Is It A Scam?
It seems whenever there are good intentions, there is someone trying to use those intentions in a scam to make money.
Ammoland recently carried an article by Chris Lee, the Midwest Director of Government Relations – State Affairs for NSSF, the firearms industry trade association. The NSSF is a legitimate 2A group with numerous lawsuits in defense of 2A.
Lee lives in Indiana and is, obviously, active in that state’s politics. He wrote in Ammoland about a new ‘No Compromise’ 2A group in Indiana called the “Indiana Firearms Coalition” which claims to be “Indiana’s biggest and most powerful gun group.” [www.indianafirearmscoalition.org]
The problem is, neither Lee nor any of his political contacts had ever come into contact with the ‘biggest and most powerful gun group’ in Indiana: “…in all the time I spend at the statehouse, I’ve never seen them there.”
Lee states that the Dorr brothers are behind a network of 24 organizations. The typical comments about them is their fund raising efforts and taking credit for legislation they had nothing to do with.
The following are three articles about these groups and the brothers behind them.
Exposing the Dorr Brother Scams
Patriots Beware Of New Scam ‘No Compromise’ 2A Group In Hoosier State (ammoland.com)
"Ohio Gun Owners" is not here to help | Buckeye Firearms Association
According to the first article, the Dorr’s have two organizations in NY State:
New York State Firearms Association
New Yorkers Against Excessive Quarantine
And for our friends south of the border:
Pennsylvania Firearms Association
Pennsylvanians Against Excessive Quarantine
NSSF is a legitimate 2A organization and is a trade organization for businesses engaged in 2A operations. It is not competing for membership against any of the Dorr Brothers Organizations, so there is no apparent self-serving reason for Lee to have written what he did.
There are many 2A organizations and SCOPE tries to avoid criticizing other 2A groups as we should all be in this together, for the same goal, which is not to enrich ourselves.
SCOPE does not take a position on this other than informing 2A defenders that they need to look closely at organizations and decide for themselves before they donate.
