Stars promote NRA blacklist
10/29/03 15:04 PM, EST
Most blacklists are designed to intimidate. But thousands of Americans are
clamoring to join one drawn up by the National Rifle Association (NRA).
Actor Dustin Hoffman was so dismayed to find his name missing from the
NRA's shadowy 19-page list of U.S. companies, celebrities, and news
organizations seen as lending support to anti-gun policies that he wrote to
the powerful pro-gun lobby group begging to be included.
"As a supporter of comprehensive gun safety measures, I was deeply
disappointed when I discovered my name was not on the list," Hoffman wrote
in a letter to the NRA that was released Tuesday.
"I was particularly surprised by the omission given my opposition to the
loophole that makes it legal for 18- to 20-year-olds to buy handguns at gun
shows," he added.
Read the full story at
http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/10/29/offbeat.blacklist.reut/index.html
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