NEWS RELEASE

Citizens Committee for the
Right to Keep and Bear Arms
12500 N.E. Tenth Place
Bellevue, WA  98005

URGENT ACTION: TELL GOV. SCHWARZENEGGER TO VETO A.B. 821

For Immediate Release: September 7, 2007

California gun owners should immediately call Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s office and urge him to veto Assembly Bill 821, which would ban the use of lead in ammunition in areas identified as California condor habitat. The bill has been sent to the governor after amendments were approved by the Assembly earlier this week.

If signed, this legislation could literally ban hunting and recreational shooting in large areas of the state.

Likewise, gun owners should also respectfully urge Gov. Schwarzenegger to veto Assembly Bill 1471, the so-called “Micro-stamping” bill. This legislation would require handguns sold after a certain date in California to be microstamped with identifying information so that this micro-stamp is transferred to the surface of a cartridge case when it is fired.

To contact Gov. Schwarzenegger, call (916) 445-2841, or fax him a message at (916) 445-4633. You may also reach his office via e-mail at: http://gov.ca.gov/interact#email.

With more than 650,000 members and supporters nationwide, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is one of the nation's premier gun rights organizations. As a non-profit organization, the Citizens Committee is dedicated to preserving firearms freedoms through active lobbying of elected officials and facilitating grass-roots organization of gun rights activists in local communities throughout the United States. The Citizens Committee can be reached by phone at (425) 454-4911, on the internet at www.ccrkba.org or by email to InformationRequest@ccrkba.org.

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