3-14-25 UPDATE: HB89 Was heard on March 13th. The Committee was unable to complete the Public Testimony portion for the bill hearing. You can still email your opposition to the Gun Confiscation bill by using the web form or link below.
Alaska’s gun rights are under attack! House Bill 89 (HB89), the Red-Flag Gun Grab bill, is before the House State Affairs Committee.
If passed, this dangerous bill would allow the government to strip Alaskans of their firearms without due process, based on vague (or even false) accusations. We cannot allow our rights to be trampled on!
We need YOU to take action:
✅ Email the Committee NOW and urge them to oppose HB89. You can use the form below to send them a pre-written email message:
House State Affairs Committee:
All gun-grabbing schemes are unconstitutional and unacceptable. HB89 would strip law-abiding citizens of their Second Amendment rights without due process, allowing the government to seize an innocent victim’s only means of defense, based on vague accusations.
I urge that you kill House Bill 89 immediately.
Sincerely,
[Your name]
[Zip:]
[Only your name and Zip code will be shared with the Committee]
If you wish to use a direct email message, Click Here.
✅ Call the committee to urge them to vote the bill down. ✅ Spread the word—share this message with fellow gun-rights advocates.
The fight for our Second Amendment rights is now. Time to use your voice, and defend your freedom!
As we expected, anti-gun politicians have introduced dangerous legislation in Juneau this month — House Bill 89 — a gun-confiscation scheme disguised as a “Red-Flag” law.
These laws trample on your constitutional right to keep and bear arms, violating fundamental due process protections and leaving law-abiding gun owners with little to no recourse.
Time and again, we’ve seen these laws weaponized in other states, stripping innocent people of their rights and making them even more vulnerable to future victimization.
If you signed one of our petitions opposing Red-Flag laws, thank you!
Your voice, alongside thousands of others, strengthens the fight to defend our freedoms.
By exercising your 1st Amendment rights, you’re helping to safeguard your 2nd Amendment rights!
We’ve been working tirelessly to educate Alaskans on the dangers of these unconstitutional schemes.
With your continued support, we’ll keep mobilizing against this blatant attack on our liberties.
Stay tuned for updates and opportunities to take action.
Alaska Gun Rights is pleased to announce our endorsement of Ron Bernier for Mat-Su Borough Assembly!
Ron is running for re-election to Assembly District 7. He has fulfilled his commitment to repeal the Anti-Gun Range Ordinance. He has also kept a spectacular 100% Pro-Gun voting record during his time of service on the Borough Assembly.
Representative Eastman is a stalwart Defender of the 2nd Amendment.
He has voted to protect Gun Rights at every opportunity, without compromising to the demands of anti-gun extremists.
He has Sponsored the Second Amendment Preservation Act and legislation to Ban Red-Flag Gun Confiscation.
Rep. Eastman voted against Legislation that would allow the government to shutdown gun stores and gun ranges.
He has sponsored pro-gun legislation throughout his tenure in office.
He’s been endorsed by the NRA, the National Association for Gun Rights, and Alaska Gun Rights is proud to endorse him and urge your support for his re-election.
Vote for the Proven Pro-Gun Champion for House District 27!
Gun-hating radicals are coming for your guns right here in Alaska. The latest legislative session in Juneau exposed their agenda.
Senator Scott Kawasaki (D) of Fairbanks, the chair of the Senate State Affairs Committee, pushed another Red-Flag Gun Grab bill, Senate Bill (SB) 229 by Senator Loki Tobin (D) of Anchorage.
SB 229 is a blatant assault on your Second Amendment rights, designed to strip you of your gun rights and confiscate your firearms with ruthless efficiency. Red-Flag lawstrample on your Second Amendment rights – possibly for life!
We saw this coming. We’ve been vigilant, alerting our members to mobilize and confront these politicians head-on. With the tireless efforts of our all-volunteer team, we gathered thousands of petitions opposing Red-Flag laws and delivered them to the Senate State Affairs Committee, demanding they reject this assault on our freedoms.
More than three thousand petitions were delivered opposing the Red-Flag legislation and posted on the official profile page for the Red-Flag bill, the morning before the bill’s first hearing. Outrageously, Senator Kawasaki’s office removed your petitions within hours.
Not satisfied with just trashing your petitions, Kawasaki left dozens of Alaska Patriots on hold while he allowed the Juneau gun-haters to have their say.
Kawasaki openly conspired with Tobin during the April 30th Red-Flag bill hearing, to cut-off Alaska Gun Rights members’ testimony while allowing Juneau gun haters to spew their gun-hating rhetoric and lies.
Alaska Gun Rights members from across the state took time away from work and family to defend their Second Amendment rights, only to be disrespected and dismissed.
Kawasaki left dozens of AGR members on hold while he moved the 2nd Amendment haters in the room to the microphone. The blatant hostility and arrogance displayed by Senator Kawasaki and his cronies is outrageous.
Worse, Senator Kawasaki’s betrayal doesn’t stop at supporting Red-Flag gun confiscation. He sponsored the Senate companion to HB 61, a bill deceitfully marketed as protecting gun rights during emergencies. In reality, it grants the government power to shut down gun stores and ranges, along with other businesses. For more details on that fight, visit our website here: https://alaskagunrights.org/shutting-down-your-gun-store/
Senator Kawasaki is not just attacking your gun rights – he’s silencing your voice. His contempt for the Second Amendment and his disregard for the First Amendment are obvious.
This is a call to action for all Alaskans: demand that Senator Kawasaki resign and put an end to his relentless attacks on our constitutionally protected freedoms.
