Single most neglected group of gun owners in the country. [applause] of thee are sort redheaded that child in the child in step the basement and that needs to change. Alliancehe nsa freedom is that organization. It has become increasingly more important with the explosion of the sale of suppressors, that is firearms,tegory of even though none of us would consider them firearms, that has been the one area of the firearms industry that has exploded and that is part of why i believe the Freedom Alliance is so necessary. Probably the biggest growing and fastestgrowing segment of the firearms sales market, currently. Since starting the organization last october, we have had a record of success. Nsa billsssed for pro in four separate states, and you think, what does the nsa have to do with state law . Many of the states have duplicate of laws, for instance, one of the most Amazing Things is when i was doing research before the Freedom Alliance, i found out that in the state of past tense, it was, technically illegal to possess was aa weapon, however it defense for prosecution if you were arrested for possessing it. That may be comforting to some and it has been comforting to some, obviously, because texas has more registered nsa items then probably any other state. So obviously it is comforting to some people, well, i have a defense of prosecution, but that ,eans you may be the rat rap but you will take the ride. You will have to go before a judge, you will certainly have to do with a prosecutor, if you got a brain, youll have to get an attorney, pay that attorney and figure out how to get your stuff back and hope that the judge agrees with you and this is real. This actually happened. I have a gun dealer who i work closely with who had his gun in confiscated from him, he was arrested, and a over in jail, and cost him 11 months, 14,000, he finally got his stuff back and that is in the free state of texas. So when i found out about that, that was one of the primary missions of mine, to overturn that law. And if anybody knows anything about texas legislature, it is not easy to pass anything. It is very difficult and in one session we were able to overturn that law, repeal it and replace it with the affirmative ability to own nsa items as long as they are registered. [applause] todd thank you. In tennessee, we did the exact same thing, they had a law. Billkansas, we passed a which forces the chief Law Enforcement officer to certify forms if you are not a prohibited possessor. We also made it legal to hunt with suppressors in montana. And those are all things i was able to a conflict with the help of friends and donors and folks like that who can help us get it done. We did all of that sense last october since last october. And other major question on everybodys mind is, what about repealing the nsa altogether . It was one of the most poorly books, itoups on the is so confusing. I have sat with jeff from a Different Organization and is or about this stuff than anybody, we sat in the lobby for the past few days and neither one of us can explain a lot of this. What we can explain is how it is interpreted and it is a big mess. We do have a strategy for eventually repealing the nsa altogether, so that is our primary goal. [applause] todd quite frankly, we are one of the only organizations that i am aware of that actually has that as a state is cool stated goal. Nfa should be ripped out. Auntie years ago, when you look around the country, maybe 25 tcw, ccw permits, they were not popular. We do not see them in it did not see them and dates all over the place states all over the place. And politicians believe all the lies, we were all going to shoot each other over parking spots and none of that has materialized. Today, you have democrats and Republicans Holding of their ccw permit as a to the gun movement and its a, lookout progun i am. Many of these people started in legislatures as a state senator or representative and they were able and they were part of the original passage of ccw laws, or they have been part of the process to fix them over the years. We need to do the same thing at the state level, statebystate, with legislatures to educate them about the and as a and nfa and the effect of it on the average gun owner. When i start bringing up these issues, i talked to state representatives, and i explain it all to them, the reaction is, are you kidding me . For a rifle, i need to go get photographs, pay 200, it is insane. But you can also own a pistol that is in the same configuration that is seven inches shorter than the average get it is you do not the same configuration and you do not have to do all this. This is ridiculous. That is the reaction we want. We want them to say that this is ridiculous, so that when they end up going to congress, we have a sympathetic year and they ar andnderstanding e they have an understanding of what the law is. I will quickly tell you what we are working on right now. Currently, we are working on repealing the band of hunting with suppressors. It is ridiculous. Toeurope, it is required hunt with a suppressor. We need to do that in as many states as possible. Alaska, they have a prosecution law in the books, we need to get rid of that. And we are also working on an important effort to certify to forms arethat certified and you do not have to leave your Second Amendment rights of to the discussion of local Law Enforcement. And whether or not the 412 is good or not, until we can repeal the nfa altogether. In conclusion, i want to ask you guys to support me. I am running this whole thing by myself, i am a lobbyist, i am running the whole show. I need your help. If you can help or you know somebody who is interested, the fasa. Org and wen also have a facebook page, if you look the Freedom Alliance on facebook, we are running fundraisers and raffles all the time. Right now, you can win a suppressor combo. I really appreciate you. Feel free to move to arizona. [applause] i will exercise my right as the moderator in the interest of friends at cspan, ill ask todd to do maybe two minutes on the history of nsa. So this will all go out. Todd yes, what i may have to do , i can give a quick history. Ma have to look at my buddy jeff, who is the true historian. 1934, for some reason the congress in their great wisdom thought that it would be a good idea to add a tax to owning certain items. Back then, i believe it was only machine guns. And silencers, in 1934. I am looking at just jeff and he is nodding. It was in response to, having to deal with prohibition, suppose that weres happening and they that if they put tax on these items, less people would own them and they would save the world and people would stop shooting each other with these guns. We know to this day that none of that works, prohibition and all of its forms have never worked. So that was the genesis of it, in 1934. It was expanded in 1968 through the guncontrol act when they added things to the nsa, one thing that they did add was an hesndment, the news hug amendment and what it said was sothat was in 1986 actually, i am sorry. They added the hughes amendment and that essentially said that any machine gun manufactured 1986 a particular date in could no longer be transferred between citizens, even though you are submitting fingerprints, to a background check, even though a sheriff had to sign off on it, you could not manufacture a machine gun for the transfer of private citizen to private citizen, therefore limiting the pool of machine guns and driving that price through the roof. That is where we stand today, with all these laws that regulate some of these guns. But the most ridiculous part of all of this is that there is almost no reason for any of it. It is arbitrary and makes no sense. You can have a pistol that is seven inches long, but you cannot have a rifle that has barrel. N a 16 inch for some reason, shotguns have to have a minimum of an 18 inch barrel and there is no reason to it, no logic, because you can 16 inch rifle, but you cannot have a 16 inch shotgun. You could go to jail, thousands of dollars in fines, so it is ridiculous, one of the stupidest federal laws. Ands time to rip it out throw it in the trash. [applause] todd. Nk you, and now doug ritter. Knifes our friend from writes org. Doug good morning and gun lobby. The ninth is knife lobby, you are the knife lobby and this year i bring you an important message. All knives matter. [laughter] [applause] doug repeat after me, all kni ves matter. I cannot hear you. Matter. Es thank you. We are working on that. Tools, knivesl that millions of americans use at home and at play, are also arms, protected by the Second Amendment. It is an essential right. For six years now, i have been coming to this conference to share this message, that the Second Amendment does not say firearms, it says arms. Rights is the second front in the defense of the Second Amendment. [applause] doug the good news is that people all over america are getting the message. Our success is translating into both respect and new opportunity. We are being