Note: The links below are listed because they are interesting, not because I necessarily agree with all their content, or even have read all their content. DK.
Center for Democracy and Technology. The top
electronic privacy group in the world.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC).
Australian Institute of Criminology
Bureau of Justice Statistics. From
the US Dept. of Justice.
Syracuse University Transactional
Records Clearinghouse. Independent, non-partisan statistical information on
FBI, IRS, DEA, and BATF.
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Families Against Mandatory Minimums
Forfeiture Endangers American Rights
National Association of Criminal
Defense Lawyers.
NCJRS. A research clearinghouse for all
information coming from the many bureaus and offices of the United States
Department of Justice.
SEARCH. The National Consortium of Criminal
Justice Information Services, an organization of state criminal justice research
providers. Includes Supreme Court opinions as soon as they are released.
Sourcebook of Criminal Justice
Statistics. From the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
United Nations Crime
and Justice Information Network. Vast amount of resources, including UN
reports on gun control, and much more.
Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. Devoted to preserving
private medicine. Information on current federal regulations, medical practice,
and how doctors can reduce risk of unfair prosecution by federal bureaucrats.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Despite recent forays into controlling "diseases" like violence, still the U.S.
government's public health authority.
Junk Science. A great site debunking
all kinds of junk science, much of it sponsored by the federal government.
Medline. National
Library of Medicine's bibliographic search program for the medical literature.
Findlaw. The best starting point to find the law on the web. A superb,
multi-layered table of contents. Supreme Court decisions from 1893 to the
present. Many other legal resources too.
The U.S.
Constitution.
United States Code.
Code of Federal
Regulations.
Center for Individual Rights. Public
interest law firm that fights oppressive government.
Federalist Society.
Conservative/libertarian legal reform and scholarship group.
Fully Informed Jury Association. Educates the public about the right and duty of jurors to vote their conscience.
How
Appealing
Institute for Justice. Public
interest law firm, with a free-market, civil liberties orientation.
Point of Law.
Legal commentary weblog from the Manhattan Institute.
Southeastern Legal Foundation.
Based in Atlanta. Advocates limited government, individual economic freedom, and
the free enterprise system in the courts of law and public opinion
Randy Barnett.
Libertarian political and legal thinker and law school professor.
Foreign Countries
Global:
World Forum on the Future of Sport Shooting Activities.
Australia: Sporting Shooters
Association of Australia.
Sporting Shooters Association of Western Australia.
The Great Australian Gun Law Con.
Extensive information on the Howard government's gun confiscation, and fabric of
deceit supporting it.
Brazil: Armaria. Gun rights
group. Written in Portuguese. If you know Spanish, you can get by.
Canada: National Firearms Association.
Canadian Firearms
Digest
Canadian Firearms
Program. Canadian federal government's gun regulation administration.
Canadian Shooting Sports. Research and public education on firearms issues in Canada.
France: Armes a Feu.
Germany: Forum Waffenrecht.
India: Arms & the Man, Abhijeet Singh.
Indians for Guns, discussion group.
New Zealand: Sporting Shooters Association of New Zealand.
Council of Licensed Firearms Owners.
Russia: Samooborona.ru
South Africa: SAGA. South African Gun Owners Association.
Spain:
Asociación Nacional del Arma (A.N.A.).
Switzerland: The
Swiss militia. Official website for the Swiss Armed Forces.
Pro Tell. Switzerland's arms rights group. In German, French, and Italian.
Swiss Gun Collectors
Association.
Organizations
AWARE. Armed Women Against Rape and
Endangerment.
Bloomfield Press. Outstanding
books detailing the gun laws of the United States, and of various individual
states.
Brady Campaign. The world's leading
anti-gun organization.
Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and
Bear Arms
Coalition to Stop Gun Violence and
Educational Fund to End Handgun Violence (educational arm of CSGV).
Direct Action. Maryland.
Gun Owners Action League Massachusetts.
Gun Owners of America.
Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership
Join Together Online. Brings together
resources from 15 local and national anti-gun organizations, and provides
original content. Very slick site with frequent updates.
Montana Shooting
Sports Association
National Rifle Association.
PAX: Real Solutions to Gun Violence.
Physicians for
Social Responsibility.
Pikes Peak Firearms Coalition. A grass roots
organization in Colorado Springs fighting for 2nd Amendment rights.
Second Amendment Foundation
Second Amendment Sisters. Mothers marching on Washington to defend the Constitution and protect their children. A counterpoint to the misguided Million Mom March.
Stonewall Shooting Sports of Utah. Pro-gay Utah Gun Rights Activists.
Tennessee
Firearms Association
Texas State Rifle Association. Includes links
to other state Rifle & Pistol associations.
United States Knife and Tool Association.
Research Resources
Taylor Buckner. Canadian
sociologist who writes about gun control attitudes, and other issues. Full text
of his research papers.
Jeff Cooper's commentaries.
