A group called "Iowa Gun Owners", which is run by a professional political fund raiser (Aaron Dorr) implicated in federal election finance fraud and legislative ethics violations, has been progressive getting worse over the years in Iowa.

People are sick of it. A information page has been created to debunk his lies and FUD, and we need grassroots getting it popularized, as we don't have his ill-gotten hundreds of thousands of dollars. He's all in it for the money, and has literally gotten pro-gun bills killed by while claiming to be an all-or-nothing 2A "purist". He has not ever passed a single law, while later claiming credit for the stuff he tried to prevent from passing.
Anyway, read more there....
(edit: whoever runs the facebook page changed the URL to be more descriptive)
https://www.facebook.com/trueiowagunowners

Please like and 'invite' anyone you know in Iowa to the page.

More info in Iowa Hometown forum:
http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_8_42/580418_Iowa_Gun_Owners_is_a_scam__and_I_m_tired_of_the_BS.html
http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_8_42/571361_Newest_IGO_lies_____You_re_not_going_to_believe_this_one___.html
http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_8_42/574525_Un_officially_Official_Legalize_Suppressors_in_Iowa_Legislator_Scoreboard.html&page=16

http://iowafc.org/blog/2015/04/14/beware-the-anti-gunners-new-best-friend-in-iowa/
Currently, IGO is literally trying to prevent a bill that does the following:
1.      Legalizing suppressors.
2.      Creating new and streamlined training requirements for renewal Permit’s to Carry and moves the time between training from 5 years to 10 years.
3.      Allowing for a renewal applicant to renew their permit under any of the current training requirements including shooting on a range if they so choose.
4.      Establishing that a veteran with small arms training will never have to go through initial or renewal training to obtain their permit to carry.
5.      Extending the window for qualifying training from the current 12 months now to 24 months. Meaning that if an applicant has had any qualifying training in the last 24 months that will qualify them for their new or renewal permit.
6.      Creating a requirement for uniform permits throughout the state and establishes that all permits, carry and acquire, shall NOT be issued for a particular weapon nor can it contain any identifying information about the weapon including the make, model, serial number or any ammo used in the firearm. It also says applicants residence must not be listed on the permit and prohibits the inclusion of their social security number.
7.      Extending the Permit to Acquire from a 1 year permit to a 5 year permit. This matches it up with the Permit to Carry which is also a 5 year permit.

8.      Adding new language that if a permit is denied and it is later determined that it should not have been that the applicant can recoup reasonable attorney’s fees.

9.   Removing the absurd ban on parents being able to teach their child proper handgun safety if the child is under the age of fourteen.

10.   Establishing a statewide verification system for law enforcement to determine if a permit is valid. There is no new database, all permits are already on file with the state and have been for years. This system merely creates a process by which law enforcement can verify the validity of a Permit to Carry. This benefits you by preventing law enforcement from having to seize your weapon if you unintentionally forget your permit.

11. Blocking the media from collecting the private information (name, date of birth, address, etc.) of Iowa’ permit holders. Current law allows for any member of the public to request to see all of your personal information on your permit application. Under the new provision if they make the request they will only be given a yes or no answer as to whether your permit is valid and the validity dates of such a permit. The person making the request must also give their name, contact information and the reason they are making the request. This information will be kept on file in the sheriff’s office and be accessible to those who wish to inquire if someone has been asking about their permit.

bump for Iowa.

Iowa Gun Owners, IGO, and let's be honest Aaron Dorr the one man show, is an offshoot of NAGR.  You may remember NAGR as the national scam group fronted by Dudley Brown that has already been thoroughly debunked on this site, on AmmoLand and elsewhere.

Back in 2010 when IFC and NRA brought shall issue to Iowa, IGO fought it tooth and nail.  Depending on where you look, you can still find how they characterized it:



These days they take credit for it in their emails begging for donations:



Last year, they opposed the suppressor bill that IFC, NRA and ASA were pushing for months, and had worked to build support for for years.  On January 27th, they sent out a message about the bill with these gems:



Then lo and behold, a month down the road the bill is scheduled for a vote the next day on the floor of the house.  HF384 had been renumbered HF2381 after passing out of committee.  That night, they post this message to their Facebook:



That's funny, I thought that was a "cover bill for anti-gunners" and "virtually worthless"?

Then again in the morning:



The bill passed with landslide bipartisan support in the house 82-16 on the 27th.  IGO was quick to take credit for the years-long struggle of IFC, NRA, and ASA:



They then sent out this to their email list:



Absolute garbage.  They fought the bill and then claimed to help pass it at the 11th hour.

They're up to the same crap this year.  I'm not shocked, it's their M.O.

Another bump for Iowa.

IGO - working to kill bills and pay their mortgage since 2008...

Back to the top.

Another bump for the home team!

The page doubled in likes in about an hour earlier this morning.   We're busting our ass to get the word out up here.

bump for Iowa.

IGO's page is getting hammered.

As well it should be, people are finding out the truth and now they're going to (hopefully) feel the Barbara Streisand Effect.

TTT

From what I can tell, NAGR is creating state level affiliates to funnel money to the national org.

If you research the websites and state filings, you'll see a common pattern.

They started up here last year and tried to push Constitutional Carry this session.  They managed to alienate many of our pro-gun legislators.

They turned on the legislators that introduced their bills, and basically burned themselves.

I hate to see you guys dealing with their bullshit.  I had hoped the disease wasn't spreading.

FIGO

IGO goes through legislators every year it seems.  Somebody new every year.

Of course, it might help if they weren't colluding with their bribed legislator to accept more bribes from the Ron Paul campaign.

Yeah, that's a thing that happened.

Is the Iowa Firearms Coalition y'all's go to grassroots gun rights org?

Yes but if we dont get suppressors they will be on my shit list

IFC is without a doubt the number one group in the state.  Proven track record at the Capitol, all volunteer, allied and affiliated with NRA.

Yes sir.  The problem is they are far less known in the state than the bullshit one.

IGO sure does buy a lot of likes on Facebook. I see their ads constantly. And you wonder where the donation money goes...

Will be this for a LOT of people.

To the AD Work Relief Fund.

If the fund has money, he doesn't have to work.

Hehe, somewhat interesting comment, since IFC is an all-volunteer group trying to fend of malicious attacks by money-heavy Bloomberg and IGO on the supressor bills.

I see how it could look to you though, because we are working to pass the 10-issue bull which includes suppressors, instead of lying down for the Senate's gutted suppressor-only version.

Hey,  I agree with ya.  We don't have to take what they 'give' us.  We're behind ya 100% and appreciate all your work.  Will be donating on friday.

Hey guys.  I've asked that y'all (IFC) be added to this thread.  

http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_1_5/1729613_Tired_of_the_political_bickering_already___Get_in_here__.html

Thank you sir.

Saw thread title.  Thought it was about NAGR or RMGO. I was close.  

But RMGO is fighting for your rights

IGO is a bunch of shitheads.

Fuck be upon them.

You meant they're fighting for my $$$ and their relevance.

Giving a Push Up for the Home Team

I am sooooo tired of IGO and all their nonsense, I wish they would just go away

IFC is the group putting in the real time and effort with support from the NRA to really try and get things done for us.

You kind of do have to take what they will give you when yhe dems control the senate. IFC keeps saying but but but we have the votes to pass it which doesnt mean jack shit if they cant get it brought to a vote

Dude, SF427 was in the bag before IGO started attacking it.

If you're going to blame anyone for not getting suppressors this year, blame IGO.  They fought the suppressor bill last year before taking care of it, and now they're attacking this year's bill too.

Here's a good read that I posted in the CO HTF regarding the ring leader's local "efforts."

http://ariarmstrong.com/2015/04/observations-colorado-gun-magazine-spat/

Fuck Dorr

Here's a blast from the past very typical of IGO.

NRA and IFC had been working on a bill in 2013, HF535, that would make permit records private (they're currently still completely open - even our addresses aren't confidential!)

The IFC/NRA lobbyists and members spent a lot of time getting bipartisan support. The bill would also make straw purchases a crime at the state level - something they threw in to get more Dems on board and make the bill more likely to pass the Democrat controlled senate.

IGO meanwhile is oblivious to all of this until the DAY OF the vote in the house.  They put out a couple of lame messages on Facebook that literally tens of people saw:





Of course this was too late in the game to mean anything.

The bill passed in a landslide 95-3 that same day, but it had nothing to do with them... it was the hard work of IFC and NRA members getting it done during the weeks and months leading up to the vote.

