USA – -(AmmoLand.com)- This week we Officially announced the date of the national convention for the National African American Gun Association in August of 2020. It will be from August 14th thru the 16th. More info on the location to follow in future updates.
This is an important step for our organization. The goal of the convention is to become better and celebrate our past year. It will address where we started, where we are, and more importantly where we are going.
It will also provide members an opportunity to discuss various aspects of our organization, attend Firearm Strategy sessions, award those who have been instrumental in our development, have some fun ( yes we can have fun ), and allow us to strengthen our bonds with each other as African American members of NAAGA. This is a natural process in our growth and maturation as an organization. Being able to come together will strengthen us and renew our spirit.
I believe that shooting a gun is the same regardless of your race but what is dramatically different for African Americans is what happens to us before we buy a gun and after we buy a gun. That reality is the reason why this organization came into existence. We provide an Afrocentric view of owning a Firearm for our community and will continue to do so with no apologies. So, let’s get ready and I will see everyone in August of 2020.
And don’t forget to bring your Firearm because we will have some time at the range with some shooting contests between Chapters and members.
About National African American Gun Association (NAAGA):
The goal of the National African American Gun Association is to have every African American introduced to firearm use for home protection, competitive shooting, and outdoor recreational activities. We are a civil rights organization focused on self preservation of our community through armed protection and community building. The National African American Gun Association provides a network for all African American firearm owners, gun clubs and outdoor enthusiasts. We welcome people of all religious, social, and racial perspectives. We especially welcome African American members of law enforcement and active/retired military.
For more information, visit: www.naaga.co.
I am amazed every time an article about NAAGA is posted in Ammoland there is always an onslaught of attack about the name, but I never see those same jokers commenting about “Jew for the Preservation of Firearm Ownership” of Pink Pistols or any Second Amendment Woman organizations. It seem anything associated with Black or African bring out your deep rooted hatred. Guess what no one is looking for your approval.
I’m guessing you didn’t do well in English class?
I wholeheartedly support gun enthusiasts of traditionally Democrat demographics.
tell someone who gives a s**t
Looking forward to it. Chicago will show up and show out!
Kwasi Amoah
President/ NAAGA State Director
761st Gun Club of Illinois
http://www.761stgunclub.com
To the critics who seem more focused on the organization’s name and not its mission. The National African American Gun Association doesn’t discriminate membership. There are members who are not Black or African-American. I for one am looking forward to the convention and the opportunity to meet my fellow NAAGA members.
Cornelius Washington-Meeks
Owner of Firstline Firearms Academy, LLC
Set at Arms of the Black Bottom Gun Club of Detroit, MI
National African American Gun Association
Our organization should be celebrated by our fellow 2A advocates, not questioned. We promote 2A advocacy in communities where the education around the topic and participation in the right to bear arms has been lacking. This knowledge and exercising of our inalienable rights only makes us stronger as a 2A community. Why would anyone want to discourage that? Say and do what you want, however, recognize that we all have an obligation to take care of our families, community and country! Regardless of how anyone feels we will persist! *** Our team will be front & center at the Convention… Read more »
Old Vet, your comment reminds me of the late ’70s when I was working in the oil fields in Oklahoma. There was an area north of the Cimarron River called “the bottoms.” It was mostly sand and not as good for growing wheat as other areas. As a result the White settlers took the better areas and that left the Bottoms for non-whites. Fast forward in time and I would be working on an oil well in the Bottoms and occasionally these old Black men would come out nearby in their old pickups with their greyhounds and shotguns and hunt… Read more »
@OV, I would label you “OFF THE HOOK” And everyone else who never owned, and whose ancestors never owned slave also off the hook. So why go to the entity that ended slavery (and indentured servitude), at all? If one is to apply todays moral, ethical, and legal standards to people from the past, then maybe one should look to those that offended todays moral, ethical, and legal standards for payment. And to whom is this debt owed? Would it not be to the slaves rather than someone who never was a slave or indentured servitude or relative to a… Read more »
It is pathetic if you ask me. Afro Centric organizational titles are beacons, like “Martin Luther King Blvd.” Something to be given a wide berth. Saturday I shot a USPSA match, with 75 competitors, and there were whites, blacks, native American, Hispanics, oriental, male, female, young and old. The organization is about shooting and everyone who can abide the rules may come and enjoy the fun. It’s a pity that some blacks can’t stop being divisive. It does them no good in the end.
Hey white guys you do realize that nobody needs your approval for any of this and it doesn’t matter what you think. You act as if we don’t know you. So relax we’re just exercising our 2A rights just like you but without you
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you exhibit “A”.
