Here’s some honest reporting from Trib.com, a Wyoming newspaper.

Years ago in another state, Anthony Bouchard had a gun pointed at his face during an encounter with an angry man, he said. In separate incidents, Bouchard recalled being shot at twice, once in the woods and once during a drive-by shooting in a rough neighborhood where he was working.

He was never injured. But the three incidents cemented in Bouchard’s mind the importance of the right to carry a weapon for self-defense, he said. Bouchard now leads the Wyoming Gun Owners Association, which he describes as the state’s only no-compromise gun rights group.

Bouchard hangs out at the Wyoming Capitol every day. He isn’t cajoling lawmakers.

“I expose politicians who treat the Second Amendment with contempt,” Bouchard said.

He uses Facebook, mail and email to inform Gun Owner Association members, whose number he declines to share, about bills up for consideration and comments lawmakers make about them. Then association members are encouraged to lobby their senators and representatives.Toward the end of last session, lawmakers were fed up with inboxes full of emails or seeing themselves on memes that Bouchard had created, photos overlaid with unflattering political statements.

Bouchard doesn’t care whether he’s popular with lawmakers. He’s more concerned about gun rights.

“It’s really strange to me that in Wyoming, we don’t have more lawmakers of that understanding,” he said. “It seems like they’d be more at home in California or New York.”
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