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.
By what measure are you concluding that it's the "number one combat handgun of choice"? That was probably true as recently as 5 or 10 years ago, depending upon how you define"combat", but I seriously doubt that it's true now. Maybe. No one in the military or police forces chooses it. It's forced on them by their agency, who take the lowest bid that meet the criteria, which Glock is great at doing... Undercutting competitors on price point with large contracts, while "just" being adequate. So that leaves people who "choose" it for "combat". I guess we have to define combat before going any further. Inertia is an extraordinarily strong force, and that's what kept them going strong (along with said undercutting, clever marketing, and 10mm chamberings for us centimeter cult) in the '00s and '10s, in spite of their utter failure to innovate and stay relevant, crap ergos, and crap parts (mags, mag releases, guide rods, and sights). But they've been out-innovated by nearly every pistol maker on the planet by now, down to and including Bersa and Taurus, and inertia will only go so far. Yes, inertia will drive sales for awhile yet still, but I doubt that the percentage of serious knowledgeable gunnies who now, today, choose it, is pretty miniscule, and I would doubt a plurality among these "serious" folks. Every single major maker has a pistol that's better in every way EXCEPT aftermarket parts, which is driven solely by said inertia. And all but HK and a couple others do it at a lower price. I had a bunch of them in the late 99s, but ever since the '04 - '06 time frame, it's become unfathomable to me why anyone would get one, other than "I gots to have my 10mm!" before everyone and their dog came out with a 10 between 2015-2022.
Most "serious" handgun nets these days choose a 2011 (Staccato, Bul, custom, Prodigy, etc), or a CZ shadow, or Tanfoglio Witness series, or PDP, or Canik, or Echelon, or M&P, or Sig, or XD elite, or something else. Yeah a lot still choose Glocks I suppose, but it's a tiny number compared to 15-20 years ago.