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                         SPECIAL ELECTION
       On Tuesday, March 10, a special election will be held in
Congressional District 22 . The NRA's Political Victory Fund has
endorsed Assembyman Tom Bordonaro for election to this office.
You can help by volunteering to work at a phonebank at the
Republican Party Headquarters in Burbank on Saturday 3/7, Sunday
3/8, Monday 3/9 and Tuesday 3/10.   For more information call
(818) 841-5210. Last week, with the help of NRA volunteers,
hundreds of thousands of mailers  were completed and sent out to
the district. Thanks go out to all who gave their time.
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This information is provided as a service of the National Rifle
Association Institute for Legislative Action, Fairfax, VA.
This and other information on the Second Amendment and the NRA is
available at: http://WWW.NRA.Org
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Topic No. 2
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 19:21:08 -0500 (EST)
From: NRA Alerts 
To: general-rkba-real.nra
Subject: INFO: Charton Heston -- On the Record as NRA's First Vice President
Message-ID: 
March 6, 1998
  Charton Heston -- On the Record as NRA's First Vice President
NOTE: A handful of dissidents have attempted to smear and impugn
the integrity of NRA First Vice President Charlton Heston
regarding the Second Amendment and Bill of Rights.  As both
friend and foe know, Mr. Heston has spent decades defending the
Second Amendment civil rights of all law-abiding Americans.  NRA
members, gunowners, and even anti-gun groups and the national
news media have long known of his very public political views and
his very tireless work to promote our rights and political
candidates who support those rights.
In the interest of alleviating any confusion caused by a few
minor dissidents, you are encouraged to review just a few of the
public statements made by Mr. Heston in major television
appearances, viewed by literally millions of Americans.  Note
that each of these directly quoted comments were made during the
past year of Mr. Heston's term of service as your First Vice
President.
THE SECOND AMENDMENT
"The First Amendment is crucial.  Of course it is.  So are all
the others.  And the Second Amendment is the one that guarantees
that people can bear arms to protect themselves."
(MSNBC TV / 9-14-97)
THE FIGHT FOR AMERICA'S FIRST FREEDOM
"I simply cannot stand by and watch a right guaranteed by the
Constitution of the United States come under attack from those
who either can't understand it, don't like the sound of it, or
find themselves too philosophically squeamish to see why it
remains the first among equals: Because it is the right we turn
to when all else fails.  That's why the Second Amendment is
America's first freedom."
(Speech to National Press Club / 9-11-97)
THE FOLLY OF BANNING FIREARMS
"There's no such thing as a good gun.  There's no such thing as a
bad gun.  A gun in the hands of a bad man is a very dangerous
thing.  A gun in the hands of a good person is no danger to
anyone except the bad guys."
(FOX News Channel / 9-15-97)
SO-CALLED "ASSAULT WEAPONS" ARE PROTECTED BY THE SECOND AMENDMENT
"You could say that the paparazzi and the tabloids are sort of
the `assault weapons' of the First Amendment.  They're ugly, a
lot of people don't like them, but they're protected by the First
Amendment -- just as `assault weapons' are protected by the
Second Amendment."
(FOX News Channel / 9-15-97)
CLINTON'S BRADY LAW IS INEFFECTIVE
"He [President Clinton] boasts about 186,000 people denied
firearms under the Brady Law rules.  The Brady Law has been in
force for three years.  In that time, they have prosecuted seven
people and put three of them in prison.  You know, the President
has entertained more felons than that at fundraising coffees in
the White House, for Pete's sake."
(FOX News Sunday / 5-18-97)
NO REASON TO BAN ANY FIREARM
"Let me make a short, opening, blanket comment.  There are no
good guns.  There are no bad guns.  Any gun in the hands of a bad
man is a bad thing.  Any gun in the hands of a decent person is
no threat to anybody -- except bad people."
(NBC "Meet the Press" / 5-18-97)
NEWS MEDIA DEMONIZES SEMIAUTOMATIC FIREARMS
"Teddy Roosevelt hunted in the last century with a semiautomatic
rifle.  Most deer rifles are semiautomatic ... it's become a
demonized phrase.  The media distorts that and the public ill
understands it."
(NBC "Meet the Press" / 5-18-97)
GUN CONTROL LAWS IGNORE TRUTH OF FOUNDING FATHERS
"You know, the Bill of Rights guarantees every citizen the right
to own and bear firearms.  It doesn't say anything about how
many, how much you can pay for them.  That's in the Bill of
Rights.  That's a sacred document in our country.  There's no
other country in the world that has such document.  And you know
what it's purpose is?  To prevent the federal government from
interfering with private citizens' rights ... If you will read
what the Founding Fathers wrote when they were writing it --
Jefferson, Mason, Madison, Patrick Henry, Tom Paine -- every one
of them wrote at great length that they were talking about the
individual rights of individual citizens."
(NBC "Meet the Press" / 5-18-97)
MISSION TO PASS BILL OF RIGHTS TO THE NEXT GENERATION
"We have to pass on to America in the 21st century the same Bill
of Rights that those wise, old, dead white guys that invented
this country passed on to us."
(NBC "Meet the Press," / 5-18-97)
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