Technology has provided another bucket for the bucket brigade.
NRA has a good tool at the following address. Provides a blank letter addressed to your choice of either Federal or State Representatives.
http://www.nraila.org/get-involved-locally/grassroots/write-your-reps.aspx (http://www.nraila.org/get-involved-locally/grassroots/write-your-reps.aspx)
Keep sending messages.
Don't retreat.
Reload and email again.
Send a letter a day.
And don't forget to call.
Don't want them to feel disconnected from the folks back home.