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Grandmother. General manager. Gun goddess — on Twitter, anyway.

Meet Tracey Wilson, the Orléans chairwoman of the board of the recently formed Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights.

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Her message is simple: Gun-owners are your neighbours, law-abiding hunters and sport-shooters. They’re not, as she puts it, pot-bellied guys drinking beer and blasting shotguns from four-wheelers, so legislating them does nothing to combat crime.

The engaging Wilson — who manages a law firm, shoots competitively and hunts her own meat — borrows the language of social justice activists when talking about the need to “reduce stigma” and battle “stereotypes.”

“It’s about time that we came out of the closet,” Wilson said, pointing to what she estimates are 2.5 million legal gun owners in Canada.

“If we had a problem with that here, you’d know it. We don’t.”

Photo by Wayne Cuddington / Postmedia

The CCFR began operations last fall just as the Liberal government was elected with a mandate to strengthen rules that gun-control advocates say were weakened under the Conservatives.