The object of those lawsuits comes down to 1 of 2 objectives.

First, is 'greenmail' they want to make settling the case easier and cheaper than defending it.

Second, they want to put you out of business or at least degrade your willingness or ability to compete. Big firms do it to little firms that are competitors all of the time. they sue for 'patent infringement' or bring a labor suit for 'tampering'. A number of gun manufacturers have been put pout of business this way.

Let's see how the NRA does defending their home turf on this one

Agreed! Man, Virginia is NRA HQ - we are "ground zero" for Second Amendment - let's do everything we can to show support!!

Adam

renewed my NRA membership tonight..

Please don't look to others to solve this problem.
You(WE)can fight this.

Make your voices heard, call write and email your State elected reps, make an appointment to see them prior to LOBBY DAY if you're able.


Whether your Elected Rep is Pro or Anti they should know how you feel about this and other issues that are important to you.


Please, it's never to late, start today MAKE THAT CALL.

RECALL ALL THE A**HOLES THAT SUPPORT HIM

We need to get all groups clubs and ind to work and stand together. VCDL NRA VSSA your hunt clubs ( I've had a hard time with guys that just hunt seem to think that will not effect me and my shotgun or deer rifle they are after your AR or AK or handgun ) we need to be smart cover all angles. That said it seems the only thing you see on the local news are guys in camo pants tucked in boots carrying AK type rifle on there shoulder. I have no problem with that. But what does it look like to others ? We all ready know they just don't get it.
Where can we find all the info on the 9000 ccp people that owe Carpetbagger 15 million in back over due or other child suppourt ??? Are they Va residents how many other laws on the books to collect back child support ? Do they want to look at those overdue by age race male female ??
Why does it seem the Left seem to want to have less punshiment for crime? What will deture crime if no punshiment? What happen to "Project Exile" ??? We need to expose laws (in good detail) not being enforced. Basicly educate gun grabbers about all the laws we good gun owners do not break.
Hope I didn't offend anybody here just venting. Thanks

Is there ever any planning meetings of Va Gun Trader VCDL VSSA NRA and others??? Or is just a wing it approach and maybe better luck next year ?

Go on the VCDL site, they have regular meetings which even non-
members are encouraged to attend. Right now they are getting cranked up for "Lobby Day" in Richmond!

...ED

Just sent my VCDL renewal.

Wrong. These anti-liberty, statist regulations almost always come from the Left, from Democrats, from Progressives. Republicans will from time to time lose their way and go along with this BS, like Guv. Romney's signing the absurd assault rifle ban, but it is always Dems that initiate the action. Don't obfuscate the reality of the situation, the problem is Democrats, and their ever increasing appetite for government intrusion into our lives, period.

Agreed, between Sarvis, the plant, and dopey single professional females in NOVA that were worried about their access to late term abortions under Cootch, when the reality is they would not have an unscheduled latte, we are stuck with a first rate Democrat progressive that has no respect for personal liberty and the 2A. Thank you, useful idiots.

What are the hours so I can request off.

What do you propose we do?

Do we have an organized march on city hall. I'm in the military I work a lot of hours so jerks like this can get votes from mindless liberals who think the constitution is old and outdated. Please what are your thoughts

Lobby Day 2015 is near!


January 19, 2015 (Monday) it's a Holiday for many as it's MLK day.
Time is usually 8:30a until the 1:00pm Rally and many stay for the legislative sessions/hearing.

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1. Emily Miller to speak at VCDL Lobby Day on January 19th
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Emily Miller, chief investigative reporter for Fox 5 DC and the author of "Emily Gets Her Gun"' has graciously agreed to be one of the speakers at Lobby Day on January 19th!

She joins David Codrea on the list of guest speakers. You don't want to miss Lobby Day 2015!

Watch for more speaker announcements coming soon.


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Click on this link to download the VCDL Lobby Day 2015 flyer:

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Distribute the flyer at local gun stores, gun shows, and at meetings of like-minded groups. Place them on bulletin boards at stores. Hand them to friends and co-workers. If they own a gun, hand them a flyer! ;-)

Please help us to get the word spread as far as possible!

I'm in on lobby day... Will be there. I have been in our home here in Virginia for only 2 months. I just left NY for one of these reasons. Now this, if we don't stand up we are done here. The NY safe act is ridiculous and pretty much shoved down our throats.

Why don`t the liberals suggest losing your right to food stamps, alcoholic beverages, and any other give away program when you are behind on child support payments. I don`t think anybody is surprised by this with him being associated with Clinton. At least we have the majority in the General Assembly. Let your Reps know we will not stand for this. VIRGINIA IS NOT an ANTI-GUN STATE.

Lobby day is important if you can make it Lady's and Gents. You don't need to be a VCDL member but the anti's and our elected officials need to see the strength behind the pro gun voters.

Did you even read my post? I was not talking about conservatives, libertarians etc talking to a liberal legislator. I think we need to talk to our friends that blindly vote these people in. If those friends who do vote for these people talk to those legislators and possibly start thinking about their vote we may turn the corner. When they speak to these legislators they have the power of saying "I voted for you .....BUT on this issue you are wrong." We do not have the luxury of saying that to these legislators and he will probably tune us out and send us a form letter. A politician wants one thing and that is to stay a politician. So these people telling them they may change their vote matters to them.

But the part that is important is you do not attack your friend. You speak to them on this issue and stay away from other hot buttons. Try to get them involved in a gun group. Take it slow. I have changed several people and gotten them to call their legislators about gun laws.

If you notice I tried to explain this in a way that should not anger you or hit YOUR hot buttons. Try explaining things this way and it will probably work better. As it stands now you just tuned out every left leaning person that read this thread, and they have no desire to listen to you about anything. We need everyone that is a gun owner to understand this is a fundamental right that we cannot compromise on. It is what keeps us from having a tyrannical government.

Have you called or written your Sen or Rep yet?

Here is part of the email I sent to mine:

I'm and owner, carrier, enthusiast and collector of firearms. I really do not see any reason to go back to the one per month rule. I would ask that you do not support the change the Gov is asking for. If I want to buy a number of guns from a collection, why would it make sense to take delivery of one per month. IF there was evidence that buying more than one gun per month increased gun crime, violence, etc, I would see it as worthy of consideration and debate, but this is nothing more than stupid pandering by the Gov. It seems extremely unlikely to pass, it's just pandering, stop wasting the people's time.

Hmm...maybe you've got a point. According to what I've seen, that would affect rural Conservatives at least as much, if not more, than it would affect urban/suburban Liberals like me.


If by "we", you mean "Republicans", then that's not going to go over well with the people we need to convince. I'm referring to folks primarily in Northern Virginia.

See, I used to be an anti. Now I'm a proud firearms enthusiast. And as a former anti, I can attest to the wisdom of gbellamy's advice.

Turns out I, too, have had some success in getting some folks to reconsider their anti-gun ideas. It doesn't happen right away, so don't expect instant results. I didn't change my own mind on the 2A right away just because "someone told me to". I came to it on my own, and that's how it's got to happen with others as well.

Here's how I accomplish that.

http://www.cmosnetworks.com/WhyWeNeedToWelcomeLiberals.html

Read this, and use some of the ideas in there. I've found that it works. And this can help Virginia remain a pro-gun State.

If I have a God given right to carry a firearm, what does it matter what the Governor thinks?

Because God doesn't legislate in VA...

Gun Control is his silent, number one priority.