Includes ad hoc Internet groups, non-profit organizations.
NRA's site includes legislative updates, contact info for Congress and lots of great reference materials. The site is now divided into three sections: NRA HQ for Member Services, Safety and Marksmanship Training, Personal Safety, Hunting, NRA Live for News and Commentary including streaming audio and video, NRA ILA for Legislative Updates, State Firearms Laws, Interstate Transport, and reference material.
NRA-ILA web site about the Bush and Clinton Federal so-called "assault-weapon" ban. See also the flash movie presentation "The truth about 'Assault Weapons'" at Flashbunny.org And also the Gun Owners of America Assault Weapons Ban Fact Sheet.
Not sure the purpose of this page, but it seems to have a lot of useful information. "Created by and for NRA members -- the real winning team", it says.
"Gun Owners of America (GOA) is a non-profit lobbying organization formed in 1975 to preserve and defend the Second Amendment rights of gun owners. GOA sees firearms ownership as a freedom issue." Includes Alerts, Fact Sheets, Newsletters.
Craig Peterson has put CCRKBA/SAF online; great going Craig and crew! Writes Johann Opitz: "Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms: Offers the full text of How to Defend Your Gun Rights by Alan Gottlieb and David Kopel and The Journal on Firearms and Public Policy Volumes 5 and 6. Access to the searchable databases holding the organizations' publications; Supreme Court Cases since 1990; and all articles relating to the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. Pointers to directories of files regarding the second amendment taken from archives."
SAF also has a web site devoted to U.S. v Emerson including the government's appeal. This is an important Second Amendment court case that could finally resolve our rights in the Supreme Court.
Chris Knox makes the Firearms Coalition Online newsletters available by WWW. FCO is his version of the Neal Knox updates. Usually have lots of interesting and fresh gun rights info, including legislative updates.
"Legal Scholarship on the Second Amendment." A great site collecting second amendment law review articles, other related articles, and links.
Promoting Second Amendment scholarship and debate in law schools, and legal research and scholarly works. "It is through robust, wide open debate that the true meaning of this important liberty is best shown." Some content is linked from Second Amendment Law Library.
"The Lawyer's Second Amendment Society, Inc. is a network of attorneys and others dedicated to the preservation of the individual, inalienable right to keep and bear arms guaranteed by the Second Amendment of the Bill of Rights". Their web site includes Constitutional Documents, Second Amendment Legal discussions and analyses, posters, newsletter issues, etc.
A guide to gun scholarship for journalists: "Featuring experts -- liberals, moderates, and conservatives -- whose research has led them to be skeptical of gun control". Compiled by Prof. Eugene Volokh, UCLA Law School.
Normally I don't include general political sites, but UCLA Professor Volokh has collected and authored some great scholarship on the Second Amendment. For example here's a local copy of his September 1998 U.S. Senate testimony on the Second Amendment. Volokh's site also includes links to his Constitutional Law class teaching notes such as: Sources on the Second Amendment and Rights to Keep and Bear Arms in State Constitutions and: The Second Amendment as Teaching Tool in Constitutional Law Classes
"CENTER-RIGHT is a free weeklyish electronic newsletter of centrist, conservative, and libertarian ideas.... CENTER-RIGHT is edited by Eugene Volokh, who teaches constitutional law and copyright law at UCLA Law School, and organized with the help of Terry Wynn and the Federalist Society."
"The NCPA is a nonprofit public policy research institute. Our website offers a wealth of analysis, debate, and in-depth research from around the world." See the Self-Defense & Gun Control section for a good research collection. For example, See Brief Analysis No. 324, "Brief Analysis No. 324, "Texas Concealed Handgun Carriers: Law-abiding Public Benefactors," by H. Sterling Burnett.
"A wealth of resources examining the war on firearms" from Reason Online, the online home of Reason Magazine, a thoughtful and influential libertarian political and cultural journal. "Reason has relentlessly challenged the misleading statistics, scare tactics, and dubious legal arguments used by gun control activists to advance their agenda."
