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1. ACTION ITEM: Fauquier County wants input on gun ordinance!
2. Important lesson learned from self-defense shooting by Ex-CNN reporter
3. VCDL is holding on to the Lucky Gunner funding vote by the skin of our teeth now!
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1. ACTION ITEM: Fauquier County wants input on gun ordinance!
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If you live in Fauquier County, please come to their next Board of Supervisors meeting to oppose a change to their discharge ordinance:
The Fauquier County Board of Supervisors is looking to extended the distance a person must be from a regularly occupied structure before legally discharging a firearm. Currently a person must be a football field (100 yards) away from such a structure. But they want to make it 200 yards (TWO football fields) in the County’s New Baltimore District.
The hearing is going to be on Thursday, July 9, at 6:30 PM.
Location:
First floor of the Warren Green Building,
10 Hotel Street
Warrenton, VA
You would think one football field would be plenty (that’s what it is here in Chesterfield, a much more populated county than Fauquier).
Here is the link about the meeting:
http://www.fauquiercounty.gov/documents ... arings.pdf
or
http://tinyurl.com/nuvkgjm
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If you can’t make the meeting, the Board can be contacted using the information on this web page:
http://www.fauquiercounty.gov/governmen ... os_details
or
http://tinyurl.com/oqbbvfb
Suggested message:
I OPPOSE extending the current 100 yard distance required for the discharge of a firearm to 200 yards in the New Baltimore District. It’s both a bad precedent for the whole county and unnecessary.
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2. Important lesson learned from self-defense shooting by Ex-CNN reporter
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A former Cable News Network (CNN) reporter, Chuck de Caro, and his wife, Lynne Russell, who is a former CNN anchor, were involved in an attempted holdup in New Mexico. The result, as documented in the coverage below, was a violent shootout. Lynne was not hurt, Chuck was shot, but is expected to survive, and the bad guy is deceased.
Lynne opened their hotel room door to get something from the car, when a man pushed his way through the door, armed with a handgun. After taking Chuck’s briefcase, the bad guy turned and started shooting. Chuck returned fire ( (he and Lynne are CHP holders).
A full-fledged shootout ensued, with Chuck getting shot THREE TIMES - twice in the abdomen and once in the leg!
HERE IS AN IMPORTANT REAL-LIFE LESSON: DO NOT GIVE UP, even if you are shot. As long as you are conscious, keep returning fire and fighting. If Chuck had given up, the bad guy would probably have murdered him and Lynne. As it was, Chuck, though badly wounded, won - the bad guy stumbled into the parking lot and died.
Notice in the CNN piece below, that they make a point of Chuck having been in the Special Forces and Lynne having been a reserve deputy sheriff. I think CNN simply can’t accept that a regular citizen with a CHP would actually carry a gun, much less survive and win such a gun battle!
I guess they don’t watch the news at CNN.
Here is CNN’s coverage:
http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/01/us/new-me ... index.html
and the ABC affiliate in Albuquerque, KOAT:
http://www.koat.com/news/albuquerque-po ... 899308?xnl
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3. VCDL is holding on to Lucky Gunner funding vote by the skin of our teeth now!
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We are still holding a razor thin lead, but as of this morning we are basically in a dead heat with the Connecticut Citizens Defense League, the NRA-ILA, and the Illinois State Rifle Association for the free funding being offered by the Lucky Gunner, thanks to the Lucky Gunner beating the Brady Campaign in a court case.
Keep spreading the word to vote for VCDL here:
http://www.luckygunner.com/brady-v-lucky-gunner
Thanks!
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