D.C. Itinerary

The national event for Second Amendment March is scheduled for April 19, 2010.

We have reserved the grounds of the Washington Monument from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. that day.

So far we have the following speakers scheduled. We are constantly working on this event, so be sure to check back!

Scheduled Speakers

Larry Pratt has been Executive Director of Gun Owners of America for 26 years. GOA is a national membership organization of 300,000 Americans dedicated to promoting their Second Amendment freedom to keep and bear arms.

GOA lobbies for the pro-gun position in Washington, D.C. and is involved in firearm issues in the states. GOA's work includes providing legal assistance to those involved in lawsuits with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, the federal firearms law enforcement agency.

Pratt has appeared on numerous national radio and TV programs such as NBC's Today Show, CBS' Good Morning America, CNN's Crossfire and Larry King Live, Fox's Hannity and Colmes and many others. He has debated Congressman James Traficant, Jr. (D-OH), Charles Rangel (D-NY), Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY), Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), and Vice President Al Gore, among others. His columns have appeared in newspapers across the country.

He published a book, Armed People Victorious, in 1990 and was editor of a book, Safeguarding Liberty: The Constitution & Militias, 1995. His latest book, On the Firing Line: Essays in the Defense of Liberty was published in 2001.

Pratt has held elective office in the state legislature of Virginia, serving in the House of Delegates. Pratt directs a number of other public interest organizations and serves as the Vice-Chairman of the American Institute for Cancer Research.

Kenn Blanchard is a former Marine Security Guard who has worked protective details for international celebrities and US diplomats.  Later after becoming a federal police officer, he was detailed to protect a couple of families which morphed into another career path where he worked or taught firearms, tactics and protection. He is also a D.C.-area pastor who runs blackmanwithagun.com. Kenn has been involved in the struggle for the Second Amendment since the state of Virginia reformed its conceal carry law in the early nineties. He founded the Tenth Cavalry Gun Club, a national pro-gun organization for African Americans, and worked around the country after that to promote safe and responsible firearms ownership. He was involved in concealed carry reforms in Texas, South Carolina, Michigan and Wisconsin and has testified in the US Congress and in Maryland on bills or acts designed to prevent law abiding Americans from legal firearm ownership or concealed carry.  

Suzanna G. Hupp is a former Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives and a recognized public advocate for the Second Amendment and an individual’s right to carry a concealed weapon.

A Friendswood, Texas, native, Suzanna Gratia (married name Hupp) was born on January 1, 1959. After she received a doctor of chiropractic degree from the Texas Chiropractic College in Pasadena, Texas, she owned and operated Cove Physical Rehab Clinic in Copperas Cove, Texas from 1987 until she sold the practice in 2000.

On Wednesday, October 16, 1991, Suzanna and her parents were having lunch at Luby’s Cafeteria in Killeen, when a man drove his truck into the restaurant and opened fire on the patrons. Suzanna instinctively reached into her purse for her handgun, but realized it was in her vehicle, as a new law was passed in Texas banning the carry of a concealed weapon. Suzanna escaped out of a broken window, but 23 unarmed others, including Suzanna’s mother and father, were killed at the hands of the gunman.

As a survivor of the Luby’s massacre, Suzanna has been quoted in U.S. News & World Report, The Wall Street Journal, Texas Monthly, Time and People magazines, in addition to appearing on CNN, 48 Hours, Today Show and World News Tonight, to name a few.

Hupp has since authored a memoir recounting her experiences in the massacre, entitled From Luby’s to the Legislature: One Woman’s Fight Against Gun Control, available October 2009.

Richard Mack held office as Sheriff in Graham County, Arizona, and is a long-time crusader for freedom and individual rights as well as an author of several books on those topics. In 1994, Sheriff Mack also challenged the Brady Bill in the Supreme Court of the United States.

Michael Bane is the host of Shooting Gallery, a show on the Outdoor Channel that every week explores a different facet of the very wide world of shooting, from competition to law enforcement to self-defense to the men and women at arms who are defending this country. 

