[3] The group teaches self-defense and has staged armed protests in favor of African American gun rights[2] and against police brutality.

Yafeuh Balogun expressed the hope that the club would continue to grow and eventually become a mainstream gun-rights organization.

[9] In 2016, the coalition held a counter-protest at the Muhammad Mosque in South Dallas in response to a demonstration by the anti-Islamic Bureau of American Islamic Relations (BAIR).

[5] However, during a 2019 interview on Klepper, Rakem Balogun is seen leading a demonstration including three participants in Huey P. Newton Gun Club paraphernalia.

[15] Due to the disagreement in the direction the club was taking the Huey P. Newton Gun Club Alpha company was formed by Yafeuh Balogun, as a way to adhere to the original socialist and intercommunal ideology of the Black Panther Party, in particular Huey P. Newton.