"Now that the liberals have made our society too dangerous to 
          live in, they want to remove from us the means by which we may 
                                defend ourselves."

      The vultures are circling now.  You all saw the editorial cartoon in the 
      Kansas City Star on Friday, June 22 which had as its subject matter a 
      direct comparison between us NRA members and child pornographers.  By 
      the time you read this, a contingent of NRA members will have taken 
      direct action in response to this scurrilous slander on our collective 
      characters:  We will picket the Star's offices.  I am looking forward to 
      determining as to the amount and type of broadcast media coverage we 
      get; I suspect that we will be quoted out of context or, equally bad, 
      totally ignored.  The coverage we get will show us all where we stand 
      with our local media...

      Many of you recall two years ago when New York Governor Mario Cuomo said 
      that all NRA members "drank beer and beat their wives".  A prominent 
      mainline Protestant minister recently said that the NRA was "THE single 
      largest threat to the safety of the American people".  HCI ads depict 
      Klan people as being NRA dupes.

      Wayne LaPierre, new EVP of NRA recently stated last week that "the mood 
      in Congress is the ugliest I've ever seen.  I've had congressman come up 
      and tell me to my face:  'Take your best shot'".  He stated further that 
      a media analysis recently found that HCI has gotten what amounts to free 
      advertising (presented as "news coverage") to the tune of $10,000,000-
      worth.  Speaking of free advertising, I know that you all curled up in 
      front of your TV on Sunday, June 16th to watch "Without Warning:  The 
      James Brady Story", which was the longest free commercial for HCI that 
      I've ever seen.  DOES THE FACT THAT THIS THING WAS PRESENTED ON THE 
      EVENING PRECEDING THE WEEK OF THE SCHEDULED VOTED IN THE SENATE ON THE 
      BRADY BILL INDICATE ANYTHING TO YOU??? 

      Watch for my review of this film in the K.C. Jones newspaper in the 
      July edition.  It was written it in a completely fair, objective, and 
      unbiased manner.  In fact, it is FULLY as fair, objective, and unbiased 
      as the film was!

      Mayor Emanuel (Mr. Homicide Weapon) Cleaver said last week that he did 
      not receive an invitation to the Jewel Ball this past week.  Another was 
      hand-delivered to him and he attended.  Before winning the mayoral 
      campaign, Cleaver claimed that he had not received the WMSA candidate 
      gun-rights opinion survey which I sent to his REGISTERED HOME ADDRESS, 
      and so I personally hand-delivered another.  Funny - he didn't respond 
      to that one, either.  I suppose it's nice that our new mayor will honor 
      an invitation to an annual soiree for the advantaged, old-money crowd 
      but can "flick off" the interests of the estimated 90,000-plus gun 
      owners in the metro Kansas City area.

      Mayor Cleaver attended the Jewel Ball on the evening before the Gay 
      Rights Pride parade.  Interestingly, the Reverand Cleaver has appointed, 
      not one, but TWO persons to serve as liasons to the "gay community" here 
      in Kansas City.  Now, I am as open-minded a guy you'd ever want to meet 
      (big grin!) but personally, I feel that the 90,000 law-abiding, gun-
      owning community of citizens here deserve a little respect, too.  Don't 
      you?

      Would anyone be up to inviting the Reverand Mayor Emanuel "Mr. Homicide 





      Weapon" Cleaver to address the concerns of Pioneer members in a special 
      meeting?  Besides myself, I mean?

      Kurt Cotton, Ted Deacon, and myself had the opportunity recently to 
      debate gun control with a pretty young lady recently.  This affable 
      young woman (who lives in an apartment in mid-town KC) "knew" every 
      single thing that HCI wants people to "know".  Kurt, Ted and I made 
      the basic points, focusing upon the spin given by the media to 
      firearms ownership issues, including the "collective rights" argument, 
      the unpublicized high incidence of lawful, life-saving uses of 
      handguns every year versus the over-publicized criminal misuse of 
      firearms, the myth of "crimes of passion" committed with firearms, and 
      the best argument of all, namely, that GUN CONTROL KILLS IN EVERY 
      JURISDICTION IN WHICH IT HAS BEEN APPLIED.  Well, to the young lady's 
      credit, she listened to us, accepted some reading material which we 
      produced (including my article in K.C. Jones last month on the Brady 
      bill), and promised to read it all.
       
      I ran into her last week and she asked me if I would reserve her a spot 
      in our next basic handgun self-defense course for women.  I told her 
      that I would MAKE a position available if necessary and she then asked 
      whether we had a gunsmith who could check out her personal handgun, 
      which she said "might be broken.  I can't tell".  By the way, the 
      firearm in question is a Colt Peacemaker in caliber .45 Long Colt...

      If you haven't figured it out, my theme this month is that the gun-
      grabbers have us on the run now.  Things look much worse than they did a 
      year ago.  And things looked bad then, folks.

      Those of you who aren't active, GET ACTIVE!  Those of you who are 
      already active, GET MORE ACTIVE!

                            NEVER SURRENDER YOUR GUNS!
                                    Brad Alpert
                                  (816) 753-3459