{"id":287439,"date":"2016-12-27T18:48:54","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T17:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/liberal-gun-club-sees-rising-membership-under-donald-trump\/"},"modified":"2016-12-27T18:48:54","modified_gmt":"2016-12-27T17:48:54","slug":"liberal-gun-club-sees-rising-membership-under-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/liberal-gun-club-sees-rising-membership-under-donald-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Liberal Gun Club\u2019 Sees Rising Membership Under Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>Liberal Gun Club (LGC) spokesperson Lara Smith says her group has witnessed an increase in inquiries and rising membership since Donald Trump won the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>She said the LGC focuses on education rather than politics and, because of this, offers an alternative to Democrats who may not support Republican positions related to the Second Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>Smith <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/12\/25\/506927780\/gun-club-for-liberals-says-more-people-are-joining-post-election\" target=\"_blank\">told<\/a>\u00a0NPR:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The NRA has its political side. We are an organization strictly for education. We do not endorse candidates. And we\u2019re a place \u2013 many of our members have joined NRA boards, other gun forums and found that they weren\u2019t welcome there because they didn\u2019t follow lockstep with the NRA\u2019s support of nearly unanimously Republican and right-leaning candidates.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>She said the increased interest in LGC is coming from the same demographics that other groups who monitor the gun industry are seeing. \u201cMore women are joining,\u201d she said, and she also cited interest from the urban community. Smith credited the work of Maj Toure is doing with Black Guns Matter as part of the reason behind the rise in urban involvement.<\/p>\n<p>In trying to provide an overall explanation for what has drawn new members to LGC since the election, Smith said, \u201cI think, one, there\u2019s a very small subset who feel concerned about the new government. Specifically, is this new government going to take their guns because they\u2019ve spoken out about an issue that Trump or the Republicans are seen as not supporting, whether it be LGBTQ rights, the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/liberal-gun-club-sees-rising-membership-under-donald-trump\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberal Gun Club (LGC) spokesperson Lara Smith says her group has witnessed an increase in inquiries and rising membership since Donald Trump won the presidency. She said the LGC focuses on education rather than politics and, because of this, offers an alternative to Democrats who may not support Republican positions related to the Second Amendment. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-287439","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}