If you missed our blackout page, you can still go check it out here and play with the flashlight
And while you are there you can check out the links to learn a little more about the controversy and how you can contact your representatives.
See if you recognize yourself in this edition of “Squibbed”.
This was a very interesting 30 minute interview on Fresh Air the other day. Its about inner city violence and touches on the subject of gun control. Well worth a listen.
http://www.npr.org/2011/11/01/141803766/interrupting-violence-with-the-message-dont-shoot
“There’s a profit and a loss side on the public safety balance sheet,” he says. “And what we see in many places is that while you can bring crime down by occupying the neighborhood and stopping everybody, what you do in the process is lose that neighborhood. … You fuel the idea that the police are an occupying, inimical force in the neighborhood. You play into these real and toxic racial memories about what came before civil rights. And you can make it work in many places, but you can’t stop. You can’t ever say, ‘We’ve won. Things are good. Things are stable,’ because you have driven them into hiding.”
Winners!
Sadly, our Annual Meeting is over. But the good news is that we held the raffle and have a lot of winners to announce. Below is a list of winners. Each winner will be contacted by email shortly. Winners that were not present will be mailed their prize, at no cost, after we get a mailing address.
Mike R. from Michigan won:
2 very nice looking LGC bumper stickers - one for the car and one for the gun safe.
The book The Federalist Papers
The book American Idol by S.C. Hayden
Michael H from MA won:
An LGC mousepad
A $50 gift certificate to Civitas Armory
A copy of The Founder’s Second Amendment by Stephen Halbrook
A Magpul PMag 20 round AR magazine.
Reed A of Oregon won a bumper sticker.
Pat S of Chicago won:
A bumper sticker
An LGC hat
and a copy of the book Ricochet: Confessions of a gun lobbyist by Richard Feldman
Cole S. of North Carolina won one of the nice leather holsters from WoodenLeather.com
Amir G. of Florida won the Crossman air gun.
Jason B. from Virginia won a 3 pack of LGC branded Field Notes notebooks.
Don Z from Texas won:
A leather holster from Woodenleather.com
The book Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
A Magpul 20rd AR magazine
The original artwork for our comic, Squibbed, framed and signed by the author.
A very nice shillelagh from Woodenleather.com
A pamphlet announcing that May 21, 2011 was the end of the world.
Ed G. from MA won:
a framed picture of a goose hunter
A Bulldog range bag
An Outers 25 piece wood gun cleaning tool box.
MV from Florida won a May 12, 2011 Judgement Day religious pamphlet.
Jeff N from Chicago won an LGC engraved DelTon AR lower.
Congrats to vvrider, the winner of our most recent Postal Match.
The LGC is proud to announce its very own gun-nut comic strip. Go visit the home of Squibbed and check it out.