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Joyce Lee Malcolm

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(October 17, 1941)
– 1994 author  To Keep and Bear Arms: The Origins of an Anglo-American Right

Don Kates

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(January 26, 1941 – November 1, 2016)
– 2008 District of Columbia v. Heller, served as an adviser to the council in the Court of Appeals
– Guns and Public Health: Epidemic of Violence or Pandemic of Propaganda?
– Armed: New Perspectives On Gun Control
– Restricting Handguns: The Liberal Skeptics Speak Out
– Firearms and Violence: Issues of Public Policy
– The Great American Gun Debate: Essays on Firearms and Violence
– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Kates
– https://www.cato.org/blog/watch-don-kates-quarter-century-washington-post-put-him-its-front-page
– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWzgzBZyySY

Don Kates

Bob Munden

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1941

Fastest Man with a Gun Who Ever Lived
– Guinness World Records

  • born in Kansas City, Missouri
  • started shooting career at age 11
  • 1950s in high school, Bob competed in Jeff Cooper’s Big Bear “Leatherslaps” shooting competitions at Big Bear Lake, California
  • won over 3,500 fast draw trophies
  • custom gunsmith
  • exhibition shooting:
    – “Super Humans” on the History Channel
    – American Shooter
    – Shooting USA’s Impossible Shots
    – Ripley’s Believe it or Not

LCAAP

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Lake City Army Ammunition Plant (LCAAP)
established in 1941
3,935-acre
Independence, Missouri

  • 1941 established by Remington Arms
  • first of 12 small arms plants run by the Army
  • WWII  21,000 full-time workers produced 50 million rounds per year
  • 1985 operations taken over by Olin Corporation
  • April 2001 operated by Alliant Techsystems (ATK)
  • 2018 acquired by Northrop Grumman
  • 1.6 billion round per year production capacity

  • 5.56 mm
  • 7.62 mm
  • 50 caliber
  • 20 mm
  • Foundation for Exceptional Warriors
    – annual turkey hunt for veterans
    – 4,000 private acres

United States v. Miller

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1939

Upheld a federal ban on sawed-off shotguns

 

  • March 30, 1939 United States v Miller – Argued
  • May 15, 1939 United States v Miller – Decided
  • Ruling on the National Firearms Act of 1934
  • Supreme Court upholds a federal ban on sawed-off shotguns
  • Supreme court ruled that when called for militia duty,
    “these men were expected to appear bearing arms supplied by themselves
    and of the kind in common use at the time.”
  • (U.S. v Miller, 307 US 174)

District Court Western District Arkansas, charged that Jack Miller and Frank Layton ‘did unlawfully, knowingly, wilfully, and feloniously transport in interstate commerce from the town of Claremore in the State of Oklahoma to the town of Siloam Springs in the State of Arkansas a certain firearm, to-wit, a double barrel 12-gauge Stevens shotgun having a barrel less than 18 inches in length

Marion P. Hammer

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April 26, 1939

Grandmother, 2A Activist

  • She learned to shoot “squirrels and rabbits for dinner” with a .22 bolt-action single-shot rifle
  • Florida’s top gun lobbyist
  • 1974 – Present – NRA lobbyist from Florida
  • 1976 – Today – Runs the Unified Sportsmen of Florida (USF)
  • 1987 – Lobbied for Florida concealed-carry (CCW) 
  • 1988 – creator of the NRA Eddie Eagle Program
  • Created the Range Protection Act.
  • 1993 – Outstanding Community Service Award from National Safety Council
  • 1995 to 1998 – 1st female president of the National Rifle Association NRA
  • 2005 – Florida Women’s Hall of Fame
  • 2005 – Involved in the Florida Stand-your-ground law – “one of the chief architects”  first to be passed in the United States

Michael Harries

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1938

  • May 30, 1938 – November 25, 2000
  • 1957 to 1961 USMC
  • 1960s seek out and join the Southwest Combat Pistol League SWPL
    – based on articles in Guns & Ammo magazine
  • 1969 joined the Southwest Pistol League (SWPL)
    – coached five different shooters to SWPL class championships
    – taught private students
  • 1970 met Jeff Cooper
    – participated in Cooper’s “Mountain Man” program
  • staff with  Mel Tappan  “Seminars-On-Survival”
  • 1976 founding member of IPSC (the International Practical Shooting Confederation)
    – holster committee w/ Bruce Nelson
  • 1981 founded Southern California Tactical Combat Program
  • 1982 adjunct staff at American Pistol Institute (Gunsite)
  • 1970s invented Harries Flashlight Technique

VSSA

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1938

Virginia Shooting Sports Association

  • 1938 – originally founded as the Virginia State Rifle and Revolver Association
  • is Virginia’s oldest gun rights organization
  • official state association of the National Rifle Association
  • closely affiliated with the Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP), National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), and the Virginia Gun Collectors Association

Our mission is to provide shooting opportunities for, and to protect the Second Amendment rights of, all law abiding Virginians.

https://www.myvssa.org/

VSSA Office
PO Box 1258
Orange, VA 22960
(540) 672-5848

NSGA

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National Sporting Goods Association

founded in 1927
Downers Grove, Illinois

In 1927, the association’s founders fought an unfair taxation on sporting goods in the state of South Carolina. This fight led to the formation of the Sporting Goods Dealer’s Association of South Carolina.

Soon after, other regional sporting goods associations began to form in the East, Midwest and the South. Finally, these associations merged into one and in 1936, the name was officially changed to National Sporting Goods Association.
 https://www.nsga.org/about/

National Sporting Goods Association 
3041 Woodcreek Drive, Suite 210
Downers Grove, Illinois 60515
(847) 296-NSGA (6742) 

 

Warren Page

– 1960 Created the First National Conference on the Shooting Sports
– 1972 Director of National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF)