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About our Executive Director

Dudley Brown, Director of RMGO 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 executive decision making 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 an unsuccessful Republican congressional campaign 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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About our Operations Director

officephotos-11Keith Hoover is Rocky Mountain Gun Owners' Operations Director, and reports directly to the Executive Director.  He manages the day to day operations of the organization and order fulfilment of materials.  Keith was raised in Northern Colorado, and learned to shoot with the Boy Scouts.  He became fluent in handguns in 1997-98, favoring the tried and true 1911 .45 ACP.  Recently he has moved on to learning more about black rifles.  Keith has possessed a Colorado concealed carry permit for about 10 years.  Keith joined Rocky Mountain Gun Owners as full-time staff in December of 2009.

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