Stargazer:

Actually Handgun Control Incorporated was started by a gentleman named Peter Shields whose son was killed in the process of a mugging. Sarah Brady was taken on board because of her noteriety and her belief in their cause.

I joined Handgun Control Incorporated for (1) year (Kept receiving the literature for (3) years.) while a life member of the National Rifle Association. I wanted to see their tactics and read their literature first hand.

The facinating thing about their literature is that it is almost a mirror image of the NRA literature, but with their viewpoints and statistics.

Now for the conspiratorial bend in my thinking. Handgun Control Incorporated uses NRA literature in an attempt to bend the same presentation with a close relationship to literature they put out so as to attempt to convince borderline individuals to their side. The other thought is that NRA stratagists decided to financially support and keep Handgun Control Incorporated alive so that we gun owners would have a common "burr in our saddle" to focus on and work against. It is a common political and business tactic. I know a high volume gun dealer in Wisconsin who is sorry Kerry lost the election, not because he wanted Kerry's anti-gun views to win, but because his sales would have shot through the roof right after the election and unlike the paniced customers, he felt the PHRASECENSOREDPOSTERSHOULDKNOWBETTER. majority would have kept the gun issue under Kerry in check.

Bountyhunter