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from: leslemke@earthlink.net (Les Lemke)
date: 2000-10-14 00:00:00
subject: Oregon Gun Rights Under Attack By Big Monied Interests - Please Help If You Can

HEADS UP 2ND AMENDMENT ADVOCATES!  

ANTI-GUNNERS WAGING FULL BLOWN WAR 
AGAINST GUN RIGHTS IN OREGON!

YOUR LIBERTY IS ON THE LINE HERE!!

                PLEASE READ! 

PLEASE CONTRIBUTE TO THIS PRO-GUN FIGHT IF YOU CAN!
 
We're waging a war right now in Oregon to try to 
RETAIN THE RIGHT of private citizens to exercise 
their 2nd Amendment RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS at 
gun shows  in Oregon. 

Right now a PRIVATE CITIZEN can purchase a firearm at
a gunshow from a PRIVATE gun collector at without 
HAVING TO FIRST let the damn government know about it. 

That could change if Anti-Gun Wacko Senator Ginny 
Burdick's ballot Measure #5 passes come this November 3rd.

ANTI-GUN Senator Ginny Burdick, from the Oregon 
Legislature  is trying to pass a ballot measure 
that would PREVENT PRIVATE CITIZENS from selling their 
PRIVATE firarms to OTHER PRIVATE CITIZENS  at gunshows 
UNLESS they first do a background check on the prospective 
gun purchaser.

Mind you, gun dealers - those individuals who sell firearms
for a living and who hold Federal Firearm Licences - STILL
HAVE TO DO background checks (NICS background checks) on
individuals who want to purchase a gun from them whether 
that transaction takes place at a "gun store" or at a 
gun show. 

THIS new proposed law would *FORCE* PRIVATE CITIZENS who
are *NOT* gun dealers and who go to gun shows to sell
their PRIVATE  gun collections to do STATE MANDATED 
BACKGROUND CHECKS on PRIVATE CITIZENS who want to 
purchase their firearms.

MAKE NO MISTAKE THIS IS THE FIRST STEP TOWARDS OUTLAWING
THE PRIVATE SALE OF FIRARMS BETWEEN U.S. CITIZENS IN OREGON!

THIS IS *ALSO* THE FIRST STEP IN REGISTERING ALL GUN SALES
TRANSACTIONS WHICH TAKE PLACE IN OREGON WHETHER OR NOT
THAT TRANSACTION TAKES PLACE AT A GUN SHOW, A GUN STORE
OR IN THE PRIVACY OF YOUR OWN HOME!

THIS IS HOW THE ANTI-GUN WACKOS OPERATE - LITTLE BY LITTLE,
CHIPPING AWAY AT YOUR RIGHTS. IT'S A CLASSIC MANNER OF
OPERATION FOR THESE DAMNED COMMUNISTS.

IF you would like to help fight this new brand of COMMUNISM
in America please help by making a contribution to
OREGON FIREARM FEDERATION at this address:

OFFPAC
Box 556
Canby, OREGON 97013

You can make a contribution using your credit card on our 
secure server at:

http://oregonfirearms.org/store/join_off.html

Please use the message section to indicate that the contribution 
is for OFFPAC and if you donate MORE than $50.00 please indicate 
your occupation or the name and address of your employer.

Below is a recent message from Kevin Starrett of Oregon Firearm
Federation showing how Anti-Gun Fascist Senator Ginny Burdick
is now accepting help in DESTROYING YOUR 2ND AMENDMENT from
billionaire Andrew J. McKelvey of Monster.com. 

PLEASE HELP IF YOU CAN!

Les Lemke


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Oregon Firearms Federation" 
Email: shooters@oregonfirearms.org
To: 
Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2000 2:42 PM
Subject: OFF ALERT 10/7/00

Oregon Firearms Federation
P.O. Box 556
Canby, OR
97013

Voice: (503) 263-5830
Fax:   (503) 263-3708

http://www.oregonfirearms.org

Senator John McCain's collaboration with the ultra-leftists who 
are pushing Measure 5 should come as no surprise. Still, the 
millions being poured into this campaign by the group McCain is 
shilling for do make this battle that much tougher. (So much for 
the "grass roots" campaign Burdick promised.)

