G.C.L.A. NEWS The Newsletter of the Gateway Civil Liberties Alliance July - September 2020 President’s Corner P.O. Box 440280 St. Louis, MO The November election is around the corner. The gun rights of everyone are hinging on the 63144 voter turnout on the state level are well as the national level. 314-385-4867 In our area on the national scene Ann Wagner is facing Jill Schupp, a former Missouri State www.gclastl.org Senator. Jill is the most anti-gun rights candidate that I have ever met. I went to the [email protected] Missouri House hearing on expanding concealed carry for public transit. Jill Schupp sat on the committee when I talked in favor to pass the bill. Jill talked down to me since she perceived herself as my better and was very argumentative. This should give you a good idea that she does not like our God given gun rights. Steve Marx President There will be a state wide vote for a “do over” on the Clean Missouri Amendment to our state constitution. This needs to pass to let the government appointed commission redraw voting districts. With a pro-gun state house and senate this would help pro-gun people in Kevin Ketterer office. Vice President To show how much effect this has on our quality of life in Missouri, I know a person that shoots I.D.P.A. weekly, that moved to Missouri for his gun rights as well as lower taxes. John Zeman To keep good pro-gun people in office here in Missouri, please vote and get everyone of like Secretary mind to vote. Our future depends on it! Have fun! Get active! Gene Dultz Steve Marx Treasurer President, GCLA Gene Dultz Newsletter Chairman Election Time is Here The 2020 election is upon us. It is more important than ever to keep pro-gun legislators in Jefferson City and Washington DC. We need to support our friends who are in office and Members’ meetings are make friends of those who we want in office. on the first Tuesday of We can do this by donating to the candidates that we agree with. Donate money, donate each month at 7:00 p.m. time, volunteer at the campaign offices. They remember those who support them. at the American Legion Post (Goff Moll) #101 2721 Collier Ave. GCLA’s Purpose Brentwood, MO GCLA’s purpose is to preserve and protect the 2nd Amendment of the Constitution of the just west of the Schnucks United States of America by: Store at the intersection Monitoring and acting on pending legislation at the local, state, and federal level. of Brentwood Blvd and Encouraging voter registration and participation in the political process. Manchester Rd. Promoting public and personal safety, education and training, and the defense of the (see map on page 7) nation. GCLA holds a monthly members’ meeting which often features a guest speaker, the fielding of open questions, sharing of news and information, and intelligent discussion. July - September 2020 G.C.L.A NEWS Page Joe Biden’s VP Pick Cements Shift to the Militant, Radically Anti-Gun Left Springfield, VA – Gun Owners of America (GOA) Board Harris said she would ban states from enacting “stand your Member Sam Paredes released the following after Democratic ground” laws. Presidential candidate Joe Biden announced Kamala Harris as Tweeted she would “revoke the licenses of gun his running mate: manufacturers & dealers that break the law, require anyone “Joe Biden couldn’t have done more to shift his campaign to who sells more than 5 guns/yr to run a background check on the militant, anti-gun Left than by selecting California Senator all gun sales, and ban the importation of AR-15-style assault Kamala Harris to join his run for the White House. weapons.” While Attorney General in California, Harris supported the “Ironically, while Senator Harris tries to champion the ‘little ban on sales of almost all semi-automatic centerfire rifles and guy,’ she has supported gun laws that have been used to deny required that all existing semi-auto rifles be registered as honest individuals their right to keep and bear arms. California “Assault Weapons.” “Senator Harris’ record on the Second Amendment should be Also during her tenure as Attorney General, she fought to viewed as a direct threat to every gun owner in the country. preserve the “good cause” requirement which allows the state Both her words and actions as an elected politician reveal the to prevent a qualified individual from carrying concealed. extreme objective of her politics.” “The media quickly began their fawning over Harris as a Consider Harris’ record on the right to keep and bear arms: ‘pragmatic moderate’ and ‘having a centrist’ record, but the Harris supports using the power of the presidency to impose pro-gun community stands in sharp opposition to the gun- gun