Good Evening Minnesota,

Below are several emails that I sent out yesterday to all members of the House
and Senate. Today, Representative Dave Olin added his name to HF 498 (the Stand
Your Ground bill) and Representative Marty Seifert added his name to both HF 498
and HF 775 (the RKBA Constitutional Amendment bill). That’s the good news.

The report from the Senate is the DFL is in lock step with Larry Pogemiller and
no DFL’er has added their name or support to either of these bills. The boycott
is holding. Of course, Mee Moua is cooperating as an accomplice in the death of
these bills in the Senate. For that matter, no new Senate Republicans have added
their support either.

We know the first and second House committee deadline is March 23rd. If these
bills do not move out of the committee in the House before the deadline, they
are dead for this session. The Senate committee deadlines are not far behind.

Between now and next Friday, I am asking each of you to send very short emails
frequently and every day to all members of both the House and particularly the
Senate, asking that these bills be supported, given a hearing and moved out of
their respective committees for a floor vote. We are in the position of having
nothing to loose and everything to gain. Use the email tool on the
www.mnccrn.org website it will make this task much easier for you. Please sign
up for an alert on these bills and continue to email frequently each day until
you know if your emails were effective. I will update you as I learn more or new
information also.

These bills may die in committee as predicted, but they will certainly die in
committee if we do nothing and just give up now. Let me do the math. If each of
you took five or ten minutes and you sent just two emails to every legislator
each day, they would collectively get over 1,250,000 emails on these two bills
from pro-gun voters, EACH DAY. Your sending only four emails daily would be even
better, that would be almost 12,500 emails per legislator, EACH DAY. You would
all be very difficult to ignore. If everyone of you asked just one pro-gun
friend to help us and send emails well then, double these numbers. Perhaps they
know someone who they can ask to send emails too. You get the idea, the more
love we send, the more love they will feel from us.

Make some daily phone calls also to Larry Pogemiller, Mee Moua and Joe Mullery
if you wish. Let's keep them busy tending to our calls until they listen.

Please do not copy and paste my emails, you need to edit them and make them your
own words. Be polite. Pay attention to Bill numbers so you don’t ask a Senator
to support a House bill or Representative to support a Senate bill. Short and to
the point is better because 12,000 or more emails each day can’t be read anyway.

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I would first like to thank those 28 Republican and DFL Representatives who are
now authors of HF 498; Cornish; Smith; Hackbarth; Dean; Erickson; Kohls;
Wardlow; DeLaForest; Severson; Dettmer; Shimanski; Eastlund; Gottwalt; Zellers;
Doty; Koenen; Howes; Holberg; Garofalo; Ruth; Peppin; Hosch; Sviggum; Ozment;
Otremba; Finstad; Olin; and Seifert.

If you have not yet considered adding your support to this important bill please
do so.

Would you also please contact the Public Safety and Civil Justice committee
chairman Joe Mullery and tell him that you want this bill to be given a hearing
and a vote!
[ (651) 296-4262 rep.joe.mullery@house.mn -AR]

Thank you.

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I want to thank those 13 Republican and DFL Representatives who are now authors
of HF 775; Hackbarth; Peppin; Abeler; Shimanski; Doty; Koenen; Eastlund;
Dettmer; Gottwalt; Sviggum; Otremba; Zellers; and Seifert.

The decision announced last Friday by the Court of Appeals for the District of
Columbia concerning the DC gun ban clarifies the important need for Minnesotan's
individual right to keep, bear and use arms to be protected by the Minnesota
Constitution. This bill merely submits the proposed Constitutional amendment to
the voters. If you have recently added your name to those above thank you,
otherwise please add your support to this bill and become an author today.

Would you also please contact the Public Safety and Civil Justice committee
chairman Joe Mullery and tell him that you want this bill to be given a hearing
and a vote!

[ (651) 296-4262 rep.joe.mullery@house.mn -AR]

Thank you.

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I want to thank those 5 Senators who are now authors of SF 669; Ingebrigtsen;
Pariseau; Hann; Koch; and Wergin.

The decision announced last Friday by the Court of Appeals for the District of
Columbia concerning the DC gun ban clarifies the important need for Minnesotan's
individual right to keep, bear and use arms to be protected by the Minnesota
Constitution. This bill merely submits the proposed Constitutional amendment to
the voters. If you have recently added your name to those above thank you,
otherwise please add your support to this bill and become an author today.

