- June 2005 – Present – President, Arizona Citizens Defense League
About Dave Kopp
Dave Kopp is the longtime President of the Arizona Citizens Defense League (AzCDL), a position he has held since the organization’s early days in 2005. AzCDL is a nonprofit, all-volunteer, nonpartisan 501(c)(4) grassroots group formed by local activists to protect the right to keep and bear arms under the Arizona Constitution. It lobbies the Arizona Legislature for law-abiding gun owners and works against bills that would impair that right.
Under Kopp’s leadership AzCDL has become one of the most effective state-level gun rights organizations in the country. Its best-known achievement is Arizona’s 2010 Constitutional Carry law, which made a concealed carry permit optional for law-abiding adults. The group has also helped restore the presumption of innocence in self-defense cases (2006), passed the Crime Victims Protection Act (2012), strengthened state preemption and the Castle Doctrine, and legalized suppressors for hunting. AzCDL has been named Grassroots Organization of the Year in 2006, 2010 and 2018, and Kopp himself was recognized as a 2019 Defender of Liberty.
Key Facts
- 2005: AzCDL formally organized; Kopp becomes President
- 2006: AzCDL helps restore “innocent until proven guilty” in self-defense cases
- 2010: Arizona passes Constitutional Carry
- 2012: Crime Victims Protection Act passes
- 2019: Kopp named Defender of Liberty
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