– 1999 writer for GUNS & AMMO magazine
– writer for HANDGUNS magazine
– writer for 2009-2018 GUNS magazine
– 2011 “Journalist of the Year” by the 2nd Amendment Foundation
– 2011 Soldier of Fortune Magazine’s “2nd Amendment Freedom Fighter Award”
– 2014 Defender of Liberty by the Second Amendment Foundation
https://waronguns.blogspot.com/
About David Codrea
David Codrea is a writer and long-time grassroots armed citizen advocate based in Hudson, Ohio, who has written professionally about gun rights since 1999. His work has appeared in GUNS & AMMO, HANDGUNS and GUNS magazine, where he served as a field editor writing the monthly “Rights Watch” column. He also founded the blog The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance, and as of recent years his columns appear at AmmoLand, Firearms News and American Handgunner. He has been quoted or covered by outlets including The New York Times, the Associated Press and The Washington Post.
Codrea is best known for his investigative reporting, with the late blogger Mike Vanderboegh, on the ATF’s “Fast and Furious” gunwalking operation, coverage that helped push the scandal into congressional hearings. That work earned him the Second Amendment Foundation’s Journalist of the Year award for 2011, Soldier of Fortune’s “2nd Amendment Freedom Fighter Award” and the Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership “David and Goliath Award.” He has been a featured or keynote speaker at gun rights events in Washington, D.C., Georgia, Connecticut, Virginia and Arizona.
Key Facts
- 1999: Begins writing professionally about gun rights
- April 2007: Named Gun Rights Defender of the Month by the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms
- 2010: Featured speaker at the Second Amendment March in Washington, D.C.
- 2011: SAF Journalist of the Year for Fast and Furious coverage
- 2011: JPFO David and Goliath Award, shared with Mike Vanderboegh
- 2014: Defender of Liberty award from the Second Amendment Foundation
Sources
- About.me: David Codrea
- AmmoLand: Vanderboegh and Codrea Awarded JPFO’s David and Goliath Award
- Gun Digest: David Codrea
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