 724-8105
David Catania Member-At-Large (202) 724-7772
Phil Mendelson Member-At-Large (202) 724-8064
Kwame R. Brown Member-At-Large (202) 724-8174
Jim Graham Member-Ward 1 (202) 724-8181
Jack Evans Chairman Pro-Tempore-Ward 2 (202) 724-8058
Mary Cheh Member-Ward 3 (202) 724-8062
Muriel Bowser Member-Ward 4 (202) 724-8052
Harry Thomas Jr. (Tommy) Member-Ward 5 (202) 724-8028
Tommy Wells Member-Ward 6 (202) 724-8072
Yvette M. Alexander Member-Ward 7 (202) 724-8068
Marion Barry Member-Ward 8 (202) 724-8045
Write them here as a group:
Council of the District of Columbia
John A. Wilson Building
1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20004
Please see the article below and the contact information (courtesy of "savetheguns.com") for the DC City Council office:
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Gun Owners of America News Release
For Immediate Release
Contact Ellie McDaniel or Eddie Isler
July 16, 2008
703-321-8585
Gun Owners of America Denounces "Lawless" DC City Council
The Executive Director of Gun Owners of America denounced yesterday's action of the D.C. City Council in response to the Supreme Court's Heller ruling and predicted that its "emergency legislation" would be challenged and overturned.
GOA Executive Director Larry Pratt characterized the council's action by saying: "It is no wonder that the District is awash with lawlessness. The contempt for the law starts in the city council chambers."
The District's emergency action would keep the unconstitutional gun license requirement; keep the unconstitutional semiautomatic ban; and impose new unconstitutional ballistics, testing and fingerprint requirements on those wishing to exercise their right to keep a firearm for self-defense.
But, even more flagrantly, the District would maintain the trigger lock and unloaded gun requirements which were explicitly overturned by the High Court.
"The District appears to be dutifully passing what the Brady folks drafted for it," said Pratt. "But while interim D.C. Attorney General Peter Nickles fancies that they have crafted 'model' legislation, it is in fact a model for litigative defeat and more court-administered humiliation."
Pratt predicted that the council's action would be challenged and overturned. And he also called on Congress to exercise its constitutional responsibility under Article I, Section 8, Clause 17, to rein in the lawless D.C. government.
"The District needs to be reined in for its lawless actions," Pratt said. "It's about time that Congress takes its responsibility to do so seriously."
-GOA-
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WASHINGTON D.C. MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL CONTACT INFORMATION
Online contact:
http://www.dc.gov/mayor/index.shtm
Write to him:
Mayor Adrian Fenty
Executive Office of the Mayor
1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Suite 316
Washington, DC 20004
Call his office:
(202) 727-2980
or email him through this web page: http://www.dc.gov/mayor/index.shtm
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Washington D.C. City Council
E-Mail the Washington D.C. City Council Members here:
http://www.dccouncil.us/gray/contactUs.htm
Call the council:
(202) 724-8032
Call the Washington D.C. City Council Members Individually here:
Vincent C. Gray Chairman-At-Large (202) 724-8032
Carol Schwartz Member-At-Large (202) 724-8105
David Catania Member-At-Large (202) 724-7772
Phil Mendelson Member-At-Large (202) 724-8064
Kwame R. Brown Member-At-Large (202) 724-8174
Jim Graham Member-Ward 1 (202) 724-8181
Jack Evans Chairman Pro-Tempore-Ward 2 (202) 724-8058
Mary Cheh Member-Ward 3 (202) 724-8062
Muriel Bowser Member-Ward 4 (202) 724-8052
Harry Thomas Jr. (Tommy) Member-Ward 5 (202) 724-8028
Tommy Wells Member-Ward 6 (202) 724-8072
Yvette M. Alexander Member-Ward 7 (202) 724-8068
Marion Barry Member-Ward 8 (202) 724-8045
Write them here as a group:
Council of the District of Columbia
John A. Wilson Building
1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20004