Firearms Owners Against Crime
Institute for Legal, Legislative and Educational Action
Institute for Legal, Legislative and Educational Action
Yesterday millions of people in the United States put on special glasses and looked up to the sky at the eclipse. Many people left work early, schools were off, and people prepared for weeks to arrange plans to travel to distant places to take part in this twice (maybe thrice) in a lifetime event. I too participated. My son and I back timed Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon and we sat and listened to the record and saw the eclipse in time with the music.
Once it was over… it was over.
Interestingly, some Governors declared states of emergency and various Government agencies were on standby… now, it’s all done and over. No long-lasting consequences.
I wonder, how many people will leave work early to vote and take part in our election? I wonder how many people will prepare and study the candidates and issues so that they can be an informed voter? I wonder how many folks that will be out of town on election day will bother to register for an absentee ballot?
The election WILL have long lasting consequences… yet millions of folks will simply not participate.
I wonder who will take a sick day to travel to Harrisburg to stand with other Pennsylvanians to show support for our 2nd Amendment and Article 1 Section 21 of the PA Constitution? Rallies are very important. They send a message to the government. When we were kids and we saw a parent or parental-figure watching us, maybe wagging a finger, we straightened up. The Rally is our opportunity to show the government that we are watching. Afterall, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed… right?
This last week, I spent time on the range with over 200 competitors at the NRA World Shooting Championship at Camp Atterbury, IN. This event draws people from across the country as well as around the world. Competitors use a variety of rifles, pistols, and shotguns (supplied by the sponsors) and shoot in multiple disciplines. All one needs to bring is eye and ear protection and a positive competitive spirit.
This is the 3rd WSC that I have personally attended. Each time I have had the opportunity to talk to people from other states and countries. Ultimately the conversations turn into “my state’s gun laws are worse than your state’s”. Or someone will say, “well at least I still can….” Or they will say, “well it could be worse”.
Most times when these conversations occur, someone visiting from another country will chime in and say, “I cannot even own a gun in my country, you should not take for granted the rights you are given. Do NOT let them take them away because you will never get them back once they are gone”.
Hmmm… rights you are “given”???? Well, in other countries the sovereign grants rights to their subjects. People who are born as “subjects” are bred to serve the sovereign… not the other way around. Well hell… American’s resist subjugation… don’t they? We are wired different… aren’t we?
Apathy is easy for many people to fall into once they become accustomed to restriction.
Think back just a few years ago, how many millions of regular everyday people accepted the restrictions of the government overreach-covid period and even helped to (implicitly or explicitly) enforce restriction on other everyday people? How many people said, “well there is nothing we can do about this now”?
How many people bitched about the restrictions with fervent distain but did absolutely nothing to push back against them?
There are many valuable lessons to be learned here.
We must not allow the government to have the ability to restrict us. If we leave the government unchecked, we give them the power to do what they want. Every election is a bloodless revolution. Remember, NOT voting is a vote cast for the winner.
The people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government and to reform, alter, or totally change the same when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it.
-Alexander Hamilton
"Our political leaders will know our priorities only if we tell them, again and again, and if those priorities begin to show up in the polls."
Our rights are natural born / God given / self-evident… the government nor the Constitution grant us our rights.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed”
-The Declaration of Independence
The Constitution restricts the government from infringing and restricting our natural born / God given / self-evident rights.
“It is the proper object of a written constitution not only to restrain the several branches of the government, viz. the legislative, executive and judiciary departments, within their proper limits, respectively, but to prohibit the branches, united, from any attempt to invade that portion of the sovereign power which the people have not delegated to their public functionaries and agents, but have reserved, unalienably, to themselves. “
– St. George Tucker, early American constitutional scholar and legal professor.
You are “The People” and the power of the government comes from you.
“The most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.”
– Louis Brandeis, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
The federal government is our servant, not our master.
-Thomas Jefferson
You have the power to effect change by mobilizing those in your sphere of influence. Educate them and get them to the polls. Help them register to vote or apply for a mail in ballot.
An armed and educated citizenry is the true check and balance in our Constitutional Republic and the ultimate homeland security. ACT ACORDINGLY.
CLICK HERE TO PA VOTING AND ELECTION WEBSITE
Check out this episode of Eye on the Target Radio from the 2024 Shot Show with Rob Campbell and Amanda Suffecool. Jim Stoker is interviewed at 1 minute and 13 Seconds. Klint Macro is at 28 Minutes and 4 seconds.
FOAC-Institute 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-Institute events and meetings, CLICK HERE.
The Harrisburg 2A Rally is Tuesday APRIL 30th!Put in for your PTO now!
