{"id":4292,"date":"2011-06-15T03:02:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T03:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2011\/06\/15\/citizens-committee-weighs-in-on-s-594\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:14:59","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:14:59","slug":"citizens-committee-weighs-in-on-s-594","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=4292","title":{"rendered":"Citizens Committee Weighs In On S. 594 And Bateman"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:17440,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.grnc.org\\\/contact_reps.htm&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.grnc.org\\\/contact_reps.htm&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>The open letter sent out this afternoon by Paul Valone has now been slightly rewritten and is joined in by Alan Gottlieb of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (and the head of the Second Amendment Foundation). <\/p>\n<p>The CalGuns Foundation sent out a tweet to it followers this evening stating that Bateman v. Perdue is of national importance.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>URGENT ACTION ALERT<\/p>\n<p>ACT NOW TO PASS CASTLE DOCTRINE &amp; PARKS CARRY<\/p>\n<p>In the shell game characterizing the North Carolina legislative process, a modified HB 650 passed the Senate Judiciary II Committee today and heads for the floor for its Second and Third Readings, quite probably tomorrow. With the legislature likely to recess on Friday, time is short. YOU MUST RESPOND IMMEDIATELY.<\/p>\n<p>In its current version, HB 650 contains Castle Doctrine, parks carry, enhanced concealed handgun reciprocity, improvements to our concealed handgun law, and far more.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, HB 650 \u2013 and your rights \u2013 face a threat not from legislators, but from the efforts of an organization ostensibly dedicated to defending the Second Amendment. Below is an open letter to North Carolina gun rights supporters \u2013 but equally vital to gun rights supporters everywhere \u2013 which explains the problem.<\/p>\n<p>OPEN LETTER FROM PAUL VALONE AND ALAN GOTTLIEB:<\/p>\n<p>IS SB 594 THE RIGHT BILL?<\/p>\n<p>To:          North Carolina Gun Rights Supporters<\/p>\n<p>From:    GRNC President F. Paul Valone<\/p>\n<p>CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb<\/p>\n<p>Members of the NRA recently received postcards urging them to call NC Senate leadership in support of Senate Bill 594, described in the postcard as \u201can emergency powers bill [to] ensure that our Right to Keep and Bear Arms cannot be suspended\u201d during declared states of emergency.<\/p>\n<p>But while North Carolina\u2019s state of emergency law is indeed a problem, SB 594 is the wrong solution. Worse, it seems to be a short-sighted effort by the NRA to grab credit for what some would have you believe to be a victory.<\/p>\n<p>Why? Because it would render moot \u2013 and cause the dismissal \u2013 of crucial litigation to expand recognition of the Second Amendment in the U.S. Supreme Court. The case is Bateman v. Perdue. Together with the Michael Bateman, Virgil Green, Forrest Minges, and the Second Amendment Foundation, GRNC is working with Alan Gura \u2013 the winner of DC v. Heller and McDonald v. Chicago \u2013 the cases which led the Supreme Court to affirm the individual right to keep and bear arms.<\/p>\n<p>Although GRNC has made numerous entreaties to NRA representatives to back the Bateman case, they have apparently fallen on deaf ears. Just as the NRA tried to derail the DC v. Heller decision in its early stages through its attempts to repeal the DC gun ban, now it apparently wants gun owners to regard GRNC \u2013 the state\u2019s most vocal and effective gun rights organization \u2013 as somehow \u201canti-gun\u201d for realizing that SB 594 is a short-sighted and misguided vehicle to advance gun rights.