Huey Laugesen

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Let’s Put Huey Over The Top

September 21, 2025 by 2 Comments

Huey Laugesen needs your help to get on the NRA ballot for 2026 by petition. He is close to having the required number of signatures but needs about 100 more to get over the top.

He is the executive director of the Colorado Shooting Sports Association and serves with me on the NRA Board’s Membership Committee. I have endorsed him in the past and continue that endorsement as I believe he has good ideas on how to increase membership in the NRA.

Just as importantly, he understands how tenuous our hold on gun rights can be. He is from Colorado which has transitioned from a good state on gun rights to one of the worst. Earlier this month, his organization with the assistance of the Mountain States Legal Foundation filed suit against the State of Colorado over its new permit to purchase law for certain semi-automatic firearms.

If you are a NRA Life Member (of any level) or an Annual Member with five or more years of continuous, unbroken membership you are eligible to sign Huey’s petition. As I and others have said, Huey is just the sort of younger member we need on the Board. Please sign his petition below if you have not already done so. Just as importantly, forward his petition link to fellow NRA members for them to sign.

https://nra.directnominations.net/Petitions/Sign/c1cb1f95-9d72-4df2-9be4-935a07d2e6e6?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

All signatures must be submitted by October 7th. Signatures done online are submitted immediately so I am urging you to go use the link above and not procrastinate on signing.

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Huey Laugesen For NRA Board

September 2, 2025 by 1 Comment

Huey Laugesen is the executive director of the Colorado Shooting Sports Association as well as a member of the NRA’s Membership Committee. He is running to be on the 2026 NRA Board election ballot by petition. I have posted his petition link previously and I’m doing it again.

https://nra.directnominations.net/Petitions/Sign/c1cb1f95-9d72-4df2-9be4-935a07d2e6e6?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

I serve on the Membership Committee with Huey and I am convinced he is someone who needs to be on the Board for a variety of reasons. First, he has successfully increased the membership of the CSSA by 170% in the last two years. His use of targeted mailings in that state should be used as a guide by the NRA.

 Sadly to say given how Colorado politics have trended recently, he is now on the front lines of the battles to preserve our Second Amendment rights. If anyone knows how a state can go from good to bad in a short period of time, it is Huey and he is fighting it tooth and nail.

Huey would bring youth to the Board and would help us find ways to appeal to Millennials and Gen Z. He is, by my estimate, on the lower end of the Millennial generation yet is still a husband and father. In other words, his youth is tempered by responsibility.

Huey’s biography is below:

Huey Laugesen NRA BoD Candidate BioDownload
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More NRA Reform Candidates Need Your Signatures

July 13, 2025 by 8 Comments

Frank Tait has just published a list of reform candidates seeking signatures to be put on the 2026 NRA Board of Directors election ballot. Many were recruited by LtCol Robert Brown whose reform efforts got him pushed off the Board after his term ended. He was ignored by the Nominating Committee which was at the time still run by the Old Guard. I should note LtCol Brown is running, too.

Looking over the list, I see the names of many whom I know and trust to do the right thing if elected. I have endorsed Rob Beckman in June. Huey Laugesen of the Colorado State Shooting Association serves with me on the Membership Committee and is a breath of young fresh air. Charles Brown was one of two write-in candidates on the Elect A New NRA slate in the past election. Steve Schreiner is a long time Board member who has consistently been on the reform side. Randy Luth of Luth-AR was one of the first industry insiders to say enough is enough with regard to Wayne. I don’t know some of the rest but an endorsement by LtCol Brown and Frank Tait says everything that needs to be said.

Here is the list along with links from Frank’s Substack.

Rob Beckman https://nra.directnominations.net/Petitions/Sign/836e1142-b049-47d9-81b9-2fa4e2fcd426

Here are the other endorsed petitions as the original post had broken links

Col Brown https://nra.directnominations.net/Petitions/Sign/281d7f0c-6ac4-41e5-b5b5-dbecc9a95709

Sgt. (Ret.) Jerry Kraus https://nra.directnominations.net/Petitions/Sign/a445f9d6-4672-4ffd-9e69-195aece128c3

Major General (Ret.) Ken Bowra https://nra.directnominations.net/Petitions/Sign/51919442-e375-448b-a960-7712eea24bd2

Major (Ret.) William Askins https://nra.directnominations.net/Petitions/Sign/1f52f5f3-b301-4277-b836-2fd567758ba5

Huey Laugesen https://nra.directnominations.net/Petitions/Sign/c1cb1f95-9d72-4df2-9be4-935a07d2e6e6

Randy Luth https://nra.directnominations.net/Petitions/Sign/c4ef9324-28ec-4c74-9d2e-4058a88f1f2f

Lt. Colonel (Ret.) William Bailey https://nra.directnominations.net/Petitions/Sign/8a8fe04c-ca03-4b25-b131-e5d92519cb7e

Steve Schreiner https://nra.directnominations.net/Petitions/Sign/349aa059-59c9-45e1-9118-a32bcdf3777a

Charles Brown https://nra.directnominations.net/Petitions/Sign/10875a27-b29b-459f-8831-f046eeea9cd6?

Please sign the petitions!

As a reminder, to be eligible to sign the petitions you have to be a Life Member or an Annual Member with five years of continuous, unbroken membership. Each of these petition candidates will need a minimum of 363 valid signatures to be placed on the ballot.