From Michael's bio:

"I am the number 1 firearms "personality" in the country and well as the top producer of firearms programming on television. I am host and executive producer of the huge Outdoor Channel hit show SHOOTING GALLERY, now in its 10th season; the cohost and executive producer of THE BEST DEFENSE and THE BEST DEFENSE/SURVIVAL, currently the top-rated gun shows on OC, and the executive producer of COWBOYS. My programs have won 3 Tellys," essentially cable Emmys — the only firearms shows to be so rewarded — as well as being named the top consumer firearms shows by the National Shooting Sports Foundation and the Single Action Shooting Society. I have 4 other series "in development" for late 2010 and 2011, as well as huge Internet project for 2011 titled "The 100th Anniversary - A Year of the 1911." I recently guested on The History Channel's highly rated AFTER ARMAGEDDON special as one of their experts on firearms and self-defense.
 

My DOWN RANGE Television website (www.downrange.tv), created by myself and partner Marshal Halloway and sold to Outdoor Channel last year) is the number 1 firearms website on the Internet; my weekly DOWN RANGE Radio podcast s the most-listened-to gun podcast on the Internet, with more than 100,000 monthly listeners. The Michael Bane Blog (http://michaelbane.blogspot.com/) is considered required daily reading in the industry.

Nikki Goeser -- In April 2009, Nikki's husband, Ben, was killed by a gunman in a Tennessee sports bar. The gunman did not have a carry permit, and it was illegal at that time to bring a firearm into the establishment. Had she been able to carry her firearm into that bar, Nikki feels she may have been able to save her husband. In June 2009, the Tennessee legislature passed house bill number 962, which amended Tennessee's law that prohibited firearms in establishments that serve alcohol.  Since that time a rogue judge overturned that decision.  Nikki continues to fight for the right of Tennesseeans to protect themselves.  You can listen to Nikki's interview on Armed American Radio at http://uscca-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/podcasts/AAR-11-30-2009-3.mp3 .

Nicole "Nicki" Stallard is a unique person, a publically open post-op MTF transexual gun rights activists. Nicki grew up in New York, served in the US Navy from 1978 thru 1985. Nicole has been involved in various Libertarian and Republican political activities since 1989. Nicole took over the San Jose Chapter of the Pink Pistols in 2006 as the coordinator.  She has been  Northern Ca Pink Pistols spokesperson and has testified for California CCW reform bills.  She has represented the Pink Pistols at the SAF GRPC in 2007 and 2008 and is currently building bridges with both gun rights and gay rights organizations.

Mark Walters has been penning The Ordinary Guy column as a regular contributor to Concealed Carry Magazine for almost 5 years.  An original “charter member” of the USCCA, Mark was one of the first 500 members to join the organization when it was first founded by Tim Schmidt.  As a freelance writer for a local industrial trade publication and a vocal second amendment activist in Tampa, Florida, Mark had a few op-eds printed in the Tampa Tribune and was given “guest column” status on more than one occasion to print his views on a wide array of topics including the right to keep and bear arms.  His book, Lessons From Armed America written with co-author Kathy Jackson and forward by Massad Ayoob will be available nationwide on October 1st from Whitefeather Press.

Stewart Rhodes is the founder and Director of Oath Keepers. He served as a U.S. Army paratrooper until disabled in a rough terrain parachuting accident during a night jump.

He is a former firearms instructor and former member of Rep. Ron Paul’s DC staff.

Stewart currently writes the monthly Enemy at the Gates column for S.W.A.T. Magazine.

Stewart graduated from Yale Law School in 2004, where his paper “Solving the Puzzle of Enemy Combatant Status” won Yale’s Miller prize for best paper on the Bill of Rights. He assisted teaching U.S. military history at Yale, was a Yale Research Scholar, and is writing a book on the dangers of applying the laws of war to the American people.

