The Next Steps Toward Aug. 28

Get ahold of gun shops and ranges in your area. To find them all, go to YellowPages.com or a similar online resource.

Enter "gun" in the "Business Name or Category" dialog box, and your City and State or ZIP Code in the box to the right. Click "Find" and that will take you to a page with gun businesses in your area.

If you have time, search for them online and see if they have a website with an email address or contact form. If they do, send them the following message (feel free to modify):

On August 28, the Brady Campaign is teaming up with Jesse Jackson for a nationwide protest against what they call "illegal guns," meaning guns they've succeeded in banning or are working on banning. We're forming a counter-protest by encouraging gun owners across America to buy a box of ammo, or components, targets, etc., on that day. We're asking gun stores and ranges across the country to participate and enjoy additional business and goodwill created by this campaign, and are asking you to show your support by either offering some sort of discount or a door prize to customers who come in on that day.

This campaign is being conducted on the internet and we are trying to make it grow so it catches the attention of the national media. For further information, please go to:

http://waronguns.blogspot.com/2007/08/bradys-call-for-national-protest-on-aug.html.

Please let us know that you will join other gun stores and ranges across the nation and support this. We'd like to let people know to shop at your store on August 28.

If you can't find an email address, just call the store or range and ask to speak to the manager, and tell him about this using the above "script." (Instead of giving him the long url, just tell him he can find out more by visiting "The War on Guns" and he can find it by typing those words into any search engine.

Better than that, personally visit the store or range and give the manager copies of the following two flyers:

• Gun Store Appeal--to request their participation

• Gun Store Flyer--to notify their customers

Again, feel free to modify these any way you like.

Blogonomicon also had a great idea:

[M]aybe writing letters to the editor of the local paper would help bring attention to it...

and this was echoed by JR who said:

I will be writing the local media outlets after we get more, and informing them of the event. The more dealers we have involved, the bigger the story. The bigger the story, the more coverage we can get by the media.

We only have a week to get this in place, so please, everyone, keep up the effort. At the very least, please make a point of sending emails to your gun-owning friends--and continue to get this information out on other websites, blogs and forums.

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Pirates for Gun Control

Many are said to be run by criminal gangs who use them as a front to sell drugs. Police raids have found drugs, guns and ammunition among piles of CDs...Pirate DJs have been involved in the world of gangs and drug dealers when coded text messages are read over the airwaves. But they see themselves as social entrepreneurs, who have an influence over communities that authority figures lack.

Police will not attend the event but are supporting the campaign, which is backed by the Home Office, the Greater London Authority and Mothers Against Guns.

They're not even pretending any more. The UK citizen disarmament cabal is openly teaming with the underworld.

We're the Only Ones Catty Enough

A New York judge has criticized the state police for playing a game of "cat and mouse" over a request for public records and ruled it had no legitimate reason to delete certain information from the documents in a police brutality case.

What is it about thugs wanting to keep their activities secret?

[Via Declan]

Fincher District Court Docket Updates

Click on title link to access the updated docket for Wayne Fincher.

And to repeat information we've posted here before:

To support Wayne and your Second Amendment rights please send checks to:

The Wayne Fincher Defense Fund
P.O. Box 215
Elkins Arkansas 72727

You may write Wayne at the following address:

Hollis Wayne Fincher
07863-010
P.O. Box 9000
Forrest City, Arkansas 72336

PLEASE NOTE: You must include the number below his name anytime you send anything. If you do not, it will be rejected.

If you want to send money (money orders only) the address is as follows:

Federal Bureau of Prisons
Hollis Wayne Fincher
07863-010
P.O. Box 474701
Des Monies, IA 50947-0001

All money must be sent to the above address. The Forrest City facility does not accept money.

If you wish to send items, books, pictures, etc., please adhere to the following rules:

Inmates are allowed up to 25 pictures, 5 magazines, 5 paperback books. NOTE: Inmates are allowed to receive magazines, soft cover books, greeting cards and photos (NO POLAROIDS). All hard cover books and newspapers must come directly from a publisher (BOOK STORE, ETC.). Please note that any photos, magazines or books that show any form of nudity will be rejected by mail room staff (Wayne would not accept them anyway).

[Via Paul W. Davis]

This Day in History: August 20

George Washington begins to move his troops south to fight Cornwallis