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An organization dedicated to preserving the Second Amendment rights of gun owners in Lehigh, Northampton, Berks and Bucks counties in the state of Pennsylvania. We represent several dozen clubs whose members are involved in Hunting, Competitive Shooting, Law Enforcement, Firearms Training and Safety Classes, Firearms Safety Training of Youngsters, Gun Collecting, Trap and Skeet, and Plinking. The coalition represents and speaks for approximately 50,000 gun owners. |
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John and Jack also have spent time traveling to Harrisburg, testifying in front of several state committees to prevent anti-gun legislation from becoming law. They both know many of the legislators in Harrisburg, but it does not end there. Both men are on hand to testify locally to prevent the passage of bad laws, as recently was the case in April. Both gentlemen testified in Allentown before a traveling state committee that was trying to pass a few dozen very bad laws proposed by Philadelphia politicians. |
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The LVFC is strictly a volunteer organization. Nobody involved is paid and all activities depend upon donations. Our biggest assets are the radio ads that so many have heard over the years. The ads have come to represent the coalition in the minds of many gun enthusiasts. |
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The LVFC invites to you look over our new website and please return to it often. If you belong to a club of shooters, hunters, etc. please spread the word about the coalition to your club management. Jack and John would be happy to inform them about the LVFC by paying your club a visit. |
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To Contact John Brinson, Click Here.
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For those amongst us that think it is too much trouble, time and effort to support our cause, please read the research done by Coalition Founder and Spokesman John Brinson. Below is just a small portion of the voting history of Barack Obama, the leading presidential candidate of the Democrat party.
| Senate Bill S397 | Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act Vote against gun manufacturers twice. |
| Senate Bill SA1615 | Cop Killer Bullet Ban Vote against gun owners. |
| Senate Bills SA1620 and S397 | S.397 Exemption for Children Vote against gun manufacturers |
| Senate Bill SA1623 | Gross Negligence Amendment Vote against gun manufacturers. |
| Senate Bill SA1626 | Child Safety Lock Act of 2005 Vote against gun owners. |
| Senate Bill SA1644 | Update to SA1620 Vote against gun manufacturers. |
See the results of the November 20th, 2007 votes of the Pennsylvania House Judiciary Committee. Ignored by the various media, click here to see the full impact these bills would have, had they been passed into law..
In response to Governor Rendell's recent pressuring of our lawmakers to go against your Second Amendment Rights, Spokesman John Brinson released this statement on behalf of the 50,000+ gun owners represented by the LVFC:
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anti-gun people really want “one gun a month” to stop “straw purchasers.” Of
course, that wouldn’t stop straw purchasers, but would only infringe the rights
of good citizens. What’s needed is to make a glaring example of anyone who sells
a gun illegally. Lock them up. The courts had a perfect chance to do it last
year in the case of the police officer in Reading who was killed with a gun
bought from a “straw purchaser”. (That straw purchaser did not buy more than one
gun per month, by the way; he knew it would attract the attention of the instant
check system. We don’t need this foolish one gun a month law.) He should have
gotten 10 years or more, but they let him off with a light sentence!
I say publicize this: sell a gun illegally and go to jail. If anyone is wounded
or killed with that gun, 10 years or more. There’s no need to infringe. Just
punish offenders severely."
John Brinson, LVFC Spokesman, December 11, 2007
Reference the
Reading incident that ended up in a police officer being killed, here are the
facts:
The straw purchaser, Jared Tomline, got 21 months in July of 2007, a year after
the murder of the police officer, less time served, which means he only
got an extra year. We need new minimums – the judges are Nuts!
John Brinson
LVFC Founder and Spokesman Jack Iannantuono sent this letter, along with a long list of studies and facts to Governor Rendell. Naturally we do not expect an answer from him. CLICK HERE
Letter to the Allentown Morning Call from Jack Iannantuono:
Dear Editor:
The Morning Call is correct in stating that Philadelphia's crime problem can be solved in the courts, but not the Commonwealth Court as the Call suggests by allowing Philadelphia to write it's own gun control laws.
The actual courts in which Philadelphia's crime problem can be addressed is in their local criminal courts which, for the last twenty years, have been revolving doors for repeat violent criminals.
Since 1990, the Lehigh Valley Firearms Coalition and many other organizations have provided statistical criminological evidence that restrictive gun laws provide no measurable reduction in violent crime whatsoever. As recently as last Spring, this point was hammered home at various state-wide hearings.
Lynne Abraham, the Philadelphia District Attorney, and the Philadelphia Police and Detective organizations have all acknowledged publicly that the Philadelphia court system is their major challenge in reducing crime in that sentencing is lax and incarceration is almost non-existent.
Only the Philadelphia
politicians and naive newspapers are capable of ignoring the facts and want to
continue to pursue gun control as a crime deterrent, all the while, further
endangering the safety of the people of Philadelphia.
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