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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While I would really like to see her swing, I still cant abide by using BS UN Constitutional laws to do so.
Hopefully she is linked to the 'gang' and some shootings that were used to further the anti agenda.
Travis McGee is becoming a prophet in real time ???
Now this.**
And let's not forget Ted Kennedy's body guard being caught in D. C. with fully automatic weapons!
Gloat
Hang her ass with the rope she made !
I've got no problem with her having the gun, or filing down the numbers, as long as it wasn't stolen. Hillary might call FreeRepublic a "gang". It's one of those terms like "terrorist", that could mean anyone. If she commited real crimes - murder, assault, shooting up the neighborhood, etc., to further her agenda - then hang her.
the question is..... "if it's *your* gun, you can take the serial numbers off *your* gun, right?"
The NRA should stay far away from this one....unless they want to point out the hypocrisy.....and giggle.
Oh me oh my. Even the slightest dent in the massive slab of anti-gun monolithica that is Illinois makes me grin. It won't amount to much, but there is just a -hint- of momentum of pro gun movement in Illinois right now and one must always hold out hope.
No problem, gun laws don't apply to the Nazis.
Could work at ALL levels of crime...
I'm sure the Carl Rowan rule will apply here.
NOT!
ping
Are Jeriko's fingerprints on the cartridges in the gun or are her's? Wouldn't you love to know?
When she gets out in 10-20, let's see how she feels about what she's done then?
I forgot about that. That was even better.
Another "Do as I say and not as I do" liberal.
When a liberal says, "We know best for you", always notice they don't include themselves in that statement.
Neither "terrorist" nor "gang" just means "anything" to anyone with a brain.
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