INITIATIVE FIGHT IN OREGON
IS EVERYONE'S FIGHT

August 22, 2000 -
     Please take a moment to read the note I've attached below.  It is from the Executive Director of the Oregon Firearms Federation (OFF), an organization we are proud to call our friends.  

     OFF needs your help right away to fight a vicious anti-gun initiative.  

     And frankly, their fight is your fight because, if the anti-gunners win without a fight in Oregon, they've sworn to take the same effort (either by initiative or legislation) to every state in America.

     In Oregon's last legislative session, OFF was the ONLY state lobbying organization and GOA the ONLY national organization to fight House Bill 2535, a terrible piece of anti-freedom legislation which is now the basis for the Oregon initiative.

     House Bill 2535 would have outlawed private firearms transfers at gun shows and many private transfers outside of gun shows.  GOA members in Oregon, along with the supporters of OFF, fought this bill tooth and nail when they were told they had "no chance" of winning.  In the end, their dogged efforts paid off and the bill was killed.

     Now this terrible legislation is back as a "ballot initiative" and our friends in Oregon need your financial help.  GOA will be helping too, but Oregon's election law severely (and probably unconstitutionally) limits what an outside group can do.  That's why your financial contribution to OFF-PAC is so important.

     I hope you'll take a moment to read this message from the Oregon Firearms Federation and be as generous as you can in assisting them.

(Article by Larry Pratt;
Executive Director Of The Gun Owners Of America)