IAPCAR WELCOMES PARAGUAY GUN OWNERS’ ORGANIZATION
BELLEVUE, WA – The International Association for the Protection of Civilian Arms Rights (IAPCAR) is delighted to welcome its newest member organization, the Association of Legitimate/Legal Owners of Firearms of Paraguay (ALPAP).
The three-year-old and growing group is headed by Hugo Orlando Villamayor Cristaldo. Paraguay is a landlocked nation in central South America, bordered by Argentina, Bolivia and Brazil. It’s capital city is Asunción. This brings the number of international IAPCAR member organizations to 30, which now represent 22 countries on six continents, according to IAPCAR President Alan M. Gottlieb, who also serves as chairman of the U.S.-based Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, and is founder and executive vice president of the Second Amendment Foundation. Both organizations are founding members of IAPCAR.
“We’re thrilled to have ALPAP join our organization,” said Gottlieb, “and bring its experience and perspectives to our worldwide effort. I personally look forward to working with Señor Villamayor Cristaldo to advance IAPCAR’s activities in support of civilian firearms ownership around the globe.”
In joining IAPCAR, Villamayor Cristaldo emphasized, “We would like to have a true American as an Ambassador who is pro-family and pro-gun, that will support freedom.”
ALPAP can be reached on their Facebook page here.
IAPCAR was created more than ten years ago and has expanded with member organizations in Asia, Europe, Australia, North and South America, and Australia. Today it has become an influential voice in the preservation and expansion of private firearms ownership around the world.
“When we started our effort,” Gottlieb observed, “we set our goals high, and I’m happy to say we have been steadily advancing. With the addition of ALPAP, we have taken one more important step toward assuring the rights of individual gun owners will not be trampled into the dustbin of history.”