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  Who Is GOA?
Gun Owners of America (GOA) is a non-profit lobbying organization formed in 1975 to preserve and defend the Second Amendment rights of gun owners.
Associated with GOA are: Gun Owners of America Political Victory Fund, Gun Owners of California and Gun Owners Foundation.
Gun Owners of California operates solely within California, where it was also founded by Senator Richardson to address the pivotal gun issues arising in that state.
www.gunowners.org /protect.htm   (471 words)

  
 GOF
Defending America's unique constitutional right to keep and bear arms, through education and legal assistance in important firearms cases.
Federal employees now are able to designate Gun Owners Foundation as the recipient of their gifts to the Combined Federal Campaign.
Use CFC code 10042 for Gun Owners Foundation when you make your Combined Federal Campaign pledge or donation.
www.gunowners.com   (312 words)

  
  Gun Owners of America E-Mail/Fax Alert [Free Republic]
Gun owners should be the first people to object to this horror.
Gun owners who use firearms in self-defense can still be prosecuted in federal court for technical possession charges.
Gun Owners Foundation defended Wayne Scott of Florida, who was arrested on three felony counts under the National Firearms Act.
www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3891697f0fec.htm   (1427 words)

  
 Gun Owners of America
   Gun control advocates are calling for limits on the number of firearms that a law-abiding citizen may purchase in a specified time period, usually one per month.
Many gun owners are concerned that so-called “instant” background checks are in fact computerized central gun registration systems.
Many gun control advocates are seeking to ban the private ownership of.50 caliber rifles.
www.krick.us /GOA.html   (1636 words)

  
 Legislator Home Page
The court ruled that gun makers can't be held liable when a bad guy uses one of their guns to kill someone.
They want to put a gun to the head of the gun makers, so to speak, and threaten them with extinction if they don't agree to negotiate...
Guns are used more often to save lives than to take lives.
www.gunownersca.com /Newsletters/bradyshock.php   (897 words)

  
 Gun-rights group rallies against popular history-education bill=The Hill.com=   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Gun Owners of America is lobbying against Rep. Roger Wicker’s (R-Miss.) (above) House bill aimed at improving American-history education in schools.
Because it was not tracking the bill, Gun Owners of America did not weigh in until after the Alexander measure passed the Senate, Pratt explained.
A Tancredo aide said the concerns raised by Gun Owners of America played a major role in the lawmaker’s decision to withdraw his name as a co-sponsor.
www.thehill.com /business/102903_guns.aspx   (977 words)

  
 www.HaveGunWillVote.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
While gun control groups report that their individual contributions are down, many have received huge donations from rich, liberal antigun foundations.
Gun control zealots like Charles Schumer and Diane Feinstein continue to rant and rave about the need even more intrusive and dangerous gun laws.
They can thus make the private ownership of guns, all guns, to be so difficult, so time consuming, and so expensive, that owning a gun will be virtually impossible for all but the very rich.
www.havegunwillvote.com /index.php?sec=mission   (540 words)

  
 Action America - Defacto Gun registration
Fortunately for gun owners, until now, "universal" gun registration was all but an impossibility, since it would require either a national law to that effect or the enactment of such laws in all 50 states; neither of which was within the realm of reason.
You see, until now, the problem for the gun grabbers is that they knew that if gun confiscation were to ever succeed, the government would have to know where all or at least almost all of the guns are located.
It can reasonably be assumed that most gun owners have, at one time or another, used their phone, to call a gun dealer, shooting range, gun manufacturer, the National Rifle Association, the Gun Owners of America or other gun-related businesses or organization.
www.actionamerica.org /guns/defactoreg.shtml   (1757 words)

  
 Action America - Smith & Wesson Betrayal Boycott
Should insurance be required of all gun dealers, then every time someone is shot, even in if the shooting victim was a criminal shot by a rape victim in self defense, the gun dealers will be sued by the survivor or his relatives.
They are setting things up to require gun dealers to act as spies and report "suspicious activity" of individual citizens to the BATF that the BATF is legally restrained, under the 4th Amendment, from obtaining on their own.
Check the Gun Owners of America web site for the latest information on which manufacturers are holding the line against the treachery of the Clinton-Gore crowd before making your purchase.
www.actionamerica.org /guns/swbetray.html   (2601 words)

  
 Why Libertarians Support Equal Rights for America's Gun Owners
Gun control advocates are much like the prohibitionists of the early 20th Century.
A man with a gun in his home is no threat to you if you aren't breaking into it.
Gun control advocates talk as if guns could act on their own, as if human beings cannot control them, so the uncontrollable guns must be banished.
www.chuckhawks.com /lp_rights_gun_owners2.htm   (778 words)

  
 Armed Females of America - Pro-Gun Women on Full Auto
Their loss is directly linked to the unwillingness of gun owners in this country to get involved, to volunteer their time, to open their wallets, to vote, to stand up for their cause and to make any significant sacrifice in the fight to protect the Second Amendment.
According to the Citizens of America press release announcing its closing, “The founders of COA believed that since there were about 75 million gun owners in the U.S., if we could get $10 from ten percent of them per year, we would have plenty of funding.
Republicans are generally viewed as more pro-Second than Democrats, but even so… Gun Owners of America, a no-compromise national gun group that rates your legislators every year on how they vote to support your Second Amendment rights, has given an "A" rating to only three senators in the 108th session.
www.armedfemalesofamerica.com /takingaim/mostgunowners.htm   (1958 words)