covered by major media, including in many instances, left wing media such ,s new yorks the Village Voice and it is all positive. Rights access and our efforts to roll back the absurd antiknife laws and pass preemption. We are also introducing the Second Amendment to an entire new group of folks who have never considered the Second Amendment their own and in many cases have been antiSecond Amendment. As a result, of the tragic diedent when freddie gray in baltimore. And similar and its his instances, any number of urban centers, we are gaining more support. Remarkably, this past year primary sponsors of two of our bills were liberal democratic, because they are democrats, because they are beginning to understand that there constituents are being jailed over irrational and integrated antiquated knife laws. Just like us sitting here. [applause] doug this year, we continue to rewrite knife lot in america law in america, passing five bills in four states. That is so far. With three bills remaining in illinois and michigan and a wisconsin bill that will reveal bans, so thate there will no longer be illegal knives and wisconsin. [applause] and it is worth noting, a todd, thathat to started out as a switchblade morphing into a fullblown knife reform bill. [applause] passedn total, we have 19 pro knife bills in 14 states and six years and defeated five antiknife bills, including a machete ban in new york this year. Everyone of those victories is a win for the Second Amendment. [applause] heard yesterday, from our attorney, this week saw a critical victory in our four year old civil rights lawsuit thirdt new york city and da, over there persecution their persecution of over 60,000 new yorkers. The court of appeals for the , appealed ait ruling that nobody had in our lawsuit had standing, sending them back to lower courts. Finally, after four years. I was thrilled to hear yesterday that already attorneys into gun rights cases are planning to use this decision and their own Second Amendment lawsuits. It goes to show that knife rights really is the second front, we are all in this together. [applause] as you heard yesterday from mark, this is the new front in our fight for the Second Amendment, both at the state and federal level. Bansfeated over a dozen this year with the help of our friends at the nra, only losing in california, so, it is california, what more do i have to say . If you had told me years ago that i would be spending a significant amount of time fighting these bans, i would have told you that you are nuts. But we must not walk away from such an important battle that threatens millions of americans with millions of aliens of dollars of takings from the fed. It would happen to remove gunsands of knives and from circulation, making it illegal to sell, trade or even work on them. Knife rightsar, abhors the poaching of all species. We need to attack poaching at the source, not punish lawful owners in the United States that cannot have any of that on the poaching in africa and the eu egal traffic of ivory to africa and asia. [applause] doug successful anticoaching poaching efforts have demonstrated that we can save elephants. Investments of millions of americans will not save an elephant in africa, this is the worst time of feelgood, do bad, Government Action [applause]. Doug if you have any question, as to whether these ivory bans are good or bad, all you really need to know is that the concept was developed by the clinton foundation. And that is the Largest Organization promoting it today, the Humane Society of the american of the United States. They are raising billions of dollars, they do not give a dam about the elephants in africa, not a penny is going to those elephants, that money is used to fight gun owners. They are raising millions of american dollars, because they discovered that an orphan baby butcheredext to a mother, raises more money than a cute little panda. Next year, we expect to battle bans in over 20 states, everyone of which threatens gunowners and knife owners. [alarm bell] doug tomorrow, monday is the deadline to submit comments on the proposed ivory ban rule. Please, if you have not already ights. Orggo to knifer to submit a comment tomorrow, by midnight, in opposition to this absurd ban that will not save a single elephant in africa, but billions andricans potentially remove hundreds of knivesds of guns and from the market. Also this year, the knife owners protection act was refiled in both houses of congress. Thehouse bill sponsored by arizona representative is still in committee. Recently, the bill was passed in the senate and awaits an appropriate bill to be tacked onto pair but given how Little Congress has done these days, i will not hold my breath. By the same token, six years ago, they told us that our fifth exemption to the switchblade act would never pass, and we got that done. [applause] doug please help by encouraging your senators and your senators and congressmen to cosponsor this bill. The results think for themselves, knife rights is the second front in the defense of the Second Amendment, we are rewriting knife law in america. Join us, become a member, make a donation, help us continue this extraordinary record of success and remember, all knives matter. [applause] thanks, doug. Thank you, panelists for a good kick off of sunday morning. Great panels, great content. You can exit stage left and i will bring up my next group of speakers. Our next panel is packed with experts. It is entitled, using the media to advance gun rights. We will go in the order they are listed on the agenda, except that we will let our good friend first so that charles can i just his levels adjust his levels, that is not a euphemism. And they will each have five minutes. I will bring don up first. Maam. S, good morning. Thank, i think everybody should give a round of applause to the Second Amendment foundation for a wonderful conference. [applause] not an easy thing to pull off. I will try to keep remarks brief. We are talking about the media, have done this for a living for a long time. I think we can say easily that most of us in this room do not consider the media our friend when it comes to gun rights. That does not mean they cannot become a friend or at least a frenemy alongng the way. We need to do things to make this happen. Everybody in the media is busy, the system has changed, they are not doing the kind of work they were 20 years ago, newspapers are not what they used to be. Broadcast television has changed, all of these things, now we see a move to the internet and the way the people get news. He can do things with the media quickly, they are and their information is public, you can find email addresses in the newspaper or at the station. He can easily find Facebook Accounts or twitter handles, Something Like that. You can build a relationship, build contacts, if you use those things. When youre talking with the media or anybody really, arm yourselves with the facts. I am not trying to that is really important, because the facts are the facts, the facts favor our side. But, what happens with the media, with a lot of these things, these are not overly biased all the time, they are very ignorant of the facts when it comes to gun rights. It is incumbent upon everybody in this room to study that, bone up on the facts and have them at ready. You can do that easily now thanks to the internet. You have to do enough research to go through those things. If you do that, you will be well armed, as we say. Now, my other thing, my big passion with a this is using social media. Social media is extremely important in the battle on gun rights. Everybody, the large percentage of the population is using facebook, twitter, these are ways to do this. If you are really passionate about gun rights, you own a firearm, think about social media as another tool in your toolbox, but also is another weapon. Facebook, i want you to be passionate using social media to express your feelings about gun rights. These things, you may think, i only have about five friends, or i only have what i do is i put up a lot of cat videos. If you are doing that, you are doing it wrong. If you love cap videos, that will not cat videos, that will not advance gun rights. What happens, your number of friends, everything that you do is shareable, reach we double retweetable, so that you amplify your voice, you do not even know the effects that has. Roomeverybody in the should be doing as well, you should be using it now. If you have not been using facebook, twitter, things like this to do things about this conference, this moment, then you better get on your phones, tablets, computers and do something now. That is another way of doing this and expressing that message. Instagram, if you do not know what to do with how to write a post or send a tweet, you can pretty much take a picture. How many people take pictures with their cameras and phones . All the time. Instagram is an easy way to do that and you can link it to your facebook account, you can get all of that in one setting. It