This is the first web site anywhere that specifically provides the type of training and information that will make all activists better and stronger activists! The Center For The Study Of Crime is not competing with other 2nd Amendment organizations -- we are complementing them. We are providing the training that will help any activist become more effective, without having to reinvent the wheel each time a new project or new issue is tackled.
'For all the latest "gun" news visit www.gunnewsdaily.com... This site sponsored and funded by the San Diego Rifle And Revolver Association as a service to all those who cherish their freedom.'
Gun Control and Second Amendment Issues.
Rapidly-indexed firearms rights quotes, statistics, law, links. "Speedy access to important, well sourced information that is helpful to the cause of preserving our right to keep and bear arms.... The right to defend one's self is a basic human right."
Excellent, short Flashmedia movies for educating people about arms rights and debunking gun control myths, including the so-called "ballistic fingerprinting" and "gun show loophole" and so-called "assault-weapon" lies.
Information about protecting your self-defense rights, including Second Amendment Events, a way to get notified about shows, rallies, and other activities participate in.
Has both pro-rights and anti-rights academic research by folks
such as John Lott, David Kopel, Phil Cook, others. For example
search for the word "gun" or the author's name. You can also
find full articles by their abstract number, such as Lott's
"Multiple Victim Public Shootings, Bombings, and Right-to-Carry
Concealed Handgun Laws: Contrasting Private and Public Law
Enforcement" and "Safe Storage Gun Laws: Accidental Deaths,
Suicides, and Crime"
"America's Most Aggressive Defender of Firearms Ownership."
"AWARE's mission is to educate the public, organizations, and
individuals about issues related to personal safety. AWARE is a
source of training, information, and support for people,
primarily women, learning how to cope with violence. AWARE
training is focused on self-protection and self-defense skills
that can enable women to avoid, resist, and survive situations
ranging from low levels of aggression to extremely violent
assault."
"Women Against Gun Control is an organization committed to the
Second Amendment of the United States Constitution. We are
dedicated to protecting every American's right to own and carry
firearms."
"Mothers Arms is a non-profit organization created to inform,
educate and support the development of self-reliant women
nationwide who consider it a fundamental right and responsibility
to protect their children, their property and themselves from
human aggression and assault."
"The Law Enforcement Alliance of America is the nation's largest
nonprofit, nonpartisan coalition of law enforcement professionals,
crime victims, and concerned citizens united for justice.
Together, we fight for legislation at every level of government
that reduces violent crime while preserving the rights of all
citizens, particularly the right of self-defense. LEAA strives to
keep political debate focused on criminal behavior and criminal
punishment, and to communicate the shared opinion of the majority
of law enforcement that gun control is not effective crime control."
Their mission is: "To provide a political voice for American
Police Officers who believe in personal freedoms, liberty and
independence for ALL American Citizens".
Leroy Pyle's Paul Revere Network includes a grassroots
newsletter and other information.
See also my research directory for some of Dr. Suter's work.
"Doctors for Responsible Gun a group of physicians, familiar
with the use of medical statistics and quantitative has been
formed to serve as an antidote to those who are
twisting science to serve misguided ideological ends. It will
turn the tables on those who would control crime by managing
the lives of honest citizens, directing attention instead to
the means of crime control that is suited to a free people:
that is to say, controlling crime by controlling (i.e.
incarcerating) criminals."
"Our mission is to educate our fellow doctors and their patients,
the public, about gun laws that are counterproductive and the
deceitful tactics of those who advocate gun control. We offer a
healthy dose of common sense to the national gun debate by
shedding light on what gun laws are sensible, and which ones most
certainly are not."
"Students for the Second Amendment is dedicated to the
preservation and defense of our cherished freedoms enumerated in
the Constitution of the United States. Especially that freedom
which stands as the guarantor of all the others - the Second
Amendment.
Students for the Second Amendment works on college and university
campuses to bring the truth regarding our constitutionally
protected rights to students who have been misled by the
left-wing academic establishment."
"COA is a non-profit organization with a single purpose. Every
dollar received will go directly into COA's campaign to produce,
distribute, and run extremely aggressive pro-firearm,
pro-self-defense advertising that reaches ALL AMERICANS -- not
just gun owners."
