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Guns and Gun Control: Resources
By David J. Krajicek
Nearly everyone involved in firearms research has a point of view, including advocacy groups, experts and academics.
As Florida State University professor and firearms researcher Gary Kleck put it, “Most of the people who are strongly motivated enough to devote the thousands of hours needed to do research and carefully assess the research of others did so because they began with very strong personal feelings on the subject.”
Kleck suggested that reporters seek out sources who are “knowledgeable and reasonably objective,” but he cautioned that is not easily accomplished.
Here is a reporter’s source list with representatives from many facets of the gun debate. Points of view are noted in some cases.
Law Enforcement
Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
Washington, D.C.
Sheree Mixell, chief of the office of public affairs
(202) 927-8500
E-mail: atfmail@atf.gov
Website: www.atf.gov
Advocacy Organizations
American Bar Association
Special Committee on Gun Violence
Washington, D.C.
E. Bruce Nicholson
(202) 662-1769
E-mail: nicholsonb@staff.abanet.org
Website: www.abanet.org/gunviol/home.html
American Firearms
Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
Andrew Molchan, director
(954) 467-9994
E-mail: andrew@amfire.com
Website: www.amfire.com
American Firearms represents the Professional Gun Retailers Association and National Association of Federally Licensed Firearms Dealers.
American Hunters and Shooters Association
Frederick, Md.
Bob Ricker, media contact
(703) 624-7060
Website: www.huntersandshooters.com
The group generally is at odds with the NRA. Ricker, its media contact, is a former gun industry lobbyist who angered the NRA by brokering the 1997 trigger lock agreement between the Clinton White House and gun manufacturers.
Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence
Washington, D.C.
Peter Hamm, communications director
(202) 898-0792
E-mail: phamm@bradymail.org
Website: www.bradycenter.org
Coalition to Stop Gun Violence
Washington, D.C.
Ladd Everitt, communications director
(202) 408-0061, ext. 103
Cell: (202) 701-7171
E-mail: leveritt@csgv.org or press@csgv.org
Website: www.csgv.org
Gun Owners of America
Springfield, Va.
Media contacts: Eddie Isler, Ellie McDaniel
(703) 321-8585
E-mail: goamail@gunowners.org
Website: www.gunowners.org
Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research
Baltimore, Md.
Jon S. Vernick, co-director
(410) 955-7982
E-mail: jvernick@jhsph.edu
Website: www.jhsph.edu/gunpolicy
Legal Community Against Violence
San Francisco
(415) 433-2062
E-mail: media@lcav.org
Website: www.lcav.org
National Rifle Association
Fairfax, Va.
Andrew Arulanandam, director of public affairs
(703) 267-3820
E-mail: media@nrahq.org
Website: www.nra.org
National Shooting Sports Foundation
Newton, Ct.
Bill Brassard, managing director for communications, safety and education
(203) 426-1320
E-mail: bbrassard@nssf.org
Website: www.nssf.org
The group generally is aligned with the NRA.
Second Amendment Foundation
Bellevue, Wash.
Alan M. Gottlieb, founder and vice president
(425) 454-7012
E-mail: akagunnut@aol.com
Website: www.saf.org
Violence Policy Center
Washington, D.C.
Josh Sugarmann, executive director
Media contact: Marty Langley
(202) 822 8200
Website: www.vpc.org
Academics, Experts
Randy E. Barnett
Professor, Georgetown University Law Center
Washington, D.C.
(202) 662-9936
E-mail: rbarnett@gmail.com
Website: www.randybarnett.com
Expertise: Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute; expert in gun litigation, including lawsuits against gun manufacturers.
Philip Cook
Professor, Duke University
Durham, N.C. 27708
(919) 613-7360
E-mail: pcook@duke.edu
Expertise: A professor of economics, sociology and public policy, Cook co-authored Gun Violence: The Real Costs, which advocates treating firearms violence as a public health problem. In the book, Cook advocates mandatory registration of handguns.
Peter DeForest
Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
New York, N.Y.
(212) 237-8899
E-mail: pdeforest@jjay.cuny.edu
Expertise: DeForest, a forensic scientist and professor of criminalistics, counts ballistics and crime scene analysis among his specialties.
Alan Dershowitz
Professor, Harvard Law School
Cambridge, Mass.
(617) 495-4617
E-mail interview request: http://www.alandershowitz.com/interview.php
Website: www.alandershowitz.com
Expertise: The often-quoted advocate for civil liberties has taken a hard line in favor of gun control. He once said, “The Second Amendment has no place in modern society.”
Andrew Karmen
Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
New York, N.Y.
