The RINOs in Cheyenne never seem to get the message, and they never stop their sneak attacks on our gun rights.
This is an urgent alert to all WYGO members and other gun owners here in Wyoming. Please read every single word of this letter and take immediate action to help us stop this threat!
Here’s the situation.
WYGO members decimated the ranks of the RINOs in the 2024 primary election cycle (just like you did in 2022 and 2020.)
Almost a dozen moderate Republicans (who voted against the Second Amendment) were thrown out of office. Many more moderates who ran against pro-gun incumbents also lost by a wide margin!
And in the General Election, 100% of the Democrats who ran in competitive seats lost.
WYGO members are absolutely ferocious and there are now dozens of former legislators in Cheyenne who can attest to that. Everyone now knows that you can’t attack gun rights directly.
But the threats our gun rights are facing this year aren’t a direct attack, they are a sneak attack that just might work!
That’s why I hope you’ll immediately sign the petition that we’ve prepared with this letter, telling your Senator and Representative to VOTE NO on SF-12 and SF-7!
>>> HELP US STOP SF-7 & SF-12! <<<
And we need to hurry, so please act today.
You see, both SF-12 and SF-7 have already been approved by the Joint Interim Judiciary Committee here in Wyoming!
The House and Senate committees meet together during the summer, to preapprove bills that are then ‘fast-tracked’ when the legislative session begins in January.
The Joint Judiciary Committee met in November, and snuck these bills onto the agenda at the last moment, and before anyone could object!
Both SF-12 and SF-7 need to be stopped, but SF-12 is the biggest threat for sure. Here’s what it would do:
>>> Create a new ‘Permanent Protective Order’ process here in Wyoming. Currently Wyoming has a 3-day ‘Temporary Protective Order’ and a 3-year ‘Final Protective Order.’
While WYGO is opposed to both of these orders, both of them automatically expire unless the judge rescinds them first.
>>> Allow for these permanent orders to be issued even in cases where there is no criminal charge of any kind! These are civil hearings, not a criminal court.
By allowing civil hearings to take the place of a criminal court, there is no due process, no burden of proof and there’s not even probable cause a crime was committed!
>>> Create a lifetime protective order! There is no expiration on this like our current ‘3-Day’ and ‘Final’ protective orders have. Almost no ‘red’ state has this in place.
Sure, insane Left leaning states like New York, California, and Maryland have these laws, but Wyoming never should.
>>> HELP US STOP SF-7 & SF-12! <<<
But the fact that this order can be issued without a single criminal charge being filed against you, the fact that it’s held in civil court where the burden of proof is much lower, and the fact that this is a lifetime order isn’t the worst part!
THIS NEW PROTECTIVE ORDER GIVES LIBERAL JUDGES THE ABILITY TO ISSUE A LIFETIME GUN BAN AS PART OF THIS ORDER — EVEN WITH NO CRIMINAL CHARGES BEING FILED!
When I first read this bill, my hands were shaking I was so angry at its implications.
But I hoped that the committee passed it by just a vote or two, which would imply internal dissent in the legislature.
I was wrong.
When I reviewed the Joint Interim Judiciary Committee hearing over this bill (visible on YouTube) I saw that it passed with unanimous support (14-0) no one spoke out against it!
No one.
Not even the ‘conservatives’ from the House.
That’s why it’s time for every single WYGO member in the state to start speaking out against it! We need to GET LOUD and make so much noise that the legislature is forced to kill this bill!
>>> HELP US STOP SF-7 & SF-12! <<<
And that starts with your signed petition; please sign and return that petition today so your State Representative and State Senator know you are 100% opposed to SF-12.
When you do that, you’ll notice your petition also calls on the legislature to oppose SF-7.
As I said above, SF-12 is the worst bill, but SF-7 needs to be stopped because it extends the current 3-day protective order (and accompanying gun ban) to a full 10 days. And this happens via secret, ex-parte hearings that you cannot attend!
After you’ve signed your petition, I hope that you will consider a very generous donation. And I’m going to explain why.
Every two years, WYGO unloads virtually every penny we have during the primary election (while saving a little bit aside for the general) exposing RINOs.
We have to.
If we don’t, the RINOs will feel free to attack our gun rights knowing that no one will hold them accountable for it. And, as we all know, this program is wildly successful.
But it also means that WYGO is at the lowest fundraising level in our two-year fundraising cycle right now… just months after the elections.
If we have the resources we need, I’ll immediately run a 4 part program to rain down pressure on the legislature including:
- Digital ads on a variety of platforms; pound for pound nothing will allow us to get the word about SF-12 faster or more affordably than digital ads on Facebook and X!
- The largest number of text alerts possible; text-based alerts get right to the cell phones of gun owners, allowing them to get the facts about SF-12 and take action fast!
- Massive amounts of direct mail updates like this one; while some think mailing letters is outdated, we know that it’s the one communication format that Big Tech can’t censor!
- Increasing our statewide email alert list; our email program contains one-click action alerts that allow gun owners to send a pre-written email to their Representative and Senator.
But this program isn’t free. In talking with our team, I think WYGO will need to raise $10,000 to fight this, and fast!
I am confident that if we run this program, we’ll be able to kill these bills outright (or amend them to require a that before these orders could be issued, there needs to be a conviction for a violent felony crime.)
But we need your help…and we need it now.
WYGO’s power in Cheyenne — what’s allowed us to pass so many bills and expose so many RINOs — has always been you.
The politicians in Cheyenne don’t fear me, they fear you.
But this is a lesson that we need to remind the politicians repeatedly, especially with a new legislature convening with so many freshman who are being pressured to support this bill.
I’ll update you on this threat again, very soon.
For Wyoming,
Aaron Dorr
Policy Advisor
Wyoming Gun Owners
P.S. The RINOs in Cheyenne are relentless! Their new bill would allow liberal judges to issue a new ‘Permanent Order of Protection’ that would take away our guns for life, without ever being charged with a crime!
The Joint Judiciary Committee has already approved this bill, so we need to get loud, and we need to do it fast!
Please sign your petitions today telling your Stat Representative and State Senator to oppose this bill.
>>> SIGN YOUR PETITION RIGHT AWAY! <<<