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			    RKBA-ALERT Digest 516
Topics covered in this issue include:
 1) ALERT: CA - The Price Tag On Political Correctness by NRA Alerts 
 2) ALERT: MA NE - State and Local Alerts by NRA Alerts 
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Topic No. 1
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 1997 21:53:45 -0500 (EST)
From: NRA Alerts 
To: rkba-alert-real.nra
Subject: ALERT: CA - The Price Tag On Political Correctness
Message-ID: 
November 7, 1997
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATIVE ACTIVITY
              THE PRICE TAG ON POLITICAL CORRECTNESS
     According to the L.A. Times, West Hollywood has spent
$250,000 thus far on their legal battle over the "Saturday Night
Special" ban they enacted in 1996.   The city, as an inducement
to pass the ban on affordable handguns, was promised financial
support from several gun control groups in the event that they
were taken to court.  West Hollywood, the first city in
California to pass such a ban, was subsequently sued by NRA and
the California Rifle and Pistol Association and has yet to
receive any assistance from those groups who pledged their
assistance.  As one political observer noted, "that's a high
price for political correctness and the legal battle isn't
over...."
                          RIGHT TO CARRY
     On Tuesday, Nov. 18, the Assembly Public Safety Committee
will hold an interim hearing on the "right to carry" issue.  
Attending in support of  "right to carry" will be Professor John
Lott of the University of Chicago and Texas State Rep. Suzanna
Gratia-Hupp. Opponents taking part in the two-hour hearing will
include representatives from Handgun Control, Inc. and Johns
Hopkins University.  Law enforcement officers on both sides of
the issue will be participating as well.  Taking the lead role in
coordinating proponents for the hearing is Assemblyman Rico
Oller, the sponsor of AB 1369,  the right to carry legislation
for the 1997/1998 session.
          NRA MEMBERS' COUNCIL RECEIVES STATEWIDE AWARD
     The Orange County NRA Members' Council was the recipient of
the Outstanding Adopt-A-Highway Volunteer of the Year award
presented by Keep California Beautiful, the California Department
of Transportation, and the California Department of Conservation. 
The volunteers took on the task of painting over an Orange County
stretch of freeway which was corrupted by graffiti. Of the more
than 50,000 volunteers participating in the program, the Orange
County NRA Members' Council was chosen because "of their unusual
 above and beyond the call of duty'  commitment to keeping their
stretch of highway graffiti free," said Marlene Mariani,
Executive Director of Keep California Beautiful.  Their award was
presented at the Orange County Board of Supervisors meeting on
November 4.
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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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Topic No. 2
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 1997 21:54:10 -0500 (EST)
From: NRA Alerts 
To: rkba-alert-real.nra
Subject: ALERT: MA NE - State and Local Alerts
Message-ID: 
November 7th, 1997
Alerts: MA NE
Nebraska: Join representatives from NRA-ILA to learn how you can
help pass LB 465, NRA-backed right to carry legislation, during
the 1998 legislative session.  NRA-ILA will conduct three
organizational meetings in key state legislative districts this
month: The first will be held on Monday, November 17, from 7:30-8:30 
p.m. in Mueller Hall, located at 5716 S. 36th Street in
Omaha (for Legislative Districts 5, 7 and 9.)  The second is
scheduled for Tuesday, November 18, from 7:30-8:30 p.m. in the
Olive Branch Room of the Cornhusker Hotel in Downtown Lincoln,
located at 333 South 13th Street (for Legislative Districts 25,
29 and 30.)  The third meeting is set for Wednesday, November 19,
from 7:30-8:30 p.m. at the Grand Island Rifle Club, located 2 1/2
miles west off Highway 281 on the north side of Old Potash Road
in Grand Island (for Legislative Districts 33, 34 and 35.)  There
is no cost to attend these meetings and you need not R.S.V.P. 
Hope to see you there!   
Massachusetts: KEEP THOSE CALLS COMING IN!  Your phone calls
encouraging the opposition of Senate 1985, the semi-auto ban,  to
the State Representatives are working.  Call (617)722-2000 to be
connected to the House switchboard and encourage Speaker Finneran
and his leadership to oppose Senate 1985.  In other news,  the
Office of the Attorney General officially released the new Code
of Massachusetts  regarding the regulating of firearms for the
sake of consumer protection.  Stay tuned for more information on
this issue!
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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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