Dudley Brown

Dudley W. Brown  (born 1965) is a pro-gun lobbyist, the founder and executive director of Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, an organization based in Denver, Colorado that bills itself as a "no-compromise" pro-gun Second Amendment group. He is also the executive vice president of the National Association for Gun Rights, a group that serves as an umbrella coordinator for various state-level pro-gun organizations.

Biography
Brown attended, but did not graduate from, Colorado State University. He did, however, participate in the 1989 graduation ceremonies. While at CSU, he founded the campus chapter of College Republicans.

Political activities
Dudley Brown is a critic of the anti-gun lobby and interest groups like the Violence Policy Center. Brown also criticizes the National Rifle Association as being soft on gun control. He said "We're not afraid to be called radicals on the gun issue, because that's what we are."

In the wake of the Columbine High School massacre, Colorado voters passed Amendment 22, a voter-initiated measure requiring background checks of gun purchases at gun shows, closing the "gun show loophole". Brown opposed the initiative, stating, "We're under assault right now. We feel like the Jews did in Nazi Germany."

In 2002, a complaint was filed against Brown with the Colorado Secretary of State, alleging that a fund-raising letter he wrote supporting the congressional campaign of Marilyn Musgrave violated state law. The complaint claimed that, "As a registered lobbyist, Mr. Brown is clearly prohibited from fund-raising while the General Assembly is in session." Brown called the complaint "frivolous".

Brown is known for involving his organization in Republican primary elections at the state and local levels. In a recent change of leadership in the Colorado State Legislature, Brown supported a pro-gun Senator to take the place of one he felt was not supportive of Second Amendment rights. The state senator whose loyalty to the Second Amendment was called into question called Brown "the most dangerous man in Republican politics."

At the Colorado GOP convention in April 2012, RMGO and Dudley Brown supported pro-gun candidates and spoke out against those whom they considered anything less.

Brown was involved in the debate during the Rules Committee meeting at the Republican Convention in Tampa, Florida. The rules committee voted for an entire set of revised rules, which James Hohmann of Politico claims were "negotiated behind the scenes by Romney’s surrogates".