Contact Senator Kawasaki and tell him to step down. Stand up for your rights and ensure your voice is heard.
Rick McClure is the President of Alaska Gun Rights. Alaska’s only No-compromise Gun Rights Advocacy group.
You can send a quick (pre-written) email urging Senator Kawasaki to resign, by using the form below.
Scott,
Your attacks against the 2nd Amendment are despicable. I urge you to resign immediately!
[Your name]
[zip code]
Your email address will be kept confidential from Senator Kawasaki’s office.
SB 229, the “Red-Flag” gun grab bill (sponsored by anti-gun senators from Anchorage), appears to be gaining steam in the Alaska Senate. In every other state where such schemes are passed, they are abused and used to seize guns from law-abiding Americans, who have committed no crime. This particular scheme is an egregious attack on your 2nd Amendment, 4th Amendment, and other rights guaranteed in our constitutions. We can’t let the anti-gun schemers gain an inch here in Alaska.
With Joe Biden on a tear, trying to steal guns away from law-abiding Alaskans via Federal bribes (using your own tax-dollars), we need to be especially vigilant not to let them gain an inch.
There is a battle raging within our own state capital, with politicians scheming to take our guns away. The gun grabbers in Juneau are salivating at the mouth, at the thought of stealing away your guns.
Sen. Kawasaki telegraphed his intentions to move the Red-Flag gun grab bill out of his committee. This is in spite of the thousands of petitions we submitted and the testimony given by many 2nd Amendment Patriots. We still have a short window of opportunity to tell the Senate State Affairs committee to vote down this shameless gun grab attempt.
You can send a quick (pre-written) email to the whole committee, urging them to kill the bill by using the form below.
Members of the Senate State Affairs Committee,
I oppose Senate Bill 229. This proposed “Red Flag Law” blatantly violates my Second Amendment, Fourth Amendment, and due process rights.
With little or no evidence, an ex-partner, disgruntled co-worker or neighbor can file for an “Extreme Risk Protection Order” (ERPO) against me, a law-abiding gun owner.
If a Red Flag order is issued, law enforcement can seize my perfectly legal firearms.
Worse yet, if I want to get my rights (and guns) back, it will likely take significant time (years) and money to prove my innocence in civil court.
This is a complete reversal of the standard of “innocent until proven guilty.”
In every other state where such “laws” exist, they are abused to fulfill a political disarmament agenda, and cause more victimization.
As this proposed legislation violates the Second Amendment, Fourth Amendment, and many other constitutionally guarded rights; I urge you to immediately kill this legislation.
Only your name and your zip code will be sent with your message to the Legislature.
5-16-24 UPDATE. See Below:
Red-Flag Gun Grab Dead (for now)!
Thanks to the pressure from your petitions, emails, testimonies, and phone calls from Patriots like you, the Red-Flag Gun Grab is dead in Juneau.
The bill was swamped with thousands of petitions and hundreds of emails.
This overwhelming amount of firepower is just the sort of thing to scare the politicians, and make them back off their attack on our rights.
However, stay sharp!
We expect them to bring this scheme back next year.
In the meanwhile, we will continue educating and mobilizing Patriots, to help defeat this scheme and every other gun-grab scheme that these politicians dream up.
Alaska Gun Rights has completed a candidate survey of the Mat-Su Borough candidates running for Assembly seats on the Mat-Su Borough Assembly. Here are the results.
Paid for by the Alaska Gun Rights Firearms Liberty Fund. I, Richard McClure, Chair, Approve This Message. Top Contributors: Alaska Gun Rights, 200 W. 34th Ave., PMB 181, Anchorage, AK 99503
These are the legislators that voted to pass HB61, putting into state law, that the government has the authority to shutdown gun stores in an “emergency.”
It is a blatant infringement of the 2nd Amendment.
Never let a good crisis go to waste… That’s the despot’s way.
In April 2020, that’s exactly what happened in Anchorage – the Municipality’s Little Tyrant (Mayor Berkowitz) ordered gun stores to be closed while marijuana, liquor, and general retail stores stayed open.
What Berkowitz did was illegal – Alaska’s laws do not permit any level of government to shut down commerce, let alone shutter gun stores while retailers next door stayed open.
Not satisfied with the ability to take advantage of a crisis, legislators in the House decided that tyranny for all is better than tyranny for none.
You read that right. When an amendment was offered to remove a line from the bill that creates the authority to shut down gun stores – along with every other store – was offered, equity was their answer.
This was after hundreds of Alaskans called, emailed, and submitted their petitions to remove this poison-pill from this bill.
Speaking to the amendment, Representative McCabe (Big Lake) told his colleagues that, what was once a 2nd Amendment protection bill is now an equity in commerce bill.
But it’s really an equity in tyranny bill.
What started as a 2nd Amendment protection bill became an equity in commerce bill. But with newly created powers to shut down businesses, it becomes an equity in tyranny bill.
And with that, every Republican except Representative Eastman (Wasilla), and Representative Tomaszewski (Fairbanks), voted against the amendment that would prohibit the creation of new tyrannical powers.
You can see the tally here:
This bill is on course to steal more of your freedoms and liberties.
These subtle and seemingly small incremental steps add up to big margins over time, and that has consistently been the scheme of choice for the anti-gun zealots, driven to try and steal it all.
They intend to get away with it too.
You don’t have to let them. You can amplify your voice and demand that they stop this anti-gun bill in its tracks.
You can add your voice to the hundreds of other Alaskans, telling your politician to correct their course.
You can do that by emailing them right now. It’s ready to go:
