{"id":1813,"date":"2013-11-26T19:41:31","date_gmt":"2013-11-27T00:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2013\/11\/26\/pro-gun-lobbyist-larry-pratt-to-speak-dec-5\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T19:33:35","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T00:33:35","slug":"pro-gun-lobbyist-larry-pratt-to-speak-dec-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/pro-gun-lobbyist-larry-pratt-to-speak-dec-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-gun lobbyist Larry Pratt to speak Dec. 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9253\" style=\"width: 285px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/larry-pratt-image.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9253\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9253 lazyload\" alt=\"Larry Pratt is president of Gun Owners of America (Getty Images).\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/larry-pratt-image.jpg\" width=\"275\" height=\"276\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 275px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 275\/276;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9253\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Larry Pratt is executive director of Gun Owners of America (Getty Images).<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America (GOA), will speak on the Furman University campus Thursday, Dec. 5 at 7 p.m. in Watkins Room of the Trone Student Center.<\/p>\n<p>His talk, \u201cTickets to the Gun Show,\u201d is free and open to the public.\u00a0 It is sponsored by Furman\u2019s Conservative Students for a Better Tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Pratt has served for more than 30 years as executive director of Gun Owners of America, a 300,000-member organization that promotes the right to keep and bear arms.\u00a0 GOA lobbies for the pro-gun position in Washington, D.C., and is involved in firearm issues in the states. Its work includes providing legal assistance to those involved in lawsuits with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, the federal firearms law enforcement agency.<\/p>\n<p>Pratt has appeared on such national radio and TV programs as NBC\u2019s \u201cToday Show,\u201d CBS\u2019 \u201cGood Morning America,\u201d CNN\u2019s \u201cCrossfire,\u201d and Fox\u2019s \u201cHannity and Colmes.\u201d He has debated numerous Democratic members of Congress, as well as Vice President Al Gore, on the issue of gun control.\u00a0 His columns have also appeared in newspapers across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Pratt is the author of <i>Armed People Victorious<\/i> and <i>On the Firing Line: Essays in the Defense of Liberty<\/i>. He has held elective office in the state legislature of Virginia, serving in the House of Delegates. He also directs a number of other public interest organizations and serves as the Vice-Chairman of the American Institute for Cancer Research.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Lauren Cooley of Furman\u2019s Conservative Students for a Better Tomorrow at 954-829-3194.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America (GOA), will speak on the Furman campus Thursday, Dec. 5 at 7 p.m. in Watkins Room of the Trone Student Center.\u00a0His talk, \u201cTickets to the Gun Show,\u201d is free and open to the public.\u00a0 It is sponsored by Furman\u2019s Conservative Students for a Better Tomorrow.\u00a0Pratt has served for more than 30 years as head of GOA, a 300,000-member organization that lobbies for the pro-gun position in Washington, D.C., and is involved in firearm issues in the states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":1814,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}