is a wonderful way to push things out. We are a very visual society. People look at grass, pictures graphs, pictures, they share it and it has an enormous effect. That is so effective for the other side, something that we need to do more of, emotion. Use emotion. Why do we have ferguson, all of these problems, i come from maryland and in my backyard was freddie gray. What happened . It was the emotion of people, antigun rights people out there and expressing themselves and they suck up all the air in the room and if we had that same passion, that emotion, they are stories. You will hear later, guns save lives. It does, but lets go tell that message. Lets show the people and find those people who had lives saved like that and lets do it now. [applause] don. Ank you, [indiscernible] grades. Next, we will hear from charles. Charles thank you. You know, i am one of the rare people who will speak here and can say, i paid for this microphone. [laughter] i want to talk about harnessing the emotion that don talked about, that was a very good lead in. We are all passionate about arms. Endemic to ourso way of life. We do not think about it. To us, a firearm is another tool. Right . It is a piece of equipment. To the antifreedom people, it is evil and there is a great bridge in between. So while you need to be passionate about it, you need to not, you need to be careful about the way that you express this, especially to people in the media. Cheeriness and enthusiasm can be mistaken for enthusiasm to do harm. What you have to do is be very excited, like don said, be passionate, but be careful with language. You have to be careful with how you language things. I want to talk about a little bit about, for those of you, who is involved at the state level organizations . Everybody in arizona puts their hand down. Ok, organizations outside of arizona. What i want to tell you, when you communicate with the media, your press releases, whether they be and you can take it now and put it on facebook ready can take it and put it to the media and give it to everybody else. But the press release needs to have a headline that grabs attention, like guns save lives. It can be more specific to a circumstance. Your press release needs to be one page, because everybody in the media is really busy and i promise you, i am a talk host and if somebody sends me a 15 page press release, it is going to the delete file. I will sometimes send back one sentence, give me this in two paragraphs, but that is as close as you will ever get to me reading a long press release. The premise needs to be in the first paragraph, the solution needs to be in the second paragraph and your conclusion needs to be the third paragraph. When you are talking to the media, you need to speak in soundbites. He cannot start telling them that, well, the constitution was written in 1787, but the bill of rights wasnt until 1791, you lost them. It is important, but you lost them. You need to speak in one sentence clips they can use. They will edit you down. So make that sentence count. What can you do . ,ou have the answer, all of you it is in front of you. It is in the form of your phone. You need to write down one sense clips sentence clips you can use, because when that light is shining in your face, it induces stress. It does two things, and makes thinkers slam shut and brains go numb. And then emotion kicks in and you Say Something really dumb. And that gets preserved forever. And on top of that, you have a contorted face saying it and that is what goes on the internet. So what you want to do is look people in the i calmly and have a go to phrase, because at the end of every interview, somebody tell me this, anybody who has the interviewed, what is question they usually ask . Is there anything i have missed . Yes. There really is. Wish and never penalize the innocence of the act of the guilty. That is one phrase that when i get interviewed, that gets tacked on. It is a reach out to the people who may not share our passion. They may not share our passion, but it is a bridge to somebody who gets it. Believe inh, i that. Even people who are aclu members, we should not punish the innocent for the acts of the guilty. Thank you for listening. Thank you. This is my cheat sheet. Blogger will bring up john richardson. [applause] john thank you. Richardson. N this morning i plan to tell you how i as a journalist use the internet to advance gun rights and how you can use it too. As a representative of new media, let me tell you how i got started. Ofave been a longtime reader blogs, then in may 2010, i decided i can do just as well. I started my blog, no lawyers, only guns and money. It was a play on a song. I am a financial planner, not a lawyer. I do not have many readers at first, but then something happened. Casegerr one the mcdonald and inhis ruling using this ruling, the Second Amendment foundation and south carolina, sued North Carolina to overturn our ban on firearms during states of emergency. I saw it as my mission to report on the details of this case and mcdonald followup cases. I worked hard to provide Background Information to that readers would have an understanding of the issues. I felt like people who supported gun rights had better knowledge then what was presented in Mainstream Media. We could argue more persuasively this way. Fastforward to today. Visitors later, and many more cases and a good number of wins. I addede along the way, podcaster. I have been life streaming Live Streaming this event this weekend. The podcast and blog do four things, it educates, informs, it advocates, and it entertains. The first three help advance the cause of gun rights, while the fourth is, we need to laugh a little bit sometimes. Guncially as at prohibition is. I will give you examples. Featureast is a regular we compile instances of how a lawful gun owner uses a firearm to defend themselves and family. Examples have often included a robbery or home invasion. We look at what the person did we dont sugarcoat it as we consider it a Central Education on the right and responsibility of gun owners. The best example of a blog is opsphere helping to advance rights was what was done in the operation of fast and furious which was happening right here in phoenix. [applause] it was bloggers that connected the whistleblowers to federal investigators. It was bloggers that introduced whistleblowers to cheryl atkinson. Many other bloggers, including myself, took the ball and ran with it. It was not some botched sting operation. It was a scandal. It was due to the efforts of new media and not old media that it got attention. Open the new media are about our efforts to advocate gun rights and the Second Amendment. Back in 2011, atf was soliciting Public Comments on whether to implement a reporting requirement that would enforce fsls to inform them when someone bought more than one semiautomatic rifle wit. Guncontrol lobby had a letter generator. We did not. One of my readers, we sent a letter generator with a prewritten letter. Our letter generator sent over 2000 letters to omd opposing this. Atf still implemented, but by god, they could not say there was no opposition. There have been too many examples of entertainment. An old journalist once said freedom of the press belongs to those who own them. As a blogger and broadcaster, i do own one. Thanks to the internet, so does everyone in this room. When you post pictures of yourself at the range in facebook, you are advancing the cause. When you post a picture of a new gun you just bought, you are normalizing guns. When you tweet a link to an article that is progun, you are spreading the message. Lets not forget tumblr, youtube. Posting videos of successful hunts helps advance the gun culture. Want to leave you with one message we are in a in cultural war against strong, wellfunded opponents. They have the Mainstream Media on its side. We have the grassroots. New media gives us the tools to conduct our cultural guerilla war, build our grassroots support and spread the message of gun rights. Thank you for your time today. [applause] peggy thank you, don. Herb stepp, author and commentator, former commissioner in new york city under Rudy Giuliani and one of our board members. Take it away. [applause] herb thank you. Thank you, peggy. I knew that would be the top credential. I wish i could report to you i was exercising my gun rights in lower manhattan. Grateful cspan is here. For the audience at home, we have hundreds and hundreds of proSecond Amendment advocates here, mostly in black ties and evening gowns. [laughter] ourave a daunting task as other panelists have pointed out dealing with an emotionally driven conversation. A lothn locke pointed out of the people he runs into in the media do not understand the studies he has been doing lincol linking private gun ownership with the prevention of crime. Ornew york city, discussions interviews on the gun issue dont even acknowledge our viewpoint of proSecond Amendment. Arer journalists committed. We have heard of a bloomberg funded news website that