Important FOAC Meeting Issues & Newsletter – October 14, 2007!



This past weekend the FOAC voter’s guide received final approval and we will be uploading them onto the website shortly. You will notice that a number of counties do not have any recommendations and that is because the county Bureaus of Election continue to obstruct the public and grassroots organizations from receiving candidate information.



The reason this message and newsletter is several days late is that there are many controversial issues and concepts being debated in Harrisburg that concern us and have kept us extremely busy and, in some ways, defy description. For instance today, just prior to sending this message to you, the PA House of Representatives debated the issue of a Constitutional Convention (Con/Con). It escapes us as to how a Con/Con will do anything to solve the myriad problems that now exist in this Commonwealth and the examples of history only serve to prove our point. We currently lack the basic elements of a responsive government and at the heart of our problems is the very simple premise of responsibility and accountability for ALL.



Please take a moment to consider and answer the following questions:

1. Do you support a Constitutional Convention - ____ Yes ____ No

2. Do you support one of the following:

a. Reduce the size of the legislature (HB 55) - ____ Yes ____ No

b. Return PA to a Part Time Legislature - ____ Yes ____ No

Comments:



We have several very important events and important efforts occurring all at once. The election, legislative efforts to fundamentally change our form of government, gun control and constitutional infringements and judicial and judiciary failures are just a few of the topics that are or should be addressed by the state representatives. To highlight these issues, and to bring attention to Pro-Gun Legislation, we are going to be rallying gun owners again in Harrisburg on October 23rd (see the attached file).

This was an email I got, here is PAFOA link to event...
http://www.pafoa.org/forum/forum-ann...arrisburg.html

Please keep in mind that if YOU come across any information and/or documented evidence of controversial statements of ANY Judge, Legislator or Candidate for office regarding gun control or our Constitution please forward this information immediately to us (this includes potential candidates for County offices also). FOAC will examine and deal with each submitted item with the utmost haste.



Again, attached to this message is the FOAC e-newsletter. For more important developments and important news links that contain up to the minute information on political, election and recent firearms issues please visit our website at www.foac-pac.org. IF you would like FOAC to hold a special meeting in your area to energize local gun owners please contact us for further details.



All suggestions on improvements and/or content are welcome!



Best Regards,



Kim Stolfer, Chairman



FOAC -- 2007 Meeting Schedule

Jan 14, Feb 11, Mar 11, Apr 15, May 6, [Primary Election - May 15th] - June 10, July 8, Aug 12, Sept 9, Oct 14, Nov 4, [General Election - November 6th] Dec 9

Time: 10:00 AM

Location: Whitehall Borough Bldg (off Rt.51)

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http://www.foac-pac.org

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Volume 7, No. 10 www.foac-pac.org October 13, 2007


Firearms Owners Against Crime



"As riches increase and accumulate in few hands, as luxury prevails in society, virtue will be in a greater degree considered as only a graceful appendage of wealth, and the tendency of things will be to depart from the republican standard. This is the real disposition of human nature; it is what neither the honorable member nor myself can correct. It is a common misfortunate that awaits our State constitution, as well as all others." -- Alexander Hamilton (speech to the New York Ratifying Convention, June 1788)





E-Newsletter & FOAC Meeting Notice

October 14, 2007



Meeting Agenda-



Invited Guest Speakers:

· Vince Gastgeb (County Council-District 5)

· Jan Rea (County Council-District 2)

· Sue Caldwell (County Council-District 7)

7.0 Treasurers Report
7.1 Presentation of the past month’s report

8.0 Old Business
8.1 None

9.0 NEW BUSINESS

9.1 Voter’s Guide Approval

9.2 Harrisburg developments and legislative review

9.3 Judiciary Committee Hearings (Past, Present and Future)

9.3.1 Fall Anti-Gun Offensive Plans

9.3.2 Lobbying & Education Day – October 23rd

9.4 Pro-Gun Agenda Developments

9.5 Political Events Review and Summary

9.6 Membership committee developments

Federal issues:

9.7 HR 2640 & Public Debate / Issues



**Upcoming Gun Show: October 27th & 28th ( York PA /Appalachian Promotions)



For more information on FOAC efforts to ‘Protect YOUR Rights’, THE MOST CURRENT VOTER’S GUIDES, donating to or becoming a member of FOAC please click on this link: http://www.foac-pac.org/



