Executive Director’s Notes
The new year began with a feeling of gloom and doom among firearms activists because of the loss of pro-gun majorities in both chambers of the Michigan Legislature. At the year’s midpoint, within MCRGO there is now a sense of lifted spirits and hope toward future progress. Your vote in August’s MCRGO election will help guide the organization’s path forward during these critical coming years for self-defense rights in our state.
After the early spring passage of Red Flag, storage mandates, and long gun background checks, further action on gun control has stalled in the Michigan Legislature due to increasing divisions within the Democratic Caucus between its radicals and more moderate members. Even action on the bipartisan Safe Schools package, planned for June, has been delayed.
At the same time, demand for CPL classes and the total number of Michigan CPL holders boomed in the spring months. MCRGO’s healthy general fund is allowing the organization to make charitable donations in line with MCRGO’s mission. Legal fundraising is on target and the outlook in the federal courts appears promising for the Second Amendment over the coming decade. Member involvement in the organization is also increasing as demonstrated by the very successful first year of the Northern Lower Peninsula picnic at Gaylord last month.
The guidance of a board of directors made up of well qualified individuals, active in the organization, is critical to MCRGO’s impact moving forward and its continued growth. If you’ve received this issue of On Target by email and are a current member, at noon on August 1 you will receive an electronic ballot for the 2023 election. If you don’t have an email on file, you may vote through the printed copy of this newsletter you received in the mail. Please contact me with any question you have about voting at brady@mcrgo.org or 517-484-2746.
-Brady Schickinger, MCRGO Executive Director