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			    RKBA-ALERT Digest 535
Topics covered in this issue include:
  1) ALERT: CA CT FL KS KY MD NE TX - State and Local by NRA Alerts 
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Topic No. 1
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 19:21:10 -0500 (EST)
From: NRA Alerts 
To: rkba-alert-real.nra
Subject: ALERT: CA CT FL KS KY MD NE TX - State and Local
Message-ID: 
February 27, 1998
State and Local Alerts: CA CT FL KS KY MD NE TX
FLORIDA: The Constitution Revision Commission will hold public
hearings on CRC-167, the proposed constitutional amendment
relating to firearms.  The first hearing will be held on Friday,
March 6, at Nova University in the Hull Auditorium located at
3200 S. University Drive in Davie and the second hearing will be
held on Thursday, March 12, at the University of South Florida,
St. Petersburg campus in the DEP Florida Marine Research Building
USF/DEP Joint Use Auditorium located at 100 8th Avenue, S.E. in
St. Petersburg.  Both hearing will begin at 9:00 a.m. and  those
wishing to be heard by the committee need to sign up prior to the
start time.  
CALIFORNIA: Your Help is Needed!  Volunteers are needed in
Huntington Beach and Burbank to help stamp mail March 2-5 for the
special election campaign of Tom Bordonaro for Congress.  For
further details on locations and times please call (714) 894-5252
in Huntington Beach or (818) 841-5210 in Burbank.  In other news, 
AB 23, Assemblyman Don Perata's proposal to expand California's
Assault Weapons Control Act (AWCA), has been scheduled for a
hearing next Tuesday in the Senate Public Safety Committee. It is
critical that you contact the members of the Public Safety
Committee at (916) 445-4251and urge them to vote "NO" on AB 23! 
 
CONNECTICUT: Your phone calls to legislators and the show of
support of over 50 people at the public hearing Tuesday on SB 315
worked well. Yesterday, the State Legislature's Public Safety
committee reported out SB 315, the NRA-backed Range Protection
bill with only one dissenting vote.  SB 315 now moves to the
Judiciary Committee for consideration. MEMBERS: Please contact
your State Senator at  (860) 240-0500 and your State
Representative at (860) 240-0400 and ask them to urge the members
of the Judiciary Committee to report  SB 315 out of their
committee favorably.  
KANSAS: On Wednesday, March 4 at 1:30 pm a hearing will be held
on HB 2885, the NRA-backed Range Protection bill in the Federal
and State Affairs Committee. MEMBERS: Please make plans to attend
Wednesday hearing which will be held in room 519 south of the
State Capitol Building in Topeka . 
KENTUCKY: Good News! Last week Governor Paul Patton (R) signed HB
54, the NRA-backed Range Protection bill into law.  Kentucky
joins 28 other states with laws protecting shooting range
facilities against certain noise ordinances or nuisances actions
aimed at shutting them down.  
MARYLAND: The "Gun Days" in both the House and Senate Judicial
Proceedings Committees (JPR) have been set and it is important
that we have a strong show of force at these hearings. On Friday,
March 13, at 1:00 p.m. the House Judiciary Committee will meet on
gun issues in room 121of the Lowe House Office Building and on
Wednesday, March 18, at 1:00 p.m. the Senate JPR will hold their
hearings in room 300 of the James Senate Office Building in
Annapolis.  Those who wish to testify need to be there prior to
the hearing time to get their names on the list.  For a complete
listing of gun bills call NRA-ILA's Grassroots Division at 1-800-
392-8683 or check out http: //mlis.state .md.us /1998
rs/subjects/guns.htm. 
HCI IN NEBRASKA: On Thursday, March 5, Handgun Control, Inc's
Sarah Brady will be in Omaha to speak at a breakfast sponsored by
the University of Nebraska-Omaha's College of Continuing Studies. 
The event is scheduled for 7:00 a.m. at the Holiday Inn
Convention Center, located at 77nd & Grover in Omaha.  It is
probably no coincidence that she will be in town so close to a
vote on LB 465, right to carry legislation, pending before the
Nebraska Legislature. MEMBERS: Tickets can be purchase for $10 to
this speaking engagement by calling (402) 595-2322. 
TEXAS: The Texas Department of Public Safety has signed a
reciprocity agreement with the State of Arkansas through which
concealed handgun licensees (CHL) can legally carry their
concealed handgun across that state line and vice versa.  As
always when carrying in another state you must abide by the
carrying law of that state.  
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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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