Hindsight from The New Gun Week
September 20, 2000Register as Late as Sept. 22 for the
2000 Gun Rights Policy Conference
by Joseph P. Tartaro, Executive EditorThis year's Gun Rights Policy Conference promises to be one of the biggest and most important yet. It will be held again in the Washington, DC, area as we do each presidential election year.
The agenda is almost complete and I have included below the tentative agenda as of Sept. 6. A quick look will show the kind of subjects that will be covered and the outstanding panel of speakers. As always at these conferences you will have the best opportunity anywhere to network with national leaders in the firearms civil rights movement, with federal and state lawmakers, with experts in several areas including constitutional and liability law attorneys, and with your activist counterparts from all over the country.
The conference itself is free under the co-sponsorship of the Second Amendment Foundation and Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. These annual conferences are held in cooperation with the National Rifle Association, National Shooting Sports Foundation, Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers Institute and Gun Owners of America.
Your only expense is travel and lodging, but you'll receive hundreds of dollars worth of books and reference materials. The knowledge and experience you gain at a Gun Rights Policy Conference is priceless.
Register by phone at (425) 454-4911, by fax at (425) 451-3959, or by e-mail: GRPC2000@saf.org.
Hope to see you there.
September 29 through October 1, 2000
Crystal City Marriott, Arlington, VirginiaFriday, Sept. 29, 2000
6:30 PM Registration Table Opens
7:00 - 10:00 PM Buffet reception with cash bar Hosted by the National, Shooting Sports Foundation and Sporting Arms & Ammunition Manufacturers Institute
Speakers: Rep. Chris Cannon (R-UT)
Rep. Matthew G. Martinez (D-CA)
Other Members of the House and SenateSaturday, Sept. 30, 2000
7:00 AM Registration table opens
Continental Breakfast8:30 AM CALL TO ORDER
John Barnett, Executive Director, Second Amendment Foundation
Pledge of Allegiance-Doc Carlson, board member, Washington Arms Collectors
Invocation-Rev. Anthony Winfield, chaplain, Elmhurst Hospital, Long Island, NY8:45 AM STATE OF THE NATION (Part 1):
Eight Years of Conflict
Alan M. Gottlieb, Chairman, Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear ArmsSTATE OF THE NATION (Part 2):
Window of Opportunity
Joseph Tartaro, President, Second Amendment Foundation9:15 AM FEDERAL AFFAIRS BRIEFING
John Snyder, Public Affairs Director, CCRKBA
Lt. Gen. James Chambers, USAF (ret.), executive director, SAAMI (Sporting Arms & Ammunition Manufacturers Institute)
Jim Fotis, executive director, Law Enforcement Alliance of America
John Velleco, media director, Gun Owners of America
Neal Knox, executive director, Firearms Coalition10:00 AM Break & refreshments
10:15 AM STATE & LOCAL LEGISLATIVE BRIEFING
State Sen. Sam Slom (R-HI), trustee and secretary, Second Amendment Foundation
Evan F. Nappen, Esq., founder, ReformNewJerseyGunLaw.com
Dennis Fusaro, director of state affairs, Gun Owners of America10:45 AM GUN INDUSTRY DEFENDS AGAINST ATTACKS
Tom Gresham, gun writer and host of nationally syndicated Gun Talk radio show
Lt. Gen. James Chambers, USAF (ret.), executive director, SAAMI
Chris Dolnack, community outreach coordinator, NSSF11:15 AM QUESTIONS & ANSWERS ON MORNING PANELS
11:30 AM ADDRESS
Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president, National Rifle Association
Noon Awards Luncheon
Hosted by CCRKBA and SAF
Speaker TBA
Award Presentations-Bill of Rights Award
Gun Rights Defender of the Month Awards
Lifetime Achievement Award
Gun Rights Defender of the Year Award
Gun Organization of the Year1:30 PM GUNOWNERS' RIGHTS AND THE COURTS
Richard Gardiner, Esg., counsel or co-counsel on firearms civil rights suits
David Kopel, Esq., senior fellow of the Cato Institute and policy analyst, Independence Institute
William Gustafson, Esq., Cincinnati Right to Carry Case
Chuck Michel, Esq., Chairman, legislative committee, California Rifle & Pistol Assn.
