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Apparently using an official NRA channel, its NRA Alerts mailing list,
NRA management has reacted to the charges that First Vice President 
Charlton Heston supported and lobbied for the 1968 Gun Control Act.  
I say "reacted" because the message fails to respond to any of the 
issues or implications raised by the historical fact of Heston's 
backing GCA '68 and his failure to repudiate his earlier stand on 
that law.
Chris Knox
http://www.NealKnox.com
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   From: alerts@Mainstream.net (NRA Alerts)
   Date: 3/6/98, 8:39:48 PM
Subject: INFO: Charton Heston -- On the Record as NRA's First Vice
President
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)
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