"The goal of the civic organization GunsSaveLives™ is to
spread the facts that show firearms are beneficial.
We believe that the basic human rights of self-preservation
and bearing arms are absolute and inviolable."
A discussion of the ethics and morality of self-defense.
A campaign to educate our elected representatives about our
Second Amendment rights. Has other simple but effective
things we can each do to protect our rights, such as taking
someone shooting and thereby diminishing their ignorance or
fear of guns.
"Amendment II Democrats is currently a loose on-line confederation
of progressive and moderate Democrats and like-minded individuals
who are dedicated to fighting for a free and armed America where
people are safe in their homes and communities and the
Constitutional rights of all Americans are respected."
"The founder of the Second Amendment Committee, Bernadine Smith,
is a political research writer and a gun rights activist. [...]
In 1984 she formed the Second Amendment Committee which is a
nationwide organization that provides information of benefit to
those seeking a peaceful resolution to the gun crisis."
"By facilitating your monthly contributions to 2nd Amendment
civil rights organizations you can make this happen. Register
with FundTheCause and contribute as much as you like to" any
of a dozen or so gun rights organizations.
A grass-roots movement to end the so-called "Assault Weapon"
ban of 1994. Here is a press release about the group's
formation.
"The Fifty Caliber Institute is an national organization
dedicated to the advancement of the .50 caliber shooting sports.
FCI has a tradition of proud service to America's law enforcement
and military services, helping to make our streets and nation
safer. Drawing on top experts ranging from firearm manufacturers
to aerospace engineers, FCI rebuts wild anti-gun claims with
clear, documented facts."
The rec.guns RKBA Homepage has some nicely edited information
on the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.
The rec.guns FAQ Server contains lots of good technical information
about firearms and pointers to other resources. These pages are
maintained by David M. Putzolu (and many other volunteers).
"The American Shooting Sports Council, Inc. (ASSC) is the firearm
industry's trade association for legislative, legal and political
issues. It is the only organization representing all segments of
the firearm, ammunition, and shooting sports accessory industry.
Its membership includes manufacturers, importers, wholesalers,
retail dealers, sales representatives, trade and consumer
publications, vendors and suppliers."
[Note: ASSC is the firearms industry trade association. In
contrast, NRA is a user or consumer organization. The NRA
no more represents firearms manufacturers than the American
Automobile Association represents car manufacturers.]
"The World's Largest and Oldest Professional Firearms Retailers
Association." This site includes technical and marketing
information about firearms, and news and information about gun
laws/control/rights.
"The United Voice of Canada's Firearms Owners," this page includes
a position papers, newsletters, info on legislation, votes, etc.
This page is associated with the cdn-firearms mailing list.
Includes Canada-specific and general arms rights info, links,
and an ftp archive.
Union Citizen's Arms of Russia (Movement for right to carry
firearm) is an organisation which will work in Russia for rights
to carry firearms and own handguns.
"Concealed Carry, Inc. is dedicated to passing a Conceal Carry
law in the 19 states that do not have one. We are starting with
Illinois."
Includes important material on gun control. Also includes
pro-rights materials offered through an online store at:
http://www.jbs.org/aobs/Department/gun_control.htm
Gun Owners Satellite Channel Association is creating The Shooting
Express Network by buying sattelite time for firearms television
programming. According to their web page they purchased and
broadcast 24 hours of programming in May 1999. They're looking
for memberships to fund more broadcasting, leading to a full time
firearms channel.
While not strictly speaking pro-gun organizations of course,
their objective facts show that criminal use of firearms is
not a leading cause of death. Heart disease, cancer,
stroke and accidents are responsible for vastly more.
Formerly known as Handgun Control, Inc. and the Center to Prevent Handgun Violence (HCI & CPHV) this major anti-rights organization is now known as: The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, presumably divided into educational and lobbying branches. Also includes The Legal Action Project of The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, which appears to be involved in anti-rights lawsuits.
