Join us in Olympia on Thursday, Jan. 15 for “594: Rally For Your Rights” starting at 9 AM!
The event will showcase Evergreen State activists showing their support
for gun rights while at the same time contacting and hearing from and
meeting with their local lawmakers to discuss their concerns.
Scheduled speakers will include State Sen. Pam Roach
(R-31st), State Rep. Brian Blake (D-19th), Rep. Liz Pike (R-18th) Rep.
Lynda Wilson (R-17th), National Rifle Association Senior State Liaison
Brian Judy, plus Adina Hicks, executive director of Protect Our Gun
Rights Washington, Paige Biron with the Pink Pistols and Rick Halle with
the Gun Rights Coalition, Alan Gottlieb (Second Amendment Foundation,
Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms), Paige Biron
(Seattle Pink Pistols). Rick Halle of the Gun Rights Coalition will act
as the Master of Ceremonies.
In addition, Bill Burris, representing the Washington Arms
Collectors, Gun Owners Action League of Washington and the Washington
State Law Enforcement Firearms Instructors Association will appear,
along with Joe Huffman from Boomershoot.
The Rally For Your Rights, the first 2015 Legislative Rally against
I-594 is sponsored by Washington State Rifle & Pistol Association, I
Love Guns & Coffee, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep
and Bear Arms, the Second Amendment Foundation, Jews for the Protection
of Firearms Ownership and the Washington Arms Collectors. The event will
be attended by individuals from all of the previously mentioned groups,
including WAFLAG, WaGuns.org, the Gun Rights Coalition and the Seattle
chapter of Pink Pistols.
Protect Our Gun Rights chairman Alan Gottlieb also released a
statement today in anticipation of the rally and the 2015 legislative
session.
“I’m honored to have been invited to share the concerns of
more than a million Washington gun owners who are now feeling the
effects of all the problems with Initiative 594,” Gottlieb said. “This
poorly-written measure, which is now being challenged in federal court,
has already created confusion for legions of law-abiding citizens.
“I’m hoping to meet with my own state legislators,” he added.
“I want them to hear from me not only as an activist but also as a
taxpayer and constituent. This will be an important event because it
will give concerned gun owners from all over the state a rare
opportunity to meet their representatives face-to-face, while they are
all gathered in Olympia.
“Like it or not,” Gottlieb – a Bellevue resident – observed,
“gun owners have rights, too. We will not be silenced by elitist
billionaires, nor will we quietly accept being treated as second-class
citizens because we exercise our Second Amendment rights. I hope gun
owners join us in Olympia to Rally for our Rights.”
Help will be provided at the rally for citizens in locating
their state lawmaker and scheduling a visit to meet with them. Citizens
may also locate their lawmaker by going to app.leg.wa.gov/districtfinder/ or contact the legislative hotline at 1-800-562-6000.
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