Donald Trump Jr. served as the keynote speaker at the Tennessee Firearms Association Legislative Action Committee’s (TFALAC) annual convention on Saturday at the Wilson County Fairgrounds in Lebanon.
“We have to fight for all our freedoms,” Trump Jr. told the crowd, speaking of the ineptness of the current regime. “We have to fight every day.”
Attendees also listened to performances by the Dugger Band and John Rich, who also addressed the crowd about his role in TFA’s Red Flag Down Initiative.
TFA started its Red Flag Down media campaign in opposition to Tennessee Governor Bill Lee’s call for a special session in the General Assembly to consider possible gun control legislation, which ended up being successful.
TFA’s Sumner County Chapter acknowledged Rich’s work on the campaign and his remarks at the event Saturday, writing in a Facebook post, “John Rich did a great job as well and we are thankful for him leading the charge in our successful campaign to prevent Red Flag Laws in Tennessee!”
TFALAC’s annual convention is its main annual fundraiser. General admission tickets to the event were $80 per person with a VIP add-on option of $500, which included a separate meeting location with Trump Jr.
The estimated costs of this year’s event – approximately $20,000 – were covered all by a single donor, according to TFA.
“This means that almost every sponsorship, donation, vendor, table sale and ticket sale is going perhaps 100% to the “war chest” we need to elect the right 2nd Amendment stewards to the Tennessee Legislature,” the group writes on its website.
Outside of the venue Saturday, the group Moms Demand Action protested TFALAC’s convention by staking 1,385 flags into the ground to “represent the number of Tennesseans killed by guns annually.”
The group argues, “organizations like the TFA and NRA exist to maximize gun manufacturers’ profits, not represent the views of their rank and file members.”
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Kaitlin Housler is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network.
Photo “Donald Trump Jr.” by Ken Jr Nelson.
