Luckily we prevailed and passed HB102 | Permitless Concealed Carry without them. Read Gary’s letter about tactics used by Dudley Brown and his minions. Find below Gary’s emails sent on January 10th of 2021 after they literally tried to sabotage and then take credit for yet another of our bills to get your donations.
Dear MSSA Friends,
I want to alert you to a nefarious and opportunistic entity. The National Association for Gun Rights (NAGR) has several times in the past claimed sole credit for MSSA’s successes, attempting to raise funds for their founder, Dudley Brown, by pirating our successes.
NAGR has launched a major fundraising campaign claiming that MSSA’s HB 102 has been highjacked by unspecified anti-gun forces and, to rescue it, NAGR is desperate for donations. That’s a lie, of course. HB 102 has NOT been highjacked, although NAGR does seem desperate. This lie is all about fundraising for NAGR, its only mission (they only pretend to care about the RKBA because they’ve learned they can get fearful gun owners to part with bucks with a panicky claim that the RKBA sky is falling).
In advancing this fundraising campaign, NAGR is doing its level best to confuse Montana legislators about HB 102, and confuse gun owners. Don’t fall for that. MSSA, the NRA, the NSSA, GOA, and the CCRKBA are all squarely behind HB 102, and all view NAGR with contempt.
In order to dispel some of the confusion NAGR is deliberately spreading, I have developed the graphic below to explain how HB 102 would affect carrying firearms in bars and restaurants. I admit that HB 102 doesn’t go quite as far as some would like, because it doesn’t allow unpermitted CCW in bars and restaurants with liquor licenses. It does make progress – it advances the ball down the field to another first down. We looked at allowing unpermitted CCW in bars for this bill, but decided that would invoke too much political opposition and would threaten the other yardage gained in the bill – that is, insisting on that extra gain would likely kill the whole bill and we’d get nothing.
Yes, that’s a political call, but it’s my call, and I’m the guy who has the experience of getting 68 pro-gun bills through the Legislature and enacted into law. As far as I know, NAGR has accomplished absolutely nothing positive for the RKBA.
So, here is the explanatory graphic. Feel free to redistribute this.
Best wishes,
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Gary Marbut, President
Montana Shooting Sports Association
http://www.mtssa.org
Author, Gun Laws of Montana
http://www.mtpublish.com
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Watch Dudley get interrogated by John Crump Live in this new video questioning his tax free fundraising. Scroll back to view the entire video. This is cued to start at the interview.
