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.
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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.
  
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