NRA-ILA FAX ALERT
(800) 392-8683	Fax: (703) 267-3918	groots@nra.org
Vol. 8, No. 29	11250 Waples Mill Road, Fairfax, VA 22030	7/20/2001

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Lowe's Removes Anti-Gun Messages "...We understand that certain elements of that information may be viewed as being subjective; therefore, it has been removed from our web site..."   -- Lowe's Companies Inc   Lowe's Companies Inc. reacted quickly and decisively to last week's FAX Alert story regarding anti-gun material that had been posted to its website. In a letter to NRA-ILA, a company representative stated... "Lowe's is a home improvement retailer, and it is certainly not our intent to take a public policy position on the overall issue of Second Amendment rights in the U.S. The information in question was provided to Lowe's by a third party, the Consumer Federation of America, who had obtained it from Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy. We understand that certain elements of that information may be viewed as being subjective; therefore, it has been removed from our web site. Frankly, a more careful reading of that information by our staff, before it was posted, may have eliminated this issue before it occurred." We certainly appreciate the honesty of Lowe's, and we appreciate its swift reaction. The material that had caused NRA concern was removed within days of Lowe's realizing there was a problem. Related Stories... More About the Efforts of the Gun-Ban Lobby Last Week's FAX ALert