Firearms Owners Against Crime
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Once more we see how when government restricts the individual right to self-defense, people are harmed or killed. Take for instance, RIGHT NOW, in Israel.
People are dying because the government cannot protect them…. And these people are largely not “allowed” to protect themselves. However, the Israeli government is loosening their restriction on individual citizen’s ability to carry a gun for protection.
Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir, said, “Today I directed the Firearms Licensing Division to go on an emergency operation, in order to allow as many citizens as possible to arm themselves,”……. “The plan will take effect within 24 hours.”
Too little too late for 100’s of Israeli citizens who have already been murdered by roving bands of Hamas terrorists.
Unlike in the Ukraine, when Russia attacked, the Ukraine government handed out rifles to any citizen that would take up arms, Israel is STILL imposing restrictions on the Israeli people who want to carry a gun for self-protection.
The Israeli government is “Allowing” select Israeli people the ability to defend themselves. I guess all others are F&%KED.
The Second Amendment and Article 1 Section 21 is in place for 3 reasons… although many folks dismiss the 3rd reason.
#1 To act as a deterrent or a means to defend against a tyrannical Government.
#2 To act as a deterrent or as a means to defend against criminals.
#3 To act as a deterrent or as a means to defend against invading armies.
Americans have defended themselves and those that they loved on “American soil” many times through our history. “Invaders” have included:
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
-2nd Amendment, Bill of Rights, U.S. Constitution
The founders of our Country intended for the People to have the means to keep and bear arms to be able to protect self, family, community, State, and Country. They also explicitly restricted the GOVERNMENT from hindering or infringing this right of the people.
Right to bear arms.
The right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the State shall not be questioned.
-Article 1 Declaration of Rights, Section 21 of the Pennsylvania Constitution
The framers of the PA Constitution explicitly restricted the Government from even QUESTIONING the People’s ability to bear arms in defense of SELF and the State.
There is no question that throughout our history as a country, the fact that regular American citizens were armed and well regulated was indeed a deterrence against potential invaders.
I find it very interesting that with current events in the Ukraine and Israel, where regular citizens are arming themselves to protect their Country as well as selves and families, Elected officials in the U.S. are working hard to disarm and restrict American citizen’s ability to keep and bear arms.
Who are these “elected class” politicians protecting when they work to disarm the people?
The elected class have access to armed security details that are paid for by you and I… tax paying Americans! Ain’t that a bitch!
YOU and I are paying for the security of the people that are trying to take away our ability to be your our OWN security detail. Think about that!
So, if politicians are able to question and infringe our right to keep and bear arms who does that benefit? Gun grabbing, restriction, and disarming policies benefit criminals, potential invaders, and tyrants…. not the people. It IS that simple.
PA House Majority Leader Mathew Bradford
PA Speaker of the House Joanna McClinton
These are the people in Harrisburg that are consistently pushing legislation that is intended to restrict your ability to protect yourself and your family. Why?
These are SOME of the people in Washington D.C. that are consistently pushing policies that are intended to restrict your ability to protect yourself and your family. Why?
Why do these people do things that empower our potential invaders, criminals and the tyrant elected class? Do they WANT to destabilize our Country? Do they want to give criminals the ability to terrorize the people? Do they want to gain more control over the people?
Actions speak louder than words!
When it comes to “Gun Control”, take away the gun and you are left with CONTROL. IT’s all about control.
An armed and educated citizenry is the true check and balance in our Constitutional Republic and the ULTIMATE homeland security.
By Larry Keane originally published by NSSF October 3, 2023
The White House made a much-ballyhooed announcement that they were caving to gun control special interests by installing a new Office of Gun Violence Prevention. The office will have little to do with preventing actual crime and everything to do with using taxpayer dollars to attempt to deny Americans their Second Amendment rights.
Still, there are questions about just what this office will do and who are the people staffing this endeavor at taxpayer expense. Here’s what we know.
Mission
The White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention is a section of The White House charged with carrying out President Joe Biden’s gun control executive orders. If that sounds like word salad, it is. Executive orders are orders from the president that are based on law. That means executive orders direct federal agencies to execute certain functions that are prescribed by laws authorized by Congress and signed into law by the president.