During arguments on the bill, Rep. Matt Windschitl put them on blast on the floor of the house, which you can watch here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGT_B7a5yr8

From this article on The Iowa Republican:



Despite this, IGO was quick to take credit as per usual, on Facebook:



And in a message to their email list:



That's only a snippet of the email, I'm sure the rest of it asked for MORE MONEY just like they always do.

Aaron Dorr and Iowa Gun Owners/IGO/NAGR/Dudley Brown are sick bastards preying on gun rights supporters in Iowa, using the hard work of VOLUNTEERS to make a living for themselves.

As for what happened to the bill, it was blocked by radically anti-gun (not radically anti-gun in NAGR/IGO speak, but literally) Senator Hogg.

Mark my words, if the omnibus bill passes this year, less than a year from now IGO will be taking credit for bringing suppressors and youth handgun shooting and all the rest to Iowa...

See the "paging you" thread in IA HTF for more on this -- you have a point, but there has to be a limit to where one draws the line.

"it is no compromise of principles to accept an incremental reform on the path to consistently good policy."

Exactly.  Anyone with half a brain sees the tactics pointed out in the article for what they are.

That's how our rights were taken from us, that's how we'll claw them back.  Especially in a state where the senate leadership all has (D) after their names.

btt

Another blast from the past.

In 2011, IFC and NRA were pushing something called the NIAA bill, or NICS Improvement Amendments Act, SF456.

This was a carefully crafted piece of legislation designed to restore gun rights to folks who had lost them for mental health reasons but had gotten better, chief among whom are veterans with PTSD issues.

You'll note the bill number was SF456 short for Senate File 456 - the bill originated in the senate.  At the time, the GOP had taken over the house in Iowa just after the 2010 midterms, but the senate remained under Democratic control.  That situation remains the same today.  So it's vitally important that any bill be able to get past the senate.

SF456 passed the senate 50-0 thanks to the hard work of IFC and NRA educating everyone about why the bill was a no-brainer.

When it came time to vote on the bill in the House, along comes IGO's stooge Rep. Tom Shaw with an amendment to tack on constitutional carry.

Any amendments to the bill would have to be approved by the senate.  The senate had already passed the bill, and if it passed the house unchanged it would go to the governor's desk.

Now,  knowing that the senate was under democratic control, adding constitutional carry language would have killed a good bill even though constitutional carry would pass the house.  A perfect example of a poison pill amendment.

But good bills don't matter to IGO, they want to force votes so they can tell you that all of the republicans are anti-gun.  The amendment was ruled non-germane, and Rep. Shaw moved to suspend the rules to consider the amendment.

The motion to suspend the rules failed 91-6, thankfully.

IGO then turned around and used that vote to decry many solid pro-2A Republicans like Rep. Matt Windschitl, who is THE 2A legislator in Iowa.  Bar none.  You can read all of Aaron Dorr's whinging here.  A small sample:



Starting to get the picture?  Rep. Windschitl was quoted on the topic by a MN blog covering Aaron Dorr's brother Chris:



These miserable fucks can't manage to get any of their own bills out of subcommittee, so they have to play tricks and try to tank other bills.  If they'd actually try working with the WHOLE legislature like NRA and IFC do, they might get somewhere.  But instead they have one or two legislators doing their bidding, and they get nowhere because they're the type of people who couldn't make friends with a puppy.

It's a good thing the amendment failed, because the underlying bill was a great thing.  From IFC's 2011 2011 year in review:



And a bit more from IFC about the IGO shenanigans in 2011:



It all boils down to this: if IGO can't have everything, he/they/it would have nothing at all.

I left CO the same time they refused the 30-round compromise and fucked all CO gun owners.

30 is better than 15, since that means you have to use faggot 10 round PMAGs or drive yo ass to Wyoming.

May much fuck be upon IGO

And another bump for the hometeam Iowa crowd...

Time for this one to return to the top.

Guys, we need some positive comments on this article.  Keep it respectful and factual.

http://www.ammoland.com/2015/04/new-lies-being-spread-about-iowas-omnibus-gun-bill

morning bump.

Evening bump.

CHARLATAN: Dudley Brown would rather have nothing than much better

It would be nice if people just stopped funding Dudley and let his organizations whither on the vine.

Yes, it must be said that this isn't just IGO.  They're merely a puppet for the national NAGR/Dudley Brown group, and I bet you can safely assume all of the orgs that appear to be gun rights groups in other states on this list with the maybe-exception of GOA are all up to the same BS.