David Burnett is a graduate of the University of Kentucky and 1L candidate for law school in 2010. He is the Director of Public Relations with Students for Concealed Carry on Campus, and also runs the civilian defensive gun use blog at TheArmedCitizen.com. He has written multiple editorials and articles in support of the Second Amendment, including a cover story on the NRA's "America's First Freedom" and appeared on radio programs such as the NRA's Cam & Company and Armed American Radio.
 

Doc Thompson has already begun to build a following and says “I’m a bit of an acquired taste but if you give it a few weeks you’ll be hooked because it is about YOU and it is all about fun!” He is very happy to make Central Virginia home and hopes to be here for many years.

Philip Van Cleave is the President of the Virginia Citizens Defense League (VCDL), one of the largest statewide grassroots gun-rights organizations in the US, with 5,000 dues paying members and 13,000 subscribers to VA-ALERT email alert system that the group runs.

VCDL has enjoyed considerable success in restoring the rights of gun owners in Virginia, including spearheading such legislation as a powerful firearms preemption bill that passed into law in 2004, wiping out almost all local gun control.  VCDL also organized a successful national grassroots effort to change the National Park regulations to allow for the lawful carry of firearms.

Philip has represented gun owners in the media with CBS's 60-Minutes and ABC's Nightline, and countless times on local Virginia radio, television and newspapers.

Philip has a Master's degree in Computer Science from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas and runs his own software company.

Philip also served for six years as a reserve Deputy Sheriff in Bexar County, Texas.

Representative Paul Broun was elected in July of 2007 to serve the Tenth District of Georgia. Since his arrival in Congress he has been appointed to positions on the House Homeland Security Committee (where he is Vice Ranking Member of Intelligence), the House Committee on Science and Technology (where he is Ranking Member of Investigations and Oversight), and the House Committee on Natural Resources.

Paul C. Broun, Jr. grew up in Athens, Georgia where he attended Athens High School and graduated from the University of Georgia in 1967 with a B.S. in Chemistry. In 1971, he received his Medical Doctor degree from the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta. An internship at Good Samaritan Hospital in Portland, Oregon and a residency at University Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama followed.

Paul served in the military as a jet engine mechanic in the U. S. Marine Corps Reserves and later received a commission as a medical officer in the U. S. Navy.

For most of his career, Dr. Broun has practiced general medicine and, in 2002, he went out on his own, establishing a unique practice of full-time house calls. He has enjoyed the freedom of practicing medicine without bureaucratic encumbrances and his patients appreciated the convenience of being seen at home or at work.

Paul’s first exposure to politics came at the age of sixteen, when his father won a seat in the Georgia State Senate. Paul Broun Sr. represented the Athens area as a State Senator for 38 years. Later, Paul Jr. himself would become involved politically; first as a volunteer lobbyist for Safari Club International, a pro-hunting and conservation organization, then as a conservative Republican United States Representative. 

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Bill Hunt is currently running for Sheriff of Orange County, California. After serving in the United States Army after high school, Mr. Hunt rose through the ranks of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department, obtaining a diverse background over 21 years within the department's divisions including jails, patrol, investigations, training, narcotics, gangs, SWAT, and management. Mr. Hunt strongly believes that the Sheriff should be in the business of protecting people’s rights, not restricting them and has been an outspoken advocate for shall issue legislation in the state of California where
concealed weapons policies are arbitrarily established by the county sheriff. As Sheriff, Mr. Hunt will issue a concealed weapon to any law abiding resident of the county not prohibited by law from
possessing a firearm and is committed to joining with other pro-2nd Amendment sheriff's in California to lobby for shall issue legislation in the state. Bill Hunt has been endorsed by a host of national 2nd Amendment leaders including Sheriff Richard Mack, (Ret), Graham County Az., Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Maricopa County Az., Suzanna Hupp, former Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives, Dr. John Lott, Jr., Author of "More Guns, less Crime", and Dr. Ignatius Piazza, Founder and Director of Front Sight Firearms Training
Institute.