2A Activists – Old

These are some 2A  Activists

NRA

  • Col. William C. Church
  • Gen. George Wingate
  • Gen. Ambrose Burnside
  • Harlon Carter
  • Neal Knox
  • Wayne LaPierre
  • Chris W. Cox

Firearms Coalition 

  • Neal Knox
  • Jeff Knox
  • Chris Knox

Gun Owners of America

  • H.L. Richardson
  • Larry Pratt
  • Erich Pratt

Second Amendment Foundation

  • Alan Gottlieb

Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC)

  • Brandon Combs
  • Craig DeLuz

Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership (JFPO)

  • Aaron Zelman

Pink Pistols

  • Doug Krick
  • Suzanna Hupp
  • Nicole Stallard

 Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership (DRGO)

  • Dr. Timothy Wheeler
  • Dr Robert Young
  • Dr John Edeen

NFA Freedom Alliance

  • Todd Rathner

Oath Keepers

  • Elmer Stewart Rhodes

National Association of Gun Rights NAGR

  • Dudley Brown

Researchers

  • John Lott
  • Joyce Lee Malcolm
  • Don Kates

2A Attorneys

  • Alan Gura
  • Dave Kopel

Writers

  • Suzanna Hupp
  • Mike Detty
  • David Codrea
  • Alan Korwin

  • Col. William C. Church
    (August 11, 1836 – May 23, 1917)
    – 1861–62 Washington correspondent of the New York Times
    – 1863 Founded the Army and Navy Journal
    – 1866 co-founded Galaxy Magazine, which published the early writings of Mark Twain
    – 1870 one of the founders of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
    – 1871 co-founder of the National Rifle Association
    – 1872 Second president of the National Rifle Association
    – 1882 commissioner to inspect the Northern Pacific Railroad
    – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Conant_Church
  • Gen. George Wingate
    (July 1, 1840 – March 22, 1928)
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    – 1871 co-founder of the National Rifle Association
    – 1872 Author – Manual for Rifle Practice
    – 1886 to 1900 president of the National Rifle Association
    – 1903 first President of the Public Schools Athletic League PSAL
  • Gen. Ambrose Burnside
    (May 23, 1824 – September 13, 1881)
    – 1843-1847 United States Military Academy – graduated 18th in a class of 47
    – 1847–1853 Mexican–American War (1st Lieutenant)
    – 1853 manufactured the Burnside carbine
    – 1861 – 1865 Civil War, Major General
    – 1866-1869 Governor of Rhode Island
    – 1871 NRA’s first President
    – 1875-1881 U.S. Senator from Rhode Island
    – His distinctive style of facial hair became known as sideburns
  • Warren Page
    (1910 – Jan 22,1977)
    – 1931 Graduated from Harvard
    – WWII Lieutenant in Navy, Gunnery Instructor
    – 1947-1974 Shooting Editor for Field & Stream
    – 1958 Awarded the Weatherby Big Game Trophy
    – 1960 Created the First National Conference on the Shooting Sports
    – Founded National Bench Rest Shooting Championship
    – 1972 Director of National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF)
    – first living American to be named to the Hunting Hall of Fame
  • John David Dingell Jr.
    (born July 8, 1926)
    – 1955 – 2015 United States House of Representatives
    – 1968 Urged the NRA to fight for 2nd Amendment rights
    – former board member of the National Rifle Association
    – For many years, Dingell received an A+ rating from the NRA
  • Hubert Leon “Bill” Richardson
    (December 28, 1927)
    – served in the United States Navy in World War II
    – 1975 founded The Gun Owners of America(GOA)
    – founded of Gun Owners of California
    – 1966-1989 California state senator
    – Chair the Senate Fish and Game Committee
    – NRA director
    – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._L._Richardson
  • Larry Pratt
    (November 13, 1942)
    – 1976 executive director Gun Owners of America
    – 1980–1981 Virginia House of Delegates 19th district
    – Reagan delegate to the 1980 Republican National Convention
    – Author: Armed People Victorious (1990)
    – Author: Safeguarding Liberty: The Constitution and Citizen Militias (1995)
    – Author: On the Firing Line: Essays in the Defense of Liberty (2001)
    – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Pratt
  • Clifford “Neal” Knox
    (June 20, 1935 – January 17, 2005)
    – 1966 testified before Congressional committees at least fifty times, before the House Subcommittee on Crime against what eventually became the Gun Control Act of 1968
    – 1977 The NRA Cincinnati Revolt
    – 1978-1982 Executive Director of NRA Institute for Legislative Action (ILA)
    – 1984 Founder & chairman of the Firearms Coalition
    – founding editor of Gun Week
    – editor of Handloader Magazine
    – founding editor of Rifle Magazine
    – – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Knox
  • Chris Knox
    – Son of “Neal” Knox
    – Co-Maintains FirearmsCoalition.org and GunVoter.org
    – Compiled and edited, The Gun Rights War
    – Interview
  • John Lott
    (May 8, 1958)
    – Ph.D. in economics from UCLA
    – Economist, political commentator, and gun rights advocate
    – 1997 study analyzed crime rates in 3,000 U.S. counties following passage of concealed carry laws during the past two decades
    – Concealed carry laws had resulted in significant crime reductions
    – 2013 founded the Crime Prevention Research Center
    – The War On Guns: Arming Yourself Against Gun Control Lies
    – More Guns, Less Crime
    – The Bias Against Guns
    – Freedomnomics
    –  https://CrimeResearch.org
    – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lott
  • Doug Ritter
    – 2006 Founded Knife Rights
    – Chairman of Knife Rights
  • Todd Rathner
    – 2014 president of the NFA Freedom Alliance
    – Director of Legislative Affairs for Knife Rights
  • Craig DeLuz
    – Communications Director for the California Association of Federal Firearms Licensees (Cal-FFL)
    – http://CraigDeLuz.com
  • Doug Krick
    – 2000 Founded Pink Pistols
  • Elmer Stewart Rhodes
    – U.S. Army Airborne Veteran (Disabled and Retired)
    – 2004 Graduate of Yale Law School
    – 2009 Founder and National President of Oath Keepers
    – http://oathkeepers.org
  • Tim Schmidt
    2003 – Founded USCCA (United States Concealed Carry Association)
  • Dudley Brown
    (1965)
    – 1996 founded (and executive director) of Rocky Mountain Gun Owners
    – president National Association of Gun Rights NAGR
    – 2014 NAGR Revenue $12,451,900
    – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dudley_Brown

