Category Archives: 2A Activist

John Lott

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(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
– 1998 – More Guns, Less Crime
– Concealed carry laws had resulted in significant crime reductions
– 2003 The Bias Against Guns
– 2013 founded the Crime Prevention Research Center
– 2016 – The War On Guns: Arming Yourself Against Gun Control Lies
– Freedomnomics
–  https://CrimeResearch.org
– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lott

From the Gun Rights Policy Conference 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8thDif-D8f4

https://gunstreamer.com/watch/intellectual-ammunition-john-lott-crime-prevention-research-center-grpc-2019_EwAtzm1Gb82ORt2.html

Suzanna Hupp

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1958

  • Chiropractor
  • 1996 – 2007 Texas House Representative
  • she has spread the word about a right-to-carry
  • Testified across the country in support of concealed handgun laws
  • 2021 working in the TX AG office
  • 2021 in attendance at the committee hearings on Texas Constitutional Carry

Luby’s massacre

(October 16, 1991, Her parents were killed durring a Mass Killing at a Luby’s Cafeteria in Killeen, Texas, She had her CWW in the parking lot, per Texas law)

Charles Heller

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(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

– Host of Liberty Watch Radio
– Co-founder of The Arizona Citizens Defense League (AZCDL)
– Media coordinator for AzCDL
– Former executive director of Jews For The Preservation of Firearms Ownership (JPFO)
– Media coordinator for JPFO
– Arizona concealed weapons instructor for 22 years
– Has visited 25 of the 28 submarines on display in the U.S
– (and visited 2 not on display, and worked on one as a kid)

Peggy Tartaro

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1955

  • 1979 joined Gun Week newspaper
    – held positions in circulation and advertising through 1989
    – published by the non-profit Second Amendment Foundation Inc
  • 1989 Joseph Tartaro (father) took over the then-new “Women & Guns” magazine
  • 1989 associate editor “Women & Guns” magazine
  • 1993 became Executive Editor
  • 1990- 2019 Editor of Women & Guns magazine
  • 1997 trustee of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms
  • treasurer of Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms
  •  managing editor of The Gun Mag.com
  • 2007  NRA’s Sybil Luddington Women’s Freedom Award
  • member of Shooters Committee on Political Education (SCOPE, Inc.)
  • NRA Life Member
  • served for several years as a member of the National Rifle Association’s Women’s Policies Committee

Dr. Miguel Faria

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Sept 30, 1952

  • 1996 testified before the U.S. House Appropriations Subcommittee for Labor, Health, and Human Services about Anti-Gun Bias on CDC Research
  • 1998 Americanism Medal from the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR)
  • 1999 Gun Rights Defender of the Month Award, from the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms
  • 2002 – 2005 Injury Research Grant Review Committee for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
  • 2004 – 2010 Editorial Board of Surgical Neurology
  • written over 200 medical, scientific, and professional articles

1996 – Dickey Amendment

“I have yet to see a published report that has been funded by the NCIPC in which the benefits of firearms in the hands of law-abiding citizens have been published even though they are there … if you don’t conclude that guns are bad and that they need to be eradicated because they are a ‘public health menace,’ they are not published.”

Dr. Miguel Faria – 1996 testified before the U.S. House Appropriations Subcommittee for Labor, Health, and Human Services

Philip Van Cleave

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1952

  • 1971 – 1973 volunteer firefighter in Bexar County, TX
  • 1973 – 1980 reserve deputy sheriff in San Antonio
  • 1975 Masters degree Computer Science
  • 1978 Bachelors degree
  • 1980 move to Virginia
  • president of the Virginia Citizens Defense League (VCDL)
  • June 2004, he received the Gun Rights Defender of the Month Award from the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms
  • 2018 – was fooled publicly by Who Is America? is an American political satire television series