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Why Gun Control Will Win The people who run the political machine known as the “Gun Control Movement”, made up of such organizations as the Brady Campaign to Prevent Handgun Violence, the Violence Policy Center, and the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, to name a few, are reasonable people. They see the world through their reasonable eyes. They dress well, they are the epitome of Corporate America. They are head and shoulders above the rest of the population and they know it. They have an idea, an ideal, if you will. They are idealists. Gun Control has its own...

Today (Wednesday), the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence united with the Million Mom March (MMM) hailed the Pennsylvania primary victory of Ed Rendell, Democratic candidate for Governor and a long-time advocate of sensible gun laws. The Brady Campaign Voter Education Fund and the MMM endorsed Mr. Rendell, and were a key presence in the primary. Gun violence prevention issues figured prominently in Rendell's race against Bob Casey. "I congratulate Mayor Rendell on his victory in this highly competitive primary," said Michael D. Barnes, President of the Brady Campaign. "As we work to create an America free from gun violence,...

VPC Launches New Web Site, www.banhandgunsnow.org, in Conjunction With Release of Paperback Edition of Latest Book, Every Handgun Is Aimed at You: The Case for Banning Handguns WASHINGTON, DC—In conjunction with release of the paperback edition of its most recent book, Every Handgun is Aimed at You: The Case for Banning Handguns (The New Press, 2001), the Violence Policy Center (VPC) today launched a new citizen-action web site, www.banhandgunsnow.org. Each year handguns claim more than 20,000 American lives in suicides, homicides, and unintentional shootings. The unique qualities that make handguns ideally suited for violent death and injury—concealability coupled with lethality—are...

Gun Rights Group Asks BATF to Investigate Gun Purchase by Anti-Gunner Sarah Brady To: National Desk Contact: Alan Gottlieb of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, 425-454-4911 Web site: a www.ccrkba.org BELLEVUE, Wash., March 22 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) today is requesting that the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms investigate whether a gun purchase, acknowledged by gun control advocate Sarah Brady in her newly-released autobiography, violated state and federal gun laws. Brady describes the purchase of a .30-06-caliber rifle with telescopic sight...

WASHINGTON - Gun-control advocate Sarah Brady bought her son a powerful rifle for Christmas in 2000 - and may have skirted Delaware state background-check requirements, the New York Daily News has learned.Brady reveals in a new memoir that she bought James Brady Jr. a Remington .30-06, complete with scope and safety lock, at a Lewes, Del., gun shop."I can't describe how I felt when I picked up that rifle, loaded it into my little car and drove home," she writes. "It seemed so incredibly strange: Sarah Brady, of all people, packing heat."Brady became a household name as a crusader...

For 20 years, Sarah Brady has cared for her husband Jim, who was struck in the head by a bullet meant for President Reagan. She has lobbied tirelessly to educate the public and reform laws governing gun use. And now, with her husband still by her side, she is fighting her own deadly battle. Two years ago, Sarah Brady learned she had lung cancer. In her just-published book, A Good Fight, she writes not just about the battle to make her husband well, but her own battle to survive. Test of Love Though Jim survived and was able to return...

Move over, Rosie O'Donnell: The newest "celebrity" anti-gun hypocrite is Sarah Brady. Mrs. Brady "bought her son a powerful rifle for Christmas in 2000 - and may have skirted Delaware state background-check requirements," the New York Daily News reported Thursday. Some people will do anything to tell a book. No doubt to increase interest in what otherwise would be a boring memoir, the gun rights opponent writes that she bought James Brady Jr. a Remington .30-06, "complete with scope and safety lock," at a gun shop in Lewes, Del. "I can't describe how I felt when I picked up that...

HIGHLIGHTSTUNE IN TO ABC THIS FRIDAY TO SEE BARBARA WALTERS INTERVIEW SARAH BRADY ON 20/20BRADY CAMPAIGN HAILS PASSAGE OF CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM LEGISLATIONFIND OUT YOUR STATE'S GUN SAFETY LAWS ON OUR NEW WEBSITE! IN-DEPTH BARBARA WALTERS TO INTERVIEW SARAH BRADY ON "20/20" Watch for Sarah this Friday, March 22nd, as she discusses her life and her new autobiography in an exclusive interview with Barbara Walters on ABC's "20/20" at 10:00 p.m. Eastern time. Her book, A Good Fight, which will be in stores this weekend, is a compelling read about the work that Sarah and Jim, together with many...