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Gun Owners of America's Federal Political Action Committee is "Gun Owners of America Inc. Political Victory Fund" (C00278101). [10] It raises funds to support the election of pro-gun candidates at all levels of government. Gun Owners Foundation is an educational nonprofit foundation. It acts as the research arm for GOA.
From 1994 to 2023, gun ownership increased 28% in America. In 2023, about 16.7 million firearms were sold in the U.S. In the first four months of 2024, nearly 5.5 million firearms were sold, averaging around 1.3 million per month. About 72% of gun owners say they own a gun primarily for protection. [3]
A distinct and growing sub-culture of American gun culture has been developed and promoted by African Americans since at least the end of the American Civil War.From Frederick Douglass, DuBois, Ida B. Wells and Marcus Garvey, the American Civil Rights movement, and the Pan-African movement, an array of African American gun cultures and philosophies of violence and self-defense have ...
After the Sandy Hook shooting, the majority of people, including gun owners and non-gun owners, wanted the government to spend more money in order to improve mental health screening and treatment, to deter gun violence in America. In the United States in 2009 there were 3.0 recorded intentional homicides committed with a firearm per 100,000 ...
4. Gun Barrel City, Texas. Gun Barrel got its fitting name as a safe haven for outlaws like Bonnie and Clyde during the Prohibition era. The city's motto is "We shoot straight with you." 5. Virgin ...
Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership is a gun-rights organization of American physicians. It was founded in 1993 by Timothy Wheeler, now Director emeritus, as a project of the Claremont Institute ; as of 2016, it was a project of the Second Amendment Foundation.
Hubert Leon "Bill" Richardson (December 28, 1927 – January 13, 2020) was an American gun rights activist and former politician who founded Gun Owners of America (GOA) in 1976 and served as a California state senator from 1966 to 1989.
The FPC has worked on several high-profile federal gun-rights cases in the early 2020s and frequently works with other gun rights advocacy organizations such as, Gun Owners of America (GOA) and the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF). [10] [11] [12] The FPC was an unsuccessful co-appellant in VanDerStok v.