Ask Your U.S. Senators and Representative

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URGENT ALERT: Ask Your U.S. Senators and Representative
To Sign The Amicus Brief Against The D.C. Gun Ban Today!



As the most critical Second Amendment case of our lifetimes is now before the Supreme Court, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) is gathering signatures for an amicus (“friend of the court”) brief by Members of Congress. And we need your support to back up this important effort, today.



The case is District of Columbia v. Heller -- the case in which several District of Columbia residents have challenged the District’s laws that prohibit handgun ownership and armed self-defense in the home. This brief is an opportunity to show strong congressional support for the Second Amendment as protecting an individual right to keep and bear arms and not just a “right” to bear arms while serving in a government militia.



Sen. Hutchison’s brief points out the many occasions-from 1866 to 2005-when the Congress has spoken in favor of the Second Amendment as protecting the rights of individuals, and has taken action to protect those rights by law. Congress has also voted repeatedly to repeal the D.C. gun ban.



When Congress speaks, the Supreme Court listens. Every Senator and Congressman who supports individual rights should step forward to be heard by signing this brief. The brief is due within days, so we need your immediate help today.



Please call and email your U.S. Senators and Representative today and urge them to sign on to this critically important brief, which will be a key part of the legal battle to protect the Second Amendment in the U.S. Supreme Court.


Senator Robert P. Casey

Email: http://casey.senate.gov/contact/

Phone: (202) 224-6324 (Washington, DC)

Fax: (202) 228-0604

Phone: (717) 231-7540 (Harrisburg)

Phone: (412) 803-7370 (Pittsburgh)


Senator Arlen Specter

Email: http://specter.senate.gov/public/ind...ct.ContactForm

Phone: (202) 224-4254 (Washington, DC)

Fax: (202) 228-1229

Phone: (215) 597-7200 (Philadelphia)

Phone: (814) 453-3010 (Erie)


Representative Joe Sestak

Email: http://www.sestak.house.gov/IMA/issue_subscribe.shtml

Phone: (202) 225-2011 (Washington, DC)

Fax: (202) 226-0280

Phone: (610) 892-8623 (Media)


Representative Patrick Murphy

Email: http://www.house.gov/formpatrickmurphy/zipauth.shtml

Phone: (202) 225-4276 (Washington, DC)

Fax: (202) 225-9511

Phone: (215) 348-1194 (Doylestown)

Phone: (215) 826-1963 (Bristol)


Representative Paul E. Kanjorski

Email:

http://kanjorski.house.gov/index.php...ew&id=2&Itemid



Phone: (202) 225-6511 (Washington, DC)

Fax: (202) 225-0764

Phone: (570) 825-2200 (Wilkes-Barre)

Phone: (570) 496-1011 (Scranton)

[LastManOut]

Do you have a link to the brief? I'd hate to tell my represenative I'd like him to sign something I have not read and am sure I agree with.

[wboggs]

Do you have a link to the brief? I'd hate to tell my represenative I'd like him to sign something I have not read and am sure I agree with.

If it helps you decide this request originates from the National Rifle Association Instituet for Legislative Action. SO if you ARE in favor of unpresedented gun control, ignore this message.

http://www.nraila.org/

Did you even read my post? Let me point this part out: The case is District of Columbia v. Heller -- the case in which several District of Columbia residents have challenged the District’s laws that prohibit handgun ownership and armed self-defense in the home. This brief is an opportunity to show strong congressional support for the Second Amendment as protecting an individual right to keep and bear arms and not just a “right” to bear arms while serving in a government militia.

[LastManOut]

My question is simply concerns WHO wrote the brief and what it says. A recent piece of legislation that IRA-NLA supported I found some language which I did not in support.
A simple request for the document to read before I suppot it, seems reasonable.

[wboggs]

My question is simply concerns WHO wrote the brief and what it says. A recent piece of legislation that IRA-NLA supported I found some language which I did not in support.
A simple request for the document to read before I suppot it, seems reasonable.

I guess I kind of see it as there isn't a competing NRA type of organization fighting for our rights to bear arms that might have perfect language in their fight. I will support the NRA and it's affiliates until I see they aren't doing the job we want anymore and then I will no longer be a member and come what may.

So since they are our only hope, I support what they do and admittedly quite blindly at times. And I do that because it's either them who wants to continue as a business and receive funds for doing what they are supposed to be doing or they are committing suicide and with or without them our gun rights are doomed. So it's sort of a blind following that really doesn't matter if it's blind but I do know, their power is in our numbers so supporting their efforts is most important.

[LastManOut]

I found the full text of the NRA's Amicus Brief here. I read it and will request support from my Legislators

http://www.gurapossessky.com/news/pa...nra_amicus.pdf

[wboggs]

We are glad you approve and I'm sure the NRA sends their thanks.

[LastManOut]

We are glad you approve and I'm sure the NRA sends their thanks.

Are you kidding? They thank me at least once a week with mailings for special insurance offers, pleas for money, emails for support this, buy that. They Love ME!

[wboggs]

Are you kidding? They thank me at least once a week with mailings for special insurance offers, pleas for money, emails for support this, buy that. They Love ME!

Don't they love us all, without us, they have no job.

[LastManOut]

Don't they love us all, without us, they have no job.

Ture, true. They got my Life Membership dues. That's plenty enough.