MN CCRN - Special Update / Breaking News - Legal Defense Fund

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Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 17:40:15 -0400 (EDT)
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Subject: Special Update / Breaking News - Legal Defense Fund
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Dear CCRNers:

MPPA was a great victory; be proud! Here's the next one.

We'll mount a court challenge to the city & county gun bans.
Here's *why*:

* The gun bans will stop *all* gun shows, hunter education, and firearm safety training in public venues. This effects our sportsman as much as us.

* The gun bans violate Minnesota's firearms preemption statute. This political ploy is a step towards repealing preemption. Repealing preemption means a return to the bad old days of different and confusing firearms laws in *every* city and county.

We'll make the court challenge, and succeed, on our terms.
We will choose the time and place.

CCRN is setting up a legal defense fund: CCRN-LDF. We figure it will cost at least $20,000. It'll take a paid staff and legal team. And yes, the CCRN-LDF needs money.

For now, there are three things for us to do:

1. Keep the pressure on city councils and county boards to reject gun bans on publicly-owned property. Keep after them, week after week.

2. Remind your legislators that weakening preemption is not an option. Talk to them over the summer.

3. Send $30.00 payable to "CCRN-LDF" at

CCRN-LDF
PO Box 131254
St Paul, MN 55113

Everyone needs to pitch in: MPPA supporters, trapshooters, plinkers, and deer hunters.

Toward our next win!

The CCRN Team
Replies to this message will go to The CCRN Leadership.

PS -- We're told Jason Lewis, AM-1500 KSTP, will be talking with Rep Nora Slawik, about repealing MPPA, from 7:00-8:00 PM on Thursday, 10 July 2003. Tune in and call in!

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Yeah, I took a perverse pleasure in carrying today while shopping. My G26 was concealed under a T-shirt I got at my hospital for Nurses Week this year that says: "Nurses make the Difference. We put the Care in Health Care." If only the soccer moms knew, if only they knew. ;)
 
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