Having spent four years in Australia, I have added a perspective
elow. –Don Cline

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From: GOA-Texas <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2000 7:18 AM
Subject: A Voice from Australia – FIGHT PROJECT EXILE!

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GUN OWNERS ALLIANCE
!!ALERT!!
Chris W. Stark – Director
P.O. Box 1924
Crosby, Texas 77532-1924
Ph. 1-281-787-4111 Fax 1-281-328-7505

http://www.GOA-Texas.org

email: [email protected]

12 March 2000
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A Voice from Australia – FIGHT PROJECT EXILE!

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Copyright ? 2000 by Gun Owners Alliance (GOA-Texas).
Republication permitted ONLY if this e-mail alert
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It is hard for Gun Owners Alliance to imagine the NRA embracing Project
(Exile) Gun Gulag. We have made this comment before, and the original
alerts can be found at:

http://www.goa-texas.org/gun_gulag-1.htm

http://www.goa-texas.org/gun_gulag-2.htm

But don’t just take it from us, that NRA is promoting gun control through
the Project (Exile) Gun Gulag. Read the e-mail below my comments, from a
brother in arms in Australia.

With Respect,

Gun Owners Alliance
Chris W. Stark – Director

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Chris,

When I saw the posts about Wayne LaPierre of the NRA sharing a forum
and agreeing with HCI people on the so called Project Exile, I found
it hard to believe that an organisation, supposedly safeguarding 2nd
amendment rights, would even sit in the same room as the gun
grabbers, unless it was to debunk the lies and falsehoods told by
these people.

What LaPierre, and the NRA, seems to be advocating in this Project
Exile program is a complete acceptance of Australian style laws
restricting the ability of people to have guns available to defend
their homes, families and themselves. But their version is even
worse!! It imposes without restriction, even greater penalties than
in police state Australia for technical or self defence uses of a
gun.

For example: In Australia firearms are generally not allowed to be
owned for self defence purposes at all for private citizens. Under
the most common concealable weapons licence for a pistol that is for
use only at an approved pistol range for competition/sporting
purposes. I can only take the gun out of the approved mandatory
storage safe, place it in an approved locked container and take it to
the pistol club ensuring that it is either locked in the boot or
locked out of site in the interior of the car. I then am allowed to
take it out of the container at the range and shoot it. I am not
allowed to ‘carry’ it, that is wear it in a holster, anywhere but at
the range.

So if at home I have the pistol out of safe for other than cleaning
or maintenance purposes or actually have it in a holster in my secure
possession, I am committing a breach of the licence provisions and
mandatory storage requirements. If I actually have a loaded magazine
in the gun, I also commit a breach of the regulations. If I then dare
to carry the gun concealed on my person out of the house, at night
when I am in an area of high risk, then in addition to breaching the
provisions of my licence to own a handgun, I am then guilty of
carrying a loaded firearm in a public place without reasonable
excuse. As mentioned in my previous article all of these are
provisions of sections of the Weapons Act 1990 and the Weapons
Regulations 1996 as amended in 1998, in my state and in similar acts
through out Australia.

So what are the potential legal penalties. As mentioned in my article
on mandatory storage, the penalties are loss of licence, naturally as
I am now a criminal, fines and potential jail terms of anywhere from
one year up depending on the circumstances. But the difference is
that the jail terms are not automatic, with a good lawyer and in
circumstances of genuine fear of attack and a defensive situation,
the jail terms may be avoided.

With the Project Exile provisions, if I go out at night carrying a
concealed weapon without a carry permit, or if I do not comply with
whatever state required storage requirements that the NRA is pushing
for, because of self defence concerns for my family or myself, bingo
go to jail without a get out of jail free card. And if I do this
three times in America, I go to jail for life! Even Australia does
not have such draconian laws! How can NRA promote the “Project Exile?”

Naturally, a great many of Australian firearm owners deliberately
break these regulations and have the necessary scenarios set up in
their homes and elsewhere to minimise their exposure to the laws if
needed.

But the bottom line is that we should not have to do this. Can anyone
not believe that once these anti gun provisions are in place that the
regulations covering storage, licencing to own handguns, and others
to limit even further the defensive use of them will not come into
place by a traitorous cabal of the NRA, congressmen and senators,
cheered on by HCI, Brady, and her cowardly comrades, Schumer and
Feinstein,

IF the American gun owners and members of the NRA do not get rid of
LaPierre, Heston and all other directors who have compromised away
their constitutional rights before you get rid of Clinton and
hopefully miss out on Al Gore, then I predict within the term of the
next President, you will have laws enacted just like ours.

For the sake of America and the hope of many of us in the rest of the
work, fight these quislings to the end.

Your friend