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Keep contacting the CA legislature! At 8:30 a.m., not twenty-four hours after the horrible tragedy in Jonesboro, Arkansas, the phones at GOC started ringing with questions from legislative offices on how this is going to impact the vote on AB 23 (Perata), the measure that would replace the Assault Weapons Control Act with a generic description ban. Go here for more information and phone numbers of the CA legislators. Please call as many of them as you can and urge them to vote NO on AB 23. |
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Arkansas Shooting By now everyone has heard about the fatal shootings in Jonesboro, AR. This is one of the most frightening crimes I have ever seen. 13 and 11 - much too young to be carrying out such atrocious acts. Another sad note to this story is the attitudes of the 13 year old boy’s family. Apparently, his mother and stepfather came to the jail the morning after the shooting, and their first question to the desk Sgt. was, "When can we get our van back?" Their next question was, "Well, can we at least get the car seat out of the van? It’s the only one we have." Neither seemed too concerned or bothered about their son’s actions. The 11 year olds parents are naturally hysterical and very distraught. It is beginning to appear that the older boy’s home life leaves something to be desired. The 11 year old boy was seemingly very educated on the handling and consequences of firearms; his actions scare me the most. |
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Where are the catalogs? Our catalogs are coming late this year for varius reasons. For those of you who have been trying to get one, make your request about the end of April and we should be able to get one to you then. Thanks for your patience! |
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Polls Three polls surrounding the AR shootings have come to my attention. One is at VoteLink, another at Time Magazine, and the last at Netline to Congress. The Netline poll is critical! |
New for '98 Olympic Arms is proud to announce that our receivers will now come with a mil-spec hard anodizing! We may see some short delays in delivery as our coater also does work for Boeing, and they come first. MSRP on our stripped lowers is $99 - the lowest from any manufacturer! Also new is our OA-93TG. See it here! |
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States Fighting Back Against 'Frivolous' Inmate Lawsuits Following on the heels of the federal Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) of 1996 aimed at reducing the growing number of frivolous prison inmate federal court lawsuits, a number of states are enacting laws to combat the same problem with inmate state court lawsuits. According to a Bureau of Justice Statistics study, prison inmates filed more than 68,000 suits in federal courts alone in 1996. The Pennsylvania Senate last week voted 42-6 for House- passed legislation to allow judges to dismiss "blatantly frivolous" inmate lawsuits. The bill includes a "three strikes" provision that limits additional suits by inmates who have had three dismissed. Atty Gen. Mike Fisher, who pushed the legislation, said that suits against the Commonwealth had soared from 251 in 1995 to 751 last year. In Mississippi, Gov. Kirk Fordice last week signed into law two bills targeting inmate suits. One sets standards for declaring such suits frivolous and includes "earned time" penalties. The second, say press reports, requires inmates with three prior frivolous suits to pay for their own filings. Inmates at Mississippi's prison at Parchman in Sunflower County have filed more than 150 suits annually for the past three years, say county court officials. Lawmakers in Wisconsin, Iowa and Colorado have also been fighting back against a rising tide of inmate suits. Wisconsin Atty. Gen. James Doyle said that state is spending $1 million annually fighting the suits, which swelled from 48 in all of 1981 to 48 per month in 1997. Like Mississippi, Wisconsin would require inmates with three prior frivolous suits to pay their own filing fees. Two weeks ago, the state Senate in Iowa passed a similar law that also can cost inmates early release credit time. The Colorado Senate on Monday approved an inmate suit bill patterned on the federal law. It would require inmates to first exhaust correctional department remedies and would bar suits by inmates with three prior meritless suits. |
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