control measures. She unapologetically stated that she control agenda of Vice President Joe Biden and Kamala would take executive action on gun control if Congress didn’t Harris,” Paredes concluded. “Their absence of knowledge toughen federal gun control policy. about the Constitution and the honest community of gun Harris supports a forced buyback of semi-automatic firearms. owners in the USA is unconscionable and ignorant.” There’s Just One NRA A-Rated Democrat Left In Congress Posted at 1:30 pm on September 10, 2020 by Cam Edwards Later today on Bearing Arms’ Cam & Co, you can watch my The most endangered species in Washington, D.C. isn’t the interview with Jerry Wayne, the Detroit-area union member panda bear. It’s a pro-Second Amendment Democratic who confronted Joe Biden about his hostility towards the right congresscritter. The NRA’s Political Victory Fund has to keep and bear arms. Wayne says that many rank-and-file released its grades of candidates in the 2020 elections, and just union members have been left cold by the anti-gun stance of one single, solitary Democratic member of Congress received the Democratic Party, and he believes that, despite the an “A+” from the Second Amendment group. Minnesota endorsements for Biden by many unions, the actual members Democrat Collin Petersen, who has represented the state’s 7th won’t be voting blue this November. Congressional District since 1991, not only received the I believe it, and Democrats have only themselves to blame. As highest grade that the NRA offers, he also has the official a Second Amendment supporter, I’ve always believed that our endorsement of the organization. rights are more secure when members of both parties back our That’s not surprising, given the NRA’s pro-incumbent policy, right to self-defense, and though I’m a conservative, it would though the group did give Petersen’s Republican opponent, be nice to feel like I had a truly difficult decision to make former Lt. Governor Michelle Fischbach, a slightly lower “A” when choosing between the Democrat or Republican in the grade as well. voting booth. As the Michael Bloomberg-backed website The Trace notes, Those days are gone, at least for now, though I still suspect however, the real story is that pro-Second Amendment that Democrats are going to eventually have to reckon with Democrats have become an endangered species in Congress the fact that the party wants to re-invent policing and the over the past decade. As recently as 2010, fully 25% of criminal justice system, while putting an ever-increasing congressional Democrats received the highest rating from the number of gun control laws on the books that turn the exercise NRA. Now, it’s less than 1%, with more than 90% of of a constitutional right into a criminal offense. If the Left Democrats getting an “F” from the gun rights organization. honestly believes that the criminal justice system is inherently biased, then every new gun law that criminalizes the Second The Trace says this is “a snapshot of America’s widening Amendment is disproportionately used to put minorities in political polarization,” but really it’s just clear evidence that prison, many of whom have no serious criminal record. Democrats have abandoned support for the right to keep and Ultimately Democrats are going to have to decide what they bear arms as the Democratic Party itself has embraced a despise more; our nation’s law enforcement or our sweeping anti-gun agenda that’s alienated many traditional constitutionally protected right to keep and bear arms. Democrats. July - September 2020 G.C.L.A NEWS Page 2 Democrat Candidates Reject Our Gun Rights All of the Democrat candidates in Missouri that have a voting ratings was in 2012. At that time there were many Democrat record, with one exception, have a D or F rating. The one candidates with an A or B rating, and almost all returned the exception has a C rating. questionnaire to the NRA. All of the Democrat candidates in Missouri without a voting This is a shameful and scary turn of events. record, with one exception, did not return the NRA If you are truly a supporter of the Second Amendment, please questionnaire. I guess that candidate did not get the marching consider your vote carefully. Remember, elections have orders in time. consequences. The last time GCLA published the NRA-PVF candidate Election 2020 Candidate Ratings from NRA-PVF There are several candidates indicated with a which the GCLA-PAC has supported financially. President District 5 District 6 District 27 ►(R) *Donald Trump/Mike Pence (R) Michael Hebron C ►(R) Ed Lewis AQ (D) *Richard Brown F (D) Steven Roberts F (D) Terrence Fiala ? District 28 U.S.