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Physicians vs. Gun Owners

Physicians
The number of physicians in the U.S. is 700,000.
Accidental deaths caused by Physicians per year are 120,000.
Accidental deaths per physician is 0.171. U.S. Dept. of Heath and Human Services.

Gun Owners

The number of gun owners in the U.S. is 80,000,000.
The number of accidental gun deaths per year in all age groups is 1,500.
The number of accidental gun deaths per gun owner is 0.000188.

Statistically, doctors are approxmately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners.

MONDAY MORNING MEMORANDUM
By Assemblyman Ray Haynes
June 24, 2005
Missing the Target Again On Crime

Liberals in Sacramento are missing the target again.
At a time when people are upset and fearful of serious sex offenders that are being placed in group homes in their neighborhood with little or no oversight, the Democrats in the legislature have once again rallied around their favorite “tough on crime” issue and declared war on… bullets!
Despite the lack of evidence that any of their goofy gun control laws have ever stopped a single murder, and despite the fact that they have already succeeded in banning scary “assault weapons”, allegedly unsafe “Saturday night specials”, and the imaginary menace of “50 caliber sniper rifles,” they have dug deeper this year to invent new ways to harass gun owners in California.
There are four major gun control bills moving through the legislature.
Two are major threats to the future of gun ownership in California.
One that is mostly just annoying (AB 944) adds a bogus new warning to the six warnings already required by law.
Relying on discredited studies, it claims that the “State… has determined that” among other things “it is safest not to keep a gun in the home.” I guess that means you’re okay if you keep it in your purse or car?

The second more limited bill (AB 996) requires all handgun ammunition to be kept inaccessible to the public, but doesn’t explain how this is to be done.
It could require all of it to be under lock and key.
It could require it to be merely behind the counter.
It could require specific lock requirements like the state now does for handguns.
No statistics indicate that theft of ammo is a major problem in this state, and at $10-$50 per box, don’t retailers already have sufficient incentive to prevent theft?
Some of the larger gun stores have rows of ammunition for sale in a wide variety of weights, bullet types, and grains of powder, under different manufacturer labels at differing prices.
Keeping it all behind the counter under lock and key will be nearly unworkable for some stores.

The two bills that seem designed to stop the sale of firearms and ammunition in California are AB 352 and SB 357.
Apparently written by someone who has watched too many episodes of CSI, both of these bills attempt to add high tech identifying marks to bullets to make it easier for the police to solve crimes.
AB 352 sets up a cockamamie, laser-etched, micro-stamping system inside the firing pins and chambers of handguns that would mark the ejected shell casings with the make, manufacture, and serial number of the firearm.
From a law-enforcement perspective, it will only provide even greater incentives for the bad guys to steal guns that won’t be registered (which is what they usually do anyways).
It would also allow killers to collect marked casings at shooting ranges and then scatter them at crime scenes to confuse the police and cause law-abiding citizens to be harassed and questioned by the police.
Oh yeah, and it is completely useless on revolvers.
This will also require manufacturers to completely retrofit equipment and factories to make handguns that will only be sold in California.
My guess that many won’t bother and will just leave the market here.

SB 357 will require every bullet in California to have an identifying number that will be traceable to the purchaser with a complicated and expensive bullet registration system.
Anyone who keeps his old ammo, or casts his own bullets would be subject to expensive fines.
People (including one of my own staff members!) would have to dispose of hundreds or thousands of dollars worth of unmarked ammo to comply with the new law.
With 8 billion rounds of ammunition manufactured world-wide per year, and some factories turning out a million rounds a day, how can they verify that 50 rounds in a single box have the exact same serial numbers?
And how do they keep them from being switched later?
The industry suggests they’d have to spend hundreds of millions of dollars building special factories, just to sell handgun ammunition in California.
Furthermore, while stealing ammunition (as discussed in AB 996) hasn’t been a problem before, if this bill passes it will create an immediate hot new black market for out-of-state and stolen ammunition.
Is that really what they want?

I’m afraid what they want is to make gun ownership for recreational and personal protection purposes impossible in California, as manufacturers and retailers continue to flee the state.

But while these gun bills have passed the floor in their house of origin, bills to extend parole periods and require GPS tracking of sex offenders (SB 1044), prevent felons from owning sex offender group homes (SB 1046), keep sex offender group homes away from schools (SB 1051), and create a one-strike punishment for certain sex crimes against children (SB 448) have been defeated or stalled in Sacramento by the Democrat majority.

Do you feel safer yet?


The Bulls-eye Prayer. 
 
I've heard those words so many times before,
bringing a little rush but deep to the core...
"Your three minute preparation time has begun!"
The match has started and now for the fun.

I love this game played often times before,
the stance is the same, 45 degrees or more
I place my gear; box, scope, ammo and gun...
The match has started and now for the fun

My prayer begins: Oh God! Help me pass this test
by giving me the strength to do my very best.
Strengthen my mind to concentrate with all my might.
Focus my eyes, not on the bull, but on the front sight.

It's time now... "With five rounds, load!"
The relay is ready and the slides are all home.
"God! Help me concentrate on that front sight!
Still closer, then I hear "Ready on the right!"

I raise the gun and take a deep breath,
let out some air and "Ready on the left!"
As the targets turn quickly and with such a start,
the sound is deafening, but it's only my heart.

The "slow fire" is over and "timed" is the pace,
then "rapid fire" and we're through with the race.
Now, it's all over, the game and the fun,
It saddens me to hear, "Now, you may box your gun!"

The scores are not as high as they used to be...
but just the same, they mean a lot to me.
The medals once won are framed on the wall
and I think of those matches and re-live them all.

God! Thank you for giving me my best,
for winning the match and passing my test.
It's over for now, my shooting for score...
but as I reminisce, it means so much more.

"Your preparation time is over!", a new test has begun.
A bigger match has started, so let's get on with the fun.
Used with permission of the author from his book.
Anxieties In The Outhouse, The Diarya Of An Appalachian Man.
by R. Eugene Wallace






This idea that government was beholden to the people, that it had no other source of power is still the newest, most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man.
This is the issue of this election: Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves.

You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down.
Up to man's age-old dream -- the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order -- or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism.

Regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would sacrifice freedom for security have embarked on this downward path.

Plutarch warned, "The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits."

The Founding Fathers knew a government can't control the economy without controlling people.
And they knew when a government sets out to do that, it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose.

Ronald Reagan
From his televised speech just before the 1964 election.





Have you got your tickets yet!
The next raffle is coming soon!



Kathy sells the tickets with Chuck.

Chuck and Claude take their turn.

Oroville Gun Show.


Keith takes a turn at the Oroville Gun Show.

Feather Fiesta

Marvin mans the Raffle Harley table at Joe Clark's during the Oroville Car Show.





News from the gun show.


I would like to thank everyone that stopped by our booth at the Chico gunshow.
We were able to provide information about the club and it's activities.
We sold over $1300.00 worth of Harley raffle tickets.
Blair Snyder VP




Jim B. purchased a .22 caliber rifle at the gunshow and presented it to Ron Husa for the Junior Program.


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