There are many approaches toward restoring our gun rights to where they should be, and those different approaches all tend to have some validity so long as they're notching wins. The NRA and the Firearms Policy Coalition use different methods when taking on gun control, but both have their wins, so it's working.

But the groups run by the Dorr brothers are a different matter.

I've been critical of them in the past. In fact, I've been critical of them a fair bit.

Now, the Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus has had enough and is calling them out.

For over a decade, the Dorr brothers—Ben, Aaron, Matthew, and Chris—have operated a network of political front groups posing as gun rights organizations. But unlike real grassroots advocates, they don’t write legislation, rarely testify at the Capitol, never file or win lawsuits, or flip seats.

What they do is attack. They attack legitimate pro-gun leaders, mislead gun owners, and raise money off manufactured outrage. We’ve stayed silent long enough. Now it’s time for the truth.

Their Business Model: Exploiting Outrage for Profit

The Dorr brothers run a playbook they’ve perfected across more than a dozen states:

1. Target the real pro–Second Amendment group already doing the hard work.
2. Launch personal attacks claiming that group is “weak,” “compromised,” or “not conservative enough.”
3. Proclaim themselves the only “true” defenders of gun rights.
4. Smear pro-gun legislators, claiming betrayal is always just around the corner.
5. Flood social media with rage bait—videos, memes, conspiracy theories, and false alarms.
6. Fundraise off the chaos. Deliver nothing. Repeat in the next state.

They’ve built a turnkey outrage franchise—low effort, high return.

Instead of developing strategies tailored to the real 2A threats in each state, the Dorrs copy and paste the same inflammatory content, designed to mislead busy gun owners into donating.

No results. No wins. Just rage for revenue.

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What They’re Doing in Minnesota

Attacks on the Caucus

The Dorrs have spent years attacking the Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus—calling us “woke,” “anti-Christian,” and worse.

Why? Because we’re doing what they never have: delivering results.

We’ve:

• Sued Keith Ellison—and won 4 times in federal court, striking down Minnesota’s age-based carry ban.
• Blocked anti-gun bills session after session.
• Passed pro-gun legislation
• Sued Walz and Ellison over the Omnibus bill + the binary trigger ban.
• Surveyed, graded, and endorsed candidates for State Legislature & Constitutional Offices
• Filed multiple Amicus briefs in 2A cases across the country with our state and national partners

See our full list of recent Activities and Results

The Dorr brothers, to my recollection, have never accomplished anything at all except screaming about legislation that was less than absolutely perfect, as we saw in Wyoming, among other places.

I'm far from the only one who has reported on the Dorr brothers and their shenanigans by any stretch of the imagination. Everyone can see it who cares to look.

The problem is that the Dorrs like to engage the outrage machine, focusing it on anyone who isn't pure enough in their eyes, so a lot of people just give them a pass. The problem is that they're a detriment to the gun rights movement as a whole.

First, let's keep in mind that there's only so much money out there to fuel the fight for the right to keep and bear arms. The Dorr brothers taking in a significant percentage wouldn't be a problem if they actually accomplished something. However, many lawmakers have noted that they've literally never been lobbied by any of the Dorrs' organizations. They've never been reached out to. They don't know who any of those people are.

This despite the organizations' claiming they've worked with specific lawmakers. It seems that in some cases they just make up these relationships out of the blue.

How are you going to preserve and restore gun rights when you're not even talking to lawmakers?

They're doing nothing, so I get the Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus being upset about it. They've got every right to be, especially as they're the target of attacks from these people who I can only describe as scam artists.