12 Facts About Kaitlin Bennett

Kaitlin Marie Bennett was born on October 15,1995 and is an American gun rights activist and conservative social media personality.

Kaitlin Bennett received media attention in 2018 for open-carrying an AR-10 rifle at Kent State University after graduating.

Kaitlin Bennett was the president of the Kent State chapter of Turning Point USA; however, after an event where a member of her chapter publicly wore a diaper to protest campus safe spaces did not succeed in October 2017, she resigned.

In May 2018, Kaitlin Bennett graduated with a degree in biology from Kent State University in Kent, Ohio.

In 2018, Kaitlin Bennett posed for her graduation photo from the university holding an AR-10 long gun in front of the university sign.

Kaitlin Bennett stated that as a student at Kent State, she should have been able to open-carry for self-defense, citing the 1970 Kent State shootings where Ohio National Guardsmen fired on unarmed students protesting the US bombing of Cambodia.

Later in 2018, Kaitlin Bennett organized an open-carry rally at the college.

The university released a statement that a cease and desist order had been issued against advertising the event, as Kaitlin Bennett had not attempted to register it with the university.

Originally posted by Liberty Hangout with the title "College Students Have No Morals", the videos show Kaitlin Bennett questioning the students about resources for transgender people in bathrooms which attracted significant online attention.

In February 2020, Kaitlin Bennett went to Ohio University to ask trivia questions for President's Day, but was confronted by a large crowd of college students opposing her.

Later in 2020, it was reported that Liberty Hangout, the media organization Kaitlin Bennett is associated with, made comments in 2016 denying the Holocaust in a deleted post on Twitter.

Kaitlin Bennett became engaged in 2019 to Justin Moldow, the founder of Liberty Hangout.