LGC Original Content
Political Violence is Never Acceptable
As were so many, we were horrified and saddened by the attack on Sunday against Donald Trump. While we may, to a person, abhor his politics, we equally abhor political violence, in any form, against both public figures and private citizens. We condemn both the attack...
Q2 2024 Update
Its that time again! We have several exciting updates to share with you as we move forward in 2024: NSSF Annual Meeting Collaboration: We're pleased to announce that we've agreed to host representatives from the NSSF at our upcoming annual meeting. This will be a...
Gun Curious by David Yamane
We were privileged to host a Social Distance Learning with David Yamane last Thursday to discuss his new book, "Gun Curious: A Liberal Professor's Surprising Journey Inside America's Gun Culture." As I read it, I found myself nodding in violent agreement with just...
Hey Bulldog*
Some firearm designs are iconic, almost mythic. One of those was introduced in the early 1870s, and was widely carried both by military forces and civilians, and is credited by many firearms historians as being a critical factor in the ‘taming of the West’. No, I’m not talking about the Colt SAA. I’m talking about […]
Quarterly Update, April 2024
As part of an ongoing commitment to making sure we are communicating beyond social media and our various online discussion forms, you should expect to see more formal updates about once a quarter; the last one was in January, recapping the year, the national meeting,...
The Gun Show “Loophole”
There is much news today about the Biden administration closing the gun show loophole. As with much of politics, the details matter. Back in 2022, Congress passed Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, notably sponsored by Marco Rubio (R- FL), which laid the groundwork for...
The Liberal Gun Club Applauds the Recent Decision Striking Down California’s Law on Ammo Sales
The Liberal Gun Club applauds Judge Benitez's ruling striking down the unconstitutional equivalent of a poll tax placed on Californian's seeking to exercise their rights under the Second Amendment. Laws which demand lawful citizens pay a premium to exercise their...
Year in Review – 2024
I apologize for the tardiness of this post, the fall was very busy, and we have some website maintenance to do. But this is past due and folks should get an update! 2023 is over; it was a busy year! First things first though, an a recap of our excellent annual...
LGC Store Grand Re-Opening
We're open again. The LGC store is officially open again. Our soft opening was a great success thanks to our talented partners at AumSum Creative and our fulfillment team at FillAble. We've made this opening grander by offering our SpokesCritter T-shirts and Hooded...
Root Cause Mitigation in Michigan
Several groups including the Michigan Chapter of the Liberal Gun Club, working with Progress MI, developed a root cause mitigation platform to address all forms of violent crime by addressing the various causes of crime instead...
Some bipartisan legislation out of Virginia
In some more good news, it looks like the state of Virginia has taken a great step forward in making access to safe firearm storage available to residents, with up to a $300 income tax credit for the purchase of a safe or similar lockable gun cabinets from an FFL....
We Fully Support The Tribal Firearm Access Act
This morning an article about a bill called "The Tribal Firearm Access Act" sponsored by Representative Mary Peltola came to our attention. This bill aims to right a historical wrong for Native Americans that live on Tribal lands who cannot use their legally issued...
Pending legislation in Connecticut that could use your comments
We're at the deadline for public comment on these bills, and wanted to make sure that you were aware so you can weigh in on these proposed bills before the comment period is closed Not all of these bills are bad. One bill looks to add CCW reciprocity, create tax...
Resource- Patterns In State Statutes
Patterns In State Statutes Creating A Civil Cause Of Action Against Firearms Manufacturers Compiled by Mariah Painter, LGC Legislative Analyst In 2015, a group of parents of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims filed a civil suit against Remington, their case...
SHOT Show 2023 – Sabre
The Liberal Gun Club- Live
SHOT Show 2023 – Otis
SHOT Show 2023 – Ammo Stacks
There’s something happening here
Over the weekend there was a dustup between InRange TV, run by Karl, and a site we won’t name, as giving that toxic crap any more air is something we’ll not do. The long and the short of it- InRange, Karl and Russel are 100% on the right side of history. They have...
SHOT Show 2023 – Benchmade
SHOT Show 2023 – Mystery Ranch
SHOTShow 2023 – Faxon Firearms
SHOTShow 2023 – Tandemkross
SHOT Show 2023 – Franklin Armory
SHOT Show 2023 – SIRT
Shot Show 2023 is in the Books!
