Guest column: Gun rights are about freedom

As a lifelong sportsman and gun owner, I’m committed to protecting law-abiding Americans’ right to keep and bear arms. And like many Montanans, I know that protecting the Second Amendment isn’t about hunting — it’s about freedom.

President Barack Obama started off the new year by unilaterally creating new barriers to purchasing a firearm. His actions are an affront to our Second Amendment rights and a gross abuse of executive power.

And like so many times before, Obama has pursued a “go-it-alone” approach on his gun control agenda. These are the same proposals that the U.S. Senate rejected und...