deals with the gun issue. We will not get anywhere with them. We have to work on and we have heard variations of this the journalists, reporters on tv, newspapers, radio, some of them are lazy. But more likely like all of us, they are strained to the breaking point with their jobs. The new york daily news, they fired a bunch of their columnists and reporters so where does that leave the rest of the folks to do . Maybe they are covering one or two stories a day, maybe three. They dont have the time to focus on the facts of our issue or many other issues. Party antigunners we have encountered at a barbecue or wherever this is what i heard on the evening news or read in the local paper. We can get to those folks with facts. If you are a local club o, i suggest this is the executive summary use honey, not vinegar in dealing with these folks. Do not become the person that is easy to dismiss and ignore. If you have been wronged, appeal to the sense of fairness and News Organizations. Newspapers, Radio Stations, tv stations. You might go to the reporter directly or the editor and ask for a rebuttal. First, established some sense of repoire. I like the coverage on some other story that has nothing to do with guns, but you did a number on us and ignored our viewpoint or left facts out out of your report. As we heard yesterday, invite the media to events. Whether it is a target range, shooting range or other event where you are celebrating an anniversary for your local club maybe, which i think is coming up in western new york. What i would add is do not send a letter to the newspaper or the tv station, invite individuals. That would get a better response. To echo what we heard before from this panel, use social media. Get the word out through twitter, facebook and other sites that i am not that familiar with. In my own situation i sometimes post my column or book review on facebook or another site. I got help from my younger adult children. Whether you have kids at home or or someephew or niece, of the younger members of your club undoubtedly know more about it. So tap in. Follow some of these reporters on twitter. They are always eager to give you their twitter address. Report soem on one that you will have some credibility and something in the bank when you talk to them about gun issues. Hit, ifeally suffered a needed, ask for a correction. I was able to get a retraction from the New York Times when i was 20 years old. That is when i first met Alan Gottlieb. Editor tter to the this is a 10 second countdown to electroshock, by the way. Some large papers can deal with issues of fairness and bias and errors. You might ask if your local News Organization has an ombudsman. Ask. Give the story to a competitor. Maybe the tv station has wronged you, but maybe the Radio Station or newspaper will write about it. Interest to local journalism schools. Some schools keep tabs on errors and bias in local media. Speak with the editor, news director directly about what has happened and why they are wrong and what you can do to correct it. Bosell, the council about it. Occasionally, he can do some local stuff as well. A blog, like we heard from major results in. Mr. Richardson. Get a columnist. Use honey instead of vinegar. Try to establish repoire with some of these folks. Complain and correct when necessary. I want to underscore you have more options than ever to get the word out on the Second Amendment and correct the biases and errors in the media. Thank you. [applause] peggy thank you. You narrowly avoided the needle. I will ask cheryl todd to come up, host of gun talk arizona, the patriot radio show. Im sorry, kknt. I didnt get to meet you earlier so good to meet you. You have five minutes, too. Cherlyyl good morning. Im cheryl todd of a small mom shop west of here in avondale, arizona. We are the backbone of this country and this industry. Also the host of the newest local Gun Talk Radio show here in the valley, gun talk az on kknt. Also the host of the newest local Gun Talk Radiothe patriot. Thank you. Im so honored to have been asked to come here and speak with you today on the topic on how to use the media to protect our rights because it is something i am passionate about, not only as a gun store owner, a citizen of this fine country, but also as a mom, wife and grandma. It is so important i agree with Ronald Reagan he said our freedoms are only one generation away from extinction. I would like to take that a step further and say our freedoms are always one generation away from extinction. It is all responsibility to pass that baton thinking about that, we does the social media people were talking about. We wanted to go to a larger audience. Talks, we decided lets about podcasts instead of radio. Podcasts are wonderful. We have the Polite Society here with us today. Thank you for your work. For us, we felt like it might be reinventing the wheel in a lot of ways because we dont have what salem has which is the infrastructure already in play. They have the equipment, the staff, the signal, the audience. All i have to do is show up with my hours worth of content and i am good to go. Every show becomes a recording which then is a podcast. It is kind of the best of both worlds. It is very economical. If anybody is thinking about doing this in your city, in your state, i would encourage you to look at the small stations because there is a lot of value there. When you look at marketing dollars, it is a smart way to get the message out which i agree is so important. Plus, radio gives us build in revenue building strains, sponsorships, onair ads for building a referral website. That will help sustain the message that youre trying to get out. We know how we are doing it. Who are we speaking to . I will quote another famous guy, bill gates. He said the future of leadership is in influence. How are we influencing by talking on the radio . I think by just speaking up. We are the majority, but we have been silenced for way too long. So, we have got all of us who love our Second Amendment rights. We will never move away from that position. We have the whole antiSecond Amendment group who probably are never going to move from their position. But there is this middle space and these are the people that have not decided yet. So, they are trying to figure out where are they on this spectrum. Are guns good, are they evil . We try to engage in conversation and build relationships and influence and inform and educate. The way we do that is we go to facebook and twitter and we find those stories on local news stations that you are never going to find on cnn or fox. We bring those into the show gun. Good guy with a safe responsible gun owner doing the right thing protecting their family and themselves. But that into peoples consciousness so they can think critically about themselves about where they might lie on the spectrum. In doing so, we put the onus back where i think it belongs. We stop this defensive posture all the time we have this collective guilt we bear anytime some bad guysafe responsible gug the right thing protecting their family and themselves. Has done something wrong with a gun. We have this platform under us called shall not be infringed. The shiniest example the antiSecond Amendment crowd has is their gun free zones and tight restrictions d. C. , chicago and detroit. Once that middle space therstands the true story, on, itws that is going will put a lot more pressure on the antigroup to step up their game and show why would that be the better choice. Finally, i will just say we try theo with with to resist teeth mashing and the eye rolling. It is hard some days but we are trying to build relationships. Speaking of which, being in a room of all you fine people and hearing all of your stories, that will feed me and i can go back on the airwaves, share your that pond and start the Ripple Effect flowing. Im so excited to take all of your stories back to gun talk az. Thank you so much for having me. [applause] you, cheryl. Batting cleanup iso our good friend dave workman, Senior Editor of the gun mag. [applause] dave batting im supposed to kes as short as possible so thank you very much. [laughter] just a couple of pieces of advice since i deal with the media a lot. Im a cardcarrying journalist. I have been in the business for 40 years. If you do an interview with a reporter, do not show up wearing a tshirt with some message on it with a four letter word. Dont try to tell them there are black helicopters coming for you and that jade helm really is s happening. Throw that in the trash. They dont want to hear it and they will relegate you to the corner as a nut. You are an ambassador for us. Speak the truth, speak plainly, as some of my colleagues have said. Get right to the point. Give them sound bites that they can use. Use facts. Be able to back those things up. We are in the middle of a lawsuit in Washington State right now. Ive spoken to several reporters about this. They have sent camera crews to our offices. Alan gottlieb has done the same thing and i have been in the room