(212) 237-8695
E-mail: akarmen@jjay.cuny.edu
Expertise: crime statistics, homicide trends
Don Kates Jr.
Attorney, research fellow and former professor
The Independence Institute
San Francisco
360-666-2688
E-mail: DBKates@aol.com
Expertise: Kates, who speaks and writes from a pro-gun perspective, is an expert in the Second Amendment.
David Kennedy
Director, Center for Crime Prevention and Control
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
New York, N.Y.
(212) 484-1323
E-mail: dakennedy@jjay.cuny.edu
Expertise: Gun violence and crime reduction strategies are among the specialties of Kennedy, a frequently quoted professor of anthropology
Gary Kleck
Professor, Florida State University
Tallahassee, Fla.
Office: (850) 644-7651
Home: (850) 894-1628
E-mail: gkleck@fsu.edu
Expertise: An often-cited expert who generally skeptical of gun control and who conducted seminal research on gun ownership in the 1990s. His books include Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America, Targeting Guns: Firearms and Their Control, and Stopping Power: Why 70 Million Americans Own Guns.
David Kopel
Research Director, Independence Institute
Associate Policy Analyst, Cato Institute
Golden, Colo.
(303) 279-6536
E-mail: david@i2i.org
Websites: www.i2i.org, www.davekopel.com, www.cato.org
Expertise: A frequent commentator and generally anti-gun control expert source on gun policy, constitutional law, civil liberties and cross-national comparisons of gun laws, Kopel wrote The Samurai, the Mountie, and the Cowboy: Should America Adopt the Gun Controls of Other Democracies?
Tomislav Kovandzic
Associate Professor, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, Ala.
(205) 934-2069
E-mail: tkovan@uab.edu
Expertise: The Brady Act and "shall-issue" gun carry laws.
Sanford Levinson
Professor, University of Texas Law School
Austin, Texas
(512) 232-1351
E-mail: slevinson@law.utexas.edu
Levinson’s Assistant: Mary Hendryx, (512) 232-4860, mhendryx@law.utexas.edu
Expertise: Second Amendment
Robert A. Levy
Senior Fellow, Cato Institute
Washington, D.C.
(202) 789-5200
E-mail: rlevy@cato.org
Expertise: Gun litigation, Second Amendment, right to bear arms, gun control
Jens Ludwig
Professor of Public Policy
Georgetown University
Washington, D.C.
(202) 687-4997
E-mail: Ludwigj@georgetown.edu
Expertise: Highly regarded expert with a pro-gun control point of view.
Thomas Marvell
Justec Research
Williamsburg, Va.
(757) 229-9772
E-mail: Marvell@cox.net
Expertise: Has conducted research, often cited by those who oppose gun control, on the lack of affect of gun control on violent crime.
Laurence H. Tribe
Professor, Harvard Law School
Cambridge, Mass.
(617) 495-4621
E-mail: tribe@law.harvard.edu
Tribe’s Assistant: Kathleen McGillicuddy, (617) 496-2181
Expertise: An expert in constitutional law, Tribe has been cited as being among the prominent liberal-leaning scholars who believe the Second Amendment protects an individual’s right to own guns.
Glenn H. Utter
Professor and Political Science Department Chair
Lamar University
Beaumont, Texas
Home: (409) 866-3010
Office: (409) 880-8527
E-mail: glenn.utter@lamar.edu
Website: http://dept.lamar.edu/polisci/UTTER/UTTER_CV.html#1
Expertise: Author of Encyclopedia of Gun Control and Gun Rights
Eugene Volokh
Professor, UCLA School of Law
Los Angeles, Calif.
(310) 206-3926
E-mail: volokh@law.ucla.edu
Websites: www.law.ucla.edu/volokh/, www.gunscholar.org
Expertise: Volokh compiled the website Gunscholar.org, which he describes as “The Journalist's Guide to Gun Policy Scholars and Second Amendment Scholars, featuring experts--liberals, moderates, and conservatives--whose research has led them to be skeptical of gun control.”
Harry Wilson
Professor, Roanoke College
Salem, Va.
(540) 375-2415
E-mail: wilson@roanoke.edu
Expertise: Wilson is the author of Guns, Gun Control, and Elections: The Politics and Policy of Firearms, published in 2006. The book includes research and analysis about the portrayal of guns in the media.
Franklin Zimring
Professor, University California-Berkeley Law School
Berkeley, Calif.
(510) 642-0854
E-mail: fzimring@law.berkeley.edu
Expertise: A widely quoted criminologist, Zimring co-authored The Citizens Guide to Gun Control.
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