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ALERT: Legislation Authorizing Handgun Registry Will Subvert
Grassroots Lawsuit! [State of Pennsylvania]
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
Pennsylvania Alert! October 17, 2000
Calling it legislation to expressly permit the Pennsylvania State Police to maintain a limited handgun sales database, state representative Dan Frankel (D-23rd District) has introduced HB 2811, legislation that will make it legal for Pennsylvania law enforcement officials to register every
handgun that is legally transferred in Pennsylvania!
The purpose of this legislation is not only to register guns, but also to protect the State Police from a pending grassroots
lawsuit that would force them to give up the illegal firearms registry they have been maintaining for years!
When Pennsylvania's Uniform Firearms Act was changed more than five years ago, language was added that made it expressly illegal
for the State Police, or any official, to maintain a record of handgun transfers -- but the State Police have been doing it
illegally ever since. They say that their illegal records are not a registry because every gun in Pennsylvania isn't required
to be in it -- only those that are transferred by dealers!
There is a pending lawsuit by grassroots gun owners that will challenge the illegal police registry.
State officials know the police registry is illegal, and are trying to defeat Pennsylvania's gun owners before they can get to court to prove it!
Here's what to do:
Contact your Pennsylvania state representative and state senator today and tell them you oppose any legislation that permits public officials to register your guns. Also tell them that you want the
State Police to stop registering guns now. Here's how to reach your state legislators:
State Representatives:
Write to your state representative at Pennsylvania House of Representatives, State Capitol, Harrisburg, PA 17120-0028,
and call them at the Capitol switchboard at 717-787-2372.
State Senators:
Write to your state senator at Senate of Pennsylvania, State Capitol, Harrisburg, PA 17120-0028, and call them at the Capitol switchboard at 717-787-5920.
Other candidates:
Use the candidate contact information located at http://www.gunowners.org/spa0100.htm to urge these folks to publicly oppose HB 2811 and make an issue of it with their opponents.
You can use the sample letters that follow. If you do not know who your state senator and representative are, you can look them
up in the GOA Legislative Action Center. Simply go to http://www.gunowners.org/activism.htm and select PA in the Guide to States section, then enter your zipcode.
State legislators have scheduled a session *after* election day to do the dirty-work they wouldn't dare do before you go to the
polls -- contact them today and tell them you've had your fill of gun control in Pennsylvania!
Any ?s Call GOA
Guns Save Lives
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Dear Representative,
I am writing to ask you to oppose Rep. Dan Frankel's legislation - -- HB 2811 -- that would make it legal for Pennsylvania officials to register handguns. Pennsylvania's present law was written to
protect gun owners from dangerous and dishonest public officials who would abuse lists of guns and gun owners for their devious purposes. I want that law to be made stronger, not weaker. I also want you to put pressure on the State Police to end their
illegal handgun registry.
Please let me know what you intend to do. Gun Owners of America will keep me informed of how you vote on these issues.
Sincerely,
_____________________
Dear Senator,
I am writing to ask you to oppose Rep. Dan Frankel's legislation - -- HB 2811 -- that would make it legal for Pennsylvania officials to register handguns. Pennsylvania's present law was written to
protect gun owners from dangerous and dishonest public officials who would abuse lists of guns and gun owners for their devious purposes. I want that law to be made stronger, not weaker. I also want you to put pressure on the State Police to end their
illegal handgun registry.
Please let me know what you intend to do. Gun Owners of America will keep me informed of how you vote on these issues.
Sincerely,
_____________________
Dear Candidate,
I am writing to ask you to oppose Rep. Dan Frankel's legislation, HB 2811 that would make it legal for Pennsylvania officials to
register handguns. Pennsylvania's present law was written to protect gun owners from dangerous and dishonest public officials
who would abuse lists of guns and gun owners for their devious purposes. I want that law to be made stronger, not weaker. I also want you to put pressure on the State Police to end their illegal handgun registry.
I urge you to publicly challenge your opponent to oppose this legislation, too.
Please let me know what you intend to do. Gun Owners of America will keep me informed of how you vote on these issues.
Sincerely,
If letter writing is not your bag, emails and or telephone calls to your state senator, representatives and candidates for office are another option.
By the way, The State Police are already "maintaining a registry of firearms", contrairy to the requirements of EXISTING LAW. They claim that what they are doing is not registration, but do not really tell us mere mortals what it is.
Also, there is a "grass roots" suit opposing the game that the "Coal and Iron Cops", with the blessing of Governor Ridge, are playing. Enactment of Frankel's proposal, HR 2811 would by-pass this suit. Let your representatives and senators know that you oppose registration. Remember, if you will, that CONFISCATION FOLLOWS REGISTRATION.
Not only are your guns involved, your basic civil rights are also involved, and the rights your efforts might help save are YOURS.