The out of state organization that paid for the ads McCain 
recorded attacking your rights has pledged an incredible amount 
of money. (The great irony, of course, is that had McCain passed 
the "campaign finance" reform that he crafted to silence groups 
like O.F.F., he would not have been allowed to film the 
commercials!)

The gun grabbers have the perfect hypocrite as a spokesman and 
that's why we need your help now more then ever. Anything you 
can do to help us in this battle is needed and needed now. We're 
spending every dime we have, but we sure don't have millions.

On a positive note, we were gratified to see a press release 
from the Oregon Republican Party slamming McCain. We thank them 
for taking a principled stand for your rights, however we were 
baffled by the comments made in a recent NRA alert, quoted 
below:

"McCAIN-LAUTENBERG?

Readers of the FAX Alert are familiar with U.S. Sen. John McCain 
(R-Ariz.) teaming up with anti-gunner Sen. Russ Feingold 
(D-Wisc.) to promote so-called "campaign finance reform." This 
week, McCain filmed an ad in support of Amendment 22 in Colorado 
-- a Lautenberg-style gun show ban ballot initiative. 

The commercials are being financed with soft money from 
Americans for Gun Safety -- a new national anti-gun group with 
chapters in 28 states, funded by billionaire Andrew J. McKelvey 
of Monster.com. 

NRA's opposition to Amendment 22 is based in many of the same 
reasons that we opposed the Lautenberg gun show language in the 
Senate, but we agree with Senator McCain in opposing the larger 
Gore agenda of licensing, testing, and photo-ID schemes. 
Anti-gunners no doubt also winced at McCain's support of 
Right-to-Carry, which he voiced on ABC's "Good Morning America" 
on Thursday. "

Hardly a rousing condemnation! No mention that McCain's ads are 
running in Oregon AND a pat on the back for McCain at the end of 
the quote.  This for a guy who came back for Viet Nam to a 
faithful wife who was confined to a wheelchair and promptly 
dumped her for a model who's daddy owned a distillery. That 
should lock down the soccer mom vote.


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As you may know, O.F.F. director Kevin Starrett will be debating 
Ginny Burdick on Oct. 19th at noon at the Wild Duck Restaurant 
in Eugene. 169 West 6th Street. It is open to the public. Come 
and rattle Burdick's cage.


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We were recently alerted to a web page belonging to the 
Washington County Sheriff's department. (Washington County 
Sheriff Jim Spinden is a supporter of Burdick's Measure 5.) 
On the "Gang Enforcement Team" page they had a contact person 
in case you had information about "gangs."

One of the types of gangs listed was "Constitutionalists."  
So that's what Spinden thinks of us.

After complaints from some "Constitutionalists" the category 
was changed to "anarchists, Russian gangs." There, that's 
better.

Spinden ,you may recall, had been telling CHL applicants 
they could not carry on school grounds. We think he's 
stopped telling that lie, but we're not sure

Another supporter of Measure 5, Sheriff Dan Noelle, of 
Multnomah County, is being sued for altering the pistol 
license application to include information about race and 
occupation. (A little "profiling" going on here?)

And finally, still another supporter of Measure 5, Sheriff 
Raul Ramirez of Marion County, has been telling applicants 
for CHL's that they have to live in the county for 6 months 
before applying. (We called and checked and they told us the 
same lie.)    Just one problem, it's totally false.

These are the kinds of people that are supporting Measure 5. 
Not real reassuring is it?

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++


The new onslaught by big out of state money is really taking 
its toll. Please consider doing whatever you can to 
contribute to OFFPAC efforts.

We recently completed a mailing of almost 30,000 and are 
working on another of about the same size.

Obviously we're being out spent by hundreds to one. Anything 
you can do to help would be greatly appreciated.

You can make a contribution using your credit card on our 
secure server at:

http://oregonfirearms.org/store/join_off.html

Please use the message section to indicate that the contribution 
is for OFFPAC and if you donate MORE than $50.00 please indicate 
your occupation or the name and address of your employer.

You can also make contributions by check at :

OFFPAC
Box 556
Canby, OREGON 97013

Finally, if your computer has audio/video capabilities, here is 
a link to an internet film well worth seeing. It may take a few 
minutes to load, but it's worth it.

http://www.users.qwest.net/~gbollinger/legacy/legacy.html


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