Proponents of the “Standard Model” Interpretation of the Second Amendment
– five “inner circle”

2A Attorneys

Authors, Second Amendment Attorneys, Political Scientists, Second Amendment Researchers, and Gun Rights Advocates

  • Alan Gura
    – 2008 successfully argued  District of Columbia v. Heller before the United States Supreme Court
    – successfully argued McDonald v. Chicago.before the United States Supreme Court
    – born in Israel
    – came to the United States when he was 7 with his family
  • Dave Kopel
    – January 7, 1960
    –  2008 appeared before the U.S. Supreme Court .presenting the oral argument in District of Columbia v. Heller
    – His Heller amicus brief was cited four times in the Court’s Heller opinions
    – His brief in McDonald v. Chicago (2010) was cited by Justice Alito’s plurality opinion, and twice by Justice – Stevens’ dissent
  • Dick Heller
    – took his 2A-based legal case all the way to the Supreme Court of the United States
    – His case impacted the legal interpretation of the Second Amendment of the Bill of Rights of the US Constitution, the Second Amendment protects an individual’s right to possess a firearm, unconnected with service in a militia
  • David Codrea
    – 1999 writer for GUNS & AMMO magazine
    – writer for HANDGUNS magazine
    – writer for 2009-2018 GUNS magazine
    – 2011 “Journalist of the Year” by the 2nd Amendment Foundation
    – 2011 Soldier of Fortune Magazine’s “2nd Amendment Freedom Fighter Award”
    – 2014 Defender of Liberty by the Second Amendment Foundation
  • Robert E. Shalhope
  • Robert J. Cottrol
    (born January 18, 1949)
    – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_J._Cottrol
  • Stephen P. Halbrook
    – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Halbrook
  • Valinda Rowe
    – spokeswoman for IllinoisCarry.com
  • Mike Weisman
    – Illinois State Rifle Association
  • Dr. Paula Bratich
    – co-coordinator of the Second Amendment Sisters
  • Karl T. Frederick
    – 1934 NRA leader
    – “I have never believed in the general practice of carrying weapons. I think it should be sharply restricted and only under licenses.”
  • Franklin Orth 
    – 1963, NRA Executive Vice President
    – backed the banning of mail-order sales
    – supported state legislation prohibiting “open carry” in public places
  • Kenyon Ballew
    – longtime NRA member
    – 1971, federal agents shot and paralyzed during a gun raid at his home in Maryland
  • Charles Heller
    (1956)
    – son of a law-enforcement officer and grandson of a judge
    – 1978 moved to Arizona
    – 2002 Liberty Watch Radio & America Armed & Free Radio Show
    – 2005 One of the Four co-founders of the Arizona Citizens Defense League
    – 2011-2013 excec Director of JPFO
    – Currently Media Co-Ordinator for AzCDL & JPFO
  • Dick Heller
    – A licensed special police officer for the District of Columbia.
    – Heller carried a gun in federal office buildings, but was not allowed to have one in his home
    – Robert A. Levy and Alan Gura were counsel for Heller
    – 1984 founded the “Children’s Birthright Trust Fund” – a charity that supports and raises funds for youth projects, such as computer access
    – 2004 until 2011 served as the Treasurer of the D.C. Libertarian Party
  • Otis McDonald
    – 1933 – April 4, 2014
    – 2010 Chicago prohibited him from owning a handgun, so Otis sued and eventually overturned the handgun ban
    –  McDonald v Chicago