Brady and MMM have spun of two incredibly stupid sites called STOPtheNRA.com and NRAblacklist.com. Both are accompanied by some hilarious show tunes.
"On October 1, 2001, the Million Mom March merged with the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.":
The so-called "Million Mom March" actually had a few thousand attendees, in contrast with the lying anti-gun media claiming about 750,000. ABC News' own aerial footage shows that the event occupied only a tiny fraction of the Washington D.C. Mall. See video stills at Etherzone and FreeRepublic
Reason Express points out some of the falsehoods and distortions being circulated by MMM, and Jacob Sullum comments in his syndicated weekly column that can also be found on the Reason Online Gun Resources page.
The Gunfree Web Site includes sites of two related major anti-rights organizations:
CSGV and EFSGV in turn have created or participate in several other organizations or web sites:
The Violence Policy Center page, formerly at Gunfree, now has its own URL below.
What the above anti-rights organizations lack in membership they seem to compensate for in spawning a plethora of front organizations. Presumably the intent is to create the illusion that there is a broad base of many organzations supporting their anti-freedom position, when in fact there are a relatively few people and a couple groups actually behind several of them.
The Violence Policy Center is a non-profit anti-gun organization presenting firearms as a "health crisis". VPC actively lobbies for state, local and federal legislation restricting arms rights. They are having some success at the state level in having government consumer safety bureaucrats ban firearms or make difficult their ownership, declaring them inherently dangerous objects. The VPC web site was formerly at Gunfree above.
See Dr. Edgar Suter's Guns in the Medical Literature -- A Failure of Peer Review and Violence in America - Effective Solutions for excellent research refuting these claims.
"PSR's Violence Prevention Program is building a national Violence Prevention Network of physicians, public health professionals, PSR staff and supporters working to reduce firearms and domestic violence."
The Joyce Foundation funds other anti-gun organizations, such as Join Together above, and others. There is a list of their anti-gun grantees on their site. Among the many are Violence Policy Center and Physicians for Social Responsibility.
Supported by Monster.com founder Andrew McKelvey, Americans for Gun Safety claims to be centrist and non-partisan but their "Possible Solutions" are a rehash of tired old "gun control" infringements of our rights. AGS does not mention any positive uses of guns including at least a million defenses against crime a year. No reasonable person could consider this to be a centrist or non-partisan viewpoint since these life-saving facts are ignored.
If McKelvey and AGS had any true interest in promoting gun safety it would support the efforts of the NRA who have been teaching safety and marksmanship classes for more than 100 years. NRA has done more to concretely enhance gun safety than any other organization.
An online petition in support of U.S. Senator Jack Reed's (Democrat from Rhode Island) Handgun Safety and Registration Act of 2000, S. 2099. Supported by Handgun Control, Inc., Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, Violence Policy Center, Physicians for Social Responsibility.
S. 2099 would treat handguns the same as machine guns meaning "photographs, fingerprints, and background checks on all transfers of handguns, as well as registration of the firearms and those who own them, restrictions on interstate transportation, etc. Registration information would be available for online access by state & local law enforcement officials." (from NRA-ILA fact sheet on S. 2099)
The Trauma Foundation is an anti-gun organization masquerading as a public health organization. Since 1975, it has been housed at San Francisco General Hospital, which is a city-owned facility.
"The Trauma Foundation received grants from The Goldman Fund in 1998 and the David & Lucile Packard Foundation in the year 1999 to create The Bell Campaign, the mission of which was to prevent gun death and injury, and to support victims of gun trauma. In mid-June of 2000, The Bell Campaign's Board of Directors voted to change the official name of the organization to the Million Mom March Foundation and later created the Million Mom March. For nearly three years the Trauma Foundation served as the incubator for The Bell Campaign/Million Mom March and developed its program to serve the needs of survivor advocates"
Pacific Center for Violence Prevention, formerly at http://www.pcvp.org/ seems to have merged into a similar organization with a new name "Physicians for a Violence-free Society", which was kicked out of their Dallas location apparently for their anti-gun political activity, much as the previous incarnation of the PCVP was in San Francisco. The PVS history page downplays their gun ban activities, but their legislation page lists only anti-gun legislation.
