My guest is Richard Feldman, author of "Ricochet, Confessions of a Gun Lobbyist."  His website: below, http://www.mlscommunication.com/contact-mls-communicaton-political-action.html.  Mr. Feldman was last on The Advocates on December 12, 2007, and he will update us on what is happening regarding the 2nd Amendment, the NRA, and the Supreme Court’s hearing of oral arguments from both sides of the McDonald v. Chicago case regarding the City of Chicago’s laws restricting handguns.

Richard Feldman, founder of MLS Communications, is a former police officer, an attorney specializing in public affairs and is among the top public affairs consultants. A former Reagan White House appointee to the Commerce Department, he later became the regional political director for the National Rifle Association during their rise to power in the 1980's. During the '90s he headed up the Firearm Industry's national trade association as chief lobbyist and spokesman. His access to the highest government officials from presidents Reagan to Clinton to Obama attests to his firm belief that 2nd Amendment Rights and Responsibilities extend to all Americans. For the past six years he has run a public relations and political consulting business, moving from Marietta, Georgia to Southern New Hampshire in 2004.

A frequent guest on interview shows including Good Morning America, the Today Show, C-Span, CNN, Fox News, and others, he was the guest on the Peter Jennings' special, "The Gun Wars." He is the President and Founder of IFOA, WWW.INDEPENDENTFIREARMOWNERS.ORG. Richard Feldman was raised in Nassau County, and attended Boston University, before graduating from Union College in the early 1970’s.

In his book, Ricochet, about his career as a gun lobbyist, he articulates the case that their obsessive desire for power, their scare-mongering and drive for money, undermines reasonable solutions that would not only protect gun owner’s rights while reducing accidental shootings and gun violence. Ricochet is not a confessional tell-all about the evils of gun ownership. It is in reality an expose of the NRA, and how it has betrayed the trust of legitimate gun owners and sportsman, who cherish the Second Amendment. Feldman believes that the NRA has “inadvertently strengthened the hand of those who would take your guns away.”

The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution: Right of people to bear arms not to be infringed. “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”  

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