OT: Attempted handgun ban cost San Francisco taxpayers nearly $800,000 (at least $380,000 of it went to a pro-freedom cause!)

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Dear Rob;

Try this url from the NRA - Institute For Legal Action

http://www.nraila.org/News/Read/NewsReleases.aspx?ID=12098

http://snipurl.com/bkzih [www_nraila_org]

Ron Getty - SF Libertarian
Hostis res Publica
Morte ai Tiranni
Dum Spiro, Pugno

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Ick. Hate linking directly to the NRA, but no mainstream media is
covering it. Oh, well. It's up on http://www.lpsf.org if anyone's
interested...

Rob

Dear Rob;

Try this url from the NRA - Institute For Legal Action

http://www.nraila.org/News/Read/NewsReleases.aspx?ID=12098

http://snipurl.com/bkzih [www_nraila_org]

Ron Getty - SF Libertarian
Hostis res Publica
Morte ai Tiranni
Dum Spiro, Pugno

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From: Rob <chair@...>
To: lpsf-discuss@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, February 9, 2009 9:35:54 AM
Subject: [lpsf-discuss] Re: OT: Attempted handgun ban cost San

Francisco taxpayers nearly $800,000 (at least $380,000 of it went to a
pro-freedom cause!)

Starchild, what's the source (URL?) for that? It should be on our
LPSF.org front page. I'd say it's more important than the plastic bag
ban article currently up there.

Rob

--- In lpsf-discuss@...m, Starchild <sfdreamer@> wrote:
>
> Thanks, Supervisor Chris Daly & friends, for wasting more of the
> money we don't have, in a bid to emulate the Bush administration by
> destroying our Constitutional rights! Peaceful gun ownership is

not a

> crime!
>
> Love & Liberty,
> ((( starchild )))
>
>
> > San Francisco Pays NRA $380,000 for
> > Successful Proposition H Lawsuits
> > Total Tab to City for Unsuccessful Defense of Illegal Gun Ban
> > Approaches $800,000
> >
> > The City of San Francisco has paid $380,000 to the National Rifle
> > Association (NRA) as reimbursement for legal fees incurred while
> > striking down Proposition H, passed by San Francisco voters in
> > November 2005.
> >
> > "Freedom and common sense prevailed in San Francisco.

Proposition H

> > was a foolish scheme by anti-gun politicians to disarm only the

law-

> > abiding in San Francisco," said NRA chief lobbyist Chris Cox. "NRA
> > promised we would do everything we could to overturn this ill-
> > conceived gun ban, and I am pleased to say that we have delivered
> > on that promise. We will now put these funds back into use to
> > advance self-defense civil rights in legislatures and courts."
> >
> > Combined with more than $200,000 in fees paid to City lawyers
> > defending the ordinance and an equal value of lawyers time donated
> > to the City for the unsuccessful defense of this case, the total
> > costs to City taxpayers in defending against Proposition H, a
> > civilian disarmament attempt, approaches $800,000.
> >
> > Proposition H would have banned civilian handgun possession by

city

> > residents and banned the sale, transfer or distribution of any
> > firearm or ammunition within the city. In addition, all San
> > Francisco residents would have been jailed for a minimum of 90

days

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Yeah, the NRA press release was my source, via the local Pink Pistols list.

Love & Liberty,
        ((( starchild )))