Firearms Owners Against Crime - Institute for Legislative, Legal and Educational Action

The purposes for which the corporation is organized are to promote social welfare within the meaning of section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code, including but not limited to:(1) developing and advocating for legislation, regulations, and government programs to improve safety, protect citizens, stimulate sportsmen's activities and safe legal firearm ownership (2) conducting research and publicizing the positions of elected officials concerning these issues (3)for legal defense of firearms and sportsmen's related issues (4) to educate the public on safe and legal firearm ownership, and Constitutional Issues thereof.

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

The Latest From FOAC ILLEA

FOAC ILLEA News

Report claims US gun death rate reached record levels

In the gun debate, gun deaths tend to be one of the things we focus on. After all, if you’re saying you want to make people safer via gun control, you have to show they’re at some kind of risk to begin with. read more

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Defense Stories

Illinois Self-Defense: Armed employee shoots woman who was pistol-whipping coworker

It was a sleepy Tuesday morning at a Rent-a-Center in Alton, Illinois, at least until a woman armed with a gun walked inside. According to authorities, the woman was looking to confront a relative who worked at the store despite the fact that an active order of protection prohibited her from having contact with the relative or wandering on to the premises. read more

Legal News

Illinois' Intolerable Act

In the wake of the Boston Tea Party in 1773, the British parliament responded by passing a series of laws known in England as the Coercive Acts; better known in the U.S. as the Intolerable Acts. Among the new laws meant to punish colonists for their refusal to kowtow to Parliament imposing taxation without representation was the Administration of Justice Act, which allowed royal governors to hold trials for crown officials to be held in England and not the colony where their alleged crimes were committed. Patriots were outraged by the law, with George Washington declaring in a letter at the time that the act would make it impossible for justice to be obtained as a result of the government’s actions. read more

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Upcoming Event

Pennsylvania 2nd Amendment Rally

Starting in 2006 Pennsylvania gun owners began gathering every year in Harrisburg to send a simple message to state legislators: Unconstitutional and ineffective emotionally driven gun control legislation has no place in this Commonwealth and we will not stand by idly and allow our Freedoms to be eroded or taken away by any means. read more

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Quotes

"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

Training Tip

The Real Reason You Need to Clean Your Carry Gun On a Regular Basis

Should you clean your handgun after every use? Most modern-day service handguns are built to handle a tremendous amount of use and abuse. They’ll continue to function even when they’re filthy dirty. Just Google your favorite polymer pistol and the words “torture test.” read more

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