Don’t worry about what blacks are doing. You should spend your energy UNDOING what your racist ancestors have done and what your white supremacists leaders are doing now. They are the true dividers who put up the walls.
This would be exhibit “B”? I am beginning to lose count.
I see Ammo land is being a filter and screening comments. What would you expect.. it all about $$$$ ..
I see @USA’s brother has joined.
Naaga keep doing the work, the fact that your name disturbs some whites is not your problem. Educating, teaching and bringing awareness to the black community should always be your first priority.
Do you have any support patches or t-shirts I would like to stand in solidarity?
Babu Omowale
President Huey P Newton Gun Club
That right keep tossing salt on the wound. P Huey Newton a revolutionary Black militant convicted felon and Murder by his own Black panther Party. You keep waving the black read and green African flag associated with the Black liberation communism party..why not just say FnCK the white Man .. This ain’t South Africa and you BS gun rights association can stay in Minnesota. Seem you have domestic terrorist ties and a ideology that not in line with the value of the constitution. You waving you African Black Red And Green logo( African Communists Party) is just as offensive if… Read more »
Yes we will keep right on tossing salt on YOUR wound while ours is healing. Yes we are being separatists because half of YOU bastards can’t be trusted. Those of you who mean well look just like those of you who are devils. So the safest thing for us to do is to withdraw from systems as a whole and be totally self-sufficient and independent. We don’t need or want you and that just burns you up. Get over yourself
So, we all look alike to you? Where have I heard that before? Hmmm. Let me help you out. What you are doing is what the shrinks call “projection.”
“Projection is a form of defense in which unwanted feelings are displaced onto another person, where they then appear as a threat from the external world. A common form of projection occurs when an individual, threatened by his own angry feelings, accuses another of harboring the same feelings.”
Like I said: pathetic.
Actually you are doing the same exact thing Roy D. As for the rest of you don’t debate with this guy do you and build your institution.
African Americans have a drastically different relationship with firearms and the Second Amendment, and this organization was born from that experience. We exist to represent and highlight an often under-served and ignored demographic in the broader gun and Second Amendment community. To be quite frank, anyone else’s perception of the name or acronym, the objectives and mission, the logo or anything else does not matter. We have no problem working with anyone else to achieve common goals, and to that end NAAG is ready and willing to go to the wall to protect our right to keep and bear arms… Read more »
@Nubus King, I am of Caucasian extraction on my mother and fathers’s sides. Can I join?
Yes. The National African American Gun Association does not and will not discriminate by race, color, creed, religion, nationality, sexuality or gender, etc etc.
@Nubus King, Does that Military Discount apply to retired military? Is there a mailing address that I can send my application and check to? I don’t like to use my credit card over the internet for security reasons?
There is truth in your statement. There also the gangster mentality that Hollywood and the Liberal have placed on the black community. It has been in the past 30 years the Black America’s have Been able to over come many obstacles that were placed on them by the Democratic Party. I have no issues with any American who willing to stand as one. I find the name of your club bold with truth from the past. It when organization labels themselves with a label that has history of Communism and rebellion against the constitution I find inappropriate. If we are… Read more »
Dan, you’re 100% right that we need to unite. You’re more than welcome to join us in unity.
Dont trust anyone that goes around talking about liberals this and liberals that as if the right has clean hands.
This is why i don’t claim either party.
Its funny people are so quick to call others snowflakes, but at the same time lose their head when a group(who is literally fighting the same fight)has a name they dont like. Do these same people have an issue with Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership, the Pink Pistols(Gay gun rights group)or The Well Armed Woman?
We are witnessing the destruction of a fundamental right and you want to cry about a name?
I bet Every Town and Moms Demand Action are not having this discussion .
Proud NAAGA Member
Why is the hand in the photo so dirty? Has it been “blackened” or did the guy simply have car trouble after a shooting session?
It not the hand it the Identity Of ACP logo. You can’t see the forest for the trees .
The hypocrisy of some of your protestations is laughable. When’s the last time you’ve been ‘up in arms’ against exclusively Anglo groups (think boards of directors or executive officers of most corporations in this country)? Your one-for-all and all-for-one speeches carry so little weight when they are solely OUTGOING messages. Practice what you preach!
Amen to what Louis said, times a billion!
I am unable to attend. I would like for my Caucasian looking Celt-Germanic American face to show in support. It would counter those pictured in other anything but right to arms civil rights events. Anyone who oppose your organization, opposes all desiring to be viably free human beings. We, that is us who will prevent the disarming of our citizens need more like believing organizations to increase and become stronger.
