Steven Mace
02-02-2002, 04:23 AM
For Immediate Release: February 1, 2002
For Additional Information Contact: Chuck Michel, CRPA Spokesman (310) 548-3703
CRPA Launches Statewide Public Gun Safety Campaign
Distributing 100,000 Free Gun Safety Booklets & Offering Effective Violence Prevention Programs
The California Rifle & Pistol Association (CRPA) today launched a huge public service gun safety campaign. CRPA is distributing tens of thousands of the just released 2002 edition of its widely read annual booklet "Firearm Safety Guidelines and Summary of California Gun Laws" to its members, the general public, state legislators, law enforcement, and local officials. CRPA is making 100,000 of the booklets available free to local officials and media for public dissemination. The CRPA effort also alerts civic leaders to free innovative violence prevention programs available to them. The CRPA effort comes on the heels of a controversial CRPA 300 billboard campaign that ran through November, 2001. The CRPA billboards carried the message "Society is Safer When Criminals Don't Know Who's Armed." That campaign was covered by the national media.
The free gun safety booklets emphasize the four cardinal rules of firearm safety:
1. Treat all firearms as if they were loaded.
2. Never allow themuzzle of your firearm to point at anything you do not intend to destroy.
3. Keep your finger off the trigger until your sights are aligned with thetarget and you are ready to shoot.
4. Be sure of your target and its surroundings.
The booklets also emphasize additional firearm safety fundamentals, as well as summarizing the complex California state firearm laws, and answering frequently asked questions about safety and gun laws.
In addition to making the safety booklets available, the CRPA campaign also publicizes a variety of CRPA supported effective violence prevention and gun safety programs that are available to local officials. These include informational brochures, safety guidelines, civilian gun safety and firearm education classes; the award-winning Eddie Eagle GunSafe program, which teaches kids to stay away from guns ( www.eaglepak.org ); Project HomeSafe ( www.projecthomesafe.org ), which distributes free gun safety locks; "Don't Lie for the Other Guy," which enlists firearm dealers to fight illegal gun purchases and "straw purchases" ( www.nafr.org ); "Refuse To Be A Victim," which teaches a variety of personal safety techniques ( www.nrahq.org/safety/rtbav ); Operation Ceasefire, a strategic crime fighting alliance between police and gun dealers; and a host of other programs.
These efforts have proven successful across the nation, including many cities in California where they are currently used. The programs have been instrumental in bringing the firearm criminal misuse rate down and the accident rate in America to its lowest level ever. Recently in fact, Oakland and San Francisco, cities that historically have embraced tried-and-failed gun control efforts, have turned to CRPA and NRA endorsed violence prevention programs when their gun control laws failed to reduce violence.
CRPA's 70,000 members include law enforcement officers, prosecutors, professionals, firearm experts, the general public, and loving parents. CRPA instructors have been teaching safe and responsible firearms ownership to those who choose to own a gun for sport or self-defense for over 125 years.
http://www.crpa.org/pressrls020102.html
Steve Mace
For Additional Information Contact: Chuck Michel, CRPA Spokesman (310) 548-3703
CRPA Launches Statewide Public Gun Safety Campaign
Distributing 100,000 Free Gun Safety Booklets & Offering Effective Violence Prevention Programs
The California Rifle & Pistol Association (CRPA) today launched a huge public service gun safety campaign. CRPA is distributing tens of thousands of the just released 2002 edition of its widely read annual booklet "Firearm Safety Guidelines and Summary of California Gun Laws" to its members, the general public, state legislators, law enforcement, and local officials. CRPA is making 100,000 of the booklets available free to local officials and media for public dissemination. The CRPA effort also alerts civic leaders to free innovative violence prevention programs available to them. The CRPA effort comes on the heels of a controversial CRPA 300 billboard campaign that ran through November, 2001. The CRPA billboards carried the message "Society is Safer When Criminals Don't Know Who's Armed." That campaign was covered by the national media.
The free gun safety booklets emphasize the four cardinal rules of firearm safety:
1. Treat all firearms as if they were loaded.
2. Never allow themuzzle of your firearm to point at anything you do not intend to destroy.
3. Keep your finger off the trigger until your sights are aligned with thetarget and you are ready to shoot.
4. Be sure of your target and its surroundings.
The booklets also emphasize additional firearm safety fundamentals, as well as summarizing the complex California state firearm laws, and answering frequently asked questions about safety and gun laws.
In addition to making the safety booklets available, the CRPA campaign also publicizes a variety of CRPA supported effective violence prevention and gun safety programs that are available to local officials. These include informational brochures, safety guidelines, civilian gun safety and firearm education classes; the award-winning Eddie Eagle GunSafe program, which teaches kids to stay away from guns ( www.eaglepak.org ); Project HomeSafe ( www.projecthomesafe.org ), which distributes free gun safety locks; "Don't Lie for the Other Guy," which enlists firearm dealers to fight illegal gun purchases and "straw purchases" ( www.nafr.org ); "Refuse To Be A Victim," which teaches a variety of personal safety techniques ( www.nrahq.org/safety/rtbav ); Operation Ceasefire, a strategic crime fighting alliance between police and gun dealers; and a host of other programs.
These efforts have proven successful across the nation, including many cities in California where they are currently used. The programs have been instrumental in bringing the firearm criminal misuse rate down and the accident rate in America to its lowest level ever. Recently in fact, Oakland and San Francisco, cities that historically have embraced tried-and-failed gun control efforts, have turned to CRPA and NRA endorsed violence prevention programs when their gun control laws failed to reduce violence.
CRPA's 70,000 members include law enforcement officers, prosecutors, professionals, firearm experts, the general public, and loving parents. CRPA instructors have been teaching safe and responsible firearms ownership to those who choose to own a gun for sport or self-defense for over 125 years.
http://www.crpa.org/pressrls020102.html
Steve Mace