Why I’m Willing to Fight – BBC Airs Report on ‘Non-Traditional’ Gun Owners

One of the largest media outlets on this planet, the BBC, recently aired a piece about several “non-traditional” well-armed American self defense groups. They included Armed Equality, the non-partisan group I started. The BBC tells me the piece was seen by over three hundred million human beings around the world. It will be translated into … Read more

How We Act and Speak Will Determine the Future of Gun Rights

If you consider yourself an ardent defender of the Second Amendment, congratulations, you now work in sales and marketing. It’s time we realize this and act accordingly. When we are speaking to friends, family, and strangers, we need to be very careful and controlled in our choice of words, analogies, and demeanor. We are the … Read more

Is Your Local Gun Shop Helping or Hurting the Cause?

Over the last few years my involvement in the 2A community has been quite enlightening. One of the realities I have become more and more aware of is that our tendencies as human beings to engage in petty rivalries, competition, and back-stabbing is alive and well within the 2A community. While this really shouldn’t be … Read more

Why Demographic-Specific Outreach Is Important For Expanding Gun Rights

When I formed Armed Equality I wasn’t exactly sure where I wanted to take the group in terms of big picture, long term goals. I just knew I needed to do something helpful in response to the Pulse nightclub hate crime and terrorist attack. I started by reaching out to local shops and instructors to … Read more

Armed Equality: Firearms, Self Defense, Survival and Medical Training For LGBT Americans

By Piper Smith On June 12th, 2016, a deranged individual murdered 49 Americans and wounded 58 in a combination terrorist attack/hate crime inside a nightclub in Orlando, Florida. He was eventually shot and killed by law enforcement after a three-hour delay. This was the deadliest incident of violence against LGBT Americans in US history and … Read more