>Subject: SPECIAL ALERT -- Contact CPSC About Proposed Daisy Recall
>Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 20:20:48 -0400
>
>CLINTON APPOINTEE TAKES DANGEROUS PARTING SHOT
>
>U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) Chairman Ann Brown, one
of
>the remaining holdovers from the Clinton Administration, has chosen to
step
>down from her position, but not before attempting a last-minute attack
on
>air rifles.  Brown, who was vice president of the anti-gun Consumer
>Federation of America (CFA) for almost 15 years before Clinton
appointed
>her head of CPSC, has targeted certain Daisy air rifles for a
potential
>recall.  The suggestion of a recall was apparently prompted when a
>Pennsylvania teenager "accidentally" pointed what he thought was an
>unloaded air rifle at a friend and pulled the trigger.  The gun was
not
>unloaded, however, and the friend was permanently disabled.
>
>Of course, Brown`s notion that air rifles should be recalled because
>certain individuals are recklessly careless when handling them is as
>dangerous as it is ludicrous.  Furthermore, while Chairman Brown
claims the
>scope of her proposed recall would target "only" 9 million air rifles,
her
>"defect" claim is so broad that it could not only affect virtually
every
>air rifle, but it could also be used in future reckless lawsuits
against
>firearm manufacturers-exactly what some consider to be the true goal
of
>Brown`s effort.  And the fact that Brown has scheduled the vote on
this
>matter for next Tuesday, October 30, should not be lost on anyone, as
she
>is scheduled to step down from her position as Chairman the following
day.  
>Could this be her last-ditch attempt at securing an anti-gun legacy?
>
>Please be sure to contact the CPSC commissioners as soon as possible,
and
>urge them to reject the recall of air guns on October 30.  Remind them
that
>Daisy air rifles have been investigated several times over the past 20
>years, and each time the CPSC has found these products to be
nondefective.  
>It is blatantly unfair to tell a company for 20 years their product is
>nondefective, and then suggest that there might be a recall of the
very
>guns that the agency has determined to be nondefective.  Also remind
the
>commissioners that the CPSC should not get involved with gun design
>matters, an area for which the CPSC is not qualified.  In addition,
any
>decisions about the design of air guns could necessarily affect how
>firearms are designed-an area that Congress has determined should be
>completely outside the purview of the CPSC.
>
>CONTACT INFORMATION FOR THE CPSC:
>
>U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
>Washington, D.C. 20207-0001
>
>Phone: (301) 504-0990
>Fax: (301) 504-0124 & (301) 504-0025
>E-mail:        [email protected]
>
>Chairman Ann Brown
>Phone: (301) 504-0213
>E-mail: [email protected]
>
>Commissioner Mary Sheila Gall
>Phone: (301) 504-0530
>E-mail: [email protected]
>
>Commissioner Thomas Moore
>Phone: (301) 504-0290
>E-mail: [email protected]