Would you also please contact the Judiciary committee chair Mee Moua and tell
her that you want this bill to be given a hearing and a vote!

[ 651.296.5285 sen.mee.moua@senate.mn -AR]

Thank you.

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I want to thank those 5 Senators who are now authors of SF 446; Ingebrigtsen;
Pariseau; Limmer; Jungbauer; and Wergin.

The protection we enjoy in our home, the castle doctrine, is what this proposal
extends to citizens while away from their homes. We already believe people
should not have to retreat from an attacker while in their homes. Why make them
retreat from an imminent attacker when they leave their homes and may be in
unfamiliar surroundings, before they can defend themselves? Turning ones back on
a threat of death or even serious bodily harm at a time like that is not a good
idea.

Of concern is the often fuzzy line between substantial bodily harm and great
bodily harm. We know rape for example is not just bodily harm, but when is it
substantial bodily harm or great bodily harm? How long must a victim allow an
attack against her before it moves to great bodily harm and she can then use
lethal force to stop the threat? A rapist is not likely to give a victim his
assurances that he will only harm her to substantial bodily harm and go no
further (to death or great bodily harm). This bill clarifies when the use of
deadly force is authorized. This bill will save lives, many of whom could be
women.

If you have recently added your name to those above thank you, otherwise please
add your support to this bill and become an author today.

Would you also please contact the Judiciary committee chair Mee Moua and tell
her that you want this bill to be given a hearing and a vote!

[ 651.296.5285 sen.mee.moua@senate.mn -AR]

Thank you.

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It’s now time for the people to petition their government for what they want.
Ladies and gentlemen, start your computers.

It’s About Liberty, Your Liberty.

Gene German
Executive Director



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If you happen to know other responsible gun owners, please share this eBlast
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access to email. Our thousands of supporters are diverse but we all share one
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follow this link and complete the information
http://www.mnccrn.org/ccrn_old/ccrn.html.

If every one of Minnesota’s 500,000 hunters and other gun owners who perhaps do
not hunt, were a sponsor of GOCRA, then no Bill should become law that we did
not support and no person should be elected to any state office who did not
deserve our “A” rating.

Although we have our friends on both sides of the isle, we also have enemies in
the legislature as well. They are very busy with their clever attempts to take
away your rights. If you add your voice to ours, we can stop these very
dangerous Bills from becoming law.

Good Evening Minnesota,

Alright, before I plunge into business, I feel the need to massage your self
esteem a little, just a little. Let’s see, how about… Is that a new gun you’re
wearing?

Okay, now some old business. For those of you who may not know, we have some
anti-gun trolls on our list. We have known they were there but I wanted you to
know so you also understand that what I share with you also goes directly to the
other side. So if you happen to think I am not providing you with all the
information I could provide you, your right.

Today’s new business includes a panic email from CSM to their people (thanks
JR). They are of course alarmed over your sending so many emails to our
legislators. In addition to more sensible gun control they also appear to
support sensible email control too. Email control means emailing your target!

So keep up the good work everyone and let’s continue to be the elephant in the
room. You are effectively getting our message out to the right people. Olin and
Seifert added their names to HF 498 and Olson was added to HF 775 since the last
eBlast. Please email or call (or both) the committee chairs in the House and
Senate and ask them to schedule a hearing on the bills immediately. Continue to
send short emails to others. The cause is righteous so this is a numbers game
now.

If you wish to testify before the committee, ask the Legislative Assistant of
Mee Moua (651) 296-5285 (Senate) and Joe Mullery (651) 296-4262 (House) to add
your name to the list for these bills. Then prepare a short written statement
that you would read to the committee (read your testimony, do not wing-it).
Email your comments to me if you want someone to review them. You don’t need to
explain the bill, but rather explain why you know it would be a good law for
Minnesota.

Thank you for emailing me with your responses and also posting them on TC Carry.
Since these messages are basically public, please email me with your specific
thoughts or ideas and we’ll discuss them privately.

It’s About Liberty, Your Liberty.

Gene German
Executive Director

Does this basically mean the bill is being set aside and will not be taken up again?

To lay a bill, resolution, amendment, appeal, or motion on the table is to dispose of it permanently and adversely.

I am pissed off at the results, but I am pleased that my representative, Jeanne Poppe, a DFLer, voted our way. She will be getting a nice e-mail from me in the morning.