Message to Gun Owners just in time for the NOVEMBER 4TH VOTE!!

As a gun owner, trap and skeet shooter, hunter and sportsmen I had to pass this along to all of you who respect and value our right to gun ownership.
This is a link to listen to a podcast on this same issue from the Illinois Rifle Assoc. President.
Listen to the interview from the Ill NRA President podcast at iVoices.org.

420 E. Locust,

P.O. Box 637, Chatsworth, IL 60921
Phone: (815) 635-3198 or (815) 635-3166

Fax: (815) 635-3723 Website: http://www.isra.org/

Dedicated to education, safety training and support
of Illinois firearm owners

October 10, 2008

Fellow Sportsman,

Hello, my name is Rich Pearson and I have been active in the firearm rights movement for over 40 years. For the past 15 years, I have served in the Illinois state capitol as the chief lobbyist for the Illinois State Rifle Association.

I lobbied Barack Obama extensively while he was an Illinois State Senator. As a result of that experience, I know Obama’s attitudes toward guns and gun owners better than anyone. The truth be told, in all my years in the Capitol I have never met a legislator who harbors more contempt for the law-abiding firearm owner than Barack Obama.

Although Obama claims to be an advocate for the 2nd Amendment, his voting record in the Illinois Senate paints a very different picture. While a state senator, Obama voted for a bill that would ban nearly every hunting rifle, shotgun and target rifle owned by Illinois citizens. That same bill would authorize the state police to raid homes of gun owners and forcibly confiscate banned guns. Obama supported a bill that would shut down law-abiding firearm manufacturers including Springfield Armory, Armalite, Rock River Arms and Les Baer. Obama also
voted for a bill that would prohibit law-abiding citizens from purchasing more than one gun per month.

Without a doubt, Barack Obama has proven himself to be an enemy of the law abiding firearm owner. At the same time, Obama has proven himself to be a friend to the hardened criminal. While a state senator, Obama voted 4 times against legislation that would allow a homeowner to use a firearm in defense of home and family.

Does Barack Obama still sound to you like a “friend” of the law-abiding gun owner?
And speaking of friends, you can always tell a person by the company they keep. Obama counts among his friends the Rev. Michael Pfleger - a renegade Chicago priest who has openly called for the murder of gun shop owners and pro-gun legislators. Then there is his buddy Richard Daley, the mayor of Chicago who has declared that if it were up to him, nobody would be allowed to own a gun. And let’s not forget Obama’s pal George Soros - the guy who has pumped millions of dollars into the UN’s international effort to disarm law-abiding citizens.

Obama has shown that he is more than willing to use other people’s money to fund his campaign to take your guns away from you. While a board member of the leftist Joyce Foundation, Barack Obama wrote checks for tens of millions of dollars to extremist gun control organizations such as the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence and the Violence Policy Center.

Does Barack Obama still sound to you like a “friend” of the law-abiding gun owner?
By now, I’m sure that many of you have received mailings from an organization called “American Hunters and Shooters Association(AHSA)” talking about what a swell fellow Obama is and how he honors the 2nd Amendment and how you will never have to worry about Obama coming to take your guns.

Let me make it perfectly clear - everything the AHSA says about Obama is pure hogwash. The AHSA is headed by a group of left-wing elitists who subscribe to the British view of hunting and shooting. That is, a state of affairs where hunting and shooting are reserved for the wealthy upper-crust who can afford guided hunts on exclusive private reserves. The AHSA is not your friend, never will be.

In closing, I’d like to remind you that I’m a guy who has actually gone nose to nose with Obama on gun rights issues. The Obama I know cannot even begin to identify with this nation’s outdoor traditions. The Obama I know sees you, the law abiding gun owner, as nothing but a low-class lummox who is easily swayed by the flash of a smile and a ration of rosy rhetoric. The Obama I know is a stony-faced liar who has honed his skill at getting what he wants - so long as people are willing to give it to him.

That’s the Barack Obama I know.

Sincerely,
(original signed)
Richard A. Pearson
Executive Director
Illinois State Rifle Association

Autumn in my neck of the woods.

I love fall, the cool crisp air, the bright blue sky, and the smell of the falling leaves in the woods.

I know people that get depressed in the fall knowing that winter is just around the corner. Not me, I love the fall, to me it is nature at it's best. Just walk through the farmers market, the wondrous display of crisp apples, colorful squash, sweet cider, pumpkins, and flowers, the smells and sights are great. It's sings of Mother Nature at her best. Stop your car at the next park you see, walk into the woods, look down at the beautiful carpet of leaves beneath you feet and listen to them as they fall, I bet you never knew that you could hear the leaves fall in the woods. Look up into the trees you may be lucky enough to see a woodpecker hiding one of it's nuts in the bark of a tree, or a chickadee flitting thru the trees, or a squirrel enjoying the bountiful harvest of juicy acorns. To me fall is natures way of saying, "I worked hard this summer, now I lay my bounty at your feet, and so you allow me to rest and renew over the winter so that I may provide for you again beginning with the first sunny yellow daffodil, through the last sunny head of the fall sunflowers". As I write this I can look out my window into my own yard and see the beauty of fall and it makes me look forward to the earths winter renewal sothat next year I can again marvel at the beauty outside my window. I hope you enjoy these pictures I took this fall of the beauty of Autumn in my little corner of the world.
Susie