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Armed for Liberty: New Student Book Empowers the Next Generation of 2A Defenders

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

August 9, 2025

Washington, D.C. – Gun Owners Foundation is proud to announce the release of Armed for Liberty: A Student’s Guide to the Second Amendment, a powerful new educational resource written by Erich Pratt, Senior Vice President of Gun Owners of America. This student-friendly book is designed to equip young Americans with a clear, constitutionally grounded understanding of the right to keep and bear arms.

Because it is self-paced and easy to follow, this guide is a great fit for homeschool families who want a solid, constitutionally sound civics education. It also works just as well in classrooms, co-ops, or for independent study.

The content reflects Pratt’s academic background and decades of experience working with young people. In addition to having worked for Gun Owners of America for over 30 years, Pratt holds a Master’s Degree in Public Policy, has taught civil government to high school students for over twenty years, and has served as a Merit Badge Counselor in the Boy Scouts. In addition, Erich and his wife have homeschooled ten of their children—giving him firsthand insight into what families need in a civics resource that is both solid and flexible. He is also the author of a civil government textbook entitled The Constitutional Recipe for Freedom: Twelve Principles of Liberty Today’s Politicians Don’t Want You to Know.

The timely release of Armed for Liberty comes as misinformation about the Second Amendment runs rampant. This new resource gives students the tools to navigate the historical, legal, and moral foundations of their rights through accessible lessons, key Supreme Court case summaries, and reflection prompts perfect for homeschool or independent learning.

Erich Pratt, author and Senior Vice President of Gun Owners of America, issued the following statement:

“Students deserve the truth—not political spin—when it comes to their rights. Armed for Liberty was written to empower the next generation of freedom-loving Americans with the facts, context, and confidence to defend the Second Amendment.”

GOA and GOF spokesmen are available for interviews. Gun Owners Foundation is the nonprofit educational arm of Gun Owners of America. For media inquiries, or to request a review copy of Armed for Liberty, visit GOA’s Press Center.

-GOA-

GOALS 2025 IS FINALLY HERE!

This week we couldn’t be more excited to kick off our GOALS convention, a 2-day event where our amazing members come together from all over the United States to celebrate freedom, advocacy, and the history of the 2nd Amendment.

This weekend on August 9th and 10th, we will be packing the Knoxville Convention center with an exciting lineup.

Exciting Exhibitors.

This year’s GOALS show floor will be packed with over 200 top tier exhibitors that manufacture some of the world best firearms, optics, & accessories..

You’ll see the finest the 2A industry has to offer—and some companies have chosen GOALS as the place to unveil exclusive product launches that you will not see anywhere else. This is your chance to get hands-on with cutting-edge firearms, gear, and technology before they hit the wider market.

Speakers

Our stage will be alive with the hardest-hitting speakers and panels we’ve ever assembled.

Beginning this Saturday morning at 9 am, you’ll hear from respected leaders in the Second Amendment community as they tackle the threats we face, the victories we’ve won, and the strategies we need for the battles ahead. Expect unfiltered truth, powerful insight, and the kind of motivation that sends you home ready to act.

LANCO Live in Concert – Saturday Night

We’re thrilled to welcome LANCO, one of country music’s most beloved bands, to the GOALS stage for a live concert that’s free with your convention badge!

Known for their chart-topping hits like “Greatest Love Story” and “Born to Love You,” LANCO blends country roots with a high-energy, feel-good sound that speaks to faith, family, and freedom. This exclusive performance will cap off an action-packed Saturday with a celebration of everything we fight for.

Doors open at 6:30 PM on Saturday at the Knoxville Convention Center, so grab your badge, bring your friends, and get ready for a night you’ll never forget.

LANCO Live in Concert – Saturday Night

We’re thrilled to welcome LANCO, one of country music’s most beloved bands, to the GOALS stage for a live concert that’s free with your convention badge!

Known for their chart-topping hits like “Greatest Love Story” and “Born to Love You,” LANCO blends country roots with a high-energy, feel-good sound that speaks to faith, family, and freedom. This exclusive performance will cap off an action-packed Saturday with a celebration of everything we fight for.

Doors open at 6:30 PM on Saturday at the Knoxville Convention Center, so grab your badge, bring your friends, and get ready for a night you’ll never forget.

