CCRKBA SUPPORTS FOLSOM GUN CLUB’S FIGHT AGAINST LOCKYER’S BULLET BOONDOGGLE
BELLEVUE, WA ? The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) today said it supports the decision by the Folsom, California Gun Club to ban state Department of Justice (DoJ) employees from using its facilities in a symbolic stand against Attorney General Bill Lockyer’s push for legislation that amounts to a de facto ammunition ban in the state.

Club President Thomas Hause announced last week that on-duty DoJ officers may not use the range. The decision is in response to Lockyer’s efforts to pass SB 357, a bill requiring all bullets sold in the state to have serial numbers, and AB 352, a measure requiring all semiautomatic handguns to be designed so that they “micro-stamp” every ejected shell casing with a microscopic alphanumeric code.

“Why should law-abiding gun owners continue assisting government officials, when those same officials are working strenuously to destroy their firearm civil rights, one Draconian piece of legislation at a time,” questioned CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “Bill Lockyer has been working for years to accomplish what amounts to the piecemeal destruction of gun rights and gun ownership in the Golden State. It is an American tradition to reject Lockyer’s brand of tyranny, and take a stand.

“Critics of the Folsom Gun Club,” he continued, “have once again shown just how far out of the mainstream they are. The extremists at the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence think the Folsom club shouldn’t take a stand against this insidious legislation. Is that what they’d have told the patriots at Lexington or the Alamo?

“This isn’t about taking sides against law enforcement,” Gottlieb stressed. “It’s about standing up for common sense, an area where Lockyer seems to be completely lacking. All these bills will accomplish is to stop all ammunition sales in the state, and Lockyer knows it.

“Andrew Jackson once said that ?one man with courage can make a majority’,” Gottlieb observed. “The Folsom Gun Club has shown courage still lives in California; the courage to draw a line in the sand. But Lockyer and the Brady Bunch would have the Folsom group remain silent. They’ve forgotten the wisdom of Edmund Burke, who reminded us long ago, ?All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing’.”

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