Gun owner and Second Amendment advocate Marlene Hoeber isn’t your typical member of the National Rifle Association. In fact, she isn’t a member of the NRA at all.<\/p>\n
The Oakland, Calif., laboratory equipment mechanic regularly visits firing ranges, where, along with other members of her gun club, she shoots a variety of weapons. “Guns are fun to play with,” she says. She even makes her own ammunition.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
She has no use, however, for the NRA’s conservative political agenda. By her own description, Hoeber is a feisty, liberal, transgender, tattooed, queer, activist feminist.<\/p>\n
She belongs instead to another gun advocacy group entirely–The Liberal Gun Club–whose membership ranges, she says, “from socialists, to anarchists who can quote Marx, to Reagan Democrats.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\nIt’s also tiny – 1,200 members. \u00a0And I’m going to guess they’re in the Bay Area – the media only refers to a “Northern California Chapter” – and I’m going to guess they’re long on the “liberal”:<\/p>\n
Its mission, she says, is to provide “a place for gun owners to talk to other owners about neat gun stuff, without having to hear how the president is a Muslim-usurper-socialist running a false-flag operation.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Aaaaaand there you go. \u00a0(The NRA has no such institutional belief; to the extent you can find birthers in the NRA, I’m gonna guess you’ll find just as many “Bush took down the Twin Towers!” and “Trigger” types in the LGC.<\/p>\n
Still, if they’re solid on the Second Amendment – let a thousand flowers bloom, I say.<\/p>\n
Still, they could do with a little less narrative-mongering:<\/p>\n
Although liberal gun owners are presumed not to exist, Gardner says they most certainly do.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\nThere are plenty of Democrats in the NRA – and Minnesota’s Real American movement freely acknowledges we’d have never gotten Shall Issue permit reform without Democrat support.<\/p>\n
Less paranoia. \u00a0More firepower.<\/p>\n
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