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3/13/14 UPDATE: Due to bad weather, the debate on Constituional Carry has been moved to last week.

Please read my message below for more information and then call your State Representative at 207-287-1400.

Insist they SUPPORT Constitutional Carry by VOTING FOR the Minority Report on LD-222.

-- Dudley


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March 10, 2014


Gun-grabbing lawmakers in Augusta thought they could get away with slipping in an anti-gun bill under the radar.

They're mad that grassroots pressure from you killed a background check scheme and almost forced them to pass Constitutional Carry last year.

So, this year they thought they could sneak in a different bill to clamp down on your rights.

Fortunately, we caught them.

But before I tell you more, there is some good news.

Constitutional Carry is also back!


It could be voted on as soon as next week.

Constitutional Carry means that if you can legally possess a firearm for self-defense, then you can carry it concealed, without having to first beg for government permission.

If passed, Maine would join Alaska, Arizona, Vermont, and Wyoming by not requiring you first pay a tax and get a government-mandated permit to carry a firearm concealed, for self-defense
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Current state law forces gun owners like you to pay a tax, go through an intrusive background check, register with the government, and obtain a government-issued permission slip just to carry your firearm.

Constitutional Carry would allow law-abiding citizens to by-pass this government intrusion.

But the stakes are VERY high with this year's version.


You see, it's coming to the House Floor as a "Minority Report" to a bill, LD-222.

That means gun-grabbing lawmakers are still pushing the original anti-gun version of LD-222 in their "Majority Report."

Now the legislature will have to choose between the two.

Here's what could happen if lawmakers choose the anti-gun Majority Report:

*** There would be NO Constitutional Carry.

*** Your current locally issued concealed carry process would be scrapped.

*** A new Czar would oversee the issuing of every permit holder in the state -- the Chief of the Maine State Police!

Centralizing the concealed carry process just makes it easier to add gun owners to one big list.

And you and I both know the danger in gun registration schemes is that they are always a prelude to gun confiscation.

But with Constitutional Carry -- that point is moot.

That's because whether the issuing authority is a central Czar or a local Sheriff, you wouldn't be required to beg them for permission in the first place.

That's what the Minority Report does.

If passed, the Minority Report says quite simply that if there is going to be a new Concealed Carry Czar issuing permits, that obtaining a government permission slip will be optional.

That's why I am hoping you'll contact your officials right away.

Here's how to reach them:

*** Call your State Representative at 207-287-1400.

*** Call your State Senator at 207-287-1540.

*** If you don't know who to ask for Click here look up who your lawmakers are.

Urge them to OPPOSE the anti-gun Majority Report on LD-222.

Insist they SUPPORT Constitutional Carry by VOTING FOR the Minority Report on LD-222
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This is a high stakes bill that could move very fast.

So, please act now!

For Freedom,

Dudley Brown, Executive Director, National Association for Gun Rights

Dudley Brown

Executive Vice President

National Association for Gun Rights

P.S. If you can afford to, please consider chipping-in $15 or $20 to help me reach and inform as many liberty-loving patriots in Maine as possible about what's going on in Augusta.


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