Dudley Brown

Dudley Brown
Born	1965
Occupation	Executive Director of Rocky Mountain Gun Owners President of National Association for Gun Rights
Known for	Gun rights activism
Home town	Brush, Colorado
Political party	Republican

Dudley W. Brown (born 1965) is an American gun rights lobbyist. He is the founder and executive director of Rocky Mountain Gun Owners and the president of the National Association for Gun Rights, a group that serves as an umbrella coordinator for various state-level pro-gun organizations.

Brown was raised in South Dakota. Brown became politically active in his college years, where he founded the Colorado State University campus chapter of College Republicans and was elected chairman of College Republicans of Colorado.

Brown attended, but did not graduate from, Colorado State University. In 2013, after being questioned about his educational history, Brown changed his biography on his organization's web page to reflect that he had not in fact received a college degree. He reported that he was one credit shy of a degree but participated in the 1989 graduation ceremonies. Brown was arrested in 1988 on substance abuse charges.

Prior to becoming a pro-gun lobbyist, Brown worked in various political positions, including working as the Media Director for the Colorado House of Representatives Republican Party caucus.

Brown is a critic of the anti-gun lobby and interest groups like the Violence Policy Center.

A 2014 Denver Post article listed Brown as the 24th most powerful person in Denver, Colorado.

Brown founded the Colorado organization Rocky Mountain Gun Owners in 1996 as a "no-compromise" alternative to other pro-gun organizations. In the wake of the Columbine High School massacre, Colorado voters passed Amendment 22, a voter-initiated measure requiring background checks of gun purchases at gun shows, closing the gun show loophole. Brown opposed the initiative, stating, "We're under assault right now. We feel like the Jews did in Nazi Germany."

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