Gun rights group endorses newcomers in state House races amid frat boy hijinks
Gun Rights Across America, a Texas-based corporation that claims to be the nation’s “premier 100% grassroots and volunteer” gun rights organization, has endorsed four candidates for the New Hampshire House.
Harrison DeBree (R-Dover), Joe Fraser (R-Somersworth), Phillip Harris (R-Manchester) and Mike Lorrey (R-Enfield) received the endorsements, which were announced on the New Hampshire chapter’s Facebook page. None of the candidates currently hold public office though all have been outspoken in their support for dismantling the state’s gun safety laws.
Lorrey, who claims to have helped organize the Free State Project, responded by announcing his legislative agenda. “[H]aving been endorsed by GRAA,” he wrote on Facebook, “I intend to sponsor Constitutional Carry legislation, as well as legislation to protect shooting clubs from local government intrusion better, and state nullification of the NFA of 1934.”
The National Forearms Act of 1934, which Lorrey seeks to nullify, restricts the ownership and sales of fully-automatic machine guns, grenades and other specialized weapons.
GRAA is led by Eric Reed, an airline captain who founded the group in response to the Newtown school shootings. “As Eric listened to Obama calling for more gun control while those poor children hadn’t even been properly removed from the crime scene,” the GRAA website explains, “it ignited a fire deep in his soul that he didn’t even realize existed.”
That – and the meme Reed recently tweeted showing a woman dropping her panties for a “Glock guy” – typifies the group’s sensibilities.