That means this new White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention is a redundant effort to push gun control. Given that the president is pursuing gun control efforts outside the boundaries of federal law, it should be expected that this office will do more of that. That includes more gun control shenanigans like the ill-fated attack on hunter education. President Biden claimed the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (BSCA) prohibited the use of federal funds for hunter education and scholastic archery programs in schools under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). Except, no such provision exists.
Congress fought back and passed H.R. 5110, the Protecting Hunting Heritage and Education Act, which was supported by NSSF. The White House confirmed the president would sign the bill that passed with just one vote against it in the U.S. House of Representatives. The U.S. Senate approved it by unanimous consent.
There’s more. Expect this new office to make moves like the Biden administration’s “zero-tolerance” policy for Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) inspections. That’s seen federal firearms licensees (FFL) lose their licenses and livelihoods over minor clerical errors. There’s a lawsuit pending over this overzealous policy, which a federal judge just denied the ATF’s dismissal request.
The mission of this new office might be best described as a government-backed gun control wish granting machine. President Biden will leverage this office for universal background checks, which would necessitate a national firearm registry to work – as the Obama Justice Department admitted. If that doesn’t sound Orwellian, check with Canada and see what Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is attempting with that country’s national registry. It’s a confiscation scheme.
There will be more. Gun control politicians already sent a roadmap to The White House earlier this year. In that wish list letter, they wanted U.S. firearm manufacturers with Defense Department contracts to submit to an agreement to not sell Modern Sporting Rifles (MSRs) to civilians. They also want to further restrict certain firearms exempted under the “sporting purposes” import exemptions. Expect this office to advocate for a reversal of the U.S. Munitions List to Commerce Control List (USMC-CCL) export reforms – originally an Obama/Biden idea. This office will also likely pressure the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to infringe on First Amendment rights to limit firearm advertisements and press for the ATF to release firearm trace data that is protected from public release by the Tiahrt Amendment. That data is protected because it is incomplete and releasing it would jeopardize law enforcement and their criminal investigations.
This gun control agenda is already playing out in President Biden’s attempt to rope in nearly anyone who privately sells a firearm as a “firearm dealer,” requiring them to obtain a license and maintain firearm transfer records in perpetuity. This isn’t, however, what the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (BSCA) text reads when the definition was clarified.
Staffing
The White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention will be headed up by none other than Vice President Kamala Harris. Vice President Harris said in a statement, “The new Office of Gun Violence Prevention will play a critical role in implementing President Biden’s and my efforts to reduce violence to the fullest extent under the law, while also engaging and encouraging Congressional leaders, state and local leaders, and advocates to come together to build upon the meaningful progress that we have made to save lives.”
This new office can be added to the list of other tasks with which the vice president has been charged. That includes voting rights, the U.S. southern border, abortion, artificial intelligence, water policy, promoting child tax credits, COVID-19 vaccine education, heading the National Space Council, expanding nationwide broadband access, union labor expansion and stopping online harassment. None of those portfolios show progress.
Stefanie Feldman will serve as the Director of the newly created office. She’s a longtime aide to President Biden, serving as a Domestic Policy Advisor, where many of the Biden administration’s wild gun control schemes originated. Her social media is peppered with gun control chest-thumping, including one post on X, formerly known as Twitter, from 2019 that reads, “As president, he’ll defeat them again. And, he’ll repeal the non-sensical liability protection for gun manufacturers.”
Of course, that would require an act of Congress.
Greg Jackson will join Feldman, as Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Director. Jackson’s qualifications are more than 10 years as a gun control advocate for a number of organizations, including George Soros-backed Tides Foundation Community Justice Action Fund, and Director of Community Relations for Mayor Muriel Bowser of crime-ridden Washington, D.C. He was also the victim of a criminal shooting in 2013.
Jackson also brings to the office an animus against law enforcement. Washington Free Beacon reported Jackson participated in a January 2021 University of Maryland policing seminar when he lamented that he is “struggling to survive while … police budgets thrive.” He was also part of an Obama Foundation webinar entitled “Re Imagining Policing,” when he proposed “community-led violence intervention and prevention strategies” in place of traditional law enforcement. The goal, Jackson said, is to “ultimately reduce the need for policing.” How’s that going, Mr. Jackson?
Jackson’s noticeably absent on criminals illegally using firearms to prey on communities but blames the firearm industry for politicians’ unwillingness to hold criminals to account.
Robert Wilcox will also serve as Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Director. His role prior to the appointment was as Senior Director of Federal Government Affairs at Everytown for Gun Safety. He’s a gun control lobbyist. Of course, this is the same gun control group that’s bankrolled by gun control billionaire Michael Bloomberg. As Everytown’s lobbyist, Wilcox called for bans on entire classes of firearms and supports bankrupting the firearm industry through frivolous and unconstitutional lawsuits. He’s testified for increased gun control but never for holding criminals accountable for their horrific crimes.
Crime Control
It’s not just Wilcox. Vice President Harris hasn’t called for increased prosecution of criminals, even though The White House is playing up her former role as California’s attorney general and as a prosecutor. Feldman doesn’t want to lock up criminals, nor does Jackson. Vice President Harris is more focused on giving White House access to George Soros’ grandson Alex, who was appointed to head up the progressive policy group Open Society Foundation. Vice President Harris regularly meets with the young Soros. This is the same Open Society Foundation that raised the idea of cities devoid of any lawful firearm possession – even by police.
The new White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention is anything but dedicated to preventing criminal misuse of firearms. It’s a haven of gun control idealogues that are now getting paid by taxpayers to press an unconstitutional agenda.
Discussing the myths and realities of privately manufactured firearms.
By FOAC-ILLEA President, Jim Stoker
“Ghost Guns”. Scary names assigned to commonly owned, designed, and lawfully manufactured firearms have become the ‘go to’ for the anti-gun crowd when it comes to misinformation and playing on the fears of the less informed citizen of the Commonwealth. For decades now there has been a very successful effort by anti-gun, anti-Constitution organizations and advocates to create key terms and phrases to vilify firearms in the eyes of the voter who doesn’t understand or have any practical experience with firearms. This includes most members of those organizations and the bread and butter of votes and campaign contributions for those legislators who build entire campaigns on the idea that guns are evil and the humans behind them are as much the victim of their evil nature as those innocent citizens they use them against.
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FOAC-ILLEA President Jim Stoker and Vice President Klint Macro kick off a new video series that discusses current legal, legislative, and educational actions across the Commonwealth. In this episode Jim and Klint discuss the pending litigation regarding the PICs Delays, and the Lower Merrion Two Preemption violation. Jim and Klint also discuss a bit on their background and how they became involved with FOAC-ILLEA. Lastly, they discuss the upcoming Gun Bash on September 30, 2023. For more information about all of these topics visit www.foac-illea.org
Watch the FOAC-ILLEA Podcast Episode 2 by CLICKING HERE
Watch Episode 1 of the Podcast by CLICKING HERE
The 2023 Fall Gun Bash was a tremendous success!The 2023 Fall Gun Bash was on Saturday September 30, 2023 at the Washington County Fairgrounds. The Bashes are our main fund raising events. Over a 1000 Americans gathered together for food, fellowship, raffles and drawings. One attendee came all the way from California! Our next gun bash will be on Saturday, March 13, 2023.
Click here to see a list of all the fall 2023 gun bash winning numbers
Firearms Owners Against Crime Institute for Legal, Legislative, and Educational Action is Pennsylvania's preeminent pro-gun / anti-crime organization. FOAC-ILLEA is dedicated to empowering our fellow Pennsylvanians to become responsibly armed and educated!
Delta Defense LLC, service provider for the US Concealed Carry Association has asked FOAC-ILLEA to present the PA Gun Law portion for their upcoming training event.
Join us on October 11th at Pitcairn Monroeville Sportsmen's Club in North Versailles, PA from 6-9pm.
Registration is required. The cost is $10 per person. All attendees will receive the USCCA book, "Should I Shoot" (A $30 Value).
Click Here to Secure Your Spot (space is limited)
FOAC-ILLEA presents Concealed Carry Seminars with Pro-Liberty Elected Officials, works with County Sheriffs at Satellite License to Carry Events, provides information tables at Gun Shows, and organizes for Pro-2A Rallies, gun bashes, and special events. To see the most up-to-date schedule of FOAC-ILLEA events and meetings, CLICK HERE.
