Michigan Coalition For Responsible Gun Owners

Michigan - -(Ammoland.com)- As responsible gun owners we know that guns are not toys and should never be touched by children outside of tightly-supervised training conducted by safety-conscious adults.

Most readers at AmmoLand are NRA members and may be familiar with the Eddie Eagle GunSafe® Program. Eddie Eagle has been teaching gun safety to younger children (over 21 million so far) since 1988.

Although, in the past, it has been criticized by anti-gun groups as “pro-gun propaganda,” the program does not advocate gun ownership or use. In fact, the rules state that Eddie cannot appear anywhere guns are present.

In the cartoon video, he is never shown holding a gun, or advocating gun use or ownership.

The program simply tells children to follow four simple steps if they encounter a gun unexpectedly: “Stop! Don’t touch! Leave the area! Tell an adult!” Because this is aimed at younger kids (Pre-K through 3rd grade), there is a song and a dance built into the presentation to help reinforce the message.

Simply put, the program might help save the lives of children whose natural curiosity leads them to touch, and experiment with, interesting things they find. It certainly cannot hurt for this training to be available to them.

Because of the common-sense message of the Eddie Eagle program, a bill allowing and encouraging its use state-wide in both public and charter schools passed both houses of the Michigan legislature by wide margins with bi-partisan support.

Now, all that is needed is the Governor’s signature for SB 1402 to become law.

The full text of the bill is included below:

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
SEC. 1163.

(1) NOT LATER THAN 1 AUGUST 1, 2011, THE DEPARTMENT SHALL DEVELOP OR ADOPT, AND SHALL MAKE AVAILABLE TO SCHOOLS, 1 OR MORE MODEL PROGRAMS FOR GUN SAFETY INSTRUCTION FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PUPILS. THE MODEL PROGRAM SHALL ADOPT OR BE BASED ON THE “EDDIE EAGLE” GUNSAFE ACCIDENT PREVENTION PROGRAM DEVELOPED BY THE NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION.

(2) EACH SCHOOL DISTRICT AND PUBLIC SCHOOL ACADEMY IS ENCOURAGED TO ADOPT AND IMPLEMENT THE MODEL GUN SAFETY INSTRUCTION PROGRAM DEVELOPED UNDER SUBSECTION (1) IN AT LEAST GRADE 3 BEGINNING IN THE 2011-2012 SCHOOL YEAR.

Governor Granholm can be reached by phone at (517) 335-7858 should you wish to urge her to sign SB 1402.

About:
The Michigan Coalition for Responsible Gun Owners is a non-profit, non-partisan organization. Formed from just eight people in 1996, we now have thousands of members and numerous affiliated clubs across the state. We’re growing larger and more effective every day.

Our mission statement is: “Promoting safe use and ownership of firearms through education, litigation, and legislation” Visit: www.mcrgo.org

Gun Talk Radio

Washington, DC --(AmmoLand.com)- By now you probably have seen one or a hundred emails warning you about SB-2099 and HR-45, supposedly “stealth” bills which will require you to list your guns on your tax return, register your guns, neuter your goldfish, and join PETA.

Okay, I made up the last two, but depending on which email you have gotten, there’s a real “Chicken Little” feel to these. So, what’s the skinny.

Forget ‘em. That’s it.

SB-2099 is easy to check out on the Snopes web site (always a good idea to use Snopes when you get an email about a story that is hard to believe.)

The short version: It’s a bill introduced in 2000, not 2009, and it didn’t go anywhere.

Fuggitaboutit.

How about HR-45? Yes, it was introduced by Bobby Rush. Yes, it is a real bill. No, it is not going anywhere. Don’t waste your time and effort and good electrons sending that email to your list of friends. Sure, there are gun rights groups using HR-45 to frighten you into giving them money. That’s their problem, and in my view it hurts their credibility.

Fuggitaboutit,

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Manasquan, NJ --(AmmoLand.com)- Gun Safety Legislation what is it? Does it really make us safer? Maybe Gun Safety Legislation is some new bunch of gun bills, state or federal, that we never heard of that will forever put to rest the debate about the second amendment?

WRONG!! Gun Safety Legislation is a sneaky new tactic by the gun banning politicians and Brady loving gun banners to take the buzz word “Gun Control” and replace it with the seemingly wholesome word play “Gun Safety Legislation”

Gun Safety Legislation is often seen paired up with other gun control politician’s safe words like, “illegal guns“, “curbing gun violence“, “sensible measures” or even “common sense“.

Who would not be in favor of Common Sense Gun Safety Legislation. We gun owners must be irresponsible assholes or worse yet, gun toting psychopaths, if we cannot be for Gun Safety Legislation.

Instead gun owners are smarter than that and are willing to take on those who think that they can fool the pro gun majority of the US population, that know that they have the right to keep and bear arms, by changing a few words.

Cemetery’s Gun Blob said, “I’ve noticed the term *gun control* being morphed into *gun safety legislation* on NJ Governor Jon Corzine’s website, referring to his press release regarding NJ’s One Gun a Month bill that is the beginning of his latest gun control *gun safety* package. *CORZINE AND DEMOCRATIC LEADERS CALL FOR ADDITIONAL GUN SAFETY LAWS.*  Is it just me? Has this type of flim-flam switch-a-roo been going on for sometime?

Apparently it has. Congresswomen Carolyn McCarthy (D – NY) can’t get enough of the word. Her page on “Gun Safety Accomplishments – 111th Congress” uses the words Gun Safety Legislation over and over again in all kinds of variations.

It should be noted that Mrs McCarthy is a constitutional hating gun banner from NY, the home state of MAIG, and in no uncertain words states that she is in support of all the following Gun Safety Legislation.

Gun Safety Legislation:

• Assault Weapons Ban and Law Enforcement Protection Act
• Gun Store Employee Background Checks
• The NICS Improvement Amendments Act
• Closing the Gun Show Loophole
• HR 2401, the “No Fly, No Buy” Act
• The Foreign Felon Gun Prohibition Act.
• Legislation permitting access to certain information in the Firearms Trace System database.

We have seen this tactic before.  Take the case of Safebackyards.com another attempt by anti hunting group, NJARA, to take a pending NJ bill, Assembly Bill A 595, that would reduced the current bow safety buffer zone surrounding homes and other occupied dwellings to a safe 150 feet, and spin it into an issue of death, destruction and human safety to rally support for their cause from unsuspecting NJ home owners.  Again, were talking about safe backyards how could they be wrong? Well they are!

So this is a heads up to the stupid word smiths that think they can fool smart law abiding gun owners with a few nice words to disguise the true intent of all their speak which is banning all guns, gun rights and all rights to self defense.

Gun Safety Legislation = Gun Control.

Pass it on lets own this phrase before they do.