Legislation Authorizing Handgun Registry Will Subvert
Grassroots Lawsuit!
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,
_____________________
Grassroots Lawsuit!
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,
_____________________