  
 Gun Owners of America: Impact of 2006 Elections - Topic Powered by eve community
In compiling the Gun Owner of America rating, researchers could hardly find a congressional candidate with any stated position on gun control on campaign websites.
House Speaker-elect Nancy Pelosi (F-rated by GOA) is a charter member of the most extreme wing of the party she now leads.
However, notwithstanding widespread calls for moderation within their ranks, the Democrat leadership in the House and Senate will unquestionably put gun owners on the defensive by seeking to renew the so-called assault weapons ban, close down gun shows, and drastically expand the Brady gun control law.
sigforum.com /eve/forums/a/tpc/f/140601935/m/230107547   (808 words)

  
 Larry Pratt of Gun Owners of America   (Site not responding. Last check: )
GOA is a national membership organization of 300,000 Americans dedicated to promoting their second amendment freedom to keep and bear arms.
GOA lobbies for the pro-gun position in Washington and is involved in firearm issues in the states.
Pratt is an elder in the Harvester Presbyterian Church in America, married for 40 years, father of four and grandfather of eleven.
www.campamerican.com /larry_pratt.htm   (238 words)

  
 Gun Group Takes Up Kerry's Offer to Meet With 'All the People'   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Gun Owners of America is ready to take him up on his offer.
Gun Owners of America notes that Kerry has not shown up for most of his Senate votes this year.
Gun Owners of America said it has contacted the Kerry campaign to take the candidate up on his offer.
www.newsmax.com /archives/articles/2004/7/16/84338.shtml   (346 words)

  
 Why Bill Ruger is a traitor to America's gun owners.   (Site not responding. Last check: )
It's sad, but ALL the major gun manufacturers are now owned by foreign firms who will continue to kiss the Socialists asses just to keep themselves in business.
In America, as was in most other countries on this planet, the ability to have both the access and the right to own, carry and use weapons was fundamental in both logic and law.
America is the LAST free country on this planet.
www.gunrunner.info /b_ruger.html   (847 words)

  
 VOTE.COM | Should All Gun Owners Be Licensed?
Gun licensing puts pressure on law-abiding gun owners while doing little to fight crime
It's an undeniable fact that registration of firearms and licensing of their owners has led to confiscation in many countries.
That's why the Firearm Owners' Protection Act of 1986 prohibited the government from keeping a national registry of gun owners, and the Brady Law - championed by Sarah Brady of Handgun Control Inc. - contains similar prohibitive language.
www.vote.com /vote/9884166/argument9886833.phtml?cat=4075633   (381 words)

  
 Analysis by Gun Owners of America [ House Bills ] [Free Republic]
While this legislation claims to reform campaign finance laws, it would really eliminate the ability of groups like GOA to keep gun owners informed on how their legislators are voting.
Gun control legislation, by the Committee on Federal Legislation, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.
Although Congress adopted the Gun Control Act with the primary object of limiting access of felons and high-risk groups to firearms, the overbreadth of the law has led to neglect of precisely this area of enforcement.
www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3b9337172230.htm   (14125 words)

  
 GOA's Position: No Gun Control Allowed!
As you may know, Gun Owners of America is the no-compromise gun rights lobby organization supported by hundreds of thousands of pro-gun friends across America.
In fact, in over a half a dozen states -- in 1998 alone -- Gun Owners of America staff and members have been working with state legislatures to repeal laws that force gun owners to get a permission slip in order to carry a gun concealed.
After you send Gun Owners of America a request to subscribe, you should shortly thereafter receive a confirmation e-mail from our office.
www.building-tux.com /dsmjd/rkba/position.htm   (649 words)

  
 Free Press : Gun Owners, Librarians Unite Against Bells
The group pointed to its own diversity—uniting such disparate interests as Gun Owners of America and Afro-Netizen.com, an online African American community group—as evidence of the righteousness of its cause as well as the range of stakeholders in Net neutrality.
GOOA frequently uses e-mail and the InterNet to quickly and inexpensively inform its members of current issues, and Fields doesn’t like the idea of the InterNet being controlled by, as he described it, “a handful of major telecom companies, all of which have internal anti-gun policies.”
We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, and social justice issues, etc. We believe this constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law.
www.freepress.net /news/15113   (752 words)

  
 NPR® ASKS: WHO ARE AMERICA'S GUN OWNERS?   (Site not responding. Last check: )
America has had a special and unique relationship with guns since before the Bill of Rights.
3200, is a hunting community 25 miles south of New York where fathers and sons hunting with guns is a tradition.
Learning how to use guns safely is on the curriculum in schools around the country, including some elementary schools.
www.npr.org /about/press/990610.guns.html   (382 words)

