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I'll be there. BTW, I sent certified hand written letter to Weinberg today asking to oppose gun control bills passed by assembly. Which is funny because she is sponsoring three identical ones from senate. Well, I guess I am just lucky to live in her district :-).

It was a good meeting in regards to our ability to meet face to face on the local level. To be honest, this was my fist time meeting with senator and I expected a lot more of anti gun propaganda considering her history. But it seems like she is able quickly adjust tone and language depending on the makeup of the crowd. I don't have any illusions, she is going follow thru with party line, no doubt. But as a next step we all probably should send her follow up email and make a phone call to her staff to remind about our position and promises that she made " not to make emotional decisions". On the same subject but different angle, I feel like we are not organized enoght at the electoral district level. I am new to the forum, so I am just asking, does it make sense to update profiles with district numbers? That will allow to broadcast and coordinate efforts if we want to target comminication to specific assembly or senate members? I will talk to TRPC and OBRPC boards to see if they will agree to build broadcast lists using club members addresses. But I thought that this forum is also a good place to start, because people on this forum definitely using emails daily :-).

Like a said, I searched high an low, probably up to the 10 page of search results of Google and Bing. I did find police reports on Loughner prior to shooting and timeline of events prior and after actual shooting, but there is no detailed reconstruction of shooting sequence. And if you think about it, it probably was only few seconds long and chaotic. Since case was never tried in court, there was no need traumatise victims with reconstruction interviews. Guy is guilty, gets life, case closed, prosecutor gets the medal. So, I call bluff on "ballistic evidence" BS, another evidence of how our law makers learn about real life from TV and Holywood movies. Cryan probably thinks that 250 lb guy is supposed to drop to the ground immediately afte single 9mm pistol round hit (just like in the movie). Well, same TV ( life in the ER) portraits people walking into emergency room by themselves with three bullets in the upper body 30min after being shot on the street. "Artistic license" that's the new word for stretching and distorting reality in the movies. But law makers cannot have this license, and they cannot use it for political gains.

And there was no court trial, because he pleaded guilty in exchange for life sentence. so there no official reconstruction of events. I think it was the third bullet, prove me wrong ...

This should be our mission, Every time they pull numbers out of thin air to support BS argument, We need to do everything to question credibility of the sources.

I spent probably half of this Sunday searching for official timeline of the actual shooting, to prove or disprove that poor girl was hit with 10+ bullet as he says. Timeline does not exists, Loughner aimed for the district court judge Rolls and then Giffords. After that he spayed crowd with bullets and attempted to escape but was tackled by a bystander. Mark Kimble, aide to Giffords, who witnessed shooting said that “Everyone hit the ground” after gunman shot judge. My guess is that nobody can tell with 100% certainty in what sequence people were hit with bullets. Every attorney knows that eye witness testimony is always questionable evidence, because people tend to imagine certain things and believe that they saw it. Next time we need to ask our friend Cryan what sources he is using to make such bold statement and base state wide policy on it.

If this is " what if argument" then it is wrong By his logic first 10 don't count. What if it wasn't gun free zone and shooter was stopped even before he hit his first victim? BTW, I've tried to research this subject and it seems like there is no official police report published anywhere. If anyone knows where to find it, please share. So far, only credible source I can find is NY Times article published immediately after incident, and they say that shooter fired more that 20 rounds, it says nothing about reload pause that helped to stop him.

How do you collect signatures? I offer mine of course and can help with collecting. I actually requested face to face meeting with Sen.Weinberg on the subject of bills that passed Assembly. Got call back on Friday from her assistant who immediately pushed back availability of the appointment to the end of April as soon as he realized that I was planning to talk about gun control bills, but I asked to be put on the waiting list regardless. I did not get appointment scheduled yet, still waiting for the call from a "sheduler". My gut tells me that I that I am not going to get meeting scheduled, I probably will have to initiate several additional calls and emails.

I am not a law student, so correct me if I am wrong, But how can you declare something illegal tomorrow that it is legal today in the state without buy back program? Hopefully it will give enough grounds to veto some of these BS bills. Case in point, my wife owns G19 that came with with two 15 round mags, that's her only self defense firearm. Now it is impossible to find any 10 round mags, no backorders, so when 15 round mags will become illegal that effectively will render this firearm useless without extra expense on these new legal magazines. So, this bill is clearly not thought thru ... What a surprise !!

Nice, I want job like this, You start one hour late after lunch, listen to the light music to help digestive cycle .... Let's see what's next? Dancing ?

One hour late already. Perhaps closed door session? That would be the end of illusion of democracy in NJ.