Category Archives: Resources

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

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

Camfour

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established in 1952

  • Started in old Indian Motorcycle building in Springfield, MA
  • 1984 introduced online ordering software
  • 1998 Al Ferst sold Camfour to local investors
  • 2008 started an annual trade show

Camfour
65 Westfield Industrial Park Rd
Westfield MA 01085

413-564-2300

camfour.com

CCI

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Cascade Cartridge Inc

 founded in 1951
Lewiston, Idaho

  • 1951 founded by Dick Speer (1915-1994) in Lewiston, Idaho
    – machinist at Boeing Aircraft’s Seattle plant
    – brother of Vernon Speer, who founded Speer Bullets
    – there was money to be made in reloading
  • provided a steady source of component primers
  • bought a 17-acre chicken ranch next to the Lewiston Gun Club
    – a mile south of brother Vernon’s bullet works
    –  production began in a renovated chicken coop
  • When the Lewiston Gun Club moved, Speer bought the adjoining property
  • February 2015 bought by Vista Outdoor

CCI/Blazer
2299 Snake River Ave.
Lewiston, ID 83501

1-866-286-7436

cci-ammunition.com

Yankee Hill Machine

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1951
Massachusetts

  • 1951 founded by Wallace Judd & James Graham in Yankee Hill, Massachusetts
  • 1960s government contract to design and produce cleaning rods for the M16
  • 1980s son Jay took over
  • 2000s began manufacturing suppressors
  • 2008 YNH-15 first complete rifle
  • 2013 Grandsons took over

Yankee Hill Machine
412 Main St.
Easthampton, Massachusetts

yhm.net

 

Alcan

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Incorporated in 1951 – 1980

  • Homer Clark Jr
  • most of the components  sold were imported from Europe
  • Shotgun Powder manufactured by Baschieri & Pellagri
    – Bolona, Italy
  • powders from Bofors of Sweden
  • 1964 plastic cased shotloads and blanks
  • 1970 the company over extended itself
  • 1970 acquired by Smith & Wesson & Fiocchi 
  • 1972 Smith & Wesson Fiocchi was manufacturing and selling Alcan branded ammo & components
  • 1980 stopped manufacturing under the Alcan Name

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.

 

 

Jerry Henry

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Grandfather, operates a therapeutic riding center for persons with special needs in Fairburn, GA

  • 1967 – 1971 – U.S.Navy
  • 2008 – joined GeorgiaCarry.Org
  • 2009 – GeorgiaCarry.Org first Executive Director  

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