The impact of the 2024 election is going to take time to fully comprehend.
As gun owners, we’ve been in battle mode for four years in a row fighting to stop Biden’s agenda in Congress, in court, and in our own State Capitol as energized Leftists attacked HARD!
Biden’s time in office brought a new assault on our gun rights almost every day and required an immediate reaction.
But since November 5, Georgia Gun Owners has been meeting with lawmakers, talking to other gun rights organizations, and having detailed conversations with members of Congress to map out our 2025 Agenda for Freedom.
If you have a minute, I’d like to share the details of this with you and ask you to help us press the advantage next year.
(I was proud to speak at a press conference in front of the ATF on behalf of GGO members, calling on Congress to close this agency down for good!)
Starting Point:
We’re operating under two main principles heading into 2025.
First, gun owners have given President Trump (and lawmakers in Georgia) a mandate to kick down the door and do big things for gun owners next year!
Second, stopping the damage is not enough. We need to roll back the damage that the Left did and pass big pro-gun bills in Georgia and in Congress while we have the momentum!
As I get into the details of our agenda for 2025 on the next page, I hope that you’ll agree that now is the time to push hard to secure freedom for the next generation.
And I hope that if you agree with our game plan, you’ll also agree to renew your Georgia Gun Owners membership for 2025 right away! According to our records, your current membership will expire at the end of the year!
RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP IN GGO FOR 2025 BY DECEMBER 31ST!
(If you have already renewed online or in the mail and our records are running behind, ignore this message. And lifetime members get all of our updates; your membership never expires.)
Agenda in Atlanta:
Last year, Wyoming became the first state in the nation to ban ‘Red Flag Gun Seizures.’
I don’t know about you, but with Georgia having some of the largest GOP majorities in decades, I think it’s high time that we do the same thing!
‘Red Flag’ laws allow your guns to be taken away before you’ve even been charged (let alone convicted) of a crime.
Our bill is simple: it requires that before any judge can order the seizure of our firearms, we must be convicted of a felony crime first! This guarantees that a gun owner will get his day in court, where he can assert his due process rights!
And to make sure that all agencies abide by this law, our legislation contains civil penalties. These days, civil penalties are a must!
Sure, we’ve stopped ‘Red Flags’ for years. Now it’s time to finish that fight by making these orders illegal!
But it’s also time to beef up our self-defense laws.
Georgia has Stand-Your-Ground law. Gun owners passed this into law in 2006. But the legal threats are changing, and our legal protections need to change to meet those threats.
Here in Georgia, if you are forced to use your firearm in a self-defense situation, in the eyes of the law, you’re guilty of a crime — and it’s up to you to prove your innocence in court.
That gives all the power to the government, who can bleed you dry as you face an uphill battle in court.
That’s backwards.
And in almost 20 other states, they’ve changed things.
It’s time Georgia does, too. Our bill would extend the presumption of innocence to everyone involved in a self-defense situation and require the state to prove our guilt in court.
Further, our bill would make it clear that we can invoke Stand-Your-Ground law in a pre-trial hearing. Right now, you can only assert this defense AFTER you’ve been convicted! Crazy!
This should be easy. American jurisprudence is based on the idea of ‘innocent until proven guilty.’ But that does not apply to self-defense situations in Georgia; we must change this law.
Both of these bills have been blocked in previous sessions of the legislature, so we need to press hard in 2025!
RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP IN GGO FOR 2025 BY DECEMBER 31ST!
Agenda in Congress:
We all know that Joe Biden did real damage to our gun rights during his four years in the White House.
It’s time to roll that damage back.
First, we’re working with our allies in the Trump White House to make sure that the day he is sworn into office, Trump immediately reverses the Executive Orders Biden signed.
These orders redefined firearms dealers, banned pistol braces, stopped ammo importation and more. These are easy to fix, however, if Trump signs the paperwork.
In Congress, we need to make sure Congress finally passes National Reciprocity legislation that would allow you to carry in all 50 states using your Georgia carry permit. Your driver’s license is good in all states, so should your carry permit.