We had a spectacular time at Shot Show 2023. Our unicorn patch was the hit of the show. Our booth was an even bigger hit, drawing high traffic to a normally quieter spot on the lower level of the show. We handed out thousands of stickers, flyers, and yes, patches. We...
VA Lobby Day
The SHOT show wasn't the only activity of note last week (and more to come on that), our superheroes in the DC/Maryland/Virginia (DMV) chapter hit up the Virginia State Capitol again. “Quick report from the LGC VA lobby day. Thank you very much to PT Jones of the...
SHOT Show 2023 – MantisX
SHOT Show 2023 – Walk The Talk America
SHOT Show 2023 – Lubriplate w/Grant Cunningham
A Tale of two Logos
The "venerable" Minuteman and the "Modern" Shooter * Introspection can be difficult. An organization like ours sometimes forgets its necessity. When we originally conceived the club logo, we wanted an image that reflected the origins of the Second Amendment, and what...
Bench Doctor Office Hours – Pocket Guns
NY Court Takes Aim at Red Flag Law
The confusingly named New York Supreme Court, actually the lower state court, has held that New York's red flag law (CPLR §6342) is unconstitutional. In G.W. v. C.N., 2022 NY Slip Op 22392, the court relied on the state's law regarding involuntary hospitalization for...
The Bench Doctor Office Hours – CZ 75
The Peninsular Men
The Hicks Special meets a 1oz slug
Annual Meeting 2022 – Las Vegas, Nevada
We went back to Vegas for our first in-person national meeting since 2019! The last couple of years, we've had meetings planned in real locations, and COVID, for better or worse, had other plans, so we moved them to virtual, and they were pretty successful, but there...
Annual Meetings- Where to next?
As you (hopefully) know, we concluded our Annual Meeting last weekend. It was our first LIVE event since 2019 and was a BLAST (pun intended)! Before I recap 2022's meeting, I wanted to take a minute to talk about how we plan these meetings, and how we are planning...
Bench Doctor Office Hours – M1A1
National Meeting Training Preview pt 2
Bench Doctor Office Hours – Can Your Gun Survive A Hurricane?
Social Distance Learning – Shotgun Wads & The Environment by the Surfrider Foundation
That takes balls.
I recently picked up a little Pedersoli Liegi Derriger kit. One of the other BBTI guys has one of these things, and I’ve always considered it a cool little piece of firearms history. Cap & ball firearms technology came along in the early part of the 1800s, supplanting flintlocks and earlier ignition systems. The Liegi […]
That takes balls.
I recently picked up a little Pedersoli Liegi Derriger kit. One of the other BBTI guys has one of these things, and I’ve always considered it a cool little piece of firearms history. Cap & ball firearms technology came along in the early part of the 1800s, supplanting flintlocks and earlier ignition systems. The Liegi […]
California Gun Owners “Data Breach”
Over the last couple of days, the state AG made a database that was supposed to be only open to researchers, instead was made open to the public online. This database contained the personally-identifying information in it for EVERY concealed carry permit-holder in the...
Biden Signs the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act Into Law
On June 25th, President Biden signed a bipartisan gun safety package into law. This bill is the first since the Brady bill to pass both chambers, and was written in response to the recent shooting at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas. What does this legislation...
Roe v. Wade
We fully support the right to bodily autonomy, and the way this ruling and the ruling on NYSRPA (regardless of whether we "won" a particular case) were done is complicated at best. They seem to have established an entirely new legal precedent for these things to be...
SCOTUS Reinvents the 2A for the Modern Age by Looking at History
The SCOTUS decision in NYSRPA v. Bruen is going to send shockwaves through Congress and the state legislatures around the country. Most gun policy wonks had expected the Court to clarify the balancing test Courts of Appeal could use when determining whether gun law...
LGC Interview with the Washington Post
Lara, our national spokesperson just wrapped up an interview with Anne Branigan of the Washington Post, discussing the changing demographics of gun ownership in the United States- and the article just hit the presses a few hours ago. Definitely worth reading! “It’s...
So you want to do something, anything (Part 3)
There's another thing that can be done today. It doesn't require passing any legislation. We've been talking about it since 2015 here on the blog. STOP. SAYING. THEIR. NAMES. These horrific events are like train wrecks. We all doom scroll and click link after link to...
So you want to do something, anything, right now (Part 2)
As part of a series of articles starting with this one, instead of repeating the same tropes and doing exactly nothing useful, how about we take on yet another issue that should be able to fly through our governments legislative body? According to the ASCA, the ideal...
So you want to do something, anything (Part 1)
In the wake of yet another mass shooting, as we noted in a previous blog post, the two camps are predictably settling into the usual corners of "Control all the guns" and "Shall not be infringed". Maybe this time will be different. Maybe it could be different. What is...
A tale of two cities…
Two horrific events, in short order. Devastating loss of life. Mourning families. And before they can even bury the dead, the lines got drawn pretty quick (which isn't unusual never let a tragedy go unused). On one side the "we aren't coming for your guns EXCEPT..."...
California copies Texas on purpose?
California SB1327 Creates A Private Right of Action for Citizens to Enforce Gun Laws On May 19th, 2022, the California State Legislature ordered to Third Reading SB1327, a bill that creates a “private right of action for any person against any person who, within...
Official statement on the horrendous hate crime in Buffalo
The Liberal Gun Club, in light of the act of domestic terrorism against individuals in Buffalo, New York on May 14, stands solidarity with our BIPOC and Jewish members in denouncing white supremacy in all its forms. Anti-Black racism, Anti-Semitism, Anti-immigrant...
Some politicians are finally on the right path
And of course, some are not. The good news here is that we are seeing news outlets also begin to recognize that evidence-based root cause mitigation rather than the usual "go-to" soundbites is the right path forward. What Eric Adams gets wrong about stopping gun...
Amir Locke and no knock warrants
Our hearts go out to the family and community as we have yet another no knock warrant delivered resulting in the execution of yet another legally armed young black man. Who wasn't even listed on the warrant. Showing that, yet again, the use of these no knock warrants...
Weekly Roundup 1- 12/12
Dear Members, My name is Mariah and I am an LGC Member, commercial beekeeper, and law student based in Boston, MA. Since the beginning of 2021, I have been reading and summarizing legislation at the state and federal levels dealing with firearms. Now, I get to pass...
Lara is interviewed by Slate about the Rittenhouse Trial
In the wake of the trial, Aymann Ismail from Slate spoke with Lara about the trial, liberals owning guns, and some other topics. Give it a read, it's good stuff. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/11/liberal-guns-rights-activist-kyle-rittenhouse.html ...
The Liberal Gun Club Rittenhouse Trial Statement
With the conclusion of this trial, we are getting calls from the press and questions from our members about where we as a club stand on this trial. This verdict is more a reflection on the justice system and the law, including prosecutorial incompetence, than a...
2021 Annual Meeting
Well, let's start with the fact that your membership director should really have his coffee before sending out important emails to the entire membership base! Sorry for the confusion about the dates in the original email, I was recycling last years event to make the...
LGC 2021 Annual Meeting to be Virtual
Its with reluctance that we are once again cancelling plans for an in-person Annual Meeting in Ohio in October. With the rise of the Delta variant of COVID-19, and the politicization of mitigation efforts in many parts of the country hampering the pandemic recovery,...
2A Advocacy On The Left With The Liberal Gun Club
Tactical Pay Radio had us on their podcast to discuss the role the LGC plays in the firearms rights discussion, head over and have a listen! From their site: There are many people from a wide range of backgrounds and viewpoints who are passionate about firearms...
Governor Gavin Newsom versus Governor Ronald Reagan
The current Governor of California had this praise for the former Governor of California: "The modern gun safety movement started here first in a bipartisan way, by the way. May 2, 1967, there were 30 members of the Black Panthers that stormed the state capitol....
Root Causes of homicide: What do some prosecutors think?
I was listening to NPR a few days ago, and an interview on The Takeaway really caught my attention. The interview was with Larry Krasner, who is the progressive attorney who was elected to become the DA for Philadelphia a couple of years ago, and just won his primary...
Caniglia v. Strom – The Supreme Court Decision That Wasn’t [very hard]
As a constitutional attorney, nothing annoys me more than when a federal court makes cooing noises about its respect for individual rights while still ruling against those rights. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh does this frequently -- like when he effusively...
Biden’s Executive Actions
As expected, the Biden administration announced a series of Executive Actions related to "gun violence." Here is our breakdown. There are some not smart things here. The Justice Department, within 30 days, will issue a proposed rule to help stop the proliferation of...
The Virginia Chapter hosts Deviant Ollam
The DMV Chapter of the LGC was very pleased to host Deviant Ollam for a very special conversation in November 2020. We talked about gun culture 2.0, root cause mitigation, welcoming new people to the sport, police reform, and the changing sociopolitical environment....
Making the biggest difference
In the last week, even among a few of our members, we've seen comments along the lines of "Yeah, root cause mitigation sounds great, but we gotta get something done now. This stuff is out of control" Or "Root cause mitigation? That's just deflecting from the real...
Happy Birthday: Social Distance Learning
What a year, amirite? On this day, last year, we launched our Social Distance Learning program. It seemed appropriate to celebrate that, and review how we got here. Its been bumpy, fun, exhausting and hopefully, useful. Last March (a bit earlier) when it was obvious...
What’s your goal?
This question should be used in public discourse more often. It should also be followed up with clarification questions like, "How will it do that?" and "What do you expect the outcome to be?" Why should we ask these questions? Because they are important. The...
Stop Asian Hate
After the events in Georgia, a lot of people are saying a lot of things. So much going on in this story: Regardless of truth, people who were perceived as sex workers because "Asian" and "massage" due to hurtful stereotypes. Asian women sex fetish and objectification....
The Liberal Gun Club Is Proud To Announce Our Latest Chapter, Georgia!
For 14 years , the Liberal Gun Club has offered a voice for left-of-center gun owners free from the vitriol too often found in other pro-Second Amendment groups. Over 30 state chapters have formed under the national umbrella during this time, and we’re proud to...
A little break from the news
Well with everything going on in the news, we've had some less earth shattering, but sorely needed things accomplished here at the Liberal Gun Club. As you may (or may not) be aware, most of the work behind the scenes here is accomplished by volunteers who believe in...
Social Distance Learning – Stop the Bleed 2021
Once again, first aid guru, Lonny, has delivered another Stop the Bleed training! https://youtu.be/YZZc_gIFptc This time, we asked Lonny to document his advice: "After many questions about Individual First Aid Kits (IFAKS) I have been asked to post some links and...
Experience Panel – Addiction, Sobriety, and Firearms
Here at The Liberal Gun Club, we were very pleased to have recently hosted one of our popular Experience Panels, this one focused on the topic of substance abuse, addiction, recovery, sobriety, and how it all relates to firearms.
This is an importan…
Did the ATF Really Say That???
There is an oft-cited statistic used by the Bloomberg anti-gun groups which states, essentially: "according to the ATF, 30% of guns recovered in crimes in California are ghost guns." This number seemed WAY off to me so I decided to investigate it. First, most things...
Addiction, Sobriety, and Firearms
Here at The Liberal Gun Club, we were very pleased to have recently hosted one of our popular Experience Panels, this one focused on the topic of substance abuse, addiction, recovery, sobriety, and how it all relates to firearms. This is an important...
A swing and a miss from The Firearm Blog
In the realm of not helping, The Firearm Blog yesterday published a completely wrong post about the California roster. Here's a screen grab of the content: The California DOJ did NOT de-certify 1500 handguns from the handgun roster at the start of...
Do Biden Voters Deserve to Buy Ammo?
The answer is, of course, yes, although not according to a particular ammo business which this week declared if you voted for Biden, you don't deserve to buy ammo from them. It is their right to decide to alienate 8 million new customers, but perhaps it's not the...
More LGC Postcards, Please!
You just got your First Ever mailing from the LGC. (Or you haven't yet, but it's on the way!) You are fired up to write your congresspersons, and some other political folks that need to hear from you. You need more than 1 postcard. We have a package of 3 more...
Root causes are again getting into the conversation
It's been a bit since we've put out an LGC original blog, as life gets in the way from time to time. But we haven't been idle, recently meeting with the University of Colorado Firearm Injury Prevention Initiative and AFFIRM to provide our perspective on things that...
Experience Panel- Asian American Gun Owners
Join Amy, Karen, Ericson, TJ and Special Guest Chris Cheng as they talk about the “Asian” gin owner experience, ranging from Covid to figuring out their place in the Second Amendment fight.
Stay tuned to the events page for more!
We all lift together.
Experience Panel – Veterans Experience – Week 2
Join Amy and Jennifer, Marine Corps veterans for a survey of the female veteran experiences in gun ownership and life after service. Week 2 of 2.
