Local 10-22 makes the Wall Street Journal

View · by **fuller malarkey** on Sun Feb 10, 2013 10:58 pm

Story here:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... 53432.html

...and thank you to everyone that's fighting for my rights.

View · by **LarryFlew** on Mon Feb 11, 2013 1:34 am

Thanks to Rob and thanks for the link - great read.

View · by **xd ED** on Mon Feb 11, 2013 1:51 am

Apperantly the house video people thought enough of Robb and Andrew's demo to carve out a clip of them:

Well done, Gents!

View · by **EllisW** on Mon Feb 11, 2013 2:13 am

Stop saying "Uhhh" so much. Rehearse your testimony.

View · by **tman** on Mon Feb 11, 2013 5:11 am

EllisW wrote:Stop saying "Uhhh" so much. Rehearse your testimony.

I refuse to watch myself. However, I agree with that assessment. NEXT time, I will have more of a script, and not just talking points.

View · by **xd ED** on Mon Feb 11, 2013 7:58 am

tman wrote:
EllisW wrote:Stop saying "Uhhh" so much. Rehearse your testimony.

I refuse to watch myself. However, I agree with that assessment. NEXT time, I will have more of a script, and not just talking points.

I doubt I would have got my own name out.

I expect training, practicing, rehearsal would help those of us who don't speak in such arenas.

That said,
Thanks for taking time to attend and speak.

View · by **Scratch** on Mon Feb 11, 2013 8:41 am

Great job. You did much better than I would have that's for sure. Your points were very valid and easy enough, I think, for the layman to understand why.

Thank you so much for your time and effort.
Again, well done!

View · by **ZardozCZ** on Mon Feb 11, 2013 8:46 am

Toastmasters is the target range of public speaking. Might check out a group near you if you'd benefit from practice. I did.

View · by **photogpat** on Mon Feb 11, 2013 8:54 am

Unlike the antis - GOCRA and the other opponents don't bring in professional speakers to make our points for us. We speak as experienced and safe citizens and firearm owners - and we speak from the heart.

Congrats to RobD on showing a great example of the folly of HF241!

View · by **wrench** on Mon Feb 11, 2013 9:22 am

I was there, and thought Rob did a great job with the 10-22 demonstration. He spoke not as a paid shill, but as a concerned Minnesota citizen.
Rob made his points well, he was clear and understandable. Kudos for him and Andrew going to all the trouble to make that demo happen.

View · by **Jeff Bergquist** on Mon Feb 11, 2013 9:22 am

Great job.

View · by **mnarguy556** on Mon Feb 11, 2013 10:46 am

This was certainly one of the best rebuttals to "what scary features make an 'assault weapon'"that I have seen given to a committee. Bringing in the 10/22's was also an amazing idea to demonstrate the stupidity inherent in this bill. Thank you for being a voice for the rest of us owners!

View · by **RobD** on Mon Feb 11, 2013 11:03 am

EllisW wrote:Stop saying "Uhhh" so much. Rehearse your testimony.

Agree... was a combination of extending my testimony from 3 mins to 10 at the very last min, (thanks to the proponents eating up all the time, and the chair dropping a bill) and the 20 cameras that were 2 feet away from me. All that was going through my mind was "dont let your finger go anywhere near that trigger).

As other have pointed out, I'm not a professional speaker... But I believe the content was spot on, and once I got to my prepared part, the verbal diarrhea stopped.

Note that Chief Dolan couldn't say 3 words without looking down at his speech.

See the rest of the presentation @ 1:30:40 (Especially Paymar's Comments)

View · by **LarryFlew** on Mon Feb 11, 2013 11:16 am

You did a GREAT job Rob. Thanks again.

View · by **MNGunGuy** on Mon Feb 11, 2013 11:22 am

EllisW wrote:Stop saying "Uhhh" so much. Rehearse your testimony.

Sounds more like "ahhh" to me.

Good on the guy for speaking!