The specific objectives FOAC-ILLEA:

• to provide instruction and education in Constitutional Rights, the impact of current and proposed laws and regulations affecting those rights, firearms safety and governmental policies that affect the general public welfare
• to provide analysis of proposed firearms and sporting related legislation to the government on the impact and ramifications of proposed legislation
• to develop educational material in firearms safety
• to develop educational material on current laws pertaining to firearms ownership for both Pennsylvania and the United States
• to sponsor, host and/or participate in events and activities that promote the sport of hunting, fishing, shooting and outdoor activities
• to sponsor, host and/or participate in events and activities that promote Pennsylvania or United States Constitutional Values
• to sponsor, host and/or participate in events and activities that promote the education of individuals in firearms safety and current law
• conducting research and publicizing the positions of elected officials concerning firearm sportsmen's related issues
• defend firearm related issues thru legal defense and directed legislative action including grassroots action

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• "Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it."
  - Thomas Paine
• "There is a degree of depravity in mankind which requires a certain degree of circumspection and distrust."
  - James Madison
• "I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power."
  - Thomas Jefferson
• "Americans have the right and advantage of being armed, unlike the people of other countries, whose leaders are afraid to trust them with arms."
  - James Madison
• "If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people, whose creature it is, must appeal to the standard they have formed, and take such measures to redress the injury done to the Constitution as the exigency may suggest and prudence justify."
  - Alexander Hamilton (1788)
• "If we are to be told by a foreign Power ... what we shall do, and what we shall not do, we have Independence yet to seek, and have contended hitherto for very little."
  - George Washington (1796)
• "I ask you sir, what is a militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them."
  - George Mason
• "Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the people's liberty's teeth."
  - George Washington
• “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”
  - John Adams
• "A free people ought not only be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government."
  - George Washington
• "It does not take a majority to prevail...but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men."
  - Samuel Adams

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