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The Liberal Gun Club is drawing its members together for their first national convention this July. I've been invited to be one of the guest speakers which I'm pretty excited about. Posted below is the press release about it.
Ross Eliot, editor
AGCR
Contact: Mark Roberts FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Phone: 2803-956-9486 June 26, 2010
Email: [email protected]
Media Advisory The Liberal gun club Announces national convention of moderate and left-wing gun rights activists in Chicago, June 910
The Liberal Gun Club (LGC), which provides a voice for gun-owning liberals and moderates on gun rights, gun legislation, firearms safety, and shooting sports, is pleased to announce its first national convention in Chicago, Illinois on July 910, 2010. Members from Portland, OR to Boston, MA, as well as local Chicago members, will meet to discuss political action for promoting gun ownership and other civil rights as well as to meet together in the camaraderie of the shooting range.
The LCG convention will be the first national meeting joining activists from the growing number of moderate and liberal-learning gun rights organizations. Several of these groups, such as the D.C.-based Democrats for Gun Ownership (DfGO) to the edgy liberal Gun Zine American Gun Culture Report (AGCR), will be presenting and networking at the event.
Discussing gun rights and responsibilities in Chicago is especially important at this time, said LGC Executive Director, Mark Roberts. Due to the pending Supreme Court case [McDonald v. Chicago] expected to overturn Chicagos long-standing hand gun ban, there will soon be several million new potential hand gun owners looking for training and guidance.
One of the things we will be unveiling at the convention is our new Basic Firearms Course, which has just been added to the list of approved basic firearms safety courses for the state of Massachusetts, said Roberts.
Roberts notes that many liberal and moderate gun owners do not seek appropriate firearms training because of the right-wing political rhetoric that often surrounds such coursesand shooting ranges. But its essential that*gun owners who are unfamiliar with the proper operation, maintenance and storage of their firearms protect their families by also getting properly trained, he said.
David Lauer, government affairs officer for Democrats for Gun Ownership (DfGO), sees tremendous potential for the convention to accelerate the liberal gun rights movement that has been building for several years, and which currently includes gun rights caucuses in several Democratic state parties, such as Oregon and Texas.
It has always been our hope that we could find willing partners to this task, and indeed LGC*is just such a champion, said Lauer. We are excited to move forward with them*in an appeal to fellow Democrats to exercise both their First and Second Amendment rights that we might protect both in a day and age when they are sorely in need of stalwart defense.
Ross Eliot, founder and editor of American Gun Culture Report (AGCR), agrees. "Easily defined political structures are breaking down and both AGCR and the LGC are gleefully swinging the wrecking ball. Sweeping aside stereotypes about liberals regarding firearm and self defense issues is one of the most effective ways to foster dialogue and forge relationships between Americans who didn't realize they had so much in common all this time. What took so long?"
Additional information on The Liberal Gun Club is available on their website at http://www.theliberalgunclub.com/.
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Ross Eliot, editor
AGCR
Contact: Mark Roberts FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Phone: 2803-956-9486 June 26, 2010
Email: [email protected]
Media Advisory The Liberal gun club Announces national convention of moderate and left-wing gun rights activists in Chicago, June 910
The Liberal Gun Club (LGC), which provides a voice for gun-owning liberals and moderates on gun rights, gun legislation, firearms safety, and shooting sports, is pleased to announce its first national convention in Chicago, Illinois on July 910, 2010. Members from Portland, OR to Boston, MA, as well as local Chicago members, will meet to discuss political action for promoting gun ownership and other civil rights as well as to meet together in the camaraderie of the shooting range.
The LCG convention will be the first national meeting joining activists from the growing number of moderate and liberal-learning gun rights organizations. Several of these groups, such as the D.C.-based Democrats for Gun Ownership (DfGO) to the edgy liberal Gun Zine American Gun Culture Report (AGCR), will be presenting and networking at the event.
Discussing gun rights and responsibilities in Chicago is especially important at this time, said LGC Executive Director, Mark Roberts. Due to the pending Supreme Court case [McDonald v. Chicago] expected to overturn Chicagos long-standing hand gun ban, there will soon be several million new potential hand gun owners looking for training and guidance.
One of the things we will be unveiling at the convention is our new Basic Firearms Course, which has just been added to the list of approved basic firearms safety courses for the state of Massachusetts, said Roberts.
Roberts notes that many liberal and moderate gun owners do not seek appropriate firearms training because of the right-wing political rhetoric that often surrounds such coursesand shooting ranges. But its essential that*gun owners who are unfamiliar with the proper operation, maintenance and storage of their firearms protect their families by also getting properly trained, he said.
David Lauer, government affairs officer for Democrats for Gun Ownership (DfGO), sees tremendous potential for the convention to accelerate the liberal gun rights movement that has been building for several years, and which currently includes gun rights caucuses in several Democratic state parties, such as Oregon and Texas.
It has always been our hope that we could find willing partners to this task, and indeed LGC*is just such a champion, said Lauer. We are excited to move forward with them*in an appeal to fellow Democrats to exercise both their First and Second Amendment rights that we might protect both in a day and age when they are sorely in need of stalwart defense.
Ross Eliot, founder and editor of American Gun Culture Report (AGCR), agrees. "Easily defined political structures are breaking down and both AGCR and the LGC are gleefully swinging the wrecking ball. Sweeping aside stereotypes about liberals regarding firearm and self defense issues is one of the most effective ways to foster dialogue and forge relationships between Americans who didn't realize they had so much in common all this time. What took so long?"
Additional information on The Liberal Gun Club is available on their website at http://www.theliberalgunclub.com/.
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