CA: Gun Rights Policy Conference Takes Place in San Diego Over Weekend

AmmoLand ^ | October 2, 2024 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

The 2024 Gun Rights Policy Conference (GRPC) was held in San Diego, California. The location was not a universally popular choice. California has a deserved reputation as one of the few states that have enacted extremely restrictive legislation against firearms ownership and use. The restrictions make it difficult for law-abiding people to exercise their Second Amendment rights.

California is at the epicenter of the battle to restore Second Amendment rights through the courts. Millions of California gun owners are impacted by the unconstitutional laws. Tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of activists are fighting every day to restore their rights. Many of them were in attendance at the 2024 GRPC.

The 2024 GRPC was the 39th Gun Rights Policy Conference. This correspondent has attended about a third of them. 38 GRPC events were managed and primarily conducted by Julianne Hoy Versnel. Julianne is married to Alan Gottlieb, who founded the Second Amendment Foundation. This was the first GRPC organized and directed by other people.

2024 is the 50th anniversary of the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF), which created the GRPC. Alan and Julianne have been a power couple whose teamwork has been tremendously important in creating the powerhouse SAF has become. Both have worked to ensure the organizations survive beyond their mortal term. Alan Gottlieb has handed over most of the management of SAF to Adam Kraut, who has become the executive director of SAF.

This year, the GRPC had a different look. There were no panels of experts who each gave short presentations on a subject. There was the usual 15-minute presentation of subject matter experts to explain what was happening in a particular court case or a particular state activist group.

[marktwain]

If you have an opportunity to attend a Gun Rights Policy Conference, I highly recommend it.

They are announced and managed by the Second Amendment Foundation, and are free to attend. They rotate around the country.

[Carry_Okie]

Silencers please.

I'd put up a range to practice here if they were legal.

[marktwain]

There are lawsuits ongoing. The most promising one is in Illinois, challenging their total ban on silencers.

[Carry_Okie]

California has one too.

[coalminersson]

Te city of SD is liberal. But the county has many active duty and retired military