Make Sure Your Senate Candidates Take The Pro-gun Pledge
-- Please use the pre-written letters below
Gun Owners of America E-Mail/FAX Alert
8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151
Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408 http://www.gunowners.org
ACTION INFO for Nevada gun owners:
1. Contact ENSIGN and BERNSTEIN right away.
John Ensign and Edward Bernstein are candidates for the U.S. Senate.
Both want to represent you next year in Congress. But both men have
refused to answer Gun Owners of America's Candidate Survey. You
have the right to insist that they answer their surveys today.
2. Please use the pre-written letter to contact the two campaigns
as follows:
John Ensign
Ph: 702-880-1000
Fax: 702-880-1014
Email: info@ensign4nevada.com
Edward Bernstein
Ph: 702-471-5669
Fax: 702-547-3630
Email: ed@bernstein4senate.com
NEVADA SENATE UPDATE for Tuesday, September 26, 2000:
1. Why are Ensign and Bernstein refusing to pledge their support for
gun owners rights?
GOA's survey contains a written pledge for candidates to make.
Candidates promise to support, or not support, repeals on all kinds
of gun control-from restrictive gun bans to oppressive registration.
Consider the following samples:
Question 2A) Would you support a repeal of the 1993 Brady instant
check which can result in a registration list of gun owners?
2B) If yes, would you introduce legislation repealing this Act?
Question 9A) A gun ban enacted in 1996, known as the Kohl Gun Free
Zones Ban, would create a virtual one-half mile wide "gun free"
circle around every school in America. Would you support a repeal
of the Kohl Gun Free Zones Ban? 9B) If yes, would you introduce
legislation repealing this Act?
And then consider this one:
Question 7) In 1996, Congress passed two gun control laws as part
of a larger omnibus spending bill. This tactic is frequently used
by anti-gun politicians to get controversial legislation passed.
As a Congressman, would you oppose a crime bill or a spending bill
that contained any restriction upon the people's Second Amendment
right to keep and bear arms?
GOA asks the tough questions. So you can imagine why some
politicians (like Ensign and Bernstein) might not want to fill out
their GOA surveys.
2. Candidates must commit to our issues BEFORE they get elected.
If the candidates can't make a written pledge to support a repeal of
gun control BEFORE the election, how can we be sure they'll support
it AFTER the election?
There are simply too many Senators that just go to Washington to
become part of the Inside-the-Beltway "country club." They go to
the Senate and simply refuse to lift a finger on gun owners' behalf.
3. The GOA survey keeps legislators accountable.
Ensign and Bernstein might claim that they have already filled out
surveys from other gun groups, and that they don't need to fill out
any more. Regardless, candidates need to answer their GOA surveys
for two reasons:
a. As mentioned earlier, the GOA survey forces candidates to take
a stand and to let gun owners know their position on the 2nd
Amendment. Candidates are either for us or against us.
b. The GOA survey also helps keep legislators accountable. Other
groups don't release their survey results. GOA does. By
releasing the answers to these surveys, GOA helps the
grassroots to hold their legislators accountable on issues that
affect their gun rights.
Please contact Ensign and Bernstein today!
----- Pre-written letter -----
Dear Mr. Ensign,
As a candidate to represent me in the U.S. Senate, your views on my
right to keep and bear arms are very important.
Recently, Gun Owners of America sent you a candidate survey on key
gun rights issues. I strongly urge you to answer GOA's survey 100%
pro-gun and return in promptly.
Gun Owners of America will inform me how you respond.
Sincerely,
----- Pre-written letter -----
Dear Mr. Bernstein,
As a candidate to represent me in the U.S. Senate, your views on my
right to keep and bear arms are very important.
Recently, Gun Owners of America sent you a candidate survey on key
gun rights issues. I strongly urge you to answer GOA's survey 100%
pro-gun and return in promptly.
Gun Owners of America will inform me how you respond.
Sincerely,
**************
Do not reply directly to this message.