David I. Caplan, Esq., trustee, Firearms Civil Rights Civil Defense Fund and NRA board member2:30 PM SECOND AMENDMENT SISTERS v. THE SUCKER MOMS: Round II
Maria Heil, press coordinator, Second Amendment Sisters (SAS)
Sharon Wood, Second Amendment Sisters
Melinda Gierisch, Virginia state coordinator, Second Amendment Sisters3:00 PM BREAK
3:15 PM GOVERNMENT EAVESDROPPING ON INTERNET PRIVACY
Rachel King, American Civil Liberties Union
Bob Lesmeister, free lance journalist
Jim Philbin, legislative analyst, Gun Owners of America4:00 PM THE 2000 ELECTIONS: REFERENDUM ON RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS
Alan M. Gottlieb, chairman of AmeriPAC
David Keene, chairman, American Conservative Union and NRA board member
Chuck Cunningham, federal affairs director, NRA-ILA5:00 PM IS THE GRASSROOTS READY FOR A TOUGH CAMPAIGN?
Glen Voorhees, trustee, Second Amendment Foundation, moderator
Michael Saporito, vice president, RSR Wholesale Guns
John Burtt, chairman, Fifty Caliber Shooters Association
Sheriff Richard Mack, Brady Law challenger5:30 PM Questions and Answers on Afternoon Programs
5:50 PM Announcements and Adjournment
John Barnett, Executive Director, SAF6:30-9:30 PM
Buffet Reception with Cash Bar Hosted by The National Rifle Association of America
7:30 PM Speakers TBA
Sunday, Oct. 1, 2000
8:00 AM Registration Desk Open, Continental Breakfast
9:00 AM CITIES V. GUNMAKERS: CAN A HISTORIC INDUSTRY SURVIVE?
Gen. James Chambers, SAAMI/NSSF
James Warner, Esq., assistant general counsel, National Rifle Association
Paul Jannuzzo, Esq.,VP and general counsel, Glock Inc.
Jeffrey Reh, Esq., general counsel, Beretta USA9:45 AM ECONOMICS AND SCIENCE IN THE GUN CONTROL MOVEMENT
Timothy Wheeler, MD, director, Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership, a project of the Claremont Institute
Jeremy D. Banks, PhD, Doctors for Sensible Gun Laws10:15 AM LET'S NOT IGNORE OUR NATURAL SELF-DEFENSE ALLIES
Joe Waldron, chairman, WeCARE
Alicia Wadas, founder, MothersArms
Telly Lovelace, director of external affairs, Coalition on Urban Renewal and Education (CURE)
Grover Norquist, chairman, Americans for Tax Reform and NRA board member10:45 AM Break
11:00 AM GUNS AND THE MEDIA FORUM
Brent Bozell, Accuracy in Media
Matt Drudge, Matt Drudge Reports
G. Gordon Liddy, talk show host
Oliver North, talk show host12:00 Noon General Q & A Session
12:30PM Resolutions
Resolutions Committee Members
Robert Wiest, Tennessee activist and SAF Board Member
Dennis Walker, vice chairman, Ohio Constitution Defense Fund
John Hosford, former executive director, CCRKBA and former NRA state liaison1:00 PM Closing Remarks & Adjournment
Alan Gottlieb
Joseph Tartaro
The New Gun Week is published three times a month by the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) on the 1st, 10th, and 20th. Hindsight is a commentary written by SAF President and Gun Week Executive Editor Joseph P. Tartaro. This commentary may be reprinted so long as credit is given to the author and the publication. For more information or to subscribe, write Gun Week, PO Box 488, Buffalo, NY 14209, or call 716-885-6408 Monday through Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. EST, or inquire on Compuserve to John Krull, Production manager-JohnSAF@Compuserve.com or gunweeksaf@broadviewnet.netAlso, check out the New Gun Week at http://www.GunWeek.com