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Date: Fri, 18 Nov 1994 01:40:39 -0500
From: NRA Alerts <alerts@gatekeeper.nra.org>
To: Multiple recipients of list <press-release@gatekeeper.nra.
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Subject: NEWS BRIEFS and QUOTABLE QUOTES ON NRA CLOUT
November 17, 1994
                         NEWS BRIEFS
       The New York Times will list Guns, Crime & Freedom on
its bestseller list Nov. 20th -- the book will be ranked 13th
on  the paper's list for hard-cover non-fiction, according to
a report in the Washington Times today.
                 QUOTABLE QUOTES ON NRA CLOUT
       "The National Rifle Association...rebounded with a
vengeance Tuesday (Nov. 8th) when at least a dozen of the gun-
control supporters in Congress it had targeted were defeated
by candidates who oppose weapons restrictions," reported Hearst
News Service in the Portland Oregonian (11/10/94).
       "Though only one of the many forces in Tuesday's (Nov.
8th) political watershed election, the 3.5 million member NRA
made an impression in political circles that could again drive
home the value of its goodwill -- or the power of its ire,"
reported the Los Angeles Times (11/10/94).
       "Those folks have mastered the art of influencing
federal elections," said Mike Casey of the Democratic
Congressional Campaign Committee (LA Times, 11/10/94). 
       "They [NRA members and gun owners] alone may have well
made the difference in this election," said Sen. Harris Wofford
reflecting on his loss to Rick Santorum in the Pennsylvania U.S.
Senate race (AP, 11/12/94).
       "NRA opposition hurts" declared US News & World Report
while describing one lesson for incumbents to learn following 
the upset defeat of 8-term incumbent anti-gun Rep. Mike Synar 
(formerly D-OK) (10/3/94). 
       "Their [NRA's] grassroots effort is the best.  They are 
alive and well," said retiring Rep. Bill Hughes (D-NJ) (Richmond
Times Dispatch, 8/15/94).
       "As candidates who backed gun control legislation fell
one by one across the nation Tuesday night, the National Rifle
Association re-emerged as a high caliber political force that
politicians cross at their own peril," reported The Hill on Nov.
10, 1994. 
       "Don't buck the NRA, or you'll pay -- as for instance,
Oklahoma's Dave McCurdy paid," said columnist William Raspberry
(11/14/94?)
       "After suffering big defeats in Congress this year on
handgun control and a ban on certain assault rifles, the
National Rifle Association made good on its promise not to get
mad but to get even," reported the Washington Post.
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