Infomation about the coalition of Trial Lawyers and Left-Wing activist lawyers involved in the recent lawsuits by cities against firearms manufacturers and distributors.
"The purpose of the Police Foundation is to help the police be more effective in doing their job, whether it be deterring robberies, intervening in potentially injurious family disputes, or working to improve relationships between the police and the communities they serve."
Based on their inclusion of biased anti-gun publications, the Police Foundation appears to have a one-sided political agenda which has little to do with effective, just policing or crime reduction. I've never met a street cop who believes "gun control" will reduce crime or affect criminals.
"The Silent March will be holding demonstrations with an emphasis on the children & adolescents killed by guns." Has various anti-gun agenda items.
An anti-gun group apparently headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey.
Mother Jones on violence in the media, "widespread availability of firearms," and so on. Pieces by anti-rights, anti-self-defense leaders.
An organization calling for firearms bans claiming they present a threat to children. Their statistics are not current.
See David Kopel's Children and Guns: Sensible Solutions for accurate information about children and firearms which refutes these claims and instead offers practical solutions addressing the underlying sources of youth crime.
The HELP Network is located at the Violent Injury Prevention Center (VIPC) of Children's Memorial Medical Center in Chicago. It seeks to ban handguns by blaming firearms for violence ("the modern plague caused by firearms") and framing their arguments in public health terms.
See Dr. Edgar Suter's Guns in the Medical Literature -- A Failure of Peer Review and Violence in America - Effective Solutions for excellent research refuting these claims. See also David Kopel's Children and Guns: Sensible Solutions for accurate information about children and firearms.
"The Firearm Injury Center is dedicated to the reduction of firearm injuries and deaths. The Center provides comprehensive, objective, accurate information and analysis of firearms and related morbidity and mortality."
Noble goals, but the researchers completely ignore the possiblility that firearms have a beneficial use, specifically deterrance of and effective defense against crime. No scientifically valid or intellectually honest study of the social impact of firearms would leave out more than half the data.
Over Our Dead Bodies: Port Arthur and the fight for gun control by Simon Chapman of the Public Health and Community Medicine Department, University of Sydney is self-described as "an insider's view of the struggle for gun control:"
The Port Arthur massacre on 28 April 1996, when 35 people were shot dead by Martin Bryant, transformed Australia's gun control debate. Massive public outrage over the years of political spinelessness in confronting the gun lobby levered politicians from all sides of politics into supporting Prime Minister John Howard's resolve to outlaw semi-automatic weapons, register all guns and tighten the reasons allowed for owning a gun. 640,000 semi-automatic guns were bought- back from shooters in the world's largest buy-back operation.Note that the buyback was not voluntary; i.e. this was the Australian government forcing confiscation of millions of privately owned firearms from its citizens then destroying them.
An international anti-gun group based on the following false premise:
The proliferation of small arms and light weapons represents a grave threat to human security. The unchecked spread of these weapons has exacerbated inter- and intra-state conflicts, contributed to human rights violations, undermined political and economic development, destabilized communities, and devastated the lives of millions of people.
(alphabetical by state)
"Arizona Gun Owners, AzGO, exists not only to preserve, but to revitalized the individual's right to keep and bears arms for one's self defense in Arizona as well as in America. We believe in the strict constructionists viewpoint of the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution."
"It is our intention to preserve Americans' natural and Constitutional right to self defense. Brassroots intends to achieve our goal by disseminating information, facilitating grassroots projects and recognizing the efforts of the individuals who make this possible."
Official Website of the California Rifle and Pistol Association. Includes current CA legislative info!
"A coordinated effort of NRA Members' Councils and activists in California. Information, reports, charts, graphs and flyers, obtained through countless hours of research, provide much of the information contained herein."
Includes the 'California Firearms & Self-Defense Civil Rights Litigation Reporter Published monthly by Trutanich - Michel, LLP, and Benenson & Kates, Attorneys At Law'. Want to find the status of pro-rights lawsuits in California? This is the place.
