Reply #4: Gun-rights advocate dies in fire (CO)

[CO Liberal]

If this is the guy I heard quite often on local talk radio, he was not a very nice person. Still, it's a shame he died.

BTW, if he hadn't kept all that ammo in his home, the firefighters may have been able to get in and save him. Think about that. - Wayne

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Gun-rights advocate dies in fire

By Julie Poppen, Rocky Mountain News
May 3, 2004

A voice for the right to keep and bear arms has been silenced.

Alan Albertus, 51, one of several founders of the northern Colorado-based pro-gun group Tyranny Response Team, died Thursday afternoon after his home near Loveland caught fire. The cause of the fire is under investigation.

Several residences in the Carter Lake area were evacuated because of a concern about ammunition kept in the home, according to the Larimer County Sheriff's Office.

Albertus' wife, Theresa "Crystal" Albertus, returned from work to find her house burning.

Friends said that Albertus was an avid outdoorsman, as well as a devout defender of the Second Amendment. He helped found the Tyranny Response Team in 2000, in part, to battle gun-control legislation at the state level, as well as what he believed was an erosion of individual rights at the federal level. At one point, the group's Web site described the group as "America's only no-compromise grass-roots pro-freedom pro-Bill of Rights group out there."

The group has targeted anti-gun activist Tom Mauser, whose son Daniel was killed during the Columbine High School shootings. Critics charged that Tyranny Response was behind threats against Mauser.

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