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1999
GUN RIGHTS POLICY CONFERENCE
"Expect to Win"

September 17, 18, and 19
St. Louis, Missouri

Co-Sponsored By:

Participating Organizations and Entities: Academics for the Second Amendment, African-American Arms Instruction, American Political Action Committee, Association of New Jersey Rifle & Pistol Clubs, Barrett Firearms Dealers Association, Buffalo Wyoming Outdoor Rifle Club, California Rifle & Pistol Association, Central New Jersey Rifle & Pistol Club, CATO Institute, Colorado State Shooters Association, Concealed Carry Reform Now, Concealed Carry, Inc., Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership: a project of the Claremont Institute, Firearms Coalition, Glock, Inc., Goodyear Hunting & Fishing Club, Gottlieb-Tartaro Report, GunCraft Sports, Gun News Digest, Gun Owners Action League of Washington , Gun Owners of New Hampshire, Gun Owners of Vermont, Gun Week, Howell Shooting Club, Independence Institute, Insight Magazine, Illinois State Rifle Association, International Ammunition Journal, International Ammunition Association, Kentucky Coalition to Carry Concealed, Law Concealment Systems, Law Enforcement Alliance of America, Lawyer’s Second Amendment Society, Lethal Force Institute, Louisiana Shooting Association, Marathon USA, Miami Valley Association for Responsible Legislation, MicrosoftÒ Gun Club, Michigan Gunowners Association, Missourians for Public Safety, National Rifle Association, NRA Member’s Council Bellevue, WA, National Shooting Sports Foundation, New Hampshire Firearms Safety Coalition, New Mexico Gun Collectors Association, North American Hunting Club, O.F. Mossberg & Sons, Inc., Ohio Constitution Defense Council, Ohio Gun Collectors Association, Oregon Gun Owners, Peoples Rights Organization, Pine Tree Pistol Club, Proponent Newsletter, Responsible Illinois Gunowners Hunters Target Shooters (R.I.G.H.T.S.), RSR Wholesale Guns, Safari Club International, Service Bureau Cooperative, Second Amendment Volunteers of Illinois, Second Amendment Coalition of Missouri, Small Arms Review, Soldier of Fortune Magazine, Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers Institute (SAAMI), Stark County Gun Collectors, the Bullet, Ted Nugent United Sportsmen of Oklahoma, Tennessee Sheriff’s Association, Texas State Rifle Association, Tom Gresham’s Gun Talk Radio Show, Washington Arms Collectors, Weapons Collectors Society of Montana, Weapons Safety, Inc., WeCARE, Western Missouri Shooters Alliance, Women & Guns Magazine and Zeppelin Rifle Club.

Friday, Sept. 17, 1999

7:00 PM Registration Table Opens

7:00 PM– 10:00 PM Buffet reception with cash bar (Grand Ballroom 3)

Co-hosted by NRA Institute for Legislative Action, Marathon Communications, Gun Week and Washington Arms Collectors

Saturday, Sept. 18, 1999

7:00 AM Registration table opens (Grand Ballroom 2 and 3)

Continental Breakfast Hosted by Smith & Wesson

8:30 AM Call to Order

John Barnett, Executive Director, Second Amendment Foundation

Pledge of Allegiance

Invocation Deacon C. Andrew Petty, Projects Director, Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms

8:45 AM State of the Nation: The Road Behind

Joseph Tartaro, President, Second Amendment Foundation, Editor, Gun Week

State of the Nation: The Road Ahead

Alan Gottlieb, Chairman, Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms

9:15 AM Federal Affairs Briefing

John Snyder, Public Affairs Director, Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, Treasurer, Second Amendment Foundation

Lt. Gen. James Chambers, USAF (ret.), Executive Director, Sporting Arms & Ammunition Manufacturers Institute (SAAMI)

Neal Knox, Executive Director, Firearms Coalition and NRA Board Member

Ted Deeds, Chief Operating Officer, Law Enforcement Alliance of America

10:00 AM Break with refreshments Hosted by Women & Guns Magazine

10:15 AM State & Local Legislative Briefing

State Sen. Sam Slom (R-HI) Trustee and Secretary, Second Amendment Foundation

Todd Adkins, State Liaison (MO, IL, MN, CT) NRA Institute for Legislative Action

Richard Pearson, President, Illinois State Rifle Association

Alice Gene Tripp, Lobbyist, Texas State Rifle Association

10:45 AM The ABCs of Instant Check (NICS, NCIC, IAFIS)

Peggy Tartaro, Executive Editor, Women & Guns Magazine, Board Member, Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms

Alan Korwin, Author, Gun Laws of America, and several state gun law books

Nancy Norell, Legislative Editor, Gun Week and Women & Guns Magazine

11:15 AM WILL GUN SHOWS AS WE KNOW THEM, SURVIVE?

Joe Waldron, Executive Director, Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, Board Member, Washington Arms Collectors and Trustee, Gun Owners Action League of Washington

Irv Benzion, NRA Board Member, Washington Arms Collectors, Board Member and Author of NRA’s How To Run a Gun Show Manual

Dennis Walker, Past Chairman Peoples Right Organization

11:45 AM Questions & Answers on Morning Programs

12:00 Noon Awards Luncheon (Renaissance Ballroom)

Hosted by CCRKBA and SAF

Speaker: David Guinn, Esq., Public Defender, Lubbock, TX, Attorney for Dr. Timothy Joseph Emerson

Award Presentations:

James Madison Award
Bill of Rights Awards
Gun Rights Defender of the Month Awards
Grass Roots Activist of the Year Award
Lifetime Achievement Award
Gun Rights Defender of the Year Award
Gun Organization of the Year

1:30 PM Moral & Legal Imperatives of Self-Defense

Kenneth V. F. Blanchard, President, African-American Arms & Instruction

Massad Ayoob, Author, In the Gravest Extreme, Director, Lethal Force Institute, and Board Member, Second Amendment Foundation

David I. Caplan, PhD, LJ, Board Member NRA and Trustee of its Civil Rights Legal Defense Fund

2:00 PM The Drive for Licensed Carry Continues

Michael Connelly, Esq., Board Member, Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms

Opal Stout, Secretary, Western Missouri Shooters Alliance

John Trentes, Esq., Ohio Constitution Defense Council and League of Ohio Sportsmen

David Gross, Esq., Treasurer, Concealed Carry Reform Now of Minnesota

Robert Pruden, Secretary-Treasurer, Kentucky Concealed Carry Coalition

Jim Church, Former NRA Board Member, Member, Brass Roots, Inc. of Michigan

Greg Jeffrey, President, Second Amendment Coalition of Missouri

2:45 PM Gun, Gunowners and the Courts

Updates on cities’ litigation, the Emerson Case, and other court challenges

David LaCourse, Public Affairs Director, Second Amendment Foundation, and Author of successful "Three Strikes, You're Out" and "Hard Time for Armed Crime" anti-crime state initiatives

David Kopel, Esq., Senior Fellow of the CATO Institute and Policy Analyst, Independence Institute

H. Sterling Burnett, Senior Policy Analyst, National Center for Policy Analysis

Cindy Hill, Esq., Counsel for Gunowners of Vermont

Chuck Michel, Esq., Chairman, Legislative Committee, California Rifle & Pistol Assn.

Paul Jannuzzo, Vice President and General Counsel, Glock, Inc.

3:30 PM Break with refreshments Hosted by Gun News Digest

3:45 PM THE RED RIDING HOOD SYNDROME: Proposed 50 BMG & .22/.25 BANS

Moderator: Michael Connelly, Esq. Board Member, Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms

Marty Liggins, Tennessee Teacher, Gun News Digest Correspondent

4:15 PM Waco: The wound that won’t heal

John Snyder, Board Member, Second Amendment Foundation and Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, Delegate, Coalition on Federal Law Enforcement

Joe Waldron, LtCol., USMC (Ret.), Executive Director, Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms

David Kopel, Esq., Co-Author, No More Wacos

4:45 PM Strengths & Weaknesses of the Gun Movements

Moderator: Glen Voorhees, Trustee, Second Amendment Foundation

Michael Saporito, Esq., Vice President & General Counsel RSR Wholesale Guns

Richard Feldman, Firearms Issue Consultant

Prof. Michael Gordinier, PhD, Washington University of St. Louis

5:30 PM Questions and Answers on Afternoon Programs

5:50 PM Announcements and Adjournment

John Barnett, Executive Director Second Amendment Foundation

6:30 PM – 9:30 PM Buffet Reception with Cash Bar (Grand Ballroom)

Co-Hosted by National Shooting Sports Foundation and the Sporting Arms & Ammunition Manufacturers Institute

7:30 PM Speaker: Rep. Bob Barr (R-GA)

Sunday, Sept. 19, 1999

8:00 AM Registration Desk Open, Continental Breakfast (Grand Ballroom 2 and 3)

Hosted by MBNA America MasterCard

9:00 AM Taking Gun Rights Into The New Millennium

Joe Huffman, Microsoft Gun Club & Washington State Activist

Craig Peterson, President Gun Owners of New Hampshire, Webmaster

Keeva Segal, Webmaster

Leroy Pyle, Retired Police Officer and Founder, Paul Revere Network BBS

9:45 AM Is Gun Control Dangerous To Your Health?

Timothy Wheeler, MD, Director, Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership, a project of the Claremont Institute

David Oliver, MD, Board Member, NRA and Missouri Activist

Joel Butler, MD, Participant in planning trauma services and Mississippi Activist

10:15 AM BREAK with refreshments Hosted by Gottlieb-Tartaro Report

10:30 AM Children, Women & Safety: Keys to Urban Renewal

Julianne Versnel Gottlieb, Publisher, Women & Guns magazine

Jeff Jennings, Editorial Board, New Hampshire Firearms Safety Coalition

Joseph Tartaro,President, Second Amendment Foundation, Editor of Gun Week (GunSafe program)

11:15 AM Open forum: issues In Transition

Moderators: Tom Gresham, Host of nationally syndicated "Gun Talk" radio show

John Barnett, Executive Director, Second Amendment Foundation

Noon General Questions and Answers Session

12:30 PM Resolutions

Resolutions Committee Members:

Phil Wahlbom, Sr., President, Marathon Communications from Georgia

Robert Weist, Tennessee Activist and Second Amendment Foundation, Board Member

Dennis Walker, Vice Chairman, Ohio Constitution Defense Council

Robert Heinritz, Esq., Business and Motivational Consultant from Missouri

John Hosford, Former Executive Director, Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms and Former NRA Liaison from Wyoming

1:00 PM Closing Remarks & Adjournment

Alan Gottlieb

Joseph Tartaro