Category Archives: 2A Author

Dave Grossman

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August 23, 1956 

  • Born in Frankfurt, West Germany
  • Specialized in the study of the psychology of killing
  • Lieutenant colonel in the United States Army
  • Professor of psychology at West Point
  • 1995 – Author – On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society
  • 1999 – Author – Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill: A Call to Action Against TV, Movie and Video Game Violence
  • 2004 – Author – On Combat: The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and in Peace
  • 2016 – Author – Assassination Generation : Video Games, Aggression, and the Psychology of Killing
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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

Brian Anse Patrick

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1954 – Dec 27, 2016

  • championship target shooter
  • CCW permit instructor
  • 2000 Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Toledo
  • AmmoLand Contributor
  • Speaker – Gun Rights Policy Conference
  • Speaker – National Firearms Law Seminar
  • 2002 Author – The National Rifle Association and the Media: The Motivating Force of Negative Coverage
    a landmark study of how negative bias in media coverage has actually benefited the NRA as a social movement.
  • Author – The Rise of the Anti-Media
    a study of how advocates for the concealed carry movement in the US have successfully used alternative forms of media to successfully combat the opposition of informational elites,

 



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

Bill Rodgers

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  • FBI agent 
  • 1972 devised the first Kydex holster
  • patented the process to laminate leather to the inside of a sheet material
  • 1973 Rogers Holster Company
  • devised the first paddle holster
  • devised the first “ retention ” holsters
  • 1982 devised the electronic shot timer
    https://www.competitionelectronics.com/
  • 1985 Rodgers holster company purchased by Safariland
  • 1985 member of Team Safariland
  • 1975 Rogers Shooting School
  • 2010 Author of “Be Fast, Be Accurate, Be the Best”

RogersShootingSchool.com

John Farnam

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  • Cornell College, BA in Biology
  •  US Marine Corps Second Lieutenant, Vietnam
  • infantry platoon leader
  •  three Purple Hearts
  •  Trained Marines
  •  Active in the Reserves until 1987, rank of major
  • 1971 Police Officer
  • 1972 – Began Instruction
  • DTI Defense Training International
    http://defense-training.com/
  • Inspired by Jeff Cooper
    “Each of our students is an instructor”
  • 1996 selected by his peers to receive “Tactical Advocate of the Year”
  • 2009 inducted into Black Belt Magazine’s “Living Legends”


Books:

  • 1998 – “The Farnam Method of Defensive Shotgun and Rifle Shooting”
  • 1998 – “The Street Smart Gun Book”
  • 2000– “The Farnam Method of Defensive Handgunning”
  • 2006 – Guns & Warriors: DTI Quips, Vol. 1

Armed Citizens’ Legal Defense Network, Inc.

 

 

Sonny Jones

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  • 1988 attended (the third) Gun Rights Policy Conference GRPC
  • Feb 1989 launched Women & Guns
    was inspired  after covering the Gun Rights Policy Conference for Machine Gun News
  • Sonny wrote almost the entire first issue herself, 16 pages of black and white print with no ads, with a focus on an in-depth feature article on concealed- carry options for women.
  •  Fall of 1989 2nd Amendment foundation acquired Women & Guns
  • 1989 – 1991 Sunny moved to Washington & remained editor of W&G
  • 1991 started to work for the NRA
  • Oct 1993 NRA “Refuse to Be a Victim.” began
  • 1994 appointed to Womens Personal Safety Office