USA – -(Ammoland.com)- NRA Friends and AmmoLand Readers,
The election to the NRA Board of Directors is going on right now. The ballots are included in the current issue of the NRA magazines, arriving now to members who are Life Members, or annual members for five consecutive years.
I am asking NRA Life members, and other qualified voting members to cast your ballot to re-elect me to the NRA board. I am also asking you to advocate my selection on the ballot to your friends who are voting.
I am included in the slate nominated by the official Nominating Committee. I have served on the NRA Board since 2005, faithfully attending the meetings. I serve on the Legislative Policy Committee, and the International Affairs subcommittee. The International Affairs subcommittee monitors international efforts to limit gun rights under our constitution, and stands against this back-door effort to limit our second amendment rights.
I have attended the U.N. in New York as an NRA representative to speak out against the U.N. Small Arms Treaty.
NRA Board membership continues my public service. As Governor of Virginia, I stood for second amendment rights. As Attorney General of Virginia, I resisted pressure to support “one gun per month” legislation. As elected prosecutor, I protected gun rights, while prosecuting those who misused firearms in the commission of crimes.
As such, I have lived by my principles, which is that the danger to our community comes not from the firearm, but from the criminal who would misuse a gun, or any other instrument of violence.
I have served as Chairman of the Republican National Committee. I also was Chairman of the Advisory Panel on Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction, a key anti-terrorism commission established by the U.S. Congress. I am President of American Opportunity Foundation, americanopportunity.org, which focuses on job creation, and a strong foreign policy. I also serve as President of Growth PAC, growthpac.us. A political action committee that supports conservative candidates for office.
I serve on the board of the NRA, because I believe that the right to keep and bear arms is an essential empowerment of the individual in a free society. The people can be trusted, and that trust is why the founders placed the second amendment in the Bill of Rights.
I ask for your vote to re-elect me to the NRA board.
Jim Gilmore
Governor of Virginia 1998-2002
NRA Board member, 2005-Present
Mark Lee’s comment above is not accurate. As Governor I passed through the General Assembly the car tax cut in a five year phase-out. After four years in office the tax was reduced 70%. My Democrat successor stopped the final year of the phase out after my term was over. I kept my promise. I also added new teachers, enabled home school students, enabled charter schools, cut college tuition 20%, added 250,000 new jobs and handled the 9-11 crisis when Virginia was attacked at the Pentagon. I also was a loyal second amendment supporter as Governor and Attorney General. I… Read more »
As Governor of Virginia, he won that election solely on his promise to eliminate the “personal property tax” on licensed vehicles – known as “the car tax”. That never happened and Virginia residents are still burdened by that source of revenue. He simply wasn’t intelligent enough to work with the legislature to make any headway on his signature promise, nor did he add any value as governor; he is ineffective and is just as feckless in whatever role he has taken before and since then. He’s the only politician I have ever considered even more stupid than those in the… Read more »
Mark’s comment is not exactly accurate. During my Governorship, I worked with the General Assembly to pass a five year phase-out of the car tax. During my four years, the phase out got rid of 70% of the tax. The last and final year of the phase out was stopped after I left office, by my Democratic successor. I kept my promise. More important, I was a faithful supporter of second amendment rights both as Governor and Attorney General. Additionally, I added 4000 new teachers, enabled charter schools and home schoolers, cut higher education tuition 20%, created 250,000 new jobs,… Read more »
He almost lost re-election to the Board last time, finishing at or near the very bottom. He has no political power, and will never hold public office again despite his poorly organized, foolhardy efforts to seek office (President and U.S. Senate 2008, President 2016).
Let’s vote him out of another office, and get some fresh blood. I will NOT be voting for him.
I would like the NRA to take a public position and state for the record that they support the repeal of all firearms laws, then explain why they are not now (laws) nor have they ever been needed. Those of us who have been fighting the battle for inalienable rights, for decades, and who are now getting kind of old, would appreciate a straightforward approach, informing the public that; 1. For decades we have had laws on the books that cover everything gun laws duplicate and 2. No gun law has prevented a criminal from committing a violent crime. All… Read more »