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ALERT FROM CCOPS: CONCERNED CITIZENS OPPOSED TO POLICE STATES
(subscribe and unsubscribe instructions are at end of Alert)
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ALERT: Legislation Authorizing Handgun Registry Will Subvert
Grassroots Lawsuit! [State of Pennsylvania]
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
Pennsylvania Alert! October 17, 2000
Calling it legislation to expressly permit the Pennsylvania State Police to maintain a limited handgun sales database, state representative Dan Frankel (D-23rd District) has introduced HB 2811, legislation that will make it legal for Pennsylvania law enforcement officials to register every
handgun that is legally transferred in Pennsylvania!
The purpose of this legislation is not only to register guns, but also to protect the State Police from a pending grassroots
lawsuit that would force them to give up the illegal firearms registry they have been maintaining for years!
When Pennsylvania's Uniform Firearms Act was changed more than five years ago, language was added that made it expressly illegal
for the State Police, or any official, to maintain a record of handgun transfers -- but the State Police have been doing it
illegally ever since. They say that their illegal records are not a registry because every gun in Pennsylvania isn't required
to be in it -- only those that are transferred by dealers!
There is a pending lawsuit by grassroots gun owners that will challenge the illegal police registry.
State officials know the police registry is illegal, and are trying to defeat Pennsylvania's gun owners before they can get to court to prove it!
Here's what to do:
Contact your Pennsylvania state representative and state senator today and tell them you oppose any legislation that permits public officials to register your guns. Also tell them that you want the
State Police to stop registering guns now. Here's how to reach your state legislators:
State Representatives:
Write to your state representative at Pennsylvania House of Representatives, State Capitol, Harrisburg, PA 17120-0028,
and call them at the Capitol switchboard at 717-787-2372.
State Senators:
Write to your state senator at Senate of Pennsylvania, State Capitol, Harrisburg, PA 17120-0028, and call them at the Capitol switchboard at 717-787-5920.
Other candidates:
Use the candidate contact information located at http://www.gunowners.org/spa0100.htm to urge these folks to publicly oppose HB 2811 and make an issue of it with their opponents.
You can use the sample letters that follow. If you do not know who your state senator and representative are, you can look them
up in the GOA Legislative Action Center. Simply go to http://www.gunowners.org/activism.htm and select PA in the Guide to States section, then enter your zipcode.
State legislators have scheduled a session *after* election day to do the dirty-work they wouldn't dare do before you go to the
polls -- contact them today and tell them you've had your fill of gun control in Pennsylvania!
Any ?s Call GOA
Guns Save Lives
- ----- Pre-written Messages -----
Dear Representative,
I am writing to ask you to oppose Rep. Dan Frankel's legislation - -- HB 2811 -- that would make it legal for Pennsylvania officials to register handguns. Pennsylvania's present law was written to
protect gun owners from dangerous and dishonest public officials who would abuse lists of guns and gun owners for their devious purposes. I want that law to be made stronger, not weaker. I also want you to put pressure on the State Police to end their
illegal handgun registry.
Please let me know what you intend to do. Gun Owners of America will keep me informed of how you vote on these issues.
Sincerely,
_____________________
Dear Senator,
I am writing to ask you to oppose Rep. Dan Frankel's legislation - -- HB 2811 -- that would make it legal for Pennsylvania officials to register handguns. Pennsylvania's present law was written to
protect gun owners from dangerous and dishonest public officials who would abuse lists of guns and gun owners for their devious purposes. I want that law to be made stronger, not weaker. I also want you to put pressure on the State Police to end their
illegal handgun registry.
Please let me know what you intend to do. Gun Owners of America will keep me informed of how you vote on these issues.
Sincerely,
_____________________
Dear Candidate,
I am writing to ask you to oppose Rep. Dan Frankel's legislation, HB 2811 that would make it legal for Pennsylvania officials to
register handguns. Pennsylvania's present law was written to protect gun owners from dangerous and dishonest public officials
who would abuse lists of guns and gun owners for their devious purposes. I want that law to be made stronger, not weaker. I also want you to put pressure on the State Police to end their illegal handgun registry.
I urge you to publicly challenge your opponent to oppose this legislation, too.
Please let me know what you intend to do. Gun Owners of America will keep me informed of how you vote on these issues.
Sincerely,
If letter writing is not your bag, emails and or telephone calls to your state senator, representatives and candidates for office are another option.
By the way, The State Police are already "maintaining a registry of firearms", contrairy to the requirements of EXISTING LAW. They claim that what they are doing is not registration, but do not really tell us mere mortals what it is.
Also, there is a "grass roots" suit opposing the game that the "Coal and Iron Cops", with the blessing of Governor Ridge, are playing. Enactment of Frankel's proposal, HR 2811 would by-pass this suit. Let your representatives and senators know that you oppose registration. Remember, if you will, that CONFISCATION FOLLOWS REGISTRATION.
Not only are your guns involved, your basic civil rights are also involved, and the rights your efforts might help save are YOURS.