First 2004 Pro-gun Congressional Race Might Be Decided March 2nd
Gun Owners of America Political Victory Fund Alert
8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151
Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408
http://www.gunowners.org
January 13, 2004
Dear friend of the Second Amendment,
For gun rights supporters, one of the most important of the 2004
Congressional elections is going to take place in early March.
Pro-gun State Senator Rico Oller is running in the Republican
Primary in California's 3rd Congressional District, a seat being
vacated by anti-gun Rep. Doug Ose.
This district is heavily Republican, so the next congressman could
very well be determined in the March 2nd primary.
Sen. Oller is a proven leader for the Second Amendment, fighting
hard against the anti-gun establishment in Sacramento.
Not only is Rico Oller a friend to gun owners; he is a gun owner and
an avid outdoorsman himself.
The contrast between Rico and his two opponents could not be
starker.
The candidate most hostile to gun rights is career politician Dan
Lungren.
For decades, Lungren has been an aggressive adversary of gun rights,
both in Washington as a congressman for ten years and more recently
as California's Attorney General.
As a Congressman in 1988, Lungren voted for a 7 day waiting period,
an early version of the Brady Bill. And if there were any doubt as
to Lungren's commitment to the Brady gun control agenda, Lungren
co-hosted a 1992 fundraiser for Jim Brady and the Center to Prevent
Handgun Violence.
Lungren earned an "F" rating from pro-gun groups as a Congressman,
but he took gun grabbing to a whole new and dangerous level when, as
California's Attorney General, he single-handedly put in place a gun
confiscation scheme.
The story of Lungren's brush with gun confiscation has its roots in
a law called the Roberti-Roos Assault Weapons Control Act of 1989.
The Act banned nearly 60 rifles and required people who owned the
banned guns prior to the law's passage to register their firearms
with the government.
Included in the ban was the SKS rifle with a detachable magazine.
In 1992, Attorney General Lungren declared the SKS legal so long as
it was registered with the state government in accordance with a
separate semi-auto law.
However, in 1997 Lungren reversed himself and decided the SKS
Sporter rifle was not legal. The thousands of firearms that had
been legally purchased between 1992-1997 were now contraband.
One radio ad summed up the situation for owners of the firearms:
"If you own an SKS Sporter, you can't sell it and you can't shoot
it. You MUST turn it in before January 1 or face criminal
charges."
The state offered a $230 reimbursement for each gun turned in.
Thanks, Dan.
Gun owners who acted in good faith on the Attorney General's word
were turned in to potential felons overnight as gun confiscation
became the law of the land in California.
Thankfully, full-scale confiscation has not occurred in the state,
but the groundwork has been laid and dangerous precedents set.
Given his experience with gun confiscation, it seems almost
superfluous to mention his other anti-gun positions, but suffice it
to say Lungren worked vigorously against concealed carry in the
state and helped push through a gun free school zones law.
Dan Lungren also refused to return GOA's Candidate Questionnaire,
even though the deadline for returning it was extended at his
request.
If elected to Congress, Lungren will continue to do the bidding of
his old pals in the gun control movement.
In addition to Lungren, there is another candidate in the race, Mary
Ose, the sister of retiring Rep. Doug Ose.
While she has no record, Ms. Ose is widely considered to be a
liberal-leaning candidate.
Ose's inexperience could be more than offset by her deep pockets.
Mary Ose is a multi-millionaire who is willing to fund her own
campaign.
A recent article in the Sacramento Bee described the candidate:
Ose, a multimillionaire who earned a law degree from the University
of California, Berkeley,... said that like her brother she is
willing to spend deeply from her own pocket to get elected.
"I'll spend whatever it takes," she said.
As you can see, the stakes are high in this race and the choice
could not be clearer. We can end up with another anti-gun
politician who will further erode our liberties, or we can get
behind a genuine friend of the Constitution.
That is why gun owners from across the country need to support Rico
Oller for Congress.
I encourage you to do all you can to help Rico financially.
Your gift of $25, $50, $100 or even $2,000 (the legal maximum per
individual) will go directly to the campaign to help preserve your
gun rights.
Please visit http://www.ricooller.com/contribute.html today and make
as generous a contribution as you can afford.
