{"id":2613,"date":"2013-01-26T15:36:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-26T15:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2013\/01\/26\/five-more-groups-join-firearms-policy\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:20:47","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:20:47","slug":"five-more-groups-join-firearms-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=2613","title":{"rendered":"Five More Groups Join The Firearms Policy Coalition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:4995,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.firearmspolicy.org&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.firearmspolicy.org\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.firearmspolicy.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Firearms Policy Coalition<\/a> is a joint effort by the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, Second Amendment Foundation, CalGuns Foundation, and the California Association of Federal Firearms Licensees. It is intended to be an agile, effective, and scalable vehicle for advocacy, education, and grassroots action to advance Second Amendment civil rights. From my perspective, I see the FPC as using the CalGuns model of agility and guerrilla activism and bringing it to the national scene.<\/p>\n<p>They announced yesterday that five more groups have joined their effort. They are Florida Carry, Illinois Carry, Commonwealth Second Amendment, Hawaii Defense Foundation, and the Lone Star Shooting Association.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>BELLEVUE, WA (January 25, 2013) \u2013 As the debate over new gun control laws continues to take top billing in state and national news, organizations representing gun owners and Second Amendment rights in five U.S. states have recently joined Firearms Policy Coalition, noted managing director Brandon Combs.<\/p>\n<p>New FPC members include Commonwealth Second Amendment (of Massachusetts), Florida Carry, IllinoisCarry, Hawaii Defense Foundation, and Lone Star Shooting Association (of Texas).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the midst of one proposed gun ban after another, the addition of these outstanding organizations to our Coalition means that those working hard to secure our Second Amendment rights are coming together to tell President Obama and our state legislatures that enough is enough,\u201d remarked CCRKBA founder Alan Gottlieb. \u201cThe millions of law-abiding American gun owners have had it with being scapegoated for the crimes of the evil and insane.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s never been a more critical time for all of us fighting for the advancement of Second Amendment rights to work together,\u201d observed Brent Carlton, president of Comm2A. \u201cOur litigation efforts are critically important, but it\u2019s equally important that gun owners be informed and take action every day to oppose those laws which infringe on their rights.\u201d Continued Carlton, \u201cFPC provides an opportunity for Massachusetts gun owners to have an impactful and far-reaching effect, both in terms of their own state\u2019s laws as well as proud Americans who value their federal Constitutional rights.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis partnership brings Florida Carry to the forefront of the national public policy debate on private firearms ownership,\u201d said Sean Caranna, Executive Director of Florida Carry, Inc. \u201cAs Florida&#8217;s largest and most active Second Amendment rights organization, we&#8217;re proud to be a part of this coalition and through it extend our grassroots efforts to combat gun control laws in Florida and everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>IllinoisCarry spokesperson Valinda Rowe added, \u201cIllinoisCarry is pleased to join efforts with the Firearm Policy Coalition. Not only must we actively work toward beating back irrational gun control laws in our home state of Illinois but we must also work toward protecting and preserving our rights on a national level. This would be a daunting task if not for a nationwide coalition of Second Amendment groups like the FPC. We thank the FPC for creating this opportunity to work together, coast to coast across the nation. Together, we can stand up to those who would strip us of our Constitutional rights and insure the Second Amendment remains strong for many generations to come.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the past two decades, many states have used common sense and protected the civil liberties of their residents, such as through permit-less and accessible shall-issue firearm carry laws,\u201d said Chris Baker, president of Hawaii Defense Foundation. \u201cHowever, some states just can\u2019t seem to grasp the plain meaning of the Constitution. To those states, we say this: we will fight hard together, we will fight smart together, and we will win together. That is exactly what we and the Firearms Policy Coalition will do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile Texas residents may not face the same gun law challenges as those in Massachusetts, California, or Illinois, all Texans are Americans first and know that gun control laws anywhere are an affront to liberty everywhere,\u201d commented Gary Burris, president of Lone Star Shooting Association. \u201cWe\u2019re proud to join with FPC and work cooperatively to secure our fundamental rights so that law-abiding gun owners can exercise their rights across our great state and country, in Texas and in Toledo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirearms Policy Coalition has reached millions of Americans since launching in December and we&#8217;re looking forward to reaching millions more,\u201d said FPC\u2019s Combs. \u201cThe overwhelmingly positive reaction to our message of civil rights and the facts about gun control really drives home how much Americans value their freedom. These new FPC member organizations are key to ensuring that the Second Amendment means what it says.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile some power-hungry politicians want nothing more than to undermine the Second Amendment and important legal decisions like Heller and McDonald, we\u2019re confident that the Constitution provides the best policy: the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not &#8211; and must not &#8211; be infringed.\u201d<\/i> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Firearms Policy Coalition is a joint effort by the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[37,2631],"class_list":["post-2613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-firearms-policy-coalition","tag-grassroots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8782,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613\/revisions\/8782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}