RI AWB coming, please help!

[CarbineKid]

This Tuesday our esteemed Governor Lincoln Chafee along with the RI State Police Hose and Senate president and AG Peter Kilmartin will be proposing several anti gun pieces of legislation. In it will be some form of AWB, and mag limit which is going to rival CT and NY. We desperately need help to defeat this. I have been talking to some people that will be leading the fight. We need to defeat this in the Judiciary committees, if it hits the floor for a vote it will pass.
I'm sure Washington will be calling these reps to push their anti gun agenda. Could you please e-mail the reps here and let them know how you feel. Please let them know RI already has some of the "strongest" gun laws in the country, and if this passes you will do whatever possible to help unseat them(send money to opponents etc).
Thank You!!!

The list can be found here RI State website

House Judiciary

Representative Edith H. Ajello Chairperson rep-ajello@rilin.state.ri.us

Representative Joseph S. Almeida rep-almeida@rilin.state.ri.us

Representative Christopher R. Blazejewski rep-blazejewski@rilin.state.ri.us

Representative Dennis M. Canario rep-canario@rilin.state.ri.us

Representative Doreen Marie Costa rep-costa@rilin.state.ri.us

Representative Robert E. Craven, Sr. Member rep-craven@rilin.state.ri.us

Representative John J. DeSimone Vice Chairperson rep-desimone@rilin.state.ri.us

Representative Donald J. Lally Jr. rep-lally@rilin.state.ri.us

Representative Charlene Lima rep-lima@rilin.state.ri.us

Representative Michael J. Marcello rep-marcello@rilin.state.ri.us

Representative Peter F. Martin Secretary rep-martin@rilin.state.ri.us

Representative K. Joseph Shekarchi rep-shekarchi@rilin.state.ri.us

Representative Donna M. Walsh rep-walsh@rilin.state.ri.us


Senate Judiciary


Senator Stephen R. Archambault sen-archambault@rilin.state.ri.us

Senator William J. Conley, Jr. sen-conley@rilin.state.ri.us

Senator Dawson Tucker Hodgson sen-hodgson@rilin.state.ri.us

Senator Paul V. Jabour Vice Chairperson sen-jabour@rilin.state.ri.us

Senator Frank S. Lombardi sen-lombardi@rilin.state.ri.us

Senator Erin P. Lynch Secretary sen-lynch@rilin.state.ri.us

Senator Michael J. McCaffrey Chairperson sen-mccaffrey@rilin.state.ri.us

Senator Harold M. Metts sen-metts@rilin.state.ri.us

Senator Donna M. Nesselbush sen-nesselbush@rilin.state.ri.us

Senator Leonidas P. Raptakis sen-raptakis@rilin.state.ri.us

 

[Spats McGee]

First of all, good luck to RI. I'm sorry to see that it's joining the Great Race to the Bottom of 2013.

Second, can you point give us a link or two to the various bill(s) at issue? That would help us know exactly what's going on.

 

[Dan F]

Kid,

Let me second Spats' wish - good luck to you, and all residents of RI. As one of the most recent victims of the delusional Blue-State hysteria, I can tell you the politics is nasty (see my post on an example from MD here ).

Even if the worst happens and the bill passes and gets signed, there are still options, though. The courts are one, of course, but they take so long and the outcome is so fraught with uncertainty I wouldn't expect anyone to pick that as the preferred method. But if I'm not mistaken, you should be able to petition a referendum for a statewide vote.

I'm not sure about RI, but currently in MD all that is required is 31,349 signatures (out of a population in excess of 5.8 million). We're organized enough here to make that pretty easily, I believe... and then it would get on the 2014 ballot, and the implementation of the law would be postponed until then at the least. Getting that extra year alone will be worth it, and we might be able to do well enough with the voter turnout (w/ the delay to let the furor diminish still more, and apathy on the anti's side, and a much more active turnout for us) to actually win.

Of course, a legislative victory IS preferable. But however it goes, never give up the fight.