<\/p>\n<p>Gun rights supporters have two choices:<\/p>\n<p>Help the NRA achieve a narrow, short-sighted win by amending HB 650 or other gun bills to include language from SB 594, the now-dead \u201cstate of emergency\u201d  bill; or<\/p>\n<p>Help Gura, SAF and GRNC expand the interpretation of the Second Amendment, which will not only render North Carolina\u2019s state of emergency law unconstitutional, but will advance gun rights for everyone, everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t support GRNC. Don\u2019t support CCRKBA. Don&#8217;t support the NRA. SUPPORT THE SECOND AMENDMENT! And do so by helping Bateman v. Perdue expand your right to keep and bear arms.<\/p>\n<p>Armatissimi e liberissimi,<\/p>\n<p>F. Paul Valone<\/p>\n<p>President, Grass Roots North Carolina<\/p>\n<p>Alan M. Gottlieb<\/p>\n<p>Chairman, Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nIf you agree with this &#8211; and I hope you will &#8211; and you live in North Carolina, here is what you need to do:<\/p>\n<p><b>IMMEDIATE ACTION REQUIRED<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Immediately all your state senator<\/span><\/b> and tell him to pass HB 650 without amendments of any kind \u2013 <b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">especially to oppose efforts to add the contents SB 594<\/span><\/b>; and<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Immediately e-mail all members of the NC Senate<\/span><\/b> with the message above.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>CONTACT INFORMATION<\/p>\n<p><b>You may find your NC STATE representative by going here:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grnc.org\/contact_reps.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.grnc.org\/contact_reps.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>To e-mail all members of the Senate, use the following addresses:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:Austin.Allran@ncleg.net\">Austin.Allran@ncleg.net<\/a>, <a href=\"mailto:Tom.Apodaca@ncleg.net\">Tom.Apodaca@ncleg.net<\/a>, <a href=\"mailto:Bob.Atwater@ncleg.net\">Bob.Atwater@ncleg.net<\/a>, <a href=\"mailto:Doug.Berger@ncleg.net\">Doug.Berger@ncleg.net<\/a>, <a href=\"mailto:Phil.Berger@ncleg.net\">Phil.Berger@ncleg.net<\/a>, <a href=\"mailto:Stan.Bingham@ncleg.net\">Stan.Bingham@ncleg.net<\/a>, <a href=\"mailto:Harris.Blake@ncleg.net\">Harris.Blake@ncleg.net<\/a>, <a href=\"mailto:Dan.Blue@ncleg.net\">Dan.Blue@ncleg.net<\/a>, <a href=\"mailto:Andrew.Brock@ncleg.net\">Andrew.Brock@ncleg.net<\/a>, <a href=\"mailto:Harry.Brown@ncleg.net\">Harry.Brown@ncleg.net<\/a>, <a href=\"mailto:Peter.Brunstetter@ncleg.net\">Peter.Brunstetter@ncleg.net<\/a>, <a href=\"mailto:Debbie.Clary@ncleg.net\">Debbie.Clary@ncleg.net<\/a>, <a href=\"mailto:Daniel.Clodfelter@ncleg.net\">Daniel.Clodfelter@ncleg.net<\/a>, <a href=\"mailto:Warren.Daniel@ncleg.net\">Warren.Daniel@ncleg.net<\/a>, <a href=\"mailto:Charlie.Dannelly@ncleg.net\">Charlie.Dannelly@ncleg.net<\/a>, <a href=\"mailto:Jim.Davis@ncleg.net\">Jim.Davis@ncleg.net<\/a>, <a href=\"mailto:Don.East@ncleg.net\">Don.East@ncleg.net<\/a>, <a href=\"mailto:James.Forrester@ncleg.net\">James.Forrester@ncleg.net<\/a>, <a href=\"mailto:Linda.Garrou@ncleg.net\">Linda.Garrou@ncleg.net<\/a>, <a href=\"mailto:Thom.Goolsby@ncleg.net\">Thom.Goolsby@ncleg.net<\/a>, <a href=\"mailto:Malcolm.Graham@ncleg.net\">Malcolm.Graham@ncleg.net<\/a>, <a href=\"mailto:Rick.Gunn@ncleg.net\">Rick.Gunn@ncleg.net<\/a>, <a href=\"mailto:Kathy.Harrington@ncleg.net\">Kathy.Harrington@ncleg.net<\/a>, <a