Billionaire Hypocrisy

Protect Our Gun Rights

Yes on 591

BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms today said billionaire Paul Allen, who recently donated $500,000 to support gun control Initiative 594, has taken hypocrisy to a new level by reportedly attempting to purchase a WWII vintage German Panzer tank.

Billionaire gun control proponent Paul Allen has been attempting to purchase a WWII Panzer Tank

“While Paul Allen is eager to get his hands on a genuine weapon of war,” CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb observed, “he is all-too-willing to support a measure that throws obstacles in the way of law-abiding citizens who may just want to borrow or buy a firearm from a friend or in-law. How silly is that?”
Published reports say Allen’s Vulcan Warbirds company allegedly paid $2.5 million to a foundation for the tank, which apparently sits idle in California’s Portola Valley. When the Collings Foundation would not release the tank, claiming it was never actually sold and that it never intended to give the tank up, Allen’s company filed suit in San Mateo County.
“This is simply incredible,” Gottlieb said. “This elitist Seattle billionaire thinks it is just fine to make it more inconvenient for average citizens to buy, sell or loan a rifle, shotgun or handgun, but he wants to buy a German tank with a 75mm cannon! We looked through I-594, which Allen supports, and discovered why he’s probably hot to purchase that Panzer. I-594 has a tank-sized loophole.
“Tanks appear to be exempt under the gun control measure because they’re not specifically mentioned anywhere in those 18 pages,” he explained. “So, Allen wouldn’t have to go through a background check. But who needs a tank to go duck hunting?
“Evidently,” Gottlieb concluded, “the difference between billionaires and the rest of us is the size of the guns they want to own.”

PS:  YARD SIGNS AND BUMPER STICKERS ARE HERE! Please feel free to pick them up during regular business hours, 8AM-5:30PM Monday-Friday at 12500 N.E. 10th Place Bellevue, WA 98005, or at the Washington Arms Collectors Gun Show this weekend in Monroe at the Evergreen State Fairgrounds. Also at the ACSWW show in Vancouver, and at the Wes Knodel show in Centralia.
 

Initiative 591 has been endorsed by:  Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, Firearm Collectors and Shooters Association, Firearms Policy Coalition, Gun Owners Action League of Washington, Hunters Heritage Council, Second Amendment Sisters, Washington Arms Collectors, Washington Council of Police and Sheriffs (WACOPS), Washington State Law Enforcement Firearms Instructors Association (WSLEFIA), Washington State Rifle and Pistol Association