"The Golden Gate United NRA Members Council is a voluntary legislative action group."
"Calguns.net. The California Firearms Owner's Home On The Internet Working Together To Preserve Our Freedoms"
"The Calguns Foundation is a grassroots civil rights organization whose goals are:
(1) To support the California firearms community by promoting education for all stakeholders about California and Federal firearms laws, rights and privileges.
(2) To defend and protect the civil rights of California gun owners.
(3) To support the unique public discussion forum at Calguns.net."
The Golden State Second Amendment Council is an independent firearms rights organization dedicated to the advancement of the right to keep and bear arms in California.
California RKBA Central is a site "dedicated to providing information and resources to aid in the fight for our Right to Keep and Bear Arms."
"Based in Denver, Colorado, Rocky Mountain Gun Owners is Colorado's largest state-based gun lobby. It is a group solely dedicated to the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Our strategy is simple: don't give an inch."
FSSA is the NRA affiliated state club in Florida. It is "An organization of firearms owners, collectors, hunters and competitive shooters who work together to promote shooting sports and protect the interest of firearms owners throughout the State of Florida."
"Our mission is to educate publicly elected officials and the media as to the true meaning of the Second Amendment and it's importance in America's history and future. It is evident, from our forefather's writings, that the individual citizen's right to keep and bear arms is a fundamental right to be exercised for the protection of one's self and one's personal freedoms, one's family, property, and country.
This basic right, one of 'nature's laws' has been guaranteed by the United States Constitution. As all rights are afforded to all persons, none shall be abridged, denied, violated, or infringed."
"The N.C.F.S.A. promotes safety through its efforts to provide a safe place for local gun owners to shoot, provides assistance to youth groups teaching young people to safely handle firearms, provides low cost instruction in home firearm safety to individuals and small groups, and encourages the adoption of required firearms safety courses in the public schools. ...
Members of the N.C.F.S.A. consider the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution to be the Keystone of that document. The N.C.F.S.A. takes an active role in promoting the importance of and preserving the Second Amendment."
peatea56@cris.com-nospam's home page helps keep northeastern Illinois shooters informed of local events.
"Kansas State Rifle Association is a non-profit group organized to promote the shooting sports and firearms training/education in the State."
"The Premier Firearms-Rights and Pro-Liberty Organization in Maryland."
"A Maryland project dedicated to defending our civil rights."
"We believe the Second Amendment is essential for real safety, security and freedom both in our local community and our nation."
"Gun Owners' Action League is the only fulltime organization in Massachusetts that fights for the rights of gun owners and sportsmen."
Sasha Volokh's Harvard Law School Target Shooting Club gives HLS students a chance to get familiar with and learn to safely shoot firearms. It also provides a way for them to learn about related constitutional, public policy, historical and cultural issues.
Harvard Law School Target Shooting Club along with the Democrats Club sponsored a debate about gun control and the Second Amendment on 4/8/03 featuring Sasha's brother Eugene Volokh along with Alan Dershowitz and Dennis Henigan. The 2-hour panel discussion is available for viewing online with Real Media.
"Brass Roots is a non-partisan organization dedicated to the political defeat of elected officials who offer or support any rule, legislation, or judgement that denies the people of Michigan the exercise of their inalienable right to Keep and Bear Arms." Hear, hear!
"The Minnesota Gun Owners' Action League can perhaps be best defined as the Minnesota equivalent of the NRA. We work to keep our members informed of important events throughout Minnesota that effect those of us who choose to exercise our 2nd amendment right to keep and bear arms. We work in cooperation--not competition--with the NRA, GOA, and other national and state level groups."
"Gun Owners of Nevada; The no-compromise gun lobby for the Silver State"
Home of a Concealed Carry Permit reciprocity petition.
Their www page has the latest information concerning firearms issues in New Jersey, including:
Support ‘Shall-Issue’ concealed carry permits in New Jersey.
"The New York State Rifle & Pistol Association is the state's largest and oldest firearms advocacy organization. Since 1871, our organization has been dedicated to the preservation of Second Amendment rights, firearm safety, education and training, and the shooting sports. Our membership consists of individuals and clubs throughout the state. We are a not-for-profit organization and the official NRA-affiliated State Association in New York."
