by Lara Smith | Sep 28, 2019 | background checks, GRPC, Gun Politics, Lara Smith, LGC Blog, Liberal Gun Club, trump
It is pretty clear that the Trump White House supports expanded background checks for firearms sales. At the 2019 Gun Rights Policy Conference, one speaker noted there was a one-page “Idea Sheet” being floated around the Hill about this issue and this...
by Lara Smith | Mar 9, 2019 | 2nd Amendment, Active Self Protection, activism, BBC, CCW, confidence, Constitution of the United States, fascism, Firearms, Gun Ownership, Gun Politics, guns, guns and race, Lara Smith, Leftist, Legal Issues, LGC Blog, Liberal Gun Club
The BBC featured four Liberal Gun Club members in it’s new piece titled “America’s Least Likely Gun Owners.” Will, Ed, Piper and our National Spokesperson, Lara Smith, are featured in this excellent video that will reach more than 300 million...
by Lara Smith | Jan 26, 2019 | Lara Smith, LGC Blog, Members, SHOT Show
Over the past week, I got to attend SHOT Show 2019. While it had all the usual array of new (and not so new) guns, accessories, and related items, this year was different in one big way – I got to take an assistant! Our successful fundraising drive meant that...
by Lara Smith | Dec 20, 2018 | Lara Smith, LGC Blog
At the Liberal Gun Club, we have argued for years that we need evidence-based policy at all levels of government. Sadly, so much of the current demands for laws are based on fear and whipping up the base of one side or the other. California’s gun laws are a...
by Lara Smith | Nov 13, 2017 | Lara Smith, LGC Blog, Welcome
I constantly run across some variation of the following post on gun boards: “I want to buy my spouse a gun. What should I get them?” This thread nearly always involves buying a gun not to take to the range but for defense and then devolves into the dreaded...
by Lara Smith | Nov 13, 2017 | Lara Smith, LGC Blog, Welcome
The DC Project is a non-partisan group of 50 women from 50 states who earlier this month traveled to Washington D.C. to reveal the usually unseen faces and stories of female firearms owners and Second Amendment supporters. Meeting with over 100 lawmakers and...
