From: WIENER.GCS@pc.gcs.litton.com (WIENER, DAN  WH:3708)
To: firearms-alert@shell.portal.com (wiener)
Subject: CA: CPCA repudiation
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 95 12:31

     Monday night (June 26th) the Simi Valley City Council voted
unanimously to repudiate both the California Police Chiefs
Association's pro-gun-control position paper and the League of
California Cities for endorsing it.  About three dozen people from
the new NRA Members Council of East Ventura County attended the
meeting to voice their views (only about a dozen spoke, to avoid
overkill).  There was no opposition from the anti-self-defense
side.  All the council members responding by slamming the report,
and by agreeing to send the letter below.  The letter is a watered-
down version of the one originally submitted by Sandi Webb, but it
still gets the message across.

Board of Directors
League of California Cities
1400 K Street
Sacramento, CA 95814

Dear Members of the Board:

The City of Simi Valley recently received a report forwarded by you
from the California Police Chiefs Association.  Your letter stated
that the League of California Cities Board of Directors had adopted
and endorsed this report, titled "Confronting the American Tragedy:
The Need to Better Regulate Firearms."

Your letter further stated that this will be used by League policy
committees as a guide for evaluating future legislation related to
the regulation of firearms.

After careful consideration our City Council has come to a very
different conclusion.  We consider this report to be highly flawed
and the League's involvment counterproductive to a cooperative
intergovernmental process.

We are equally disappointed that the League of California Cities
Board of Directors has mistakenly chosen to adopt and endorse this
report.  This is an issue of general concern for all Californians,
not one specific to cities, and therefore not one on which it is
appropriate for the League of California Cities to express such a
position.

The City Council of the City of Simi Valley believes it is
essential that you reconsider your decision, and withdraw your
endorsement of the California Police Chiefs Association's report.

Sincerely yours,


Greg Stratton
Mayor