The best part is that President Trump already said he would sign the bill if Congress puts it on his desk.
And while that should be easy since the GOP controls both chambers, it won’t be. The moderates in the House (think PA’s Brian Fitzpatrick) are already making it clear they don’t want to touch this legislation in the next Congress.
We’ll have to force their hand.
But we also need to repeal the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, which Biden passed in 2022. This law funds state level ‘Red Flag Gun Seizures,’ put waiting periods on sales to younger Americans, and funded terrible gun control agencies in D.C.
But that’s not all. We need to go after the ATF and NFA!
That’s why I’m pleased to announce that just last week I was in meetings in DC with our national affiliate (the American Firearms Association) and Missouri Congressman Eric Burlison.
Burlison has agreed to be the lead sponsor on legislation to Repeal the National Firearms Act AND Abolish the ATF! These are the kinds of BIG BOLD THINGS that gun owners want to see Congress do when they reconvene next year!
RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP IN GGO FOR 2025 BY DECEMBER 31ST!
This is Our Chance:
As you can see, the opportunities are almost endless.
We need to go ‘all in’ and do everything we can to make sure that our victory on election night translates into victories next Congress and next session here in Atlanta.
That’s why I’m asking you to renew your membership in GGO before it expires on December 31st!
I know it’s a lot.
The good news is that as a member of Georgia Gun Owners,
you’ve seen the impact of your support time and time again. Thanks to your support we have:
*** Defended Stand-Your-Ground law when Democrats and RINOs wanted to gut it, which would have required Georgians to retreat before defending themselves and their loved ones against a violent criminal;
*** Passed Constitutional Carry law which allows law abiding Georgians to carry a firearm without needing to beg the government for permission or add their name to a database;
*** Made sure every gun owner in Georgia knew exactly what ‘Big Stacey Abrams’ would do to our gun rights if elected governor, leading to her defeat in 2018 and 2022;
*** Exposed gun-grabbers during every election since 2010, leading to gun owners gaining ground in the legislature and throwing countless gun-grabbers in Atlanta into the dustbin of Georgia political history.
*** Made the Second Amendment one of the top 3 issues in Georgia politics, forcing the politicians to fight for us.
I didn’t do any of this, and neither did any politician.
You and tens of thousands of your fellow gun owners did this -– securing tremendous Second Amendment freedom in Georgia — and forcing lawmakers to fear gun owners again!
But we need to do this again, in a big way, in 2025. That’s why I’m asking you to hit the link below and renew your membership!
RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP IN GGO FOR 2025 BY DECEMBER 31ST!
As a sign of my deep appreciation for your support, any renewal at the Freedom Level ($75) or higher comes with a FREE GGO T-Shirt and decal which we’ll rush to you right away.
No More Defense:
I’m tired of being on defense.
In fact, I’m angry that we had to spend four years blocking a tyrant in the White House from passing national ‘Red Flag’ laws, a national gun registry, banning AR-15s…all of it!
(Congressman Eric Burlison and me, moments after he announced (in front of the ATF) that he’s filing the bill to ABOLISH THEIR AGENCY FOREVER!)
I want to go on offense!
I want to take the fight to the Left in Atlanta and Congress and use the momentum that we built to make MAJOR GAINS for our great Second Amendment!
If you agree, please immediately renew your membership in GGO for 2025!
The 2025 legislature begins here in Atlanta on January 13, so please act fast.
For Freedom,
Aaron Dorr
Executive Director
Georgia Gun Owners
P.S. Your membership in Georgia Gun Owners will expire on December 31st! If you’ve already renewed and our system simply hasn’t had time to catch up, please disregard this unnecessary notice.
But if you haven’t renewed yet, I hope you’ll agree to stand with us in 2025 so that we can secure major gun rights victories in Atlanta, and in Congress!
We’ve been on defense for four years, it’s time to attack!
Please act fast