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     At the June meeting, despite an effort to prevent it by the
NRA hierarchy, members will vote on far-reaching changes to the
Articles of Incorporation -- which under controlling New York Law
cannot be modified except by the members at an annual meeting.
     The issues to be decided, which will be published in the May
NRA magazines, include the amount of reporting of financial
relationships between NRA Directors, its contractors and NRA; term
limits for Directors; and whether to reduce the 76-member Board to
"no more than 24."
     The eight amendments were offered by retiring Director Ronin
Colman, long-time NRA member proponent Joe Tartaro, and Endowment
Member Marvin Shoaf.
Although each were submitted for publication by December 1, as
required by Bylaw Article XVI, the Secretary's Office (on written
advice of longtime outside legal counsel Stephen N. Shulman)
decided not to publish the amendments, which could have prevented
a vote at Philadelphia.
     At least one of the authors promised to sue NRA to force
compliance with its Bylaws.  That had no effect until NRA lost
another such suit seeking to make NRA officers comply with Art.
VIII of the Bylaws, which prohibits NRA from publishing the method
of nomination of director candidates.
     While obeying the New York court's injunction ordering
compliance with the Bylaw against publishing the Nominating
Committee report, NRA published the names of the 10 plaintiffs who
were obviously petition candidates (effectively eliminating their
chance of election).  They also published a statement indicating
that management expected the ruling to be overturned on appeal.
     When the judge learned what had happened she called Shulman
into court, gave him and NRA officers a tongue-lashing, and invited
the plaintiffs to submit a motion of contempt of court.  In an
effort to head off a contempt order, NRA will publish an apology to
the court and the plaintiffs (approved by both) in the May issue.
     The apology implies that NRA voluntarily withdrew its appeal;
actually NRA had lost two appeals to "stay" the judge's order
against publication.
     Court-ordered negotiations on additional issues reportedly are
continuing as this issue goes to press.
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Shotgun News Column
NEAL KNOX REPORT
                        Evil on the Loose
                          By NEAL KNOX
     WASHINGTON, D.C. (April 1) -- There's an unspeakable horror
behind the gruesome murders of Jonesboro, Ark., schoolchildren by
their 13 and 11-year-old classmates.  Its name is evil.
     It had struck at Paducah, Ky., where a classmate
methodically shot down a group of high school students who were
engaging in something repulsive to evil:  morning prayer.
     It had struck at Pearl, Miss., where another high school
student started his day by butchering his mother, then walked
into school with a .30-30 rifle and began killing fellow
students.
     It strikes nearly every day in every city of any size across
America: 
     -- Carjackings in which pregnant mothers are dragged to
death because they were caught in the seat belt.
     -- Traffic arrests which lead to police officers' deaths
because they were cops, and rap songs say "offing pigs" is good.
     -- Robberies that turn into murder because the perpetrators
wants to see how it feels, or because they feel nothing.
     The only thing these horrors have in common is the wanton
disregard for human life, the total lack of moral moorings.
     What the three recent school murders have in common is the
fact that they were so carefully planned and meticulously
executed.
     In Paducah, the murderer remembered to bring his ear plugs
so he wouldn't hurt his ears while murdering the prayerful.
     In Pearl, the murderer was part of a group of Satanic
worshipers, some of whom may have actively encouraged the
slashing of his mother, the school murders, and a suspected
attack on those at a pizza parlor where he worked (the last
thwarted because he was stopped by a principal with a .45
pistol).
     In Jonesboro, the two boys worked out ever detail, wearing
camos, stealing the guns, stealing a getaway car, and pulling the
fire alarm to drive their former friends and classmates into the
open and into their sights.
     Evil.
     The anti-gun crowd is doing their favorite dance in the
blood of fresh victims.  That is the only way they ever make
progress in their continuing efforts to make the United States,
and the world, a gun-free society.
     The Jonesboro horror will unquestionably put new life into
the stalled Juvenile Justice Act, whose centerpiece is
"encouragement" for states to enact laws allowing teenagers to be
tried as adults for committing adult-type crimes -- eliminating
laws, like Arkansas', which will allow young murderers to walk
free with a clean record on their 18th birthday.
     And it will put even greater support behind that string of
"gun control" amendments that have been quietly waiting since the
Senate Judiciary Committee approved the bill last summer.
     Judiciary Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) has been saying the
Juvenile crime act was his "top priority."
     As the bill came out of the House last spring, it had no
anti-gun provisions on it.  But that could change when the House
eventually considers the Senate version.
     It will take a brave soul to mount a major effort against
"reasonable" gun laws being added to "Juvenile Justice" in the
wake of those unspeakably brutal shootings by juveniles who, by
law, will walk free and clean when they turn 18.
     Isn't it interesting that headline-grabbing horrors have
occurred with seemingly perfect timing to promote anti-gun
legislation?
     It could look like conspiracy:  
     -- A President and a policeman murdered with mail order guns
when a "mail order gun" bill was pending.
     -- A Senator shot down with a cheap handgun the night before
a vote on restricting cheap handguns.
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