Observations from the founder of modern pistol shooting.
Clayton Cramer home page. Historian
with numerous publications on firearms, the Civil War, and other topics. Note
especially Cramer's expose of the fraudulent book by Michael Bellesisles Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture(New York: Alfred A.
Knopf, 2000).
Concealed Carry Statistics from
the Kentucky Coalition to Carry Concealed.
Guncite. Excellent summaries of the facts
on a wide variety of firearms issues.
David Hardy's home page. Historian and
litigator. Contains Hardy's brief for Sheriff Mack in the Brady Act case in the
Supreme Court.
FirearmNews.com Covering the Pulse of the Pro Rights Community with Daily Gun
News.
Gun Scholar list. A comprehensive list
of Gun Policy Scholars and Second Amendment Scholars compiled by Prof. Eugene
Volokh.
Compilation of State and Federal gun laws.
Origin of the Second Amendment.
A site promoting David Young's excellent book "The Origin of the Second
Amendment," which contains all known original documents from the 1787-1791
dealing with the creation of the Second Amendment.pa
Paul Revere Network. Retired police
officer Leroy Pyle's collection of a great deal of gun-related research and
links.
J. Neil Schulman. Award-winning
science fiction author, who has written extensively on gun control. The page
allows free downloads of chapters from his books.
Shade's Landing.
Huge, excellent archive.
Soldier of Fortune magazine.
Sources
on the Second Amendment and Right to Bear Arms in State Constitutions. Original
sources compiled by UCLA Law Prof. Eugene Volokh.
Whisker Militia Treatises.
James B. Whisker, Professor of Political Science at WestVirginia University, has
given permission for this site to put online his five-volume set of treatises on
The American Colonial Militia.
National Firearms Act of 1934
Bardwell NFA Law
Industry and Sport
Aceros de Hispania. Spanish
company selling collectible edged weapons and firearms.
American Firearms Industry. Home page of magazine and organization of the same name.
Hole in the Wall Firearms & Sporting Goods. Excellent FFL, with a focus on special orders and hard-to-find items.
Hunter's
Shooting Association. Promotes target-shooting competitions that improve
ethical hunting skills.
National Shooting Sports Foundation.
North American Arms. Innovative small
handguns, both modern and blackpowder, for protection and sport.
Citizens for a Sound Economy
Foundation for Economic Education
National Taxpayers Union
Foreign
European Human Rights Centre.
Centre for Independent Studies. Australia.
Montreal Economic Institute. Free Market think tank in Montreal, Canada.
"La Politica de la Libertad. Chile.
English Version.
Institut de Libre Empresa (Institute for
Free Enterprise). A site for the defense of capitalism, individual rights and
liberty in Peru
Liberty Institute. India.
Edmund Burke Foundation. The Netherlands.
Policy Exchange. Great Britain.
Libertarian Alliance. Great Britain.
Sean Gabb. Great Britain.
National
Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and
Liberty.
American Enterprise Institute. Home of John
Lott, Ben Wattenberg and other smart guys.
American Legislative Exchange Council.
Atlas Economic Research Foundation.
Includes an excellent virtual phonebook of pro-freedom organizations and
individuals.
Cato Institute. The premier
pro-freedom public policy research organization.
Clemson
Institute for the Study of Capitalism.
Commonwealth Foundation.
Pennsylvania Free Market advocate.
Capital Research Center. Reports
on various leftist charitable organizations.
Competitive Enterprise Institute. Specializes
in environmental and business regulation issues.
Frontiers of Freedom. Chaired by former Senator
Malcolm Wallop.
Future of Freedom Foundation.
Very strong no-compromise libertarian group.
Heritage's Townhall. Huge,
excellent site. Includes material from a very wide variety of sources.
Independent Institute. A scholarly
pro-freedom think tank.
Institute for Policy Innovation.
National Center for Policy Analysis.
Based in Dallas, and featuring top-level researchers such as Morgan Reynolds.
Reason Foundation. A top-notch libertarian
site.
Statistical Assessment Service. Analyzes and
debunks statistical factoids from the right and the left.
State and local
Allegheny Institute for Public
Policy Research. Pennsylvania.
Cascade Policy Institute. Oregon. Leading for fight for allowing states to
opt out of the federal social security system.
Center for the American Experiment.
Minnesota.
Claremont Institute. California
Ethan Allen Institute. Vermont.
Evergreen Freedom Foundation. Washington state.
Georgia Public Policy Foundation.
Heartland Institute. Illinois
Hudson Institute. New York
John Locke Foundation. North Carolina.
Mackinac Center for Public Policy.
Michigan.
The Manhattan Institute and its
Magazine the City Journal, based in
New York City.
Nevada Policy Research Institute.
Pacific Research Institute.
California.
Pioneer Institute.
Texas Public Policy Foundation.
Sutherland Institute. Utah.
Virginia Institute.
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