From GOA: Don't Let Compromisers Trash The Lawsuit Protection Bill! Gun Owners of America E-Mail Alert 8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151 Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408 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! GOA 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 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 our famous Candidate Ratings, to be published prior to the 2006 Congressional elections. ACTION: Please e-mail AND CALL your two U.S. Senators immediately. (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.) Regardless, tell your Senators that a vote for S.397 containing any anti-gun amendments will be rated by GOA as an anti-gun vote. The Senate switchboard number is 202-224-3121. You can visit the Gun Owners Legislative Action Center at http://www.gunowners.org/activism.htm to easily send your Senators a pre-written e-mail message identical to the following: ----- Pre-written message for your Senators ----- Dear Senator: I would like to have S. 397 approved by the Senate to protect the gun industry from frivolous lawsuits designed to bankrupt firearms companies. But no anti-gun amendments are acceptable. Please do not vote for ANY anti-gun amendments. Further, I bring to your attention that a vote for passage of S.397, should it contain even a SINGLE anti-gun amendment, will be rated by Gun Owners of America as an anti-gun vote. Thank you very much. -- Stephen P. Wenger Firearm safety - It's a matter for education, not legislation. http://www.spw-duf.info .