If you prefer, personal checks can be made out to "Rico Oller for
Congress" and mailed in to help send a true friend of gun owners to
Washington. A Reply Form with the address can be found below.
Rico's opponents will spend millions of dollars in this race, with
money pouring in from anti-gun interests.
This election is less than two months away, so please, donate online
or write a check today.
Rico Oller is an ardent gun rights supporter in the state senate
with a perfect voting record on gun issues, and he will continue to
fight for the Second Amendment rights of all Americans when elected
to Congress.
Please feel free to copy this letter and get it into the hands of as
many pro-gun family and friends as possible.
Thank you in advance for helping to send this pro-gun champion to
Congress.
Online contributions:
http://www.ricooller.com/contribute.html
Personal checks mailing address:
Rico Oller for Congress
P.O Box 279581
Sacramento, CA 95827
Sincerely,
Larry Pratt
Executive Director
P.S.: Anti-gun Rep. Doug Ose is retiring from Congress. A primary
election will be held in March to determine what candidate will
likely hold California's 3rd district seat after November. There is
one true pro-gun candidate in the race. That candidate is State
Senator Rico Oller. Please help us get another pro-gun ally in
Washington by making as generous a contribution as you can to Rico's
campaign.
************************
GOA-PVF Reply Memo (print and mail)
To: Rico Oller
Rico Oller for Congress
P.O Box 279581
Sacramento, CA 95827
From:
Name________________________________________________________________
Address_____________________________________________________________
City/State/Zip______________________________________________________
Occupation (Required by federal law)________________________________
Place of Business___________________________________________________
Phone (optional)____________________________________________________
E-mail/Fax (optional)_______________________________________________
___ Yes, I would like to support your campaign to champion the
Second Amendment in the United States House of Representatives.
Enclosed is my check made out to "Rico Oller for Congress" in
the amount of:
___$25 ___$50 ___$100 ___$250 ___$1,000 ___$2,000 ______Other
****************************
Paid for and authorized by Rico Oller for Congress.
Gun Owners of America Political Victory Fund is a project of Gun
Owners of America.
Gun Owners of America Political Victory Fund Alert
8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151
Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408
http://www.gunowners.org
January 13, 2004
Dear friend of the Second Amendment,
For gun rights supporters, one of the most important of the 2004
Congressional elections is going to take place in early March.
Pro-gun State Senator Rico Oller is running in the Republican
Primary in California's 3rd Congressional District, a seat being
vacated by anti-gun Rep. Doug Ose.
This district is heavily Republican, so the next congressman could
very well be determined in the March 2nd primary.
Sen. Oller is a proven leader for the Second Amendment, fighting
hard against the anti-gun establishment in Sacramento.
Not only is Rico Oller a friend to gun owners; he is a gun owner and
an avid outdoorsman himself.
The contrast between Rico and his two opponents could not be
starker.
The candidate most hostile to gun rights is career politician Dan
Lungren.
For decades, Lungren has been an aggressive adversary of gun rights,
both in Washington as a congressman for ten years and more recently
as California's Attorney General.
As a Congressman in 1988, Lungren voted for a 7 day waiting period,
an early version of the Brady Bill. And if there were any doubt as
to Lungren's commitment to the Brady gun control agenda, Lungren
co-hosted a 1992 fundraiser for Jim Brady and the Center to Prevent
Handgun Violence.
Lungren earned an "F" rating from pro-gun groups as a Congressman,
but he took gun grabbing to a whole new and dangerous level when, as
California's Attorney General, he single-handedly put in place a gun
confiscation scheme.
The story of Lungren's brush with gun confiscation has its roots in
a law called the Roberti-Roos Assault Weapons Control Act of 1989.
The Act banned nearly 60 rifles and required people who owned the
banned guns prior to the law's passage to register their firearms
with the government.
Included in the ban was the SKS rifle with a detachable magazine.
In 1992, Attorney General Lungren declared the SKS legal so long as
it was registered with the state government in accordance with a
separate semi-auto law.
However, in 1997 Lungren reversed himself and decided the SKS
Sporter rifle was not legal. The thousands of firearms that had
been legally purchased between 1992-1997 were now contraband.