To subscribe to free, low-volume GOA alerts, go to http://www.gunowners.org/ean.htm on the web.
www.ccops.org www.citizensofamerica.org www.keepandbeararms.org
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"those who sacrifice
liberty for security deserve neither"
-- Please use the pre-written letters below
Gun Owners of America E-Mail/FAX Alert
8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151
Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408 http://www.gunowners.org
ACTION INFO for Nevada gun owners:
1. Contact ENSIGN and BERNSTEIN right away.
John Ensign and Edward Bernstein are candidates for the U.S. Senate.
Both want to represent you next year in Congress. But both men have
refused to answer Gun Owners of America's Candidate Survey. You
have the right to insist that they answer their surveys today.
2. Please use the pre-written letter to contact the two campaigns
as follows:
John Ensign
Ph: 702-880-1000
Fax: 702-880-1014
Email: info@ensign4nevada.com
Edward Bernstein
Ph: 702-471-5669
Fax: 702-547-3630
Email: ed@bernstein4senate.com
NEVADA SENATE UPDATE for Tuesday, September 26, 2000:
1. Why are Ensign and Bernstein refusing to pledge their support for
gun owners rights?
GOA's survey contains a written pledge for candidates to make.
Candidates promise to support, or not support, repeals on all kinds
of gun control-from restrictive gun bans to oppressive registration.
Consider the following samples:
Question 2A) Would you support a repeal of the 1993 Brady instant
check which can result in a registration list of gun owners?
2B) If yes, would you introduce legislation repealing this Act?
Question 9A) A gun ban enacted in 1996, known as the Kohl Gun Free
Zones Ban, would create a virtual one-half mile wide "gun free"
circle around every school in America. Would you support a repeal
of the Kohl Gun Free Zones Ban? 9B) If yes, would you introduce
legislation repealing this Act?
And then consider this one:
Question 7) In 1996, Congress passed two gun control laws as part
of a larger omnibus spending bill. This tactic is frequently used
by anti-gun politicians to get controversial legislation passed.
As a Congressman, would you oppose a crime bill or a spending bill
that contained any restriction upon the people's Second Amendment
right to keep and bear arms?
GOA asks the tough questions. So you can imagine why some
politicians (like Ensign and Bernstein) might not want to fill out
their GOA surveys.
2. Candidates must commit to our issues BEFORE they get elected.
If the candidates can't make a written pledge to support a repeal of
gun control BEFORE the election, how can we be sure they'll support
it AFTER the election?
There are simply too many Senators that just go to Washington to
become part of the Inside-the-Beltway "country club." They go to
the Senate and simply refuse to lift a finger on gun owners' behalf.
3. The GOA survey keeps legislators accountable.
Ensign and Bernstein might claim that they have already filled out
surveys from other gun groups, and that they don't need to fill out
any more. Regardless, candidates need to answer their GOA surveys
for two reasons:
a. As mentioned earlier, the GOA survey forces candidates to take
a stand and to let gun owners know their position on the 2nd
Amendment. Candidates are either for us or against us.
b. The GOA survey also helps keep legislators accountable. Other
groups don't release their survey results. GOA does. By
releasing the answers to these surveys, GOA helps the
grassroots to hold their legislators accountable on issues that
affect their gun rights.
Please contact Ensign and Bernstein today!
----- Pre-written letter -----
Dear Mr. Ensign,
As a candidate to represent me in the U.S. Senate, your views on my
right to keep and bear arms are very important.
Recently, Gun Owners of America sent you a candidate survey on key
gun rights issues. I strongly urge you to answer GOA's survey 100%
pro-gun and return in promptly.
Gun Owners of America will inform me how you respond.
Sincerely,
----- Pre-written letter -----
Dear Mr. Bernstein,
As a candidate to represent me in the U.S. Senate, your views on my
right to keep and bear arms are very important.
Recently, Gun Owners of America sent you a candidate survey on key
gun rights issues. I strongly urge you to answer GOA's survey 100%
pro-gun and return in promptly.
Gun Owners of America will inform me how you respond.
Sincerely,
**************
Do not reply directly to this message.
To subscribe to free, low-volume GOA alerts, go to http://www.gunowners.org/ean.htm on the web.
www.ccops.org www.citizensofamerica.org www.keepandbeararms.org
------------------
"those who sacrifice
liberty for security deserve neither"