Those who take an active roll in preserving their right to keep and bear arms should be familiar by now with what has happened to gun owners in Great Britain over the last few decades. In a relatively brief amount of time, they have moved to a state of virtually absolute gun prohibition. NRA-ILA now offers a new brochure, Lost Battles, Lost Rights, which details the progression of the loss of rights of British gun owners, and how they allowed it to happen through apathy, appeasement, and the failure to unite in the face of a common enemy.

   The parallels between what happened across the sea and what could happen here if American gun owners do not learn from history are truly frightening. Author David Kopel -- currently the Research Director of the Independence Institute, a free-market think tank, and an adjunct professor of law at New York University Law School -- adapted this brochure from his award-winning book The Samurai, the Mountie, and the Cowboy, which was named the Book of the Year by the American Society of Criminology Division of International Criminology.

   If you would like a copy [of Lost Battles, Lost Rights], please call the NRA-ILA Grassroots Division at 1-800-392-8683. Show it to your gun-owning friends who are not members of NRA, and ask them why they have not yet joined in the fight to preserve our cherished freedoms protected by the Second Amendment.