In May 2018, Bennett graduated with a degree in biology from Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. Bennett became engaged in 2019 and was married in 2020. Her husband is Liberty Hangout founder Justin Moldow.
Media attention
Bennett was the president of the Kent State chapter of Turning Point USA; however, after a protest against campus safe spaces backfired in October 2017, she resigned. In 2018, Bennett posed for her graduation photo holding an AR-10 long gun in front of the university sign. She stated that as a student at Kent, 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 U.S. bombing of Cambodia. Later that year, Bennett organized an open-carry rally at Kent State. The university released a statement that a cease and desist had been issued against advertising the event, as Bennett had not attempted to register the event with the university. She returned to Kent State in November to host a discussion on gun rights. Following her initial protest of Kent State, Bennett became a correspondent for Infowars. Due to her affiliation with Infowars, she was excluded from a campaign event for Bernie Sanders. In January 2020, clips began surfacing online of Bennett's 2019 interviews with University of Kentucky students. Originally posted by Liberty Hangout with the title "College Students Have No Morals", the videos show Bennett questioning the students on the issue of resources for transgender people in bathrooms. The clips quickly became popular on social media, with users entertained by the dichotomy between Bennett and the interviewees' reactions to the topic. One student seen in the interviews used the online attention to raise money for charity. As social media users mainly associated Bennett with her gun rights activism, many media publications have referenced her "Gun Girl" nickname. In February 2020, Kaitlin Bennett went to Ohio University to ask President's Day trivia questions, but was confronted by an extremely large crowd of college students opposing her, with some throwingtoilet paper, drinks and other objects at her. That same month, Bennett's Liberty Hangout outlet received criticism for statements on Twitter supporting Holocaust denial, monarchy, and disfranchisement.