  
 Armed Females of America: Pro-Gun Women on Full Auto
Not to these little gods that are here today and gone tomorrow, but to God who is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Gun crime feared 'across Britain' - BBC News
Gun Advocates Seek Restrictions on Anti-Gun Protests - Susan Jones-CNS News
www.armedfemalesofamerica.com   (313 words)

  
 WorldNetDaily: Gun Owners of America embraces Brady's son
The Gun Owners of America has awarded an honorary membership to the son of gun-control activist Sarah Brady.
"Now that Scott Brady is the proud owner of a high-powered 'sniper' rifle, he will most certainly need a fuller understanding of the Second Amendment than he ever received at home," Erich Pratt, the Gun Owners of America's communications director said in a statement.
Last year Handgun Control was renamed the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence in honor of the Bradys.
www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=26992   (382 words)

  
 Gun Legislation Update
Instead of writing a law that punishes the use of a firearm in the commission of a violent crime, we get laws that punish otherwise law-abiding gun owners for administrative violations such as not registering themselves and their firearm.
This goal is accomplished in part by making the red tape so overwhelming that many prospective gun owners simply give up on the idea of exercising the right to keep and bear arms.
I strongly recommend use of Gun Owners Of California (for California Legislation), and Gun Owners Of America (for current Federal Legislation), because both will provide accurate and insightful legislative analyses and updates, and both have contact data for your representatives.
www.elcajongun.com /legislation.html   (518 words)

  
 Gun Owners of America BEWARE - Here Comes the Semi-auto Ban Again | 100777.com
GOA has been warning gun owners that Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein of California would be looking for an avenue to attach her gun ban to unrelated legislation sometime this year.
While she reportedly has her eyes on a number of different bills as possible vehicles for her amendment, it seems certain that she will try to piggy-back her anti-gun language onto a legal reform bill (such as S. 2062) within the next few weeks.
You can send the letter as an e-mail by visiting the GOA Legislative Action Center at http://www.gunowners.org/activism.htm (where phone and fax numbers are also available).
100777.com /node/825   (645 words)

  
 Gun Issues
From state legislatures and city councils to the United States Congress and the White House, Gun Owners of America represents the views of gun owners whenever their rights are threatened.
Delegate Dwyer has raised the issue of gun owner’s rights to a point where he cannot simply be ignored in Maryland.
“Gun Owners of America is proud to recognize Delegate Don Dwyer.
www.delegatedwyer.com /GunIssues.htm   (276 words)

  
 Gun Owners of America gives Smither an A | Bob Smither for Congress   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Gun Owners of America gives Smither an A
Gun Owners of America gives Smither an A
Gun Owners of America, the "only no-compromise gun lobby in Washington," according to Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), has issued their 2006 voter guide.
www.bobsmither.org /gun_owners_of_america_gives_me_an_a   (93 words)

  
 GunShowOnTheNet.com - Gun Orgs.-National Page
The Good Gun Foundation was created to encourage gun owners to become prominent examples of good citizens in their community...environmental stewardship and to practice and encourage the safe and responsible use of firearms.
Handgun Club of America - We are America's only nationwide membership organization devoted to law-abiding individuals who have chosen to exercise their 2nd Amendment rights and own a handgun.
In 1984 she formed the Second Amendment Committee which is a nationwide organization that provides information of benefit to those seeking a peaceful resolution to the gun crisis.
gunshowonthenet.com /page37.html   (1593 words)

  
 Official Bob McEwen for Ohio Congress Campaign Site || GOA
“We urge all gun owners to cast their votes for Bob McEwen in Ohio’s Republican Congressional primary May 2nd,” Larry Pratt, Executive Director of the Gun Owners of America said, in recognition of Bob’s commitment to gun ownership rights.
Gun Owners of America (GOA) is a non-profit lobbying organization formed in 1975 to preserve and defend the Second Amendment rights of gun owners, in state legislatures and city councils to the United States Congress and the White House.
They are dedicated to electing leaders who will not compromise their defense of all law-abiding Americans’ Second Amendment rights.
www.bobmcewenforcongress.com /index.php?p=93   (204 words)

  
 Save the Internet Blog » Blog Archive » Gun Owners of America on Internet Freedom
In the case of grassroots outside groups like GOA, equal access to the hardware, software, and bandwidth that comprise the Internet is essential to a free marketplace of ideas.
Indeed, that is what we have had all along, and the result has been every bit as significant as the development of the printing press.
GOA urges you to insist upon Network Neutrality when revamping the nation’s telecommunications infrastructure.
www.savetheinternet.com /blog/2006/04/24/gun-owners-of-america-on-internet-freedom   (458 words)

  
 Gun Owners of America -- Key Votes
H.R. 2356 would enlarge the power of sitting legislators by attempting to silence outside groups such as Gun Owners of America.
It would do this by requiring GOA to report certain legislative advocacy as "electioneering communications," if such messages were made within 60 days of an election.
For groups like Gun Owners, to engage in speech that is classified as "electioneering" would threaten their tax status, and by extension, would threaten to eliminate them for merely criticizing a politician's record.
capwiz.com /gunowners/issues/votes/?votenum=34&chamber=H&congress=1072   (362 words)

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