Alan Gottlieb

– 2010 founded the International Association for the Protection of Civilian Arms Rights
– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Gottlieb

Julianne Versnel

2010 – Co-founded International Association for the Protection of Civilian Arms Rights (IAPCAR)

About the International Association for the Protection of Civilian Arms Rights

The International Association for the Protection of Civilian Arms Rights (IAPCAR) is a coalition of gun rights organizations from around the world, formed in March 2010 at a meeting in Nuremberg, Germany, attended by activists from Sweden, Norway, Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, Italy and the United States. Second Amendment Foundation founder Alan Gottlieb said the group would counter the international gun control campaign of the International Action Network on Small Arms and work to expand the individual right to self-defense. Its slogan is “Liberty and Security.” Julianne Versnel served as a founding director, and Washington, DC, attorney Mark Barnes was named managing director.

IAPCAR has grown to include roughly 30 member groups from more than 20 countries, among them Canada’s National Firearms Association, Switzerland’s ProTell, the South African Gun Owners Association, Brazil’s Movimento Viva Brasil and, in the United States, the Second Amendment Foundation, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms and Knife Rights. The association has campaigned on civilian arms rights in connection with the UN Arms Trade Treaty and has supported gun owners’ groups abroad, including a 2013 right to bear arms conference in Moscow. It is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, alongside SAF, giving American gun owners a voice in international policy debates.

Key Facts

March 2010: Founded at a meeting in Nuremberg, Germany
2010: Planned offices in Washington, DC, and Vienna, Austria
May 2012: Australian gun owners’ group joins the coalition
October 2013: IAPCAR reports on the Moscow Right to Bear Arms Conference
2013: Second Amendment Foundation and several international groups join; membership later reaches about 30 groups

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