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Gun Owners' End of the Year Report
Your involvement helped to impact legislation in Congress and the
states.  Here's what people are saying about GOA and its members...
     "I appreciate the hard work Gun Owners of America and its
members have put into pushing my bill to repeal the Lautenberg gun
ban, H.R. 1009.  Your strong support has helped H.R. 1009 get more
cosponsors than any other bill dealing with this pernicious law.
Thank you again for the tremendous work your organization has put
into fighting for our Second Amendment rights".
  -- Rep. Helen Chenoweth (R-ID)
     "If it were not for Larry Pratt and Gun Owners of America, I
shudder to think where our gun rights would be today.  It is Gun
Owners' members, showering the Congress with faxes, postcards and
telegrams who ensure that your Representative does not forget the
promises made during the election season."
  -- Pat Buchanan, syndicated columnist and Crossfire talk show host
     "Gun Owners of America is the only no compromise gun lobby
in Washington. I am grateful to have the friendship of the man who
makes GOA the leader in defending America's precious freedoms."
  -- Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX)
     "Thank you for your mail on Sen. Webster's [concealed carry
bill].  We have had a ton of cards supporting the bill.  Please
continue to keep the cards, etc. flowing -- especially to the
committee chairs."
  -- North Carolina State Senator Bob Carpenter (R-42)
Partial Highlights of Our Accomplishments Together This Year
 -- Keep this for reference and show it to your pro-gun friends
January
* Gun Owners of America alerts gun owners to BLM restrictions on
  Second Amendment rights.
February
* GOA provides its members with postcards asking legislators to
  support a full repeal of the Lautenberg gun ban.  In particular,
  GOA members make a special effort to ask Rep. Helen Chenoweth
  (R-ID) to take the lead in introducing the FULL repeal.
March
* Responding to the intense pressure generated after GOA's BLM
  alert (Jan.), Interior Secretary Bruce Babbit gives in to gun
  owners and orders the BLM restrictions pulled.
* GOA works with Rep. Chenoweth in planning the introduction of a
  full Lautenberg repeal.  GOA  activists blitz Congress in support
  of the upcoming Chenoweth bill; as a result, offices get hundreds
  of calls asking them to cosponsor the bill -- before it's even
  introduced.
* GOA asks grassroots to contact Rep. Bob Barr (R-GA) and dispute
  his assertion in USA Today (3/6/97) that the Lautenberg gun ban
  is "important and worthwhile legislation."
April
* Gun owners win big in Georgia, as GOA and CSG (Citizens for
  Safe Government) team up to prevent federal gun police (BATF)
  from getting expanded jurisdiction in the state.
May
* Pressure from GOA members and activists finally puts the
  Chenoweth bill (H.R. 1009) over the top -- that is, H.R. 1009 now
  has more cosponsors than any other Lautenberg repeal.
* GOA members begin a postcard campaign against Sen. Hatch's
  anti-gun crime bill (S. 10).
June
* GOA contacts Senate offices with the specific details in S. 10,
  showing how it compromises gun owners' rights.  Several offices
  respond by telling GOA they can not support the bill as drafted.
  Sen. Wayne Allard (R-CO) pulls his name as cosponsor of the bill.
* GOA posts the names of Reps. who vote against getting us out of
  the anti-gun U.N.
July
* Gun Owners hosts the Women's Gun Rights Day on Capitol Hill.
  GOA organizes about a dozen groups for an anti-Lautenberg press
  conference.  Gun Owners Foundation organizes a well-attended
  luncheon for Reps. and their staffs, and educates them on gun
  rights issues.
August-September
* GOA posts town hall meetings for activists to lobby their Reps.
  on gun related issues.  GOA also helps activists blitz Congress
  by providing pre-printed postcards to distribute.
October
* GOA activists turn up the heat to defeat the anti-gun
  "Incumbent Protection Bill," which would squelch the ability of
  groups (like GOA) to report on legislators' records.  One senator
  receives so many calls from GOA members that his office phones
  GOA to plead that we "call off the dogs."  Not surprisingly, that
  senator switched his vote to the pro-gun position the very next
  day.
November
* Gun owners win big in Washington state as I-676 is defeated.
  And nationwide, GOA continues its lobby campaign against S. 10,
  resulting in one more cosponsor removing his name.
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