JP> You wouldn't wear a blindfold while marking your ballot on
JP> election day, would you?  Well, if the supporters of campaign
JP> finance reform have their way, you might as well!  Under their
JP> plan, you won't know which candidates support your Second
JP> Amendment rights and which candidates would vote to ban your
JP> guns.  The campaign finance reform bills currently pending on
JP> Capitol Hill, S. 1219 & H.R. 2566, would stop groups of like-
JP> minded citizens -- NRA members, for example -- from speaking with
JP> a common voice regarding specific candidates.  Under these
JP> proposals, NRA would be prohibited from providing our members
JP> with information on candidates, as we do now with our political
JP> preference charts, leaving you to rely on the candidates
JP> themselves for information on their positions on firearms issues
    It wouldn't be constitutional.  
    All NRA (or any other group on any side of any issue) is doing is running 
its own one-issue _newspaper_ when it prints such information, and the courts 
won't allow "prior restraint" of newspapers, newsletters, etc.  There is a 
long history of such cases.
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