FOAC - 2007 Meeting Schedule

Jan 14, 2nd Sunday, Feb 11, 2nd Sunday, Mar 11, 2nd Sunday, Apr 15, 3rd Sunday, May 6, 1st Sunday, Jun 10, 2nd Sunday, Jul 8, 2nd Sunday, Aug 12, 2nd Sunday, Sep 9, 2nd Sunday, Oct 14, 2nd Sunday, Nov 4, 1st Sunday, Dec 9, 2nd Sunday

**Time of Meeting: 10:00 AM

**Location: Whitehall Borough Bldg (off Rt.51 – ask for directions)

****Coffee and Donuts will be provided

***Primary Election -- May 15 (Results Finalized)

***General Election -- Nov. 6



VERY IMPORTANT PLEASE READ and consider attending

PA Legislative Battles Over Gun Control Continue

Allegheny County Sportsmen’s League—Legislative Committee

Pennsylvania and our freedoms are yet again at a crossroads where our legislators are being faced with an onslaught of anti-gun legislation in this fall session. The furor in the early part of this year and our subsequent news conference put them on notice that we held our freedoms in the highest regard. Since then groups from the District Attorneys Association, the Governors office, the PA State Police, local Mayors from urban centers and selected urban police spokespersons have been lobbying for legislation that will create minefields for gun owners. Anti-gun legislation such as HB 1536 (mandatory training before YOU can buy a gun) and HB 1744 (numerous gun related issues) and others have been quietly receiving attention in committees due to this pressure while at the same time pushing pro-gun legislation aside that we worked so hard to get introduced.

Therefore we are planning on taking another trip to Harrisburg on Tuesday Oct 23, 2007 to reinforce in legislators minds the premise that we EXPECT action on ‘our’ legislation and that we are closely watching the legislative process and every action taken on the anti-gun bills.

This will be a day devoted strictly to Legislator Interaction and Lobbying/Education that will run from 9am to 3 pm in the Capitol building and associated offices in Harrisburg .

Why is it SO important for the average gun owner to take part in this???

Certain Philadelphia legislators have even stooped to using tax money to pay for a poll that ‘supposedly’ demonstrates that even ‘gun owners’ want more gun control to include One Gun a Month, Mandatory Training, Assault Weapon Bans and other gun control concepts. Have YOU or ANYONE you know been surveyed OR does this belief have ANY support in YOUR club? NO!! Well we DIDN’T think so!!

This particular individual lobbying event will be focused on dispelling these notions. It is important to remember that there are dozens of anti-gun bills that are either pending or that have been held up in the Judiciary Committee so far. Combining that with the fact that over 25% of the PA House is comprised of new representatives in this session with a large portion of them not having committed to a decision (much less a vote yet) on all of these Anti and PRO gun bills pending. We feel it is imperative that we take the initiative to educate these new Reps and other incumbent Reps as to why they should support and oppose other proposed legislation. We must educate them with facts, figures, and real world realities about crime and criminal problems and how these laws could help and hurt the people of Pennsylvania . If we fail you can expect to have some of these anti-gun, anti-constitution, anti-freedom bills become laws that will negatively affect all Pennsylvanians for decades.

DON’T LET THIS HAPPEN!!!!

You personally can make a huge difference by attending and participating in this event to help educate our legislators with your fellow gun owners as to the reason why firearm ownership is so important to you. YOUR voice could make the all the difference at this Legislator “Lobbying and Education” day in the state capital.

Please make EVERY EFFORT to join us on this most important opportunity, to protect your constitutional rights to keep and bear arms and help pass PRO-gun bills that will make PA a safer place to live for everyone except the criminals.

We PROMISE another spirited day!!

As a side note IF we let the government hold a Con / Con there is NOTHING to prevent the delegates from suspending the rules as it was done under the articles of confederation and forming a new government. Do you really think all they would leave in a 2nd amendment or the rest of the bill of rights in today P.C. country? The founding fathers warned US about never letting a Con / Con happen again, after they used it as the reasons to have one to “fix” the articles of confederation.

There was also several dozen firearm related news stories attached to that email go to FOAC web site to read them www.foac-pac.org