Former Handgun Control Inc. president defeated in Manhattan ..

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BELLEVUE, Wash.--(Business Wire)--
Yesterday`s primary defeat of career anti-gunner Richard Aborn in his race to
become Manhattan`s District Attorney shows that even residents of a city with
some of the strictest gun laws in the nation reject the gun control philosophy
espoused by Aborn and those who supported him, the Citizens Committee for the
Right to Keep and Bear Arms said Wednesday.

Aborn, a former president of Handgun Control Inc. - now known as The Brady
Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence - ran primarily on his gun control record. He
collected only 26 percent of the vote.

"Keeping guns out of the hands of law-abiding citizens may appeal to demagogues
like New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy," noted
CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb, "but it doesn`t play well with average citizens
who are tired of being victimized, not only by criminals, but by the very laws
that people of Aborn`s ilk have forced on them.

"Richard Aborn had the endorsement of the Brady Campaign, Million Mom March, New
Yorkers Against Gun Violence and other anti-gun-rights organizations," he added.
"We hope that his rejection sends a message to other gun control extremists that
voters have had enough rhetoric and are fed up with restrictions on their gun
rights."

Gottlieb said Aborn`s last-place finish in the three-way race, which was won by
attorney Cy Vance, is a repudiation of the gun prohibitionist philosophy he has
represented over the past 17 years.
http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS194855+16-Sep-2009+BW20090916