for some of those. One thing i found very useful when we are talking about the situation with seattle, this 25 tax, we are fighting that on the basis of it is a violation of the state law. I printed out a copy of the state preemption law, highlighted where the seattle lawsuit is going wrong and explained it to the reporters. A look at it and say, oh, yeah, they are wrong. That plants the seed that there is another side to this story. It gives them a resource that they can look at and take this editor. They will say those guys over there, they say this is against the law. Guess what . It looks like they are right. We do have the facts on our side. We have to use them wisely. As i said, you are an ambassador. You want to become a regular, reliable news contact for these people. They want to be able to call you to get the obligatory comment, so make sure you give them something with good raw meat in it. Something they can use. To tell you the number of stories i have done where i call sunday up for an interview call somebody up for an interview and they go off on a tangent that has nothing to do with the story at hand. You willpolitely find somebody else to talk to. If you are going to establish this relationship with a member of the press, me included, be upfront, be accurate, get to the point, get past the point and go about the rest of your life. You will get the attention that this issue deserves, but you have to do it right and do it smart. Again, thank you very much. [applause] peggy thank you, dave. Thank you for keeping it short. Thank you all, analysts. Good information. We still hope to have q a later in the morning, but if you need to talk with cheryl or john, o r don, o or herb or dave, you can catch them out in the hall. I will bring up my next two panelists who are already behind because they should have been up here 10 minutes ago. But, this will be an interesting one. Oddities,is language, journalism and guns. Only seven minutes each. Corwin sts are alan i am not sure who that guy is. [applause] mr. Schulman, who has not been with us for several years. Be a good time for all. We will start off with alan there youthor and go, alan. Seven minutes. [applause] alan thank you, peggy. Im alan corwin of gun laws. Com and we won our First Amendment lawsuit against phoenix. It is back up all over town. [applause] the news media still refuses to say anything about your first gun. When did you ever hear the media say anything about getting a gun . 60 million American Homes are safely armed and they dont say anything about this. Balancedsed, fair and news media censors this subject. The most fundamental thing in america, and you dont hear about it. Let me ask you, does anyone in is anyone in this room progun . I cannot hear you. [applause] idea. F you get the i think being progun is a really bad idea. Here is why. If you are progun, what is the other side . Antigun. They think guns are really bad, so they think being antigun is the right way to go. They think that is the moral high ground. You should be antigun because guns are evil. They tell us on the words all the time and we let them. I think you are really prorights. [applause] prorights, what does that make them . Antirights. Who wins that battle just on the words . You do. We are prorights, they are antirights. You are profreedom, proselfdefense. They are antirights, antifreedom, antiselfdefense and we win that on the words. We have to win the war on the words. Words matter. [applause] they want you to talk about assault weapons. Assault is a kind of behavior. It is not a kind of hardware. When they say why they have such a hard time defining it. When they introduced Dianne Feinsteins assault weapon bill, it was 100 pages long. On page two, it says an assault weapon has a pistol grip. On page 13 i read these things unlike anderson cooper, 13, theyzer on page said a pencil grip is anything that can function as a grip. That is all firearms. They wanted to ban all firearms by calling them assault weapons and a soul is a kind of behavior. They are using deceit to beat us. They cannot win on the merits, so they use deceit. That is what we face in the media. They talk about gun control. That is a false flag for citizens disarmament. We want to talk about crime control and that is a phrase they dont use. Words matter. Guy was notitish even a citizen, abusing our airwaves. He kept asking why does anyone need an ar15 or 30 round magazine . That is a communist question. In america, ownership of property is not based on need. Like someone is in charge of deciding what you need and therefore you can have it. You dont need 10 pairs of shoes. You dont need a refrigerator the size of a closet. The real question is why does or 30 wants an ar15 round magazine like most of you guys already own. You want it and they still dont know. You dont want it for the same reason the police do. They still cannot figure it out. You want it because it is better. It is safer. It works great. It is accurate. It is easy to maintain. More animation is safer. Ammunition is safer. They dont understand this. This is a question of wanting something in america. We are now at the heart of the matter. The media does not ask the real questions and has become the greatest threat to American Freedom that we face. [applause] anderson cooper, wolf blitzer, rachel, even oreilly, when will they ask hillary or the guy currently in the white house, why do you want another background check . What about the one we currently have that according to the brady center whos statistics we can actually face, what about the 2 million felons you say you have stopped with current background checks . 2 million felons. Where are they . We have names and addresses. Where are they . They tried to buy a gun. Hillary, isnt that illegal . Your husband passed this background check. Im sorry. They are not all felons. Some of them are crazy. You let them go . You want to spend money on another background check . Why arent the reporters asking this . They are not reporters. They are propagandists for the dark side. [applause] were these criminals allowed to confront their accusers . Where is the aclu. These people were denied their rights by some kid in front of a computer in clarksburg, west virginia. Where is the due process . Who are these criminals that they stop . We dont even know and they are out running free trying to buy guns and they want another background check. They should spend some of that 1 billion that they want for another background check on dealing with the criminals they say they found, who were not given a trial and we dont know anything about them. It is a fraud. The people posing as reporters are not asking these questions of any of the president ial candidates. That is what we face in the media. It is not media. It is propaganda and the trap door will open in a moment here. [applause] well, they have got a guy running who is a socialist. Socialism is the arch enemy of us and capitalism. Theyre practically promoting him. We stand for creation of wealth. They stand for the confiscation of wealth and redistribution of it to people who did not earn it. They are promoting the guy instead of challenging him. Mediant the mainstream asking who is going to pay for free college . You have to come to Alan Gottliebs gun rights policy conference to get this kind of truth. Gunlaws. Com, my website, for more of this kind of truth. That is what we face. That is where you will find out what black lives are really about. The dont encourage initiative issuing. Im alan corwin of gunlaws. Com. Thank you all for being here and god bless america. [applause] thank you very much. Peggy thanks, alan. Thank you so much. Now we will hear from neil schulman. Neil thank you. [applause] im neil schulman, author and filmmaker. I made a movie about the American Revolution returning it in our time. We give copies to just about everybody at this conference. [applause] for those of you watching on cspan, you can go to amazon. Com and buy it. Lets talk about the first American Revolution. Bridge that arcs the the and thate old farmers stood and fired the shots around the world. Those words about felons illegally in possession of 1775rms who on april 17, used those illegal guns to shoot at the least legally release legally appointed police legally appointed by the governor to confiscate their guns. Nine cops were wounded. Sheriff david clark, i have bad news for you, this country was founded by cop killers. Roughly 226 years later on september 11, 2001, jetliners filled with passengers, Flight Attendant and flight crew, all of them disarmed of firearms were overpowered by jihadi militiamen with only box cutters. Four per aircraft. Two of those captured aircraft were used as weapons to crash into the twin towers. One crashed into the u. S. Military headquarters in washington. One flight where the disarmed passengers, none of them with military or Police Uniforms or badges, thought the militiamen who would rather crash the plane into a field. The casualties that they were under 3000, but