Jack. You just alienated the majority of America by labeling yourself by race and not nationality. This is not 1865 and those of us living today had nothing to do with that era. Learn from the mistakes of history and do not repeat them. Unification of one people one nation will carry us a lot further that splinter groups holding grudges from decades past.. There are elements in this nation that would like to see a civil unrest and race bait issues of the constitution..
Wait, so now NAAGA is a “splinter group holding grudges from decades past”?
Dan, isn’t NAAGA then doing the same, since it is identifying by race, not nationality. What is an Afro-American, if not self-identifying by “race”. I suspect a Libyan, Egyptian, Moroccan, or other person of non-sub-Saharan Africa, would also not be welcome. Interestingly, it’s okay to lump every non-Sub-Saharan into one category, but that isn’t bigoted? Jack is correct, the organization should be inclusive. I would be supportive, to, but clearly I would not be allowed to be part of their organization due to lack of melanin and other physical characteristics, that makes the organization racist. As to John Cutter’s bigoted… Read more »
The NAAGA invites everyone. I going to see if I can afford their dues.
No… they are looking for support… I can see through this crock of PC BS.. after they established roots and some political identity they will compromise . Splinter off and gain support of minority’s claiming victimization . They will identify with the left liberal a reasonable and label the conservatives extremist .. This tactic has been used before.. wake up …
exclusivity usually causes alienation… I hope it doesn’t happen here… We need everyone working together!
I agree Dave. But I wonder if Louis would react with such comradeship and collectivism if a group of White Americans formed for instance, a ‘National White American Gun association’ Would that be racist? Would he be ‘offended’?
“worry more about supporting one another than acronyms or PC” sounds good. A little late for that statement though. Why name the association with such a name so as to automatically alienate others? Which it does. I do agree that we should all have the same goal as our forefathers. And not just pertaining to the 2nd.
R1
Ron, et al. The left pseudo-liberals for their self-serving agendas use minority race groups as political pawns. The more minority pro-firearm rights organizations proving they will not be pawns, the better. The titles of their groups should reflect that.
We differ from our forefathers in all men being equal, to all people being equal. We all in order to free and equal need equalizers.
It not the hand it the Identity Of ACP logo. You can’t see the forest for the trees .
You have those already, the NRA is the largest of them all
Maybe as a collective gun community we should worry more about supporting one another than acronyms or political correctness. While we are taking shots at organizations trying to do “something” Bloomberg, Giffords, Mom’s, and Every Town are galvanizing their support. “We must live together as brothers or die together as fools.”
Louis Dennard
President
African American Heritage Gun Club Minnesota
http://www.aahgc.org
Right!!
Louis, This organization is promoting African-Americans . Promote Americans as one and bring all together as one.. if not you will have little success.
Well said Louis!!
Good strong words. Some of the comments in response to your post irks me. These fools are so alienated they could not remember their place of birth if they were recalled there.
Marketing Marketing Marketing. The organization has limited themselves to a select few. This venture has crashed and burned before it has gotten off the ground. Better hire a Marketing agency.
Jack, which place of birth are you referring to? Being as I was a newborn, I can’t say I “know” my place of birth. I do know where I was told I was born, and my birth certificate states such, also. As to these racist organizations stating we need to back them, so as to be all as one, creating another group, specifically only allowing certain citizens to be allowed to be part of it, solely on the physical characteristics of the citizen is racist. There is no other way to view it. And stating it is to promote that… Read more »
Ok they really need to change the name.
Why? Because YOU don’t like it?
No, because it is really really close to another word that instantly brings bad attention, and there is no doubt the left would accuse some of saying something that was never said.
Would have realized that if you had your thinking cap on.
No I don’t like it.. The tone being set is not unity. I have seen groups that start with segregationists label fail or turn militant.
Is THAT the best acronym they could come up with??
I can imagine, in a year the group will be griping that ONLY THEY can say the name of the group.
That is almost as bad as (pound me too!) #metoo.
What do you care what they call themselves? Last time I checked, they names they’ve been historically assigned by others were far worse.
Wish them luck.Let’s hope it doesn’t turn out like ‘National Black Bike Week’ in Myrtle Beach SC.
Just saying.
R1
Ron, instead of just saying, start just thinking.
No I want wish them luck. Hire a business manger and marketing manger. I would not promote and organization with a segregationist label and logo that resembles a militant organization.