Event App

For those attending the event, the GOALS 2025 Event App puts the entire convention in your pocket and helps you make the most of every moment you’re in Knoxville. It’s free to download for iOS and Android and gives you access to:

Full Event Schedule — Browse all sessions, panels, and special events in one place.

Personalized Agenda — Save your must-attend sessions and set reminders so you don’t miss a thing.

Speaker Information — View bios, topics, and session details for every presenter.

Exhibitor Directory — Search and browse all exhibitors, including booth numbers and product details, so you can plan your time on the show floor.

Interactive Floor Map — Find your way around the exhibitor floor quickly with our interractive floor plan.

Download the App for IOS

Download the App for Android

Registered attendees will be receiving their login information shortly.

Register for your Ticket!

Live-stream Option

If you can’t be with us in person, you can still enjoy our live-stream option. From anywhere in the country, you’ll be able to watch our speakers, panels, and key moments from the main stage, unfold in real time.

No matter where you are, you can stand shoulder-to-shoulder with fellow patriots and be part of GOALS 2025. We will be posting our live-stream link on the GOALS website, and our social media as the event launches this weekend.

GOALS 2025 is where the Second Amendment community comes together, where friendships are forged, and where our resolve to defend freedom is strengthened. Whether you are walking the show floor, hearing from our incredible speakers, enjoying the evening concert, or joining us online, you are part of this fight.

Our team at Gun Owners of America is looking forward to seeing you at GOALS 2025!

Gun owners have a historic opportunity

For nearly a century, the draconian NFA has suffocated our Second Amendment rights, weaponizing bureaucracy against law-abiding gun owners like us. But here’s the breakthrough: Congress removed the NFA’s legal foundation by eliminating the $200 tax on suppressors and short-barreled firearms.

There’s just one problem: The unconstitutional registration requirement remains in place.

Previously, the courts upheld this unconstitutional regime only because it was a tax law. Now, with the tax gone, the NFA’s last excuse is gone.

That’s why GOA and allies filed the One, Big, Beautiful Lawsuit to gut the heart of the NFA, ending its harassment and registration of law-abiding gun owners.

This isn’t just a lawsuit. It’s a declaration of war on government overreach. We’re doing what spineless politicians won’t: defending your right to bear arms without apology.

Donate now and join the fight to end the NFA’s stranglehold on your freedom.

This lawsuit could end up at the Supreme Court and will cost GOA upwards of $500,000, which is why we’re asking gun rights activists like you to stand with us in this fight.

Don’t get left out of the next legal victory

The Armed Attorneys recently gave gun owners a piece of critical advice: Become a member of Gun Owners of America.

Why? Because with the Supreme Court now discouraging nationwide injunctions, future legal victories will likely only apply to members of the plaintiff organization.

That means if you’re not a GOA member, you may not be covered when our lawsuits strike down unconstitutional gun laws, including registration schemes and restrictions on suppressors and short-barreled firearms.

GOA is leading the charge to dismantle the NFA’s unconstitutional framework — but the courts are signaling they won’t apply rulings broadly unless you’re in the fight with us.

We’re doing what weak-kneed politicians won’t: taking on the bureaucracy head-on in court. And we’ve already seen signs that membership matters when it comes to getting relief from these unlawful restrictions.

So if you value your Second Amendment rights and want to ensure you’re protected when we win in court, now is the time to step up.

Again, please donate now and join the fight to end the NFA’s stranglehold on your freedom—thereby, getting covered by any future court injunction!

FPC is proud to Bolt Up for Mr. Perryman and the Second Amendment so that he and others can exercise their rights when, where, and how they choose.

LOS ANGELES (August 2, 2025) – NFL veteran Denzel Perryman, a linebacker for the Los Angeles Chargers, was arrested last night in the Los Angeles area for exercising his constitutionally protected rights, according to TMZ. As reported by the outlet, “the NFL player was picked up by the South Los Angeles Sheriff's Station officers Friday evening and booked on a felony charge of possessing an assault weapon.”

Last Thursday, bill A 5958 was introduced to the New Jersey General Assembly.

This bill would exempt elected officials (from U.S. Congress members to any state/local offices filled by election) and their chiefs of staff from N.J.S.2C:39-5, New Jersey’s ‘unlawful possession of a weapon statute.’

