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INDUSTRY REPS. ATTEND WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE
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On Monday, 60 representatives from the entertainment
industry, the media, labor unions, trial lawyers, and the
firearms industry, met at the White House to discuss violence and
children. While NRA, the leading national organization working
toward reducing firearms accidents and violent crime, was not
invited to the White House, the usual suspects, including HCI,
were included. The firearms industry was represented by Robert
Ricker, Executive Director of the American Shooting Sports
Council; Paul Jannuzzo, VP and General Counsel of GLOCK, Inc.;
Georgia Nichols, VP and General Counsel of O.F. Mossberg & Sons,
Inc.; and Ed Schultz, President and CEO of Smith and Wesson.
Rather than speaking out against the misguided gun control
proposals being pushed by the Clinton-Gore Administration, these
gun industry representatives endorsed a vast majority of the
Clinton gun control package including:
- raising the minimum age
for handgun possession to 21 from 18;
- requiring the regulation of
private sales of gun shows in the same manner as sales conducted
by FFLs; and
- holding adults responsible for the acts of armed,
criminal juveniles.
While these gun industry representatives
were hob-knobbing with the Clintons and Sarah Brady,
NRA hosted
its own press conference where we highlighted the lack of
enforcement of existing laws against criminals, and the need to
expand true crime-fighting measures like
Project Exile.
The NRA
event was also attended and supported by Bob Delfay, Executive
Director of the
National Shooting Sports Foundation.
NSSF was
invited to the White House summit with the promise that it would
have input in the decision-making process. But upon learning the
Administration had already sent its gun control package to
Capitol Hill before
NSSF had any chance to comment on it, the
group realized
the summit was looking not for input, but for
blind allegiance to the Administration's agenda, and thus, they
declined the invitation.
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