Tony,

It is so wonderful of you to once again provide us with your uninformed opinion. I will make the assumption that you are speaking of me when you refer to “our representation at the bargaining table” since you have attacked me on similar grounds by email and on the internet. You are the worst kind of gun owner. You spout off with totally ignorant crap AND you do absolutely ZERO to support efforts to maintain or increase the right to keep and bear arms.

On April 19, 2021, several LSA board members along with about thirty gun rights supporters attended a hearing in the Louisiana Senate Judiciary C Committee on a constitutional carry bill. I noticed that you did not attend so I assume that you do not support constitutional carry. I testified for 30 minutes in support of SB118 as did LSA vice-president, Barret Kendrick. The bill passed the Senate 27-11 no thanks to you.

On April 28, 2021, once again I, along with Barret Kendrick and about eighty gun rights supporters, attended 6 hours of hearings in the House Administration of Criminal Justice Committee. Again, both Barret and I testified on multiple bills involving gun rights. Again, I noticed that you did not attend. We got four gun rights bills out of committee and defeated the only anti rights bill on the agenda all without your help or support.

When you deride “our representation at the bargaining table,” I must laugh. You do not even know where the bargaining table is much less what it looks like. Shouting silly phrases that you either dreamed up in your uninformed mind or read somewhere on the internet will do nothing to advance gun rights in Louisiana or the US.

However, the Louisiana Shooting Association is an organization controlled by its members. If you believe that you would be better able to lead the organization in our fight to maintain and broaden the right to keep and bear arms, you should run for its leadership. I would be happy to take up the challenge. I’ll just run on my record which includes Louisiana’s protection of gun manufacturers from lawsuits, legalizing hunting with silencers, preempting all local control of gun regulation, removing the authority of the executive to regulate guns in times of emergency, legalizing switchblades, concealed carry in restaurants, and other laws which improved gun rights. I also have successfully worked on preventing any anti gun rights bill from becoming law in the past nearly two decades. I did not do this alone. I had help from many gun rights supporters. However, you have never been counted among them.

You should run on your record of gun rights accomplishments. What are they again? That’s right, absolutely nothing. Good luck.

Finally, you continue to spew out absolute tripe concerning my position on the NFA. “Someone who would openly argue to maintain the unconstitutional NFA for fear of a monetary lost.” Pretermitting the fact that your statement is not even a sentence, I have no clue how on earth you formulated that opinion or why you maintain it when I and others have told you that you are absolutely wrong. If I believed that the NFA could be defeated either legislatively or in the courts, I would work diligently to do so. What would you do? Probably your usual nothing.

In conclusion, you just go on your merry way enjoying the fruits of the gun rights activists who are in the trenches and who have a seat at the table working to preserve the right to keep and bear arms. We will just keep getting things done.

Dan Zelenka
President
Louisiana Shooting Association

Our representation at the bargaining table should not be someone who penned a CCW law in Louisiana that forces a citizen to prove their innocence, to exercise a right. Someone who would openly argue to maintain the unconstitutional NFA for fear of a monetary lost. Someone who likes the process and procedure of gun laws over the free exercise of rights.

Tony Geeck

We had sent galley proofs of the book to Alan Gottlieb, the Founder of the Second Amendment Foundation, and Dave Workman, the Senior Editor for Gun Week, the news magazine published by the SAF.

Both of them kindly wrote “blurbs” for the cover of the book, and Alan invited me to speak at the conference (you got a highly regulated 15 minutes to speak!)

My publisher funded the trip, and it remains one of the most powerful memories I have of my involvement in the gun movement. You will meet the most important movers and shakers in the gun world at one of these conferences, and come away inspired at the work being done around the country and the world to empower gun owners. Not to mention, you will need a second suitcase to bring home all the 2nd Amendment-related books you will receive free, just for attending.

Like Dan, I strongly recommend joining the SAF. Few people know they initiated the first lawsuits against the City of New Orleans and St. Tammany Parish for confiscation of personal firearms from the public immediately following Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Many also fail to realize how frequently litigious they are as an organization in defense of your gun rights. The SAF was a strong, early supporter of Heller Vs. Washington, D.C. And if memory serves, the SAF was one of the litigants funding the lawsuit in MacDonald Vs. Chicago. In fact, Alan Gottlieb told me himself, after Heller, to watch the news, there would a suit filed shortly against Chicago to “engrave” the 2nd Amendment to the rights of the individual states.

Frequently, it has been the SAF to lead the charge in filing lawsuits defending our 2nd Amendment rights, having other gun rights groups leap on board and “steal their thunder” so-to-speak.

Like Dan, I strongly encourage all our members to attend a GRPC. You will come away from it enlightened, astounded, and having made impressive contacts with important gun rights people—with whom you will have met on a personal, one-on-one basis.

Finally, like Dan, I urge everyone to do everything to talk up and encourage membership in our organization. I mention the LSA in every concealed permit class I teach, offer the web address, and strongly urge my students to join it, telling them it is one of the wisest and most effective investments they will make in defending their gun freedoms.

Gordon Hutchinson
LSA Board Member
Member #3143