YOUR RIGHTS are worth taking a day off work!
Join us in Harrisburg for the 2024 2A Rally on Tuesday, April 30th, 2024.
There will be plenty of speakers and prizes.
US Concealed Carry Association For Saving Lives Action Fund will be at the rally providing voter registration resources.
We also will break up into legislative action groups after the rally to visit elected officials. We need gun owners from across the Commonwealth to join us at the Capital. START PLANNING NOW!!!!
If you would like information on bussing and transportation from all corners of the Commonwealth email info@foac-illea.org today.
There will be gun raffles at the Rally this year!
1) Sig P365 9mm pistol from FOAC-Institute and CYA Firearms, Pittsburgh, PA
2) S&W M&P Shield Easy .380 ACP from Big Buck Sports Shop, Wexford PA
3) Auto Ordinance 1911 45 ACP from Gun Owners of America and Kahr Arms, Greeley PA
4) Auto Ordinance "Cold Dead Hands" Custom 1911 45 ACP from FOAC-Institute and Kahr Arms, Greeley PA
5) Ruger American Rifle 6.5 Creedmoor from Grice Guns, Clearfield PA
Note: This amounts to approximately $4500.00 value for all guns!! Never have we had such an exceptional selection of Quantity and Quality gun selection at any of the previous Rally's! THANK YOU to the donors!
We request NO LONG GUNS at the Rally. How will you be able to visit your Legislators? There is NO Check-in for long guns in the Capital. If you want to check your handgun, you can do so at the rear of the Capital with the Capital Police. To save you some time you can print and fill out this form (CLICK HERE) and submit it when you check your handgun.
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To read the Blog Posts from FOAC-Institute President Jim Stoker Click Here
To read the Blog Posts from FOAC-Institute VP Klint Macro Click Here
To Read the Blog Posts from FOAC-Institute Board Member Stephen LaSpina Click Here
To Read past editions of the FOAC-Institute Newsletter Click Here
The National Gun Makers Match is coming up on April 27th, 2024 and FOAC-Institute is once again a sponsor of this fantastic event. Join other liberty minded Americans and celebrate or proud American tradition of gun making and witness creativity, ingenuity, innovation and friendly competition at Pitcairn-Monroeville Sportsmen’s Club in North Versailles, PA. To learn more about this event and about the organizer, Guns for Everyone CLICK HERE.
April 19th is Patriot’s Day. I have written about this in the past. I would like to repurpose something from the October 3, 2022 FOAC-Institute newsletter.
On April 19th, 1775, the British military commander in North America, Genera Gage, sent soldiers and grenadiers on a midnight smash and grab mission. The goal was to “black bag” and detain rebel leaders and confiscate and/or destroy arms in Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts. Sam Adams (a prominent leader and organizer of the Sons of Liberty) and John Hancock (a wealthy businessman and financier of the rebel cause) were both in Lexington that night. Luckily for the cause, Paul Revere, William Dawes, and later Dr. Samuel Prescott, were able to warn Adams and Hancock as well as the Militia in Lexington and Concord before the Red Coats arrived.
That day American Colonists were fired upon and later opened fire on the British Regulars. Over the course of that day, 1000’s of free men, women, and children began the bloody process of convincing their government that they were indeed free people. The years following the shooting war, the founders of our nation put in place protections, guarantees, and processes so that “The People” could continue the American Revolution as free people without having to resort to bloodshed. TODAY WE ARE SQUANDERING THESE OPPORTUNITIES.
In a Constitutional Republic, “The People” choose who represents them. WHY are we not voting these tyrants out of office? Every election we SHOULD BE continuing the American Revolution, yet millions of gun owners and those that espouse the love of Liberty DO NOT VOTE! Millions of Americans do not know who their elected representatives are.
Folks the time is now.
We must mobilize our fellow Pennsylvanians NOW. We must show at the polls in DROVES and vote for the 2A and Article 1 Section 21. We are truly one bad election from turning into New York or worse.
We must not allow the government to have the ability to restrict us.
An armed and educated citizenry is the true check and balance in our Constitutional Republic and the ultimate homeland security. ACT ACORDINGLY.
Stay Armed and BE Well Regulated!
Yours In Liberty,
Klint Macro
FOAC-Institute VP
FOAC-Institute 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-Institute’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-Institute 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-Institute 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-Institute. Share this newsletter and the website with your sphere of influence. Get a fellow gun owner to join FOAC-Institute.
Contact your Legislators HERE.
Read previous newsletters HERE.
The FOAC-Institute 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-Institute 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!