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Montana Powder & Primers Bill Hearing Scheduled
SB 371, powder/primers bill hearing, 3/3, Thursday 2011.

Montana Powder & Primers Bill Hearing Scheduled

Montana Shooting Sports Association

Washington, DC --(Ammoland.com)-MSSA’s # 2 bill, SB 371, our bill to encourage the manufacture of smokeless powder, primers and cartridge brass in Montana has been scheduled for its public hearing before the House Taxation Committee for Thursday, 3/31, at 8 AM, in room 152 of the State Capitol.

Please contact Committee members and ask the to restore to the bill two features removed in the Senate; the tax breaks and the liability protection. come to the hearing if you can.

The tax breaks won’t cost Montana anything because there is no such business in Montana now. If such a business starts, it will provide jobs for Montana.

Montana already has liability protection for firearms and ammunition manufactures. The liability protection we want in the bill merely extends this same protection to future manufacturers of powder, primers and brass.

Remember, this is a clear RKBA issue. There are only two plants in the US that make powder now, and they’re both owned by giant defense contractors. All other powder we use for ammo is imported, and subject to any arbitrary import restriction. We need to get business like this jump-started in Montana to assure our ammunition supplies.

Thanks for your help!!!

Also, SB 414, wolf control, was passed by the Senate today on Second Reading by 30-20

House Taxation Committee

• Chair: Mark Blasdel (R-Somers)
• Vice Chair: Mike Miller (R-Helmville)
• Vice Chair: Dick Barrett (D-Missoula)
• Steve Fitzpatrick (R-Great Falls)
• Kelly Flynn (R-Townsend)
• Alan Hale (R-Basin)
• Brian Hoven (R-Great Falls)
• Austin Knudsen (R-Culbertson)
• Steve Lavin (R-Kalispell)
• Sue Malek (D-Missoula)
• Edie McClafferty (D-Butte)
• Mary McNally (D-Billings)
• Jerry O’Neil (R-Columbia Falls)
• Mike Phillips (D-Bozeman)
• Lee Randall (R-Broadus)
• Wayne Stahl (R-Saco)
• Janna Taylor (R-Dayton)
• Kathleen Williams (D-Bozeman)
• Max Yates (R-Butte)

About Montana Shooting Sports Association:
MSSA is the primary political advocate for Montana gun owners. Visit: www.mtssa.org

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Pro Gun Activists Outbid Police in Gun Buy Back
Activists to Counter APD “Guns for Groceries” by Offering Cash Alternative and Encouraging Community Philanthropy.

Texans for Accountable Government

Austin, TX --(Ammoland.com)- This Saturday February 26th from 9AM to 1PM the Austin Police Department will be hosting their second “Guns for Groceries” buyback program.

The goal of the program is to take guns off of the streets in exchange for grocery gift cards.

In response to this event local Austin activists will be holding their own “Guns for Cash” counter program. Activists will be at the Meadow Baptist Church at 6905 South I-35 from 9AM to 1PM to offer those trading in their working firearms a cash option instead.

Instead of destroying the firearms like APD plans to do, Austin activists will be giving some of them to local Texans in need. Those receiving the firearms will be asked to volunteer for community philanthropy projects so we can make our city a more safe and enjoyable place to live.

We have already raised close to $2,000 and are looking for more funds to compete with APD who will have $30,000 worth of grocery cards.

$110 will buy a working handgun or rifle, and $220 will buy a working sporting rifle.

John Bush

About:
Texans for Accountable Government (TAG) is a non-partisan Political Action Committee headquartered in Central Texas. TAG was formed with the ambition of reigning in the intrusive and expanding reach of government which threatens to invade every facet of our lives. Our ambition is to put the reins of government back into the hands of individual American citizens; allowing us to once again run our own lives. Visit: www.tagtexas.org

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