"The official Political Action Committee of the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association.... RPA-PAC is raising funds to support the candidacies of those who will defend and promote our rights in state and local elected office. RPA-PAC is not engaged in federal elections. RPA-PAC gives New York gun owners the ability to pool their resources and contribute to campaigns in ways that will make people take notice. The RPA-PAC Contributions Committee will select candidates not based upon their party affiliation, but rather on their stand on issues important to gun owners. Contributions will go directly to candidates, not to political parties or 3rd party committees."
"SCOPE'S Mission:
Alex Knight's firearms page for North Carolina. Info. from State and local shooting organizations, legislative news, match schedules, and other items of interest to N.C. shooters and gun owners.
'We are the citizens and voters of Ohio.... All of us understand how a constitutionally armed society reduces violent crime.... The State of Ohio Bill of Rights clearly states the citizens of Ohio are guaranteed the right to bear arms for their "self defense and security". Our purpose is to drive this fact home in the Ohio Legislature. '
"Oregon Gun Owners has been protecting firearms rights in Oregon for over twenty-five years. Our philosophy is simple and clearly defined. Our goal is the preservation of our right as a free people to own and use firearms for legitimate purposes including self defense, collecting, target shooting and hunting. In accordance with that right, we emphasize and promote responsible and safe ownership of all firearms. Through our Education Foundation, we support and fund programs designed to promote gun safety."
"Oregon's Only No Compromise Gun Lobby"
Michael F. Hines' (hcm@teleport.com-nospam) Oregon Shooting Page includes information on local clubs, shooting competitions, legislation, and firearms carry permits in OR.
A group providing information and organizing activity around: 2nd Amendment Rights, Firearm Safety & Self-Defense Education, Oregon Firearm Information.
"We are a group of responsible gun owners and shooters who occasionally make it to a range to shoot pistols, rifles, and/or shotguns. We like to introduce people to our sport in a safe responsible manner. If you never handled a firearm before we have members who are NRA certified instructors who are willing to introduce you to shooting."
"The primary objective of Texas State Rifle Association is to defend your firearm ownership rights. When the officers and directors appear before the Texas Legislature or city or county governments to defend your gun rights, the number of voters for whom they speak is on the representative's minds. We take a strong, no compromise, position in the defense of your rights."
The Texas Concealed Handgun Instructor Association (TCHIA) is a non-profit professional association for Texas Concealed Handgun Instructors and Concealed Carry Permit Holders from all over the United States. Their site includes a copy of Sturdevant's study of arrest data showing that concealed handgun permit holders are 7.5 to 7.7 times less likely to be arrested for violent crime than Texans in general. Conviction rates are even lower since permit holders involved in a justified shooting are often arrested until the district attornies can sort out the circumstances. Most are cleared of wrongdoing and not convicted.
Several Texas Legislators are suing the cities who are suing gun manufacturers on the grounds that such lawsuits violate the Right to Keep and Bear Arms and the Interstate Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution. The Civil Liberties Defense Foundation is seeking donations to fund this interesting case. In addition to U.S v. Emerson, this may be another way to force the U.S. Supreme Court to address the Second Amendment. As such it could have national implications.
"The Utah Precision Marksmanship Society (UPMS) is a tax-exempt, publicly supported, non-profit 501(c)3 corporation founded to support amateur athletics, particularly the shooting sports. We are actively involved in: education, training, and competition."
"VCDL is the premier Firearms-Rights and Pro-Liberty Organization in Virginia. VCDL is a non-profit, non-partisan, grassroots organization dedicated to defending the civil rights of all Virginians. The membership considers the Right to Keep and Bear Arms to be an essential civil right."
The official NRA Affiliate in Washington State. Site is "for sparking interest and informing the WSRPA membership about competitive shooting, firearm legislation and related Second Amendnent issues"
An NRA affiliated club also active in legislation, recreation, etc.
