Posted on 03/01/2005 6:44:50 PM PST by Dan from Michigan
NEWS RELEASE
Citizens Committee for the
Right to Keep and Bear Arms
12500 N.E. Tenth Place
Bellevue, WA 98005
ILLINOIS ANTI-GUN ACTIVIST ARRESTED, CCRKBA SAYS 'WELCOME TO THE PARTY'
For Immediate Release: March 1, 2005
The arrest of a Springfield, IL anti-gun activist by police who allegedly found an illegal handgun and drugs in her home during a contested search prompted the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms to bid Annette "Flirty" Stevens a "welcome to the party."
Stevens became an activist with the Million Mom March after her son was gunned down in 2002. She has acknowledged having the gun – from which the serial number had been removed – in her home. The handgun belonged to her late son, Jericko Clark, she insisted, and she had simply wrapped it up and forgotten about it after finding it several months after his slaying. She claims the search was illegal.
"Annette Stevens may now understand why so many law-abiding people are fed up with the kind of gun laws that are promoted by the Million Mom March and other extremist gun control organizations," said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. "Ironically, the law against filing serial numbers off firearms is one that gun rights activists and organizations have long supported. Yet here she is, this ‘poster mom' for gun control, acknowledging that she has kept an illegally-altered handgun in her home while she's been campaigning to deprive other citizens of their firearms.
"In the kind of Draconian anti-gun society Stevens and her cohorts are trying to create," Gottlieb continued, "it wouldn't matter if she were innocent as she claims. Under the laws her group supports, gun owners are essentially considered guilty until they prove themselves otherwise. That's everything from background checks to waiting periods, and certainly the Illinois requirement that gun owners have a Firearms Owners Identification Card. Stevens has no FOID card, so there's another gun law violation. There are thousands of local and state laws across the country that the Million Moms support, none of which have done anything to prevent a single crime. All they do is chip away at the gun rights of law-abiding citizens.
"If Stevens is so convinced guns don't belong in society," Gottlieb observed, "then why didn't she immediately turn that gun over to the police when she found it more than two years ago? Why did she keep it? What's wrong with this picture? Ms. Stevens is about to learn that supporting gun control is like keeping a vicious dog. They sometimes bite the hands that feed them."
With more than 650,000 members and supporters nationwide, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is one of the nation's premier gun rights organizations. As a non-profit organization, the Citizens Committee is dedicated to preserving firearms freedoms through active lobbying of elected officials and facilitating grass-roots organization of gun rights activists in local communities throughout the United States. The Citizens Committee can be reached by phone at (425) 454-4911, on the internet at www.ccrkba.org or by email to InformationRequest@ccrkba.org.
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/snicker!
BTW is is a .50 cal?
BTTT
It will be interesting to see how this plays out, but I wouldn't have high hopes for her being prosecuted.
Love it!! The story on Drudge said the gun had the serial number ground off. That's a major federal offense. Let's see some action, BATF!
THAT would be so sweet. LOL
Can I say HYPOCRITE, while I also gloat profusely.
So the gun control activist has close ties to gangs. I wonder how much organized crime money directly or indirectly goes to gun control groups.
"How many posts until someone suggests the NRA use their resources to help this "poor lady"?"
That might just be the best response. It could very well make her a leader of her kind over to the right side of freedom. It could be the beginning of a great revolution, bringing the MMM over to our side, with their million(or a couple thousand, wasn't it?)and even Rosie and Michael joining in with TV appearances and even a "documentary" exposing the evils of the gun grabbers.
NAAAAAAAAAAAA!
"First there was a moonbat out in CA that bought an illegal gun to show how easy it was, and was promptly jailed.
Then it was Rosie with her armed body guard(I can't afford one so I defend my family myself)
Then it was Mike Moore with his armed body guard
Now this.
Isn't it great when your opponents defeat themselves!"
Don't forget the great Sarah Brady herself buying a hunting rifle for her nephew as a gift without properly paper working it over to him.
(Smug Smiley.)
-good times, G.J.P.(Jr.)
It figures.
Another lefty hypocrite bearing her double standard for all to see.
NRA helping this POS my ass. They represent the LAW ABIDING gun owners of America. If they lift a finger to lessen the penalty for that gangbanging hypocritical million moron mommy I will promptly cancel my NRA life membership.
as I said on an earlier thread on this topic: SCHADENFREUDE
glorious unrepentant schadenfreude
One moderator even threatened banning after it was mentioned on one particular site.
Damn limousine liberals.
Good for me, but not for thee.
This woman is not a hypocrite, she is a criminal, and criminals want all law abiding citizens being disarmed. She is definitely "in character".
Yeah, MAYBE her little angel did it, or maybe she's been out commiting crimes herself to further her anti-gun agenda. Possession is 9/10ths of the law, hang her.
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