Date: Sun, 20 Aug 1995 03:19:51 -0400 From: chad@pengar.com (Chad Leigh, Pengar Enterprises, Inc.) Subject: Let's Counterattack: (fwd) With Friends Like These, ...... >Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 12:39:05 -0400 >From: Strider >Subject: With Friends Like These, ...... > >>From a post on rec.hunting. > strider >================================ > >From: Ron Guidry > >>From an article in F&S FYI. > >The American Firearms Association (AFA) is a gun-ownership advocacy group >that aims to represent the 62 million Americans who own guns but are not >members of the NRA. > >The AFA describes itself as the "moderate alternative to the divisive, >anti-federalist rhetoric of the NRA", and dedicated to "the promotion of >recreational firearms for recreational purposes and the conservation of >America's dwindling wilderness areas and natural resources." > >The AFA's motto is: "Working to Reconcile the Second Amendment With Common >Sense." > >The president of the AFA, Ernest Lissabet, was quoted as saying, "The >time as come for our society to take a bit of a reality check with regard >to the kinds of firearms that are out there... We must distinguish >between recreational firearms and weaponry." > >Lissabet gave this press conference in the basement of the Capitol Building >standing shoulder to shoulder with Rep. Charles E. Shumer (D-NY)(lead >sponsor of most of the gun-control bills in the House) and Richard >Aborn (president of Handgun Control Inc. HCI). > >Lissabet also stated his opposition to registration of recreational fire- >arms, limits on the purchase of ammo, one-gun-a-month legislation and >certain other gun-control measures. >(snip) >-- >________________________________________________________________ > Ron Guidry rguidry@relay.nswc.navy.mil > NSWCDD Dahlgren, VA My views and opinions are my own! >We have enough youth, how about a fountain of smarts? > >-- ------------------------- Live Free or Die ! --------------------------- Chad Leigh | When Guns are Outlawed, Criminals Win! Pengar Enterprises, Inc -- Home of The Electronic GunShop (sm) http://www.xmission.com/~chad/egs/egs.html mailto:chad@xmission.com http://www.xmission.com/~chad/egs/egs_text.html for text interface Ask me about it! Free Personal Classifieds and $10 Commercial Classifieds, Inexpensive Display Ads, & free Firearms and Activism Info --------------------$4/month commercial WWW space!!!--------------------