href=\"mailto:Fletcher.Hartsell@ncleg.net\">Fletcher.Hartsell@ncleg.net<\/a>, <a href=\"mailto:Ralph.Hise@ncleg.net\">Ralph.Hise@ncleg.net<\/a>, <a href=\"mailto:Neal.Hunt@ncleg.net\">Neal.Hunt@ncleg.net<\/a>, <a href=\"mailto:Brent.Jackson@ncleg.net\">Brent.Jackson@ncleg.net<\/a>, <a href=\"mailto:Clark.Jenkins@ncleg.net\">Clark.Jenkins@ncleg.net<\/a>, <a href=\"mailto:Edward.Jones@ncleg.net\">Edward.Jones@ncleg.net<\/a>, <a href=\"mailto:Ellie.Kinnaird@ncleg.net\">Ellie.Kinnaird@ncleg.net<\/a>, <a href=\"mailto:Eric.Mansfield@ncleg.net\">Eric.Mansfield@ncleg.net<\/a>, <a href=\"mailto:Floyd.McKissick@ncleg.net\">Floyd.McKissick@ncleg.net<\/a>, <a href=\"mailto:Wesley.Meredith@ncleg.net\">Wesley.Meredith@ncleg.net<\/a>, <a href=\"mailto:Martin.Nesbitt@ncleg.net\">Martin.Nesbitt@ncleg.net<\/a>, <a href=\"mailto:Buck.Newton@ncleg.net\">Buck.Newton@ncleg.net<\/a>, <a href=\"mailto:Louis.Pate@ncleg.net\">Louis.Pate@ncleg.net<\/a>, <a href=\"mailto:Jean.Preston@ncleg.net\">Jean.Preston@ncleg.net<\/a>, <a href=\"mailto:William.Purcell@ncleg.net\">William.Purcell@ncleg.net<\/a>, <a href=\"mailto:Bill.Rabon@ncleg.net\">Bill.Rabon@ncleg.net<\/a>, <a href=\"mailto:Gladys.Robinson@ncleg.net\">Gladys.Robinson@ncleg.net<\/a>, <a href=\"mailto:David.Rouzer@ncleg.net\">David.Rouzer@ncleg.net<\/a>, <a href=\"mailto:Bob.Rucho@ncleg.net\">Bob.Rucho@ncleg.net<\/a>, <a href=\"mailto:Dan.Soucek@ncleg.net\">Dan.Soucek@ncleg.net<\/a>, <a href=\"mailto:Josh.Stein@ncleg.net\">Josh.Stein@ncleg.net<\/a>, <a href=\"mailto:Richard.Stevens@ncleg.net\">Richard.Stevens@ncleg.net<\/a>, <a href=\"mailto:Jerry.Tillman@ncleg.net\">Jerry.Tillman@ncleg.net<\/a>, <a href=\"mailto:Tommy.Tucker@ncleg.net\">Tommy.Tucker@ncleg.net<\/a>, <a href=\"mailto:Don.Vaughan@ncleg.net\">Don.Vaughan@ncleg.net<\/a>, <a href=\"mailto:Michael.Walters@ncleg.net\">Michael.Walters@ncleg.net<\/a>, <a href=\"mailto:Stan.white@ncleg.net\">Stan.white@ncleg.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p>DELIVER THIS MESSAGE<\/p>\n<p><b> <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>In sending e-mails, use the subject line: \u201cPass HB 650 without amendments\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Dear Senator:<\/p>\n<p>I strongly urge you to vote for HB 650: \u201cAmend Various Gun  Laws\/Castle Doctrine\u201d and to oppose ANY AND ALL amendments to the bill,  however well-intentioned they may appear. The present contents of HB 650  have been voted on \u2014 and passed \u2013 in various versions by both the  Senate and House. The bill\u2019s passage is long overdue.<\/p>\n<p>Efforts to amend gun-related legislation to include the  contents of SB 594: \u201cFirearms\/State of Emergency\u201d are misguided and  short-sighted. Such an amendment would render moot the Bateman lawsuit  filed by numerous plaintiffs, including Grass Roots North Carolina and  the Second Amendment Foundation, and argued by famed gun rights lawyer  Alan Gura, to expand the US Supreme Court interpretation of the Second  Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>As always, I will be monitoring your actions via Grass Roots North Carolina legislative alerts<\/p>\n<p>Respectfully,<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The open letter sent out this afternoon by Paul Valone has now been slightly rewritten and is joined in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1240,1241,159,384],"class_list":["post-4292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bateman-v-perdue","tag-emergency-powers-gun-ban","tag-grnc","tag-second-amendment-foundation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6813,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4292\/revisions\/6813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}