About Rocky Mountain Gun Owners

About Dudley Brown, our Executive Director.

Based in Colorado, Rocky Mountain Gun Owners is Colorado's largest state-based gun lobby. It is a group solely dedicated to the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.  Our strategy is simple: don't give an inch.

Comprehensive Strategy – Rather than blindly pursuing public opinion, RMGO uses a well-developed, comprehensive, no-compromise strategy for victory (to read a bit about that strategy, click here).

Award Winning Web Site – RMGO's website is a quick and easy way to find out about Colorado's gun rights activities.

E-mail Alert Network – RMGO keeps you up-to-date on the Colorado Legislature and other assaults on your Second Amendment rights through our low-volume, no-spam email network.  Click here to sign up

Dedicated Staff – RMGO is the only gun rights organization in Colorado with staff members, all dedicated to preserving your Second Amendment rights without compromise.

Action Mailings – RMGO will give you all the materials needed to have the maximum possible grassroots impact on our elected officials.

Political Action Committee – The state's only pro-gun PAC, which works to elect pro-gun candidates and hold politicians accountable.  Click here to donate to the PAC.

Local & National Media Presence – The staff at RMGO regularly defend your rights on local and national news programs, radio talk shows and through the print media.

Concealed Carry – While other institutional gun lobbies work to force gun owners to jump through hoops and hurdles for their self defense, RMGO sets a higher standard: the law should recognize law-abiding citizens' rights and not build databases to track gun owners. RMGO has forced lawmakers to recognize the true standard for concealed carry: the Vermont/Alaska law. Vermont—and more recently, Alaska—citizens are allowed to carry concealed firearms without a permit, avoiding the “big-brother-may-I” of a permit system.  Citizens who wish to carry in other states can still obtain a concealed weapons permit, but true self defense freedom should be our goal.

Concealed Carry Guide – Our Concealed Carry Guide is your one-stop source for news about Colorado's concealed carry laws, regulations and important news.

Gun Laws FAQ – We list plain English questions about Colorado's gun laws, with plain English answers.  This is the fastest growing and most visited portion of our website.

Changes to our Laws – We'll work to change Colorado's laws, and regularly update you on laws that are changed. 

No Compromise – Rather than pass “good gun control” or work to compromise our rights to attain a “seat at the table,” RMGO forces politicians to take a stand, either with gun owners or against us. RMGO uses grassroots activism, rather than coddling politicians, to protect our constitutional rights.  (To read about our strategy, click here)

Assault Weapons – Though nearly impossible to define, it is obvious that “assault weapons” are constitutionally protected under the Second Amendment, just as laser printers are protected under the First. Our founding fathers wrote the Second Amendment to protect weapons used by private citizens that are equivalent to the arms of a standing army's infantryman. Since the media has portrayed these firearms as evil, few politicians wish to be forced into actively standing up for your right to own a so-called “assault weapon”. RMGO is firmly committed to protecting your right to own these and other firearms—including .50-caliber rifles—and repealing laws which regulate and restrict their purchase and ownership.

Colorado Gun Market – Our private sale website is a marketplace for firearms sellers and purchasers alike.

Our Basic Principles

We believe that freedoms have been eroded far too quickly in our country, and that our rights must be reclaimed through the democratic process.

We believe that Americans have been given a right by God, and recognized through the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and numerous state constitutions, to keep and bear arms. Colorado's State Constitution also prohibits government from "calling into question" that right.

If we fail to convince politicians that they must recognize our freedoms, we have only ourselves to blame.

To read about our strategy, click here

Rocky Mountain Gun Owners is a non-profit, non-partisan organization, registered with the Colorado Secretary of State and with the IRS as a 501 c-4.

Though Rocky Mountain Gun Owners is not legally affiliated with any other organization, we work with Gun Owners of America, and with the National Association for Gun Rights on a daily basis, and consider NAGR our Washington, D.C. lobby.

In addition to his duties at RMGO, Dudley Brown is Executive Director of National Association for Gun Rights, a national group that leads other state-level groups in the fight for our rights.

Executive Directors Larry Pratt (Gun Owners of America) and Dudley Brown (Rocky Mountain Gun Owners) Photo: Eagle Media International

If you would like to learn more about RMGO, please feel free to either E-mail us at RMGO.org or talk to our staff by calling (888) 874-3006.

To add your name to the RMGO Legislative Updates list (which keeps you up to the minute on legislative action) or to add your e-mail to our list, click here

To join Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, click here.

You can also mail us at:

   Rocky Mountain Gun Owners
   P.O. Box 27
   Windsor Colorado 80550
   Phone (970) 482-7646
   Fax (202) 351-0528

About our Executive Director

Dudley Brown (click here for his Wikipedia entry) is Rocky Mountain Gun Owners’ Executive Director, and serves under a volunteer board and chairman. He handles all day-to-day operations and lobbying concerns for RMGO, Colorado’s largest gun rights organization.

Brown is a graduate of Colorado State University, where he was chairman and founder of the CSU College Republicans, and subsequently two-term State Chairman of the College Republicans of Colorado.

After Brown’s 1989 graduation, he served as Northern Colorado Director for U.S. Senator Bill Armstrong. In 1990 Brown left retiring Armstrong’s staff to become the Media Director for the Colorado House of Representatives’ Republican Caucus.  In 1992, Brown left the legislature to become the deputy campaign manager for the unsuccessful Republican congressional campaign of Brian Day in Colorado’s 2nd District.

In 1993, Brown became Legislative Director of the Firearms Coalition of Colorado and contract lobbyist for the Colorado State Shooting Association (the NRA state affiliate). Brown also served as the state chairman of the Colorado Conservative Union, a group that rated Colorado legislators.

In 1996 Brown founded Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, a no-compromise gun rights lobby concentrating on Colorado, which operates independently of other gun rights organizations.

Dudley Brown is a certified firearms instructor, and an avid shooter.  He is the only professional lobbyist to endure the 9-year battle for a "shall issue" concealed carry law in Colorado

Brown now also serves as Executive Director of the National Association for Gun Rights.

Brown has appeared as a guest on Fox News, Hannity & Colmes, CNBC's Geraldo Rivera, the NBC Nightly News, and numerous other media outlets.