Akron, Iowa — A gun rights advocate who says on her website that she is “Black, armed, and conservative” is coming to northwest Iowa to appear with Congressman Steve King at an annual hunting event next weekend.
Congressman Steve King’s campaign officials say that they will be hosting the annual “General Bud Day Pheasant Hunt” at the Hole N’ the Wall Lodge near Akron on the weekend of October 26-28. They also say that Congressman King has invited Antonia Okafor to attend. They tell us that she is a campus carry activist, Miss District of Columbia International 2019, an NRA-ILA Forum Featured Speaker and Outreach Committee Member, a second amendment champion, and a women’s self-defense advocate. Okafor is the founder and CEO of EMPOWERED, a nonprofit national student organization that educates, trains, and equips young women on campus to safely use guns for self-defense and advocates for the right to use them.
King says that he is very pleased that Okafor has accepted his invitation to be a special guest. He says, “I am certain that those attending will find her message and her work as compelling as I do.”
Okafor has posted, “[I am] honored to be part of this historic annual hunt with Iowa U.S. Representative Steve King. Excited to embark on my first ever hunt!”
General Day, a Sioux City native, was the nation’s most decorated war hero at the time of his death in 2013. A Medal of Honor recipient, he also received some 70 military decorations, including the Air Force Cross, the Distinguished Service Medal, the Silver Star, the Legion of Merit, the Distinguished Flying Cross and multiple awards of the Bronze Star Medal, the Purple Heart and the Air Medal. He served in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam, where he was a POW for over five years.
