Illinois Anti-Gun Activist Arrested; Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms Says 'Welcome to the Party'
3/1/2005 4:17:00 PM
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3/1/2005 4:17:00 PM
"BELLEVUE, Wash., March 1 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The arrest of a Springfield, Ill. 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.
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