This originally aired in November of 2020 on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/2BeCHbUs9qU
Experience Panel – Veterans Experience (Week 1)
Join Lonny and a panel of conflict and peacetime veterans for a sometimes R rated survey veteran experiences in gun ownership and life after service. Week 1 of 2.
This originally aired on YouTube in November 2020:
https://youtu.be/qL1pICu2q-Q
Experience Panel – African American Gun Owners
This “Experience Panel” is the African American Gun Owner experience. Our panelists Carl, Brian, Toni and Walter talk about racism, range experience, protests and more. Please join us for this passionate, and sometimes PG-13 discussion.
This original…
Announcing the LGC Vimeo Channel!
Sometimes, YouTube removes videos from our channel because they think we did something wrong. Sometimes we can figure it out. Sometimes we can't. Other folks, like the fabulous folks at InRange use Vimeo for videos with content SPECIFICALLY NOT allowed on YouTube....
Experience Panel – Disability (Part 2) – Non-Physical Disabilities
In this two-part series, Deb, Karen, Mark, and Nate discuss and answer questions about living with disabilities, owning firearms, training, and what to consider when buying firearms as a disabled person. Day one focused on physical disability and day t…
LGC Holiday Gift Guide
Happy Holidays! It's that time of year again! Gift giving season! No matter what your holiday is, so many people give gifts this time of year. We thought we might help, and make some suggestions based on our member’s small businesses! The club has authors, artisans,...
Experience Panel – Disabilities (Part 1)- Navigating Physical Disabilities
In this two-part series, Deb, Karen, Mark, and Nate discuss and answer questions about living with disabilities, owning firearms, training, and what to consider when buying firearms as a disabled person. Day one focused on physical disability and day t…
It costs votes and doesn’t produce any results
Okay, I took a bit of liberty in re-writing the tagline of Matthew Yglesias' article today, as it's more accurate, although his original isn't bad. https://www.slowboring.com/p/national-democrats-misguided-re-embrace National Democrats' misguided re-embrace of gun...
The Liberal Gun Club
Recently, we were asked some questions for a follow up to an industry article. We'll post that when its available, but I thought the questions were good, and the answers might be useful in describing us to your friends and family. What's the most important thing long...
Annual Meeting 2020 -Ask the Ladies Panel
Led by member Danielle Casey, panelists Lara Smith (National Spokesperson for the Liberal Gun Club), Patti Hall, Kat Ellsworth answer questions about being a female gun owner, and why its a terrible idea to buy the lady in your life a pink snub nosed r…
Experience Panel- Veterans Experience
November's "Experience Panel" is timely as it focuses on the the American Veteran. Just in time for Veteran's Day observance. We want to thank our panelists for a wide ranging discussion that goes beyond being a gun owner, where Lonny, Daniel, Brian, Nate, Will and Ed...
Experience Panel- The African American Gun Owner Experience
October's "Experience Panel" is the African American Gun Owner experience. Join us as panelists Carl, Brian, Toni and Walter have a passionate and sometimes PG-13 discussion on racism, range experience, protests and more. https://youtu.be/zosOOF8VLtA Stay tuned to the...
Social Distance Learning: Trench Gun Madness – Complete
Scott takes us through a complete two part conversion of a Trench Gun, desecrating a 1936 Model 12 with a hacksaw and installing the heatshield. No ATF violations were made in the filming of this video. Part 1: https://youtu.be/JmpeREtKDI0 Part2:...
Announcing Our Connecticut Chapter Formation!
Joining the growing list of formal chapters for the Liberal Gun Club, our newest chapter was voted into formation by locals in Connecticut. They are currently having meetings virtually for now and working to plan out range days and more member activities within the...
Gun “Monoculture” And Being A Liberal Gun Owner
I was watching a video from InRange this morning, and he had an interesting couple of minutes answering a question from "William H.", who is a self described liberal gun owner wondering if he's a unicorn. And as usual, Karl had some excellent points about rights being...
Announcing our new video series “Make It Safe”
This has been a project we've wanted to tackle for awhile now, and thanks to the pandemic kick starting out Social Distance Learning series, and specifically the Bench Doctor, Scott Richardson, putting out weekly content, we've also been working on creating these...
Social Distance Learning: Colt Capers
If you missed it live this week, here's the replay of Scott attempting to revive a used Colt revolver. The video fidelity this week was not great, but the adventure is whether Scott was successful, so enjoy the show! https://youtu.be/m97dXDaTsgM You also may have...