Jim Stoker speaking to Lawrence County Patriots and We The People of America
FOAC-ILLEA Volunteers Bob Canova, Jim Stoker, Legal PA Rep. Marla Brown, Lisha Mihalko, and Kevin Jackson
FOAC-ILLEA Volunteers Bob Canova, Ed Bogats, Jim Stoker, Klint Macro at NRA PA State Conference
Kelly Ann Pidgeon of D.C. Project at NRA PA State Conference
2023 Rod of Iron Festival
Top Row: Amanda Suffecool, Dick Heller (you know like “The Heller Decision”), Charlie Cook
2nd Row: Klint and Stephen LaSpina, with FOAC-ILLEA Life Member Frank Scavo, Jim speaking
3rd Row: Kathleen Weaver, Dich Heller, Dave Weaver, Amanda Suffecool, Rob Campbell, and Klint, Jim and Klint, Klint with NEW FOAC-ILLEA Member Lorraine Crescimanno
We have an important election coming up in a few weeks on November 7th. EVERY gun owner should vet the candidates and VOTE! We have a few VERY VERY important judicial positions on the ballot. EVERY gun owner should vet the candidates and VOTE!
FOAC-PAC (a separate organization to ILLEA) issues voter guides. ILLEA recommends that you educate yourself by reviewing PAC voter guide. You can see the PAC voter guides by clicking here.
If you are not registered to vote do so by CLICKING HERE.
Mail in ballots are being sent out as we speak. If you can not, or might not make it to the polls on November 7th, REQUEST A MAIL IN BALLOT.
The deadline to register or request a mail in ballot is October 23rd.
YOUR VOTE MATTERS!
Exercise your right to vote just as you exercise your right to keep and bear arms!
Stay Frosty, Armed and BE Well Regulated!
Yours Most Respectfully,
Klint Macro
FOAC-ILLEA VP
FOAC-ILLEA is continuing to fight for the hearts and minds of our fellow Pennsylvanians to promote individual liberties and freedoms. We are steadfast and resolute and dedicated to protecting our Constitution and advancing the cause of the 2nd Amendment and Article 1 Section 21 of the PA Constitution.
FOAC-ILLEA’s educational efforts are expanding across the Commonwealth. FOAC-ILLEA volunteers are teaching more concealed carry classes each month and additional virtual education events are forthcoming.
FOAC-ILLEA is continuing to fight in the courts. Whether this means new litigation to challenge local tyrants, fight the bureaucrats that make it harder for Pennsylvanians to exercise their most basic rights, or the funding of amicus briefs to support others who are already involved in court battles, we are actively helping to establish case law that will help advance the cause of liberty.
FOAC-ILLEA volunteers research proposed legislation, consult with experts, and offer advice to elected officials about legislation as well as educate the public on the strength or folly of legislation that could have lasting positive or negative effects upon our liberty and the liberty of our children.
I urge you to help me spread the word about FOAC-ILLEA. Share this newsletter and the website with your sphere of influence. Get a fellow gun owner to join FOAC-ILLEA.
Contact your Legislators HERE.
Read previous newsletters HERE.
The FOAC-ILLEA website is a wealth of information. Track current legislation, contact legislators and elected officials, look up gun laws, read easy to understand synopsis’ on stand your ground, castle doctrine, and legal use of force. Keep up to date with current gun related news. There is all this and more on the FOAC-ILLEA website.
Get involved!
If you have read this entire newsletter and made it here to this statement… you are already interested and vested.
Donate your time, your talents, or your treasure. VOTE pro-2A and get your friends to vote pro-2A as well. Become a member and get your friends to become a member. If you are already a member, consider “upping your membership” to a higher level. Volunteer to help at the bash. Volunteer to join a committee to send emails, write letters, make phone calls… NOW IS THE TIME TO DO. DON’T PUT IT OFF. “We the People” have been sitting on the sidelines too long.
An Armed and Educated Citizenry is the true check and balance in our Constitutional Republic and the ultimate homeland security!