The following letter was published in the May 5 edition of The Jersey Journal.

This letter is in regard to the Opinion Page cartoon featured in the April 27 edition of your newspaper spoofing the National Rifle Association's new web site NRANews.com.

I, as an NRA member, (i.e. Second Amendment/Bill of Rights defender) would like to thank the Jersey Journal for helping to inform the uninformed and under-informed, that this new avenue to the politics of so-called "gun control" now exists. This is, in spite of and in order to counter, the United States Supreme Court's shameful upholding of the Sen. John McCain-sponsored gag order on free speech deceptively named the "Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act," which bans organizations such as the NRA from, or labor unions, or the Sierra Club, or the Boy Scouts from using the TV or radio airwaves to tell the voters where their candidates stand on related issues 30 days before a primary election and 60 days before a general election. To do so would now constitute a prohibited criminal act! Punishable under penalty of the law! Here in our United States of America!

The NRA was first among many to bring suit against this travesty. Once again proving its worth as this nation's oldest "civil rights" organization. Never have I been so proud to be a member.

So, once again, keep the cartoons and the smart aleck criticisms coming, please - for as my dear Aunt Tessi used to say, "every knock is a boost."

Lawrence J. Braico
Regional Vice President
Association of New Jersey Rifle & Pistol Clubs, Inc.
North Bergen

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