Under this bill elected officials and their chiefs of staff would be allowed to carry handguns without a permit, possess rifles and shotguns without a Firearms Purchaser ID, and transport these firearms without fear of persecution, all of which would be illegal for you to do as a New Jersey resident.

You read that right.

Legislators and select government staff in New Jersey will be granted their full Constitutional rights to carry and purchase a firearm WHILE “normal” folks are still subjected to the immense gun control laws of New Jersey.

At the end of the day, you have to walk the same streets as your elected officials, and if they feel the need for exemptions in the name of safety, why should you, their constituents, have to jump through hoops just for access the same right they’re planning on giving themselves?

A 5958 is a giant slap in the face to all law-abiding citizens in New Jersey.

A 5958 furthers to advance a two-tiered system that criminalizes the regular citizens of New Jersey. Send a message to your legislator using the form above telling them to Amend A 5958 by expanding these rights and exemptions to ALL New Jersey residents!

Will Republicans ask him? How about Ranking Member Chuck Grassley? [More]

I'm going to end up sending questions about infringements by "AFT" to Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans to put to the nominee while he's under oath, so feel free to leave your own in the article's "Comments" section.

I have two articles in this month's issue, on sale now at discerning newsstands throughout the Republic. [More]

I'm not resuming regular blogging because of the unresolved censorship issue but will continue to promote my work here as I prepare a new landing site.

Two recent appearances:

• The Michael Dukes Show, April 8.
• Armed American Radio's Daily Defense, April 12.

I'm not resuming regular blogging because of the unresolved censorship issue but will continue to promote my work here as I prepare a new landing site.

I'll be joining host Mark Walters at 4 pm Eastern to talk Biden and more.  Listen, watch or find a station near you at the Armed American Radio website.

Perhaps if he was better at picking them in the first place, he wouldn’t need to end up angrily attacking so many he had nothing but high praise for in the beginning. [More]What does "winning" mean if you end up losing?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russia-airs-its-ultimate-revenge-plan-for-america/ar-AAW5HB1

In other words, police should be “Les Seules” armed and authorized to use force to stop criminal attacks, even in the home. [More]

You have to wonder at what point some of these people will get tired of surrendering and start rolling out the tumbrels again...

I'll be joining up with Michael Dukes this morning to talk about the Google leviathan "unpublishing" my work.  Hopefully, this notice won't be taken down as a "community standards" violation before then.

Go to the show website to find an Alaska station or to listen online. They'll be calling me at 10:24 Eastern.

And no, this post doesn't mean the blog is back for business as usual. It means I'll continue using it for announcements promoting my stuff until I can settle in a new home, something I should have some time to seriously look into over the weekend.

“As such, they have an interest in the outcome of this case because a positive ruling in the instant matter will assist them in their efforts to have their lawful property returned to them in the future and will help guide other courts in reaching the correct conclusion which is that bumpstocks are not machineguns,” the brief elaborates. [More]

I'm not resuming this blog per normal practices-- as I said in the last post, I will still use it to promote my articles, assuming this one doesn't get "unpublished" as well.  In the meantime, I will be using this weekend to scout out a new home.

It linked to "blue check" correspondent Paul Bedard's Washington Examiner report on a peer-reviewed study by John Lott published in the journal Public Choice. 
Incidentally, its link appears on a general Google search including on Google Cache, but is suppressed in a "News" search, with an article attacking Lott's work appearing at the top of the page by two "researchers" of undisclosed political affinity that my money says will turn out to be sympathetic to Democrats. 

My suspicion is an algorithm went searching to erase it from existence. If this is all it takes to get booted from a personal opinion and commentary blog, everything I post here is subject to being undone and Blogger is no longer a viable platform to publish on. Either that or some troll saboteur complained, and the same applies. Until I see if I can get this reversed, I'm going to need to limit activity here to promoting my articles as I search for a reliable repository for my work.
Remember when Facebook booted a post for wishing everyone a contemplative Bill of Rights Day?
UPDATE:

Democratic Rep. Ami Bera of California says he was attacked by a rogue fox outside the US Capitol. [More]

Maybe if he wasn't an anti-gun fanatic he could have done something about that.

The thought strikes: That fox ended up being a bigger danger to a member of Congress than every one of the Jan. 6 "insurrectionists."

Then again, so did this Democrat.