(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
Joseph P. Tartaro March 17,1931 – June 13, 2020 (89)
Joseph Tartaro was a well-known American firearms rights activist and president of the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF). He served in the United States Marine Corps and later became a full-time firearms activist. Tartaro was been involved in firearm owner rights organizations, including the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA), which he co-founded in 1971, and the International Association for the Protection of Civilian Arms Rights (IAPCAR). He has been a vocal advocate for gun rights and has written extensively on firearms issues, receiving several awards for his work in the firearm owners rights movement.
1979 bought Gun Week newspaper (with his brother) – later transferred it to the Second Amendment Foundation
Executive Editor of TheGunMag.com
1989 – named president of Second Amendment Foundation
1989 2nd Amendment foundation acquired Women & Guns, founded by Sunny Jones, who remained as its editor
co-editor of the monthly newsletter, The Gottlieb-Tartaro Report
1991 – NRA’s Harlon B. Carter Award
1993 – Author – The Great Assault Weapon Hoax
Joseph was a former Ad Executive for Tartaro Advertising
2013 – CCRKBA’s Gun Rights Defender of the Year award
Tartaro has been a vocal advocate for gun rights and has testified before Congress on numerous occasions. He has also written extensively on firearms issues and is the author of several books, including “The Great American Gun Debate: Essays on Firearms and Violence” and “The Gun Rights Fact Book”. He has received numerous awards for his work in the firearms rights movement, including the NRA’s Harlon B. Carter Award in 1991 and the CCRKBA’s Gun Rights Defender of the Year award in 2013.
(born July 8, 1926) – 1955 – 2015 United States House of Representatives – 1968 Urged the NRA to fight for 2nd Amendment rights & the concept of the NRA ILA – former board member of the National Rifle Association – For many years, Dingell received an A+ rating from the NRA
(1910 – Jan 22,1977) – 1931 Graduated from Harvard – WWII Lieutenant in Navy, Gunnery Instructor – 1947-1974 Shooting Editor for Field & Stream – 1949 Ruger’s first pistol.. serial Number 8, was “hand delivered” to Warren – 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
she carried a pistol instead of Secret Service protection
“After the head of the Secret Service found I was not going to allow an agent to accompany me everywhere, he went one day to Louis Howe [FDR’s secretary], plunked a revolver down on the table and said ‘Well, all right, if Mrs. Roosevelt is going to drive around the country alone, at least ask her to carry this in the car.’”
Eleanor’s autobiography
“When Roosevelt defied death threats by the Ku Klux Klan to travel to Tennessee in 1958 to attend a civil rights workshop, she and the woman who picked her up at the Nashville airport drove to the conference with ‘a loaded pistol on the front seat between them.’”
her biographer Allida Black
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
Eleanor Roosevelt, “You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys to a More Fulfilling Life”
Annie Oakley taught more than 15,000 women how to use a gun
Sixth of nine children ( born Phoebe Ann Mosey )(Phoebe Ann Moses)
began trapping before the age of seven
began shooting and hunting by age eight
1865 – Her skill paid off the mortgage on her mother’s farm (when Annie was 15)
1872 – Annie ran away from the home where she was “employed”
1881 – Thanksgiving Day, Baughman & Butler shooting act was being performed in Cincinnati – Frank E. Butler placed a $100 bet he could beat any local “fancy shooter”, Butler lost the match and the bet
1882 – Oakley married Frank Butler
1885 – They joined Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show ( She earned more than any performer, except for “Buffalo Bill” Cody himself )
1889 – Paris Exposition
1898 – Oakley promoted women in combat ops for the US Military
1894 – Performed in the eleventh film made = The “Little Sure Shot of the Wild West,”(the 11th movie made on earth, by the inventor of motion pictures)
1902 – left the Buffalo Bill show for good
1902 – The Western Girl a stage play written especially for her
1904 – A newspaper reporter wrote a libelous article, Oakley spent 6 years dealing with libel lawsuits (lost only one of 55)
1912 – Annie Oakley House built in Cambridge, Maryland Oakley collected less in judgments than her legal expenses
Oakley continued to set records into her sixties
1922 – She hit 100 clay targets in a row from 16 yards (at age 62)
Oakley was involved in extensive philanthropy for women’s rights and the support of young women she knew
1922 – a car accident forced her to wear a steel brace on her right leg
1925 – visited to the Grand American (Shotgun shoot) and “breaks a 97”
1925 – she died of pernicious anemia in Greenville, Ohio at the age of 66
1925 – Butler was so grieved by her death he stopped eating and died 18 days later
Oakley’s ashes were placed in one of her prized trophies and laid next to Butler’s body in his coffin
After her death, it was discovered that she spent her entire fortune on her family and her charities
1981 – Annie Oakley Committee placed a stone-mounted plaque in the vicinity of her birth site
1996 – The Annie Oakley House added to the National Register of Historic Places
Trapshooting Hall of Fame
National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame
National Women’s Hall of Fame
Ohio Women’s Hall of Fame
New Jersey Hall of Fame.
Oakley’s personal possessions, performance memorabilia, and firearms are on permanent exhibit in the Garst Museum and the National Annie Oakley Center in Greenville, Ohio
Oakley believed that women should learn to use a gun for the empowering image that it gave
I would like to see every woman know how to handle guns as naturally as they know how to handle babies.
Oakley believed strongly that it was crucial for women to learn how to use a gun, as not only a form of physical and mental exercise, but also to defend themselves