in subsequent years, wars in afghanistan and elsewhere cost the United States thousands more lives and a Wounded Warrior class. Gun control gave us 9 11. [applause] writer and filmmaker who has told stories like hollywood, including an original script on march 7, 1986. My new narrative feature film based on my first novel published in 1979 has been given to participants of this conference as a counterpoint that view firearms as a danger. Producers such as Harvey Weinstein hate gun ownership yet they make movies and tv shows full of guns. They make the guns futuristic or ordinary guns used to shoot the heads off zombies or by having the guns be used by cops. Primetime u. S. Television is thenated by shows with police and military as the armed hero. On the other side is a political right wing dominated by politicians who will sign absolute human rights only to the unborn. Anyone breathing air has only government granted privileges. Gun licenses, wer work permits. They say they want to build a wall to keep out workers. They want gun rights for the lawabiding. Otherwise, anyone who meekly complies with thousands of regulations. Im here to agree with the signers of the declaration of independence, a legal document more binding than the constitution. That when any government, police and regulations become oppressive of the peoples rights, the people have moral right to resist and existing federal law agrees with me. Look up title 18, u. S. Code section 242 which says any official who violates constitutionally protected rights is acting as a criminal and has zero Legal Authority to do so. [applause] title 18, u. S. Code section 242, title 18, u. S. Code section 242. By the way, the Second Amendment in a recent seventh Circuit Decision applied to legal immigrants. I want to tell you something that might not be pleasant. It also applies to drug g angs because nowhere is drug mentioned. According to the amendments, if it is not listed in the constitution as powers of the federal government, anything they do on this subject is void. That is how black lives matter and defenders of the bill of rights can get together. Thank you. [applause] peggy thank you, neil. Thank you, again, alan. I will bring up my next panel. I have my cheat sheet. It is outreach in a brave new world. Our participants are phil watson, senior project director of the Second Amendment foundation, who helped put together our shoot on friday. Many of you probably got to meet him. Ofan hartang, principal response television. And the newest member of the saf team, director of outreach and development. Im here to tell andrew, yes, you can work with your parents. [laughter] let andrew start it off with about eight minutes. [applause] hello, everybody. I have a question for all of you to start. How many of you are under the age of 30 . [laughter] so, we have the under. How many of you are active on facebook . That is good to see. How about twitter . Anyone on reddit . That is good to see. Under the age of 30, that is where they are getting their news. 68 of people that would rather go online rather than read a newspaper or another trusted site, and we believe it. We talk about the media and how we deal with it every day that they are against us. Social media is the one outlet we get to shape. There is no bias other than what we want it to be. All of your a hashtag. Is that is the basis of our movement. Anything searched by that, youd see the nra use it and the saf. A hashtag. That is how we get the message out. The difference with social media is it is all about people, not money. Because we are the active silent majority, we get to control what is out. The more we can post, obviously, the more we get our message out and we get the younger crowd which is what we need. This room shows we have a lot of older people. And, like we have said in the past, we lose our rights one generation at a time. Our generation is the one we have to capture so that does not happen. Amendment, number two for a reason. Just like in texas where we have our 3d printed cases of the First Amendment, the Second Amendment is also involved. We have a generation that is told by the media of what is right and wrong. Every day, we have a fight where it is hard to go against media that tells us we are crazy. The whole idea that i want to talk about is we need to be more educated on social media, more open. Less arguments, more education. Texas where we have our 3d printed cases of the First Amendment, the Second Amendment is also involved. I want to see everybody be more active in the future. I want to see you posting the hashtags. I want you to get on these new sites so we can shape the movement. We get to control what is there. I have a question for all of you. How many of you will sign up after this . How many will get on reddit, facebook, twitter and actually post and be active . What is a reddit . [laughter] andrew google it. It is basically a forum. It is an open side were anybody can post what they want. It is all sorted in categories. It is all driven daily. We actually get quite a bit of traffic on our website from the social media aspects. When we dont have anything to teach them, to really get our side across, we lose them. So, we really need to be active on these sites, all these media so we can contract the message we want to get across and get them. We cannot afford to lose another generation and lose our rights. Thank you very much. [applause] peggy what a guy. Thank you. Thank you very much, andrew. We will bring brian up here. Brian good morning. And am is brian hartang the president of Rapid Response television. I will talk a little more about traditional media. We started Rapid Response television about three years ago. Really, it was in response within the Outreach Fund raising industry for many years. One of the things that became apparent about five years ago is that we were all fishing in the same pond. Meaning when you look at who we were doing outreach to, who we were trying to approach, everybody was basically preaching to the choir. Not folkse after is in this room. People to spend a weekend at a gun rights policy conference. We dont need to reach out. You guys are engaged. We want to reach out to the majority out there that agree on Second Amendment rights, but are not engaged. The way we felt to do that is to reach the audience. Part of the problem with social media and some Digital Media is where do they decide who to go out to . Times it is because somebody who has engaged in, somebody who has done something to get on the radar screen. We are after the millions of people who are not on the radar times it is because somebody who has engagedscreen e Second Amendment. We do a lot of work with saf. You might have seen some of the ads we do. We do with through tv, but a little different than a lot of the ads you might see. We all do psa ads. We dont do nice, fancy, feelgood ad s that just tell a story. Is wes, the way we do it use traditional direct marketing, direct response techniques like when you see products being sold on tv. We mirror that with the traditional techniques for fundraising and outreach. When we produce an ad, week on list three things. Accomplish three things. Our first goal is to get people to take a second look at the tv and what is this . What are they talking about . The second thing we do, for the next 30 seconds, is hit them between the eyes on the issue. What we are trying to do is get people to believe in Second Amendment rights, in our freedoms. We want them to look at the tv and say, youre damn right. Then we ask them to do something. When we ask them to do something it is not to raise money. It is to do something to participate. Get them engaged. We try to make it as easy as possible. Whether it is call a number, go toine and sign a petition send millions of voices to congress before a vote. Whether it is to get people to become members and gains thousands of members organizations like saf. Or whether it is to shut down of the things we have is make it very easy for people to call in and not just call a phone number that goes to the general office. Tois a minor erirritant congressman when you call their office. It is a really big irritant when you call up every single phone number they have in their home states, regional offices. We have technology that will search out and find a free line. If they have 15 numbers, we will load all 15. We have a technology that will find the. Line. Ou shutnext people will start calling and caring. Tv, Second Amendment has been one of the biggest issues and the most passionate issue we have done. There are some reasons for that on tv. Part of it is there is a passion out there. It is peopl easy for people to engage in. Tv is not on the prosecond amended side. It is not use as aggressively as it is on the other side. There are reasons for that that i learned the hard way three years ago. This storyke to tell to tell you why it happened. Ourpring of 2013, we had first major progun Rights Campaign going for a client. And, i was told by a major provider that had about over 30 of all the u. S. Homes that they would not run my ad. Ok . I asked them why . They said because the issue is too controversial and we will not run that issue on our network. Ok. Bed night, im laaying watching tv and a bloomberg adc comes on. Needless list to say, i did not sleep that night. I was on the phone the next morning with a lawyer with the network because they have to give equal time. If they agreed to do an issue, they have to show the opposing issue. It is something i battle on a daily basis. Bloomberg is putting a lot of money into it, but the Mainstream Media is also doing their part to shut us down. The providers are doing their part to shut us down. They will find every excuse they can find to not air a tv ad that is proSecond Amendment and proguns. They will not hesitate on taking bloombergs money and running his ads. It is something that is important, that we have to keep pushing. We have to be on tv because it is a medium that reaches out and grabs a broader audience and catches people that are unexpected. That is the best time to catch them when they are not looking for it. So, tv is a medium we need to keep fighting for. We need to keep investing in and we need to keep out there to get the message out and get outreach. Thank you. [applause] very good these ontime. We will turn it over to phil watson now. Phil my name is phil watson. Im the special projects director for the Second Amendment foundation. I work there for about four years now. I came over from a place called the Leadership Institute in arlington, virginia which is why i am wearing this suit today, to hono morton blackwell. He was kind enough to send two veteran campaigners after the conference today. We will go across the parking lot today to the crestview room and we will have a meeting there. I hope to see as many of you there as possible. The second work with Amendment Foundation has been focused on things to do with outreach, public relations, getting grassroots gun owners involved. I really done some interesting things to try to get the truth out to the public. I went to Alan Gottlieb one day and said we really have to start looking into what Michael Bloomberg is doing. Withwe basically found out our Research Project meet the mayors that a lot of the people that joined bloombergs group, mayors against illegal guns, did not even know they joined or were felons. [applause] it is true. And we put that out there. It goes completely viral every time we do something with it. There is over 30 now of these people that have worked with Michael Bloomberg that have been charged and convicted in courts of law of everything from pedophilia to assault to violating the gun laws they themselves passed. It is very interesting when you hear Bloomberg Talk about this stuff as if he really has clean hands. He really does not. One of the things that really shocked me about michael continually look into what he is doing just this last year, he did this conference at the aspen institute. He said all young might minority all young minority males should be disarmed. I come from a mixed raced family. I think that is a crazy statement. I think that is a plainly obviously racist statement. I dont think Michael Bloomberg has apologized yet. He should apologize and he has to because if we are not going apology fore an when this guy does something wrong, then who is . The media is not. We all know that. Help themloves to, to out with his message. So, i want to give you an interesting tidbit about a book i have been reading called trust me im lying. No, it is not written by Michael Bloomberg. It is a great book. It will give you a lot of tools to sort of traverse the media landscape. A lot of the techniques are techniques i have used. One of the fun things was giving tips to bloggers. Sometimes things happen out there and you dont always know. Things like when Michael Bloomberg websites were found out to be registered on the city of new york servers. That went viral. That started with us giving tips to bloggers. Michelle malkins website picked it up. It just went viral from there on out. It is Little Things like that that we can do to give the media a nudge. A lot of the outreach i do is online. I dont know a lot of the people that i talked to a lot of time. I meet them online all over the world. We have done great work with our international group, the International Association for the protection of civilian arms rights. Now,ve got over 30 groups i believe, all over the world. A lot of the people i have never met in person. Workt know they do great and the only way i can communicate with them is online. So, if you can, go there and do us a service and repost our stuff and look at that because it is very educational. There is a whole world out there. It is not just a fight in the United States. There are basically three parts to what i am telling you today. There is a battle with bloomberg and the other billionaires. There is a battle with cities like seattle, which is really a propaganda war. It is funded by bloomberg. A battle against ourselves. And, so, the battle against the citys seattle is a perfect example of that. A plaintiff on one of our lawsuits to get rid of the new seattle city gun tax. It is really an outrage. They want to tax every single gun sold in seattle. Every single bullet, too, and blame lawabiding citizens like everybody in this room for the actions of a few criminals. I think it is an outrage. So, we should definitely watch out for stuff like that because, look, bloomberg will try to use anything and everything he can to ban guns. If he cannot, he wants to make them cost thousands of dollars. He can afford them. He can afford them for his security guards, but he does not want us to have them. That is important to fight stuff like that. [applause] thank you. One of the most amazing discoveries that we have made was going through all of these online records, of records requests we have made. We found the gun control playbook. It was an 80 something page toia guide to how, how basically ban guns. I want to give you some talking points today to have to fight that. One of their talking points is, look, they want to divide us. They want to break us down into little groups. This is pitting us against ourselves. Open carry versus concealed carry versus hunters versus different types of guns. They want to make everybody out to seem like a criminal, seemed like you dont care. Thatne way to really fight is to turn their talking points around on them. One of the best lines i have come up with, to use their line which it saves one life, if it saves one life, we must Pass National carry now. [applause] if it saves one life, we must get rid of all these ridiculous, really ridiculous gun free zones today, not tomorrow. Today. [applause] can go on and on. It is really getting to where these cases are happening every day almost, to where somebody either defends themselves with a gun or did not have the right to have a gun because they were either in some gun free zone or they wer prohibitede completely from having it because of some state law like this woman in new jersey who applied many times for her permit, but kept getting denied for no reason whatsoever. She was eventually killed in her own driveway. I think that is the perfect example if we can just save one life, then you have to pass the bill. You have to pass the bill. That is part of the battle against ourselves. It is so easy to get wrapped up of pettyese sort arguments. Who did what when . What happened in 1791 . That is not to deleg itimatize anything what people have fought for. This is not what it did back in 1791. They want to know how it will do today. Summarize, groups need to stop fighting with each other. Recognize the real enemy and stop listening to these groups like, this group out of colorado. I will not give them the pleasure of having their name on tv. But, they have the same amount of accomplishments as hillary which is zero. Groupso whotening t have not done anything ever for you. We are out there on the front lines every single day trying to preserve your rights. I really hope to see every single one of you, to be packed room after we get done today. Thank you very much and have a wonderful conference. [applause] the 2016 elections will be here before we know it. We need to be engaged now. Let me start off by saying we all owe Hillary Clinton a very big thank you. [laughter] why . Her antigun rights rhetoric and record are going to ensure the results will be a record turnout of gun owners and the 2016 election. [applause] she has already decided on barack obama obamas gun rights to get her partys nomination. And energized gunowners will turn out an impact not just the president ial race, but every race on the ballot, down ballot from the u. S. Senate all the way down to dogcatcher. It will impact every democrat on the ballot. Like it or not, democrats have made guncontrol an extremely partisan issue. Not all democrats are antigun and not all republicans are progun rights. The party that controls congress controls the flow of legislation and it is important to the battle of struggle to keep the right to bear arms. Important for the president ial election to not be limited at all. Critical tocial is our continued success in the courts. Believe me, our opponents will look to shut that courthouse door in our face. Only a few cases ever reached the Supreme Court of the United States. Judicial nominations to lower courts are very important and always fly below the radar. He has seen the damage that many of obamas nominees have done. Two judges think of who have voted to overturn antigun rights laws. Hillary clinton is elected president , all those nominations will he worse. We cannot forget the importance of the senate election. The Senate Confirms those nominees. Lets looking at the Playing Field for the 2016 election. To keep the Senate Control is going to be down to just a few states. If the gop ticket wins by here, it will be difficult for the senate to bring back the senate. Queak democrat , through, democrats have a of having ance victory in the senate. Democrat need to gain for seats democraticts if a president gets elected. Otherwise, they need five. Five might be a heavy lift to capture the senate. There is only a certain number of states that are in play. Those states are florida, northis, new hampshire, carolina, ohio, and wisconsin. If you are from those states, those are the battlegrounds. Democrats have to hold shaky senate seats in colorado and nevada. Other than illinois, these are states that she is very competitive for the race in the white house, which will make president ial coattails more important. The radical democratic majority , republicans are more likely to keep the majority then democrats are geographic. At least a small net gain for the gop is expected. Not losing any requires a republican nominee to win, but capture more than 300 electoral votes, something no republican has done george bush senior in 1988. The importance of the u. S. House of representatives is also extremely important to us. It is our firewall. It guarantees that no antigun legislation will ever get to desk. Residents the house is where we can stop the agenda, and if hillary is elected, it will be twice as important. Obama took office in 2009 with 60 democrats. Had 257 seats in the house. Today, only 46 members of the senate in the democratic caucus, the First Showing the first year after the Ronald Reagan landslide. 188the house, there were 8 democrats. Now the democrats had fewer than when Herbert Hoover took office in 1929. The collapse of the democrats fortunes are worse. Republicans hold 31 governor ships, nine more than obama was an arbiter desk inaugurated. The last two years, the gop has one governorships in deep purple states, maine, massachusetts, new jersey, maryland, wisconsin, new mexico, nevada, ohio. The last midterm elections, only one in danger republican governor was replaced by a democrat. The governor in alaska lost an independent. Every other endangered republican was richard all caps. Now to the legislatures if you are loyal democrat, you may want to avert your eyes to this. Now the gop is in full control of 30 state legislatures. The democrats hold power in just 11. [applause] in 24 states, republicans hold control of both houses, giving total control over the political process. That increased power at the state level and has already led to serious consequences for democrats and the antigovernment lobby. Have been puts, in jeopardy. The gun right movement has identified more than 16 million gun owners who are registered to vote. And turnoutration projects are on schedule to number of to double the. Umber by election day 2016 most of the work done in battleground states in contested districts. Tos data vault is important test bloomberg important to bloombergs measures. With his track record in the 2014 election, he is planning on spending millions of dollars is on target targeting certain programgun members of the congress to make an example out of somebody who supports gun rights that he can say he can take down. Our work is cut out for us. The latest event should give our opponents harper. Poll asked, in your view, do existing gun laws make it too easy for people to oo difficult, ordiff just right . This news should give Hillary Clinton, barack obama, michael grouperg, and every town a migraine headache. That0 who responded buying a gun is too difficult. Supporting lost the weight they are with no changes, no more control, no new bills passed. That is good news for us, for our candidate. Whats the other side tries to do is rebranded. They do not trying to sell it as gun control. To try to be sold as commonsense proposals, Mental Health issues, under various preventive causes, and they will not talk about gun control. They know that is a losing proposition except Hillary Clinton who has doubled down for it. Thats why we over a big thankyou. That is good news for gas. Conference, in aroundlorida, a key that battleground state. Help, we will turn out begun vote like never before. For all of us into that into 2016 election is, if start straight. In 2016, we must fight to win. Thank you. [no audio] does anybody know what i am about to say . Good morning, gun lobby. Made that greeting from the microphone for almost every year of the past 30 years, and i am proud to do it again this year. This year i want to change it a little it. Good morning, gun voters. When we talk about lobbying, we are talking about legislation. We are talking about influencing those that we have elected to do what we want them to do, what we hired them to do. When we talk about gun voters, were talking about getting those guys in, and we cannot separate two. We can, often we do, but we should not. Action onnd political the election front are both critical to longterm survival and winning. And unlike the rumors that the allen and i, nra, goa, we are not in the business to drag it out and make money. We are in the business because we believe in it and it is what we do. I would much rather have a real job where i go to rio, regular hours, come home to my family, go out shooting every now and then than to spend 14 hours a day with a laptop computer in my map, looking away, researching and writing, and trying to get messages out to those who did not understand what it is so critical that we defend our rights. 2016, isming election, raising up on us. Theave a crowded field on republican side. I just want to comment. Yesterday for the second time that i have been attending a meeting, we had a president ial candidate in the room. He spoke with us, endorse our positions. Yesterday, when governor jim gilmore was in this room, i would be willing to bet that there were at least 200 armed people around him at all times. I do not think governor gilmore was worried about it, do you . You are not a threat. You are the good guys. That is right. Room in thefest state, as bob said. There is a lot of information out there, and information is. He power of politics if you want to win elections, you have to information, and part of the critical information you need is information about they stand,e, where what they stand for, do they really mean what they say, have they proven that they need what say, what are they saying now, what they say couple years ago, was different . There is a lot of research up there. Gun roadas their project online, good information, good resources. The nra, gun owners of america, Citizens Committee for the right to keep and bear arms, the various state organizations, the Arizona Citizens Defense League [cheers] of which i am a proud new life member they offered me a deal. Add up all thean years you have been a member, and here is how much itll cost you to go life. So i did that yesterday, and im glad to have done it. But all of this information gging and each election cycle we build it back again and then it dies off. G. Is called gunvoter. Or how many of you play out on the internet . We get out there, you surf. Forms anybody edited to forms . Forums . The objective is to get information into the your website and tell everybody else where this candidate stands, what he is saying about the issues, what he has done about the issues, what she wants to do about the issues, and most importantly, voting record. Votes, votes, votes are your best indicator of where somebody stands, and that is why it right now my critical issue, along with getting you to come to gunvoter. Org participate, my critical issue is representative rob bishops bill to delete the sporting purpose language from the gun control act. I do not know about you, but i have never found the words in theng purpose constitution. I do not find it in the Second Amendment. Been a bureaucrat basing his or her determination of what needs some sporting purpose criteria. That is wrong. One of the issues that has been discussed is some division amongst gun groups and rights advocate. I am a firm supporter of national reciprocity. But there is some division in the house regarding National Websites of the national