One radio ad summed up the situation for owners of the firearms:
"If you own an SKS Sporter, you can't sell it and you can't shoot
it. You MUST turn it in before January 1 or face criminal
charges."
The state offered a $230 reimbursement for each gun turned in.
Thanks, Dan.
Gun owners who acted in good faith on the Attorney General's word
were turned in to potential felons overnight as gun confiscation
became the law of the land in California.
Thankfully, full-scale confiscation has not occurred in the state,
but the groundwork has been laid and dangerous precedents set.
Given his experience with gun confiscation, it seems almost
superfluous to mention his other anti-gun positions, but suffice it
to say Lungren worked vigorously against concealed carry in the
state and helped push through a gun free school zones law.
Dan Lungren also refused to return GOA's Candidate Questionnaire,
even though the deadline for returning it was extended at his
request.
If elected to Congress, Lungren will continue to do the bidding of
his old pals in the gun control movement.
In addition to Lungren, there is another candidate in the race, Mary
Ose, the sister of retiring Rep. Doug Ose.
While she has no record, Ms. Ose is widely considered to be a
liberal-leaning candidate.
Ose's inexperience could be more than offset by her deep pockets.
Mary Ose is a multi-millionaire who is willing to fund her own
campaign.
A recent article in the Sacramento Bee described the candidate:
Ose, a multimillionaire who earned a law degree from the University
of California, Berkeley,... said that like her brother she is
willing to spend deeply from her own pocket to get elected.
"I'll spend whatever it takes," she said.
As you can see, the stakes are high in this race and the choice
could not be clearer. We can end up with another anti-gun
politician who will further erode our liberties, or we can get
behind a genuine friend of the Constitution.
That is why gun owners from across the country need to support Rico
Oller for Congress.
I encourage you to do all you can to help Rico financially.
Your gift of $25, $50, $100 or even $2,000 (the legal maximum per
individual) will go directly to the campaign to help preserve your
gun rights.
Please visit http://www.ricooller.com/contribute.html today and make
as generous a contribution as you can afford.
If you prefer, personal checks can be made out to "Rico Oller for
Congress" and mailed in to help send a true friend of gun owners to
Washington. A Reply Form with the address can be found below.
Rico's opponents will spend millions of dollars in this race, with
money pouring in from anti-gun interests.
This election is less than two months away, so please, donate online
or write a check today.
Rico Oller is an ardent gun rights supporter in the state senate
with a perfect voting record on gun issues, and he will continue to
fight for the Second Amendment rights of all Americans when elected
to Congress.
Please feel free to copy this letter and get it into the hands of as
many pro-gun family and friends as possible.
Thank you in advance for helping to send this pro-gun champion to
Congress.
Online contributions:
http://www.ricooller.com/contribute.html
Personal checks mailing address:
Rico Oller for Congress
P.O Box 279581
Sacramento, CA 95827
Sincerely,
Larry Pratt
Executive Director
P.S.: Anti-gun Rep. Doug Ose is retiring from Congress. A primary
election will be held in March to determine what candidate will
likely hold California's 3rd district seat after November. There is
one true pro-gun candidate in the race. That candidate is State
Senator Rico Oller. Please help us get another pro-gun ally in
Washington by making as generous a contribution as you can to Rico's
campaign.
************************
GOA-PVF Reply Memo (print and mail)
To: Rico Oller
Rico Oller for Congress
P.O Box 279581
Sacramento, CA 95827
From:
Name________________________________________________________________
Address_____________________________________________________________
City/State/Zip______________________________________________________
Occupation (Required by federal law)________________________________
Place of Business___________________________________________________
Phone (optional)____________________________________________________
E-mail/Fax (optional)_______________________________________________
___ Yes, I would like to support your campaign to champion the
Second Amendment in the United States House of Representatives.
Enclosed is my check made out to "Rico Oller for Congress" in
the amount of:
___$25 ___$50 ___$100 ___$250 ___$1,000 ___$2,000 ______Other
****************************
Paid for and authorized by Rico Oller for Congress.
Gun Owners of America Political Victory Fund is a project of Gun
Owners of America.
so it could be more of a crapshoot now. The real point is that this is a staunchly GOP area so whoever wins the GOP primary wins the whole show and might even be unopposed in November.