Armed Pilots Beginning to Take Off
 -- Your efforts have helped fuel a huge momentum shift
    in Washington!

Gun Owners of America E-Mail/FAX Alert
http://www.gunowners.org


(Thursday, July 18, 2002) --
First, your phone calls, faxes and e-mails are helping to bring new
cosponsors onto Senator Bob Smith's bill that would force the
administration to arm pilots.  Gun Owners of America has been
targeting selected states to add new cosponsors to the Smith bill
(S. 2554).  Several Senators from those states have now joined onto
S. 2554, bringing the new total to 17 cosponsors.  (See the full
list below.)

Most notably, anti-gun Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) signed onto the
Smith bill eight days ago.  
[b]Another huge development was announced by the Bush administration
today.  John Magaw has been forced out as the head of the new
Transportation Security Administration (TSA).[/b]  While the TSA has
come under bitter criticism from many quarters, gun owners and pilot
groups have criticized the agency (and Magaw in particular) for
failing to implement the current law allowing pilots to carry arms
in the cockpit.

"GOA has been asking President Bush to take Magaw to the political
woodshed for months because of his staunch refusal to enforce the
law arming pilots," said GOA Executive Director Larry Pratt.  Finally, several U.S. Senators and Representatives joined Sen. Smith
at a well-attended news conference today in Washington, DC to push
his armed pilots bill.

One significant speaker at the press conference was Ellen Saracini,
the widow of a pilot who was killed when his plane crashed into
Tower 2 of the World Trade Center on Flight 175.  She said that even
before the September 11th tragedy, her husband had advocated -- and
had been working toward -- initiatives to allow for pilots to be
armed.


Cosponsors of S. 2554, introduced by Senator Bob Smith (R-NH):  

Senators Boxer (D-CA), Bunning (R-KY), Burns (R-MT), Campbell
(R-CO), Craig (R-ID), Crapo (R-ID), Enzi (R-WY), Helms (R-NC),
Hutchinson (R-AR), Inhofe (R-OK), Johnson (D-SD), Miller (D-GA),
Murkowski (R-AK), Nickles (R-OK), Sessions (R-AL), Thomas (R-WY) and
Thurmond (R-SC).


ACTION:  If one or both of your Senators are not listed above,
please contact them and urge them to cosponsor S. 2554.  To identify
your Senators, as well as to send a message via e-mail, see the
Legislative Action Center at http://www.gunowners.org/activism.htm
on the GOA website.


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Just saw it at drudgereport.com & was checking before I posted a link.

This is good news.  Hope he gets a flat tire in Ruby Ridge.

Now we need to keep the heat on & get rid of Mineta.

What the hell -- ethnic & age profiling is what they should have started with, not forbidden.

I sent Fritz the Idiot (one of my state senators), who heads teh Transportation Committee in Congress a scathing e-mail today, telling him he is out of touch with America, 70+% of whom want their pilots armed, over being shot down by an F-18.

I told him I'd vote for a dog over him, next election.

Time to ROCK AND ROLL BOYS!!!!!!!!! Get teh emails burnin'!!!!