Category Archives: 2A Researcher

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

Massad Ayoob

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July 20, 1948 

  • 3rd Generation Armed Citizen
  • 1971 – Began Police Work
  • 1972 – Began Instruction
  • 1980 – In the Gravest Extreme published
  • 1981 – Founded Lethal Force Institute 
  • 1982 – 2009 – Lethal Force Institute
  • 1982 – Hit the white part published
  • 1983 – The Truth About Self Protection published
  • 1984 – Stressfire published
  • 1986 – Gun-Proof Your Children / Massad Ayoob’s Handgun Primer published
  • 1986 – Fundamentals of Modern Police Impact Weapons published
  • 1987 – The semiautomatic pistol in police service and self-defense published
  • 1992 – Stressfire II published
  • 1998 Outstanding American Handgunner of the Year Award
  • 2004 – Ayoob Files published
  • 2004 – The gun digest book of Sig-Sauer published
  • 2007 – The Gun Digest Book of Combat Handgunnery published
  • 2008 – The gun digest book of concealed carry published
  • 2008 The Armed Citizens Legal Defense Network
  • 2009 – Massad Ayoob Group
  • 2010 – Greatest handguns of the world published
  • 2011 – COMBAT SHOOTING with Massad Ayoob published
  • 2014 – Deadly Force – Understanding Your Right to Self Defense published

Massad Ayoob‘s school
https://MassadAyoobGroup.com

Massad Ayoob on Guns – Backwoods Home Magazine


https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/

Massad Ayoob, Author at Gun Digest

https://gundigest.com/author/massad-ayoob

Stephen P Halbrook

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 Sept 12, 1947

  • author and lawyer
  • 1969 B.S. Business Florida State University
  • 1972 PhD in philosophy
  • 1978 attorney specializing in civil litigation and criminal defense
  • published several books and dozens of articles on:
    – the history of the right to bear arms
    – the historical background of the Second Amendment
    – modern gun control, Nazi gun control policies during World War II
    – Switzerland’s policy of armed neutrality during World War II
  • 1981 in the George Mason University Law Review
    – the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to arms
    – the 14th Amendment intended to make that 2nd Amendment enforceable against the states
  • 1984 That Every Man Be Armed: The Evolution of a Constitutional Right
  • 1984 Defectless Firearms Litigation
  • 1986 What the Framers Intended: A Linguistic Analysis of the Right to “Bear Arms“
  • 1989 A Right to Bear Arms: State and Federal Bills of Rights and Constitutional Guarantees
  • 1991 The Right of the People or the Power of the State: Bearing Arms, Arming Militias, and the Second Amendment
  • 1994 NRA and Law Enforcement Opposition to the Brady Act: From Congress to the District Courts
  • 1998 Freedmen, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Right to Bear Arms, 1866-1876 
  • 2006 St. George Tucker’s Second Amendment: Deconstructing “The True Palladium of Liberty”
  • 2008 The Founder’s Second Amendment: Origins of the Right to Bear Arms
  • 2008 Arms in the Hands of Jews Are a Danger to Public Safety: Nazism, Firearm Registration, and the Night of the Broken Glass
  • 2014 David & Goliath Award from Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership

Joyce Lee Malcolm

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(October 17, 1941)
– 1994 author  To Keep and Bear Arms: The Origins of an Anglo-American Right

Don Kates

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(January 26, 1941 – November 1, 2016)
– 2008 District of Columbia v. Heller, served as an adviser to the council in the Court of Appeals
– Guns and Public Health: Epidemic of Violence or Pandemic of Propaganda?
– Armed: New Perspectives On Gun Control
– Restricting Handguns: The Liberal Skeptics Speak Out
– Firearms and Violence: Issues of Public Policy
– The Great American Gun Debate: Essays on Firearms and Violence
– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Kates
– https://www.cato.org/blog/watch-don-kates-quarter-century-washington-post-put-him-its-front-page
– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWzgzBZyySY

Don Kates

John Boyd

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1927-1997

  • U.S. Air Force Colonel
  • Boyd was the best fighter pilot in America and possibly the world
  • wrote the first manual on jet aerial combat
  • spearheaded the design of both of the Air Force’s premier fighters, the F-15 and the F-16
  • OODA loop (Observation, Orientation, Decision and Action)

Bill Woodin

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December  16, 1925 – March 18, 2018

  • William Woodin III
  • His grandfather (also named William Woodin) was President Franklin Roosevelt’s first treasury secretary
  • Bill’s Step-Father was a founder of the American Quarter Horse Association
  • bachelor in zoology at the University of Arizona
  • master in zoology at the University of California, Berkeley
  • 1950 kingsnake species named after him: lampropeltis pyromelana woodini
  • volunteer for the Desert Museum before it opened
  • 1954 to 1971 – Executive Director Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
  • called “the most promising young naturalist in the United States” by Roy Chapman Andrews, a former American Museum of Natural History director
  • 1955 – co-founder International Ammunition Association
  • active in European Cartridge Research Association
  • compiled “one of the great collections of ammunition in the world,”
  • 1973 Woodin Laboratory built
     3,000-square-foot underground vault
  • 1975 – Consulted on the Kennedy assassination research
  • 160,000 cartridges tracing the evolution of small arms ammunition
  • 1998 co-authored three volumes A History of Modern U.S. Small Arms Ammunition
  • Technical Advisor to and Distinguished Life Member of AFTE
    (Association of Firearm and Tool Mark Examiners)
  • Consultant to the U. S. Army Armament Research and Development Command (Armament Concepts Office)