An alert from Gun Owners of America - http://www.gunowners.org

Wednesday evening, July 27, 2005

Your immediate action is needed.  Anti-gun amendments will be voted on Thursday morning, July 28!

SDGO is very concerned that the Republican Senate leadership is on the verge of compromising away your Second Amendment rights.

The U.S. Senate is currently considering a much-needed bill to protect the gun industry from being litigated out of existence by frivolous lawsuits.

That bill, however, has been co-opted by anti-gunners and is being used to pass gun control proposals such as a new semi-auto ban and a measure requiring mandatory "lock-up-your-safety" trigger locks.

Action in the Senate today made it absolutely clear that those amendments WILL BE VOTED ON!

GOA has told every Senator that no anti-gun amendments will be acceptable to gun owners.  A vote for S. 397 with any bad amendments on it will be rated as an anti-gun vote in their famous Candidate Ratings, to be published prior to the 2006 Congressional elections.

ACTION:  Please e-mail AND CALL Senators Johnson and Thune (their contact info is below.) Phone calls are needed because time is very, very short and staffers might not get your e-mails to individual Senators before the voting starts.  Tell our Senators that a vote for S.397 containing any anti-gun amendments will be rated by SDGO and GOA as an anti-gun vote.