For Immediate Release
June 6, 2003
Contact: Ellie McDaniel
703-321-8585

Iraqi Constitution Needs a Second Amendment

(Springfield, VA) — Gun Owners of America Executive Director, Larry
Pratt, called for those drafting a constitution for the new Iraqi
government to include an iron-clad protection of the individual right
to keep and bear arms.

“The U.S. administration in Iraq has already taken a good first step
by allowing Iraqi citizens to own fully-automatic, military AK-47
assault rifles,” said Pratt.

“The next step is to lock this policy into the new constitution. The
clause might read: ‘The right to self protection and national defense
being an inalienable, God-given right, the right of the people to
keep and bear arms shall not be infringed by any law or regulation
whatsoever for any firearm in use by any military establishment.’

“This would bring into 21st century language the meaning of the U.S.
Second Amendment to the Constitution,” Pratt concluded.

-GOA-

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Larry Pratt is the Executive Director for Gun Owners of
America, a national gun lobby with over 350,000 members located at
8001 Forbes Place, Springfield, VA 22151 and at
http://www.gunowners.org on the web.

Either Larry Pratt or another GOA spokesman is available for
press interviews or talk shows.