"Wisconsin Gun Owners, Inc. (WGO) is [...] solely dedicated to the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, the safe storage, handling and use of firearms and the intelligent defense of the liberties this country was founded upon."
The NSSF Shooting Page is a great collection of fact sheets about various types of competitive shooting, from trap and skeet to Olympic competition and things between. See also their resources on Ballistic Imaging also known as so-called "ballistic fingerprinting."
A good general introduction to firearms and the shooting sports.
The IPSC Home Page includes an IPSC FAQ and an announcement for the IPSC Mail List. See also a related page of the International Range Officers Association at: http://fox.nstn.ca/~iroa .
"The United States Practical Shooting Association (USPSA) is [...] the organizing body for the sport of practical shooting in the United States. The USPSA is affiliated with the International Practical Shooting Confederation (IPSC) which is the governing body for the sport on a worldwide basis."
See also the:
and the:
IDPA differs from USPSA in that it uses: 'practical equipment including full charge service ammunition to solve simulated "real world" self-defense scenarios. Shooters competing in Defensive Pistol events are required to use practical handguns and holsters that are truly suitable for self-defense use. No "competition only" equipment is permitted in Defensive Pistol matches'.
"We're publisher of FIREARMSTACTICAL(tm), an electronic magazine specializing in the tactical employment of firearms against deadly threats.
"The IWBA is devoted to the medical and technical study of wound ballistics, including evaluation of literature in the field as well as encouraging and promoting new work in wound ballistics. "
Specializing in the shotgun sports, Shotgun Report is a WWW version of newsletter, Reload!, by the Connecticut Travelers Sporting Clays Association. The Technoid section deals with the technical aspects of shotgun shooting.
The International Handgun Metallic Silhouette Association (IHMSA) started in 1976 to promote handgun silhouette competition. The object of the competition is to knock down metallic silhouettes (chickens, pigs, turkeys and rams) at various ranges to a maximum of 200 meters. [excerpted from page]
A page about the fast draw shooting sport. Fast draw "combines a well tuned single-action revolver, 'full-powder' blanks or wax bullets, and a lightning fast draw to create the fastest timed sport in the world."
An article on firearms issues for women, with links to pro and anti-rights organizations. Note that most of the statistics cited on the anti-rights Gun Safety sections are grossly inaccurate. See some of the links for those organizations here for counter-references.
The "Where to Shoot!" website by the National Shooting Sports Foundation assists shooting sports enthusiasts at all levels to quickly locate sportsman's clubs, shooting ranges, preserves, and hunting grounds -- both in their own neighborhood and across North America.
Listing of California gun clubs and shooting ranges.
"TASC is a USPSA (United States Practical Shooting Association) club that conducts IPSC style shooting matches in Northern California's Silicon Valley / South Bay area."
TASC sponsors a Charity Match which raises thousands of dollars anunually for the local "Toys for Tots" program: "The Bay Bridge Charity Classic, held for the last six years, has produced over $74,000 in toys for the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots."
BayProfs is a not-for-profit organization in Silicon Valley offering classes in Firearms Safety, Basic Pistol, and Personal Protection. Our objective is to educate and train the public in the safe ownership, use, and storage of firearms.
Formerly owned by Winchester and also known as the Metcalf range because it's on Metcalf Road off Highway 101 in Southern Santa Clara County, the range is now run by the Santa Clara County Parks and Recreation Department. Has 200 yard positions and Trap and Skeet stations.
Warrior's Integrated Training in Self Defense (WITS) Offers Firearms Training and Self Defense Courses in Scottsdale, Arizona.
The Airboat Association of Florida is a non-profit conservation organization whose site includes information about firearms and hunting, safety training classes and other recreational activities.
Specializes in providing tactical, defensive, and competition firearms training to civilians, law enforcement officials. Gun handling, marksmanship, and tactical training courses taught by NRA ceritifed instructor. Gunsmithing services available. Offers metal reaction and paper targets for handgun and rifle shooting. Training available. Join us on at our newly built shooting range in SW Montana, The Fish Creek Gun Club.
Firearms sites listed at the big collection of URLs.
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