Illinios anti-gun activist arrested gor illiegal gun
Handgun had serial number filed off

ILLINOIS ANTI-GUN ACTIVIST ARRESTED, CCRKBA SAYS 'WELCOME TO THE PARTY'
CCRKBA ^ | 3-1-05

Posted on 03/01/2005 6:44:50 PM PST by Dan from Michigan

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Citizens Committee for the
Right to Keep and Bear Arms
12500 N.E. Tenth Place
Bellevue, WA 98005

ILLINOIS ANTI-GUN ACTIVIST ARRESTED, CCRKBA SAYS 'WELCOME TO THE PARTY'

For Immediate Release: March 1, 2005

The arrest of a Springfield, IL anti-gun activist by police who
allegedly found an illegal handgun and drugs in her home during a
contested search prompted the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep
and Bear Arms to bid Annette "Flirty" Stevens a "welcome to the party."

Stevens became an activist with the Million Mom March after her son was
gunned down in 2002. She has acknowledged having the gun – from which
the serial number had been removed – in her home. The handgun belonged
to her late son, Jericko Clark, she insisted, and she had simply wrapped
it up and forgotten about it after finding it several months after his
slaying. She claims the search was illegal.

"Annette Stevens may now understand why so many law-abiding people are
fed up with the kind of gun laws that are promoted by the Million Mom
March and other extremist gun control organizations," said CCRKBA
Chairman Alan Gottlieb. "Ironically, the law against filing serial
numbers off firearms is one that gun rights activists and organizations
have long supported. Yet here she is, this ‘poster mom' for gun control,
acknowledging that she has kept an illegally-altered handgun in her home
while she's been campaigning to deprive other citizens of their firearms.

"In the kind of Draconian anti-gun society Stevens and her cohorts are
trying to create," Gottlieb continued, "it wouldn't matter if she were
innocent as she claims. Under the laws her group supports, gun owners
are essentially considered guilty until they prove themselves otherwise.
That's everything from background checks to waiting periods, and
certainly the Illinois requirement that gun owners have a Firearms
Owners Identification Card. Stevens has no FOID card, so there's another
gun law violation. There are thousands of local and state laws across
the country that the Million Moms support, none of which have done
anything to prevent a single crime. All they do is chip away at the gun
rights of law-abiding citizens.

"If Stevens is so convinced guns don't belong in society," Gottlieb
observed, "then why didn't she immediately turn that gun over to the
police when she found it more than two years ago? Why did she keep it?
What's wrong with this picture? Ms. Stevens is about to learn that
supporting gun control is like keeping a vicious dog. They sometimes
bite the hands that feed them."

With more than 650,000 members and supporters nationwide, the Citizens
Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is one of the nation's
premier gun rights organizations. As a non-profit organization, the
Citizens Committee is dedicated to preserving firearms freedoms through
active lobbying of elected officials and facilitating grass-roots
organization of gun rights activists in local communities throughout the
United States. The Citizens Committee can be reached by phone at (425)
454-4911, on the internet at www.ccrkba.org or by email to
InformationRequest@ccrkba.org.