SIONICS

Studies In the Operational Negation of Insurgents and Counter-Subversion

founded in 1966

  • 1966 founded by Mitchell WerBell
  • producing firearm suppressors for the M16 and M14
  • January 1968 first patents
  • 1969 Gordon B. Ingram hired as chief engineer

Sionics
1655 Peachtree Street NE
Atlanta, Georgia 30309

  • 1970 They created a manufacturing corporation called Military Armament Corporation, and merged it with Quantum and SIONICS

Pat Spurgin

first markswoman in history to win Olympic Gold medal

  • Born in Billings, Montana
  • now living in Fairbanks, Alaska
  • competed and won a gold medal in the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles
  • the first Olympic Champion in Air Rifle for Women
    while a student at Murray State University, Kentucky
  • Pat Spurgin Rifle Range in Murray, Kentucky is named after her
  • 2014  torchbearer for the Sochi 2014 Olympic Torch Relay
  • 2014 appointed as director of the Alaskan Office of Management and Budget

Rob Pincus

  • Graduated Military College of Vermont with a degree in Political Science
  • Officer in the United States Army Reserve
  • San Miguel County Sheriff’s Office as a Training Officer
  • 2001 staff writer with S.W.A.T. Magazine
  • 2003 – 2007 Director of The Valhalla Training Center in Montrose, CO
  • 2005 Personal Defense Firearms DVD Series 
  • 2007 Range of the Year award by the National Association of Shooting Ranges
  • 2007 I.C.E. Training Company
  • 2014 2AO Executive Vice President
  • 2019 Save the 2A

The Daily Bullet – Rob Pincus
Jan 6, 2021

Daily Bullet – Rob Pincus
Nov 4, 2020


Rob Pincus Bio – I.C.E. Training
https://www.icetraining.us/robpincus.html
Rob Pincus is a professional trainer, author and consultant. He and his staff at I.C.E. Training Company provide services to military, law enforcement, private security and students interested in self-defense


Rob Pincus at AmmoLand.com
https://www.ammoland.com/author/rpincus/
Rob Pincus is the owner of the I.C.E. Training Company, that develops, teaches and consults on training for military, law enforcement, private security and others


Second Amendment Organization: – 2AO
https://www.2ao.org/

2AO (Second Amendment Organization) is a nonprofit, non-political, grassroots organization with a focus on engaging, educating, and equipping all shooters


From the 2019 Gun Rights Policy Conference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W2zGsAHcN0

https://gunstreamer.com/watch/our-voice-rob-pincus-2a-org-grpc-2019_IKj1dAhxiDZwRPE.html

TALO

since 1965

  • started by fishing and hunting wholesalers in
    Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma
  • commissions limited editions of firearms
  • 1997 started embellished Colt 1911’s and Walther PPKS’s
  • 2006 with the Ruger John Wayne Vaquero

 

  • Colt
  • Glock
  • Ruger
  • North American Arms
  • Mossberg
  • Sig Arms
  • Walther

Talo Distributors Inc
120 Pleasant St,
Framingham, MA 01701

(508) 872-9242

taloinc.com

Amanda Suffecool

July 16

  • Third-generation gun geek
  • 2002 NRA certified instructor
  • 2010 – Eye On The Target Radio
  • Chairman – Portage County Republican Party
  • 2014 began a CCW Fashion Show

Amanda on Rapid Fire Radio podcast


The Daily Bullet – Amanda Suffecool – Eye on the Target Radio
Jan 4, 2021



From the Gun Rights Policy Conference 2019

 

https://gunstreamer.com/watch/strong-women-amanda-suffecool-eye-on-the-target-radio-grpc-2019_FS5gJ2FXkLOklZV.html

SeOPA

Southeastern Outdoor Press Association

SEOPA is the nation’s premier regional outdoor communicator’s organization

  • May, 1964 Founded at Fontana Village, N.C by Tennessean Evan Means
  • 1965 Treasury contained $35.26 for publication of a newsletter
  • 1973 Tom Rollins executive director
  • 1974 SEOPA boasted 95 active and 39 corporate members
  • 1976 Meetings were decreased from twice annually to once because of an increase in gasoline prices
  • 1977 SEOPA was chartered
  • 1984 SEOPA logo was redesigned to include Arkansas
  • 1985 Sharon Coe (Rushton), SEOPA’s first woman president
  • 1987 initiated the SEOPA Education Fellowship Endowment with scholarships to deserving Southern students in outdoor-related fields
  • 1988 Tom Rollins retired as executive director.
    400 members with assets of almost $20,000 and acquired a reputation as the largest, most active and progressive regional outdoor press association.
  • 1988 Carle Dunn executive director.
  • 1988 SEOPA office was moved to Zwolle, La
  • 1992 Outdoor Tables and Tales cookbook was published
  • 1992 Gail Wright succeeded Carle Dunn as executive director
  • 1992 SEOPA office was moved to Gilbert, S.C.
  • 1995 West Virginia, Missouri and Texas were added to the SEOPA area
  • membership climbed from 375 to 579
  • 1996 Gail Wright resigned and was granted honorary lifetime membership status in the organization by the board of directors
  • 1996 Stephanie E. Wise was selected to serve as executive director, and the office was moved to Sumter, S.C.
  • 1999 Lisa McDowell (Snuggs)  executive director
  • 1999 office was moved to Unionville, Tenn
  • 2001  first Southeast Outdoor Showcase debuted in Gulf Shores, Ala
  • 2002 new website was unveiled to include links to members’ sites and a color version of the newsletter
  • 2002 SEOPA moved to North Carolina
  • 2004 established the Outdoor Journalist Education Foundation of America Inc. (OJEFA)
    a 501(c) (3) nonprofit corporation dedicated to further education, research and network opportunities in the field of outdoor journalism for students, active outdoor journalists and outdoor journalist organizations.
  • 2005 the annual conference was canceled because of weather (Hurricane Katrina)

 

SEOPA
P.O. Box 115
Badin, NC 28009

http://www.seopa.org