Rocky Mountain Gun Owners
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| Formation | 1996 |
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| Headquarters | Windsor, Colorado |
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Dudley Brown |
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Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, or RMGO, is a non-profit gun rights advocacy group in Colorado, United States. The group also maintains a separate affiliated Political Action Committee.
RMGO was established in the mid 1990s in Colorado by firearm rights advocate Dudley Brown. The group has become known for aggressive lobbying activities that have made their issues prominent, particularly in primaries and candidate nominating assemblies and for its influence in firearms public policy such as Concealed Carry,Constitutional Carry, and Make My Day (more recently referred to as Castle Doctrine) legislation.
RMGO maintains that it is Colorado’s only "no-compromise" gun rights lobby and has attained distinction for its lobbying tactics that differ from other pro-gun organizations such as the National Rifle Association. The two organizations have exchanged heated criticisms of each other.
RMGO was established in 1996 and has been registered with the Colorado Secretary of State’s office since January of 1997. Dudley Brown, an NRA lobbyist throughout the early 1990s founded the group shortly after leaving the NRA state affiliate for being too lax on gun-control.
In the aftermath of the Columbine High School massacre Brown represented RMGO in national news in support of gun rights amidst calls for more restrictions on firearms. RMGO organized opposition to a 2000 state ballot initiative known as Amendment 22 aimed at closing the purported “gun-show loophole” by requiring background checks at gun shows. Amendment 22 ultimately passed. The group also organized opposition and demonstrations against legislative measures supported by then Republican Governor Bill Owens to restricting firearms access, and campaigned against candidates down to local sheriff that they felt undermined gun issues. RMGO's early years of influenced earned recognition in a state political science textbook.
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