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Gun Show Support for Convention of States Virginia

Published in Blog on October 07, 2021 by Laurie Wheeler

What happens when the federal government tries to shut you down? The Patriots arrive in full force.

The recent Showmasters Gun Show in Chantilly, Virginia, is an inspiring three-part story of the different types of Patriots found at the gun show. (Hint, Part III might surprise you.)

Part I is the story of the many volunteers for Convention of States Virginia. They gladly sacrificed their time to spread the news of how We the People are enabled by Article V of the Constitution to rein in the federal government. (Watch a short video on how that works, here.)

These heroes for liberty include: Milt Clary, David Williams, Kimberly Certa, Tom Black, Jeff Fuller, Tina Price, Harry Herchert, Warren Wheeler, Nona Faber, Ron Sticinski, and Larry Leidtke who together contributed over 20 hours during the 3 day event. 

Several worked 3-4 hour shifts each day to make this happen. There were 3-4 people on each shift, busy with talking up the solution as big as the problem to the massive crowd.

There is certainly room for more volunteers, especially as we plan to work each gun show possible. If you'd like to help be part of the solution, sign up here.

COS Virginia volunteers: Tom Black, Milt Clary, Tina Price, Jeff Fuller

Part II tells the story of 140 concerned citizens who took action to rein in the federal government  by signing the COS petition. Some even stepped up to become volunteers for Convention of States. 

COS Virginia volunteers Tom Black (far left) and David Williams (far right) assist petition signers

Part III of the Patriotic story salutes Annette Elliot who organizes the Showmaster Gun Shows. She has been an amazing benefactor working side by side with our many volunteers in Virginia, who work at the COS information tables at the various Showmasters Gun Shows in Virginia.

Milt Clary, who organized the COS table at the recent Chantilly Gun Show, recently shared the email he had received from Showmasters. He alerted the team to scroll to the very bottom where Showmasters gave a shout out to Convention of States, which included a hyperlink to the COS web site.

Note the Convention of States hyperlink (red button top right) and the Showmasters signature (bottom left)

Last year at the Showmasters Gun Show in Roanoke, Virginia, Elliot allowed COS Virginia volunteers, Dennis Denton and Jody Martin, to give several Convention of States messages on the intercom system during the weekend.

Also, Elliot invited them to do a presentation at a concealed carry class. Unfortunately, Dennis Denton reported, they couldn't take her up on that offer, because they were too busy collecting over 200 petitions from the public! (Want to help? Sign up here!)

Since Denton and Martin were too busy to leave the COS information table, she came to them for a FB Live interview which has secured nearly 1000 views. You can watch that here.

Join these Patriots in supporting Convention of States by signing our petition, below. 

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Almost everyone knows that our federal government is on a dangerous course. The unsustainable debt combined with crushing regulations on states and businesses is a recipe for disaster.

What is less known is that the Founders gave state legislatures the power to act as a final check on abuses of power by Washington, DC. Article V of the U.S. Constitution authorizes the state legislatures to call a convention to proposing needed amendments to the Constitution. This process does not require the consent of the federal government in Washington DC.

I support Convention of States; a national movement to call a convention under Article V of the United States Constitution, restricted to proposing amendments that will impose fiscal restraints on the federal government, limit its power and jurisdiction, and impose term limits on its officials and members of Congress.

I want our state to be one of the necessary 34 states to pass a resolution calling for this kind of an Article V convention. You can find a copy of the model resolution and the Article V Pocket Guide (which explains the process and answers many questions) here: https://conventionofstates.com/handbook_pdf

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Thank you so much for your service to the people of our district.

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