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Shelby
County
Grassroots
Committee
Illinois State
Rifle Association
Date Last Modified: 03/11/2001
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We Protect the
Citizens' Right to Own Firearms, We Fight the
Criminal Use of Firearms
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The Shelby County Grassroots
Committee meets the second Tuesday of each
month
at 7:00 pm in the basement of the Shelbyville
Public Library.
All meetings are open to the public and visitors
are welcome.
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2001 Junior Smallbore
Rifle Program
begins May 31st
by Lyle Flesner
The Shelby County Junior Rifle Club smallbore rifle
program for 2001 will be conducted at the Windsor Gun
Club, Windsor, IL. The program is open to youth from
10 to 18 years of age and the cost is $10 per shooter.
Rifles, ammunition, targets, safety glasses, ear
plugs, etc. will be provided. A limited number of
youth sized target rifles are available for smaller
shooters. The scedule can be found in the Calendar of
Events below.
All sessions start at 6:30 pm and will last
approximately 2 hours. The program is supervised by
NRA certified instructors with an emphasis on safe and
proper gun handling. For more information, contact
Lyle Flesner at 217/774-5410.
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The Shelby County Grassroots
Committee

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George Washington, Last Will and
Testament, July, 1799
and George Mason, Last Will and Testament
(excerpted (pp. 92-93) from Our
Sacred Honor, edited by William
Bennett)
Washington and Mason's love of country
knew no bounds. At the Constitutional
Convention, Mason said: "If I had a vein which
did not beat with the love of my country, I
myself would open it." Washington in his First
Inaugural Speech, said that "I was summoned by
my Country, whose voice I can never hear but
with veneration and love."
Here, even in death, their patriotism is
passed on to their descendants.
To each of my Nephews, William Augustine
Washington, George Lewis, George Steptoe
Washington, Bushrod Washington and Samuel
Washington, I give one of the Swords or Cutteauz
of which I may die possessed; and they are to
chuse in the order they are named. These Swords
are accompanied with an injunction not to
unsheath them for the purpose of shedding blood,
except it be for self defense, or in defense of
their Country and its rights; and in the latter
case, to keep them unsheathed, , and prefer
falling with them in their hands, to the
relinquishment thereof. -- From the last
will and testament of George Washington
I recommend it to my sons, from my own
experience in life, to prefer the happiness of
independence and a private station to the
troubles and vexations of public business; but
if either their own inclinations or the
necessity of the times should engage them in
public affairs, I charge them, on a father's
blessing, never to let the motives of private
interest or ambitions to induce them to betray,
nor the terrors of proverty and disgrace, or the
fear of danger or of death detere them from
asserting the liberty of their country, and
endeavoring to transmit to their posterity those
sacred rights to which themselves born. --
From the last will and testament of George
Mason
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