1949
- Author
- originally from New York City
- Jews For The Preservation Of Firearms Ownership
- 1986 moved to AZ
- 1989 first book, The Arizona Gun Owner’s Guide
GRPC 2019
About Alan Korwin
Alan Korwin is an author and publisher whose plain-English guides to gun law have been a fixture on gun store counters for more than three decades. Born in the Bronx in 1949, he earned a B.A. in English from Long Island University and worked as a writer and business consultant, including writing the business plan that raised $5 million in venture capital for SkyMall, before moving to Arizona. In 1988 he founded Bloomfield Press, which grew into one of the largest publishers and distributors of gun-law books in the United States, and he also operates GunLaws.com.
His best-known titles include The Arizona Gun Owner’s Guide, a series of state gun owner’s guides, Gun Laws of America (a compilation of every federal gun law), Supreme Court Gun Cases, Your First Gun and After You Shoot. He attended oral arguments in District of Columbia v. Heller and wrote The Heller Case: Gun Rights Affirmed, and he participated as an amicus in McDonald v. City of Chicago. He has made more than 1,000 radio and television appearances, has spoken at the Gun Rights Policy Conference, and has been associated with Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership. For gun owners, his books remain a practical starting point for understanding what the law actually says.
Key Facts
- 1949: Born in the Bronx, New York
- 1972: B.A. in English, Long Island University
- 1988: Founds Bloomfield Press in Arizona
- 1999: Receives the Arizona Book Publishing Association’s Korwin Award for Visionary Leadership, named in his honor
- 2008: Attends Supreme Court oral arguments in D.C. v. Heller; later publishes The Heller Case
- 2013: Receives the Second Amendment Foundation’s Defender of Liberty Award
Books
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