One thing she’s not – and proud of it – is a member of the National Rifle Association.
“We make ourselves a special place where we don’t have to hear about the ‘Kenyan Muslim socialist’ in the White House,” said Hoeber, a biotech equipment mechanic who says she’s politically “somewhere around Emma Goldman,” the turn-of-the-20th century anarchist.
Instead, Hoeber – whose array of firearms includes an M1 carbine rifle from World War II and a custom-made .44-caliber pistol – and other left-leaning gun lovers have their own organization: the Liberal Gun Club…
“If I walk into a gun store with an Obama T-shirt – which I wouldn’t wear, because he’s too conservative – I don’t fit,” joked Eric Wooten, a longtime California Democratic Party activist and member of the Liberal Gun Club.
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