Anti-Campus Carry “Journalist” Persists in Touting Conspiracy Theory About SCC

By Ammoland

AUSTIN, TEXAS – -(Ammoland.com)- When The Trace, the “news” arm of gun-control conglomerate Everytown for Gun Safety, published a 2015 article claiming that Students for Concealed Carry (SCC) was founded by a wealthy cabal of gun lobbyists rather than by a poor group of college students, SCC not only denied the accusation but also offered to make a $5,000 charitable donation in the name of any gun-control group that could corroborate the accusation.

When nobody tried to collect, SCC considered the matter settled. Sadly, the freelance journalist who wrote the original article refuses to let the issue rest.

In 2015, Adam Weinstein, now a senior editor for military magazine Task & Purpose, was working as a stringer for The Trace when he wrote “The Secret History of the Campus Carry Movement.” In the article, Weinstein notes that approximately one year before SCC was founded, the gun-rights group Gun Owners of America (GOA) and the libertarian-leaning Leadership Institute (LI) had preliminary talks about starting a college-based gun-rights organization. Weinstein then makes the unsupported leap to the conclusion that SCC was actually founded by GOA and LI and not, as SCC has …Read the Rest

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