Open Source Defense

2019

Open Source Defense

We couldn’t wait for a gun rights organization that matched our approach to show up, so we created our own.

 

  • BJ Campbell
    – engineer
  • Chuck Rossi
    – engineer at Facebook from 2008 to 2018
  • Jon Stokes
    – co-founded the tech news site Ars Technica
  • & others

https://www.instagram.com/opensrcdefense/

https://opensourcedefense.substack.com/

https://opensourcedefense.org/

Milt Sparks

1917 – Sept. 9, 1995

  • 1968 Started making holsters as Milt Sparks Leather
  • 1983 Tony Kanaley joined the operation
  • 1990 incorporated as Milt Sparks Holsters, Inc.
  • 1995 Kanaley took over the business

 

We the Female

 

  • Non-profit organization created to both empower and provide personal security and firearm safety education to women
  • 2018 Founded by Kerry Slone
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MISSION:
 

“TO INSPIRE AMERICAN WOMEN TO EMBRACE AND DEFEND THEIR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS TO LIFE, LIBERTY, AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS THROUGH SELF-DEFENSE AND SECURITY EDUCATION.” 

Mission- We the Female