Dispatches from gun country: ‘For more than 40 years, I have helped to lead the pro-gun rights movement’

By Ben Philippi

Alan Gottlieb, founder of the Second Amendment Foundation, photographed in Bellevue, Washington. He sports the Commemorative 1911 produced by American Legacy Firearms honoring the Second Amendment Foundation’s victories in protecting our freedom. (Photo: Ben Philippi)
Alan Gottlieb is an author, conservative political activist, gun rights advocate and businessman. In 1971, he founded the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. Three years later, he founded the Second Amendment Foundation. His organizations have been instrumental in winning multiple lawsuits defending the right to keep and bear arms in America.
I grew up in New York City where gun ownership is difficult because the laws are so punitive.
I attended college at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. In Tennessee, gun ownership was not demonized like it was, and still is, in New York City.
That gave me the opportunity to see the real difference between firearms freedom and what laws that restrict liberty really mean.
Gun prohibitionists do not want you to have the freedom to choose a means to defend yourself. They have no interest in making America a place where you are independent of the state for protection. Their extremism has become a direct threat to my future and that of my country.
Armed

Source: Guns.com