Wayne R. LaPierre
 Executive Vice President, Chief Executive Officer, National Rifle Association

Wayne LaPierre has served as the executive vice president and chief executive officer of the National Rifle Association of America since 1991.

For two decades, Wayne has led the NRA through a period of unprecedented membership growth and political clout in defense of our Second Amendment rights. And that strength has been put to the good benefit of NRA members and gun owners. Right-to-Carry is now the law in 41 states. All 50 states have enacted laws to protect shooting ranges and all 50 passed legislation to protect hunters from harassment.

As a skilled hunter, from Chesapeake waterfowl to African Cape buffalo, Wayne understands the key role hunters play in wildlife conservation. Over the years, he has led NRA efforts to preserve the integrity of the Pittman-Robertson Act, spearheaded NRA programs for young shooters and hunters, and fought for the access of sportsmen and women—including the disabled—to public lands for hunting.

As NRA’s principal spokesperson, Wayne is regularly quoted, debated and interviewed on the nation’s most influential television networks, cable programs, radio shows and in national and global newspapers and magazines. For years, he hosted “The Wayne LaPierre Show,” a syndicated radio program broadcast in over 100 markets.

With a visionary understanding of the vital role of communications in spreading a message of Second Amendment freedom, Wayne has worked to ensure that NRA remains on the cutting edge of communications technology. He established NRANews, managed by professional journalists, to report issues related to the Second Amendment directly to NRA members and the American public. NRANews produces a nightly live radio program, with audio and video streaming over the Internet. The program regularly features special guests, politicians, legislators and commentators, as well as current news updates. The program is also carried on a syndicated radio program broadcast in more than 100 markets.

To promote the enjoyment of the shooting sports and the fun of safe firearms use, Wayne launched NRA Sports. Hundreds of thousands of new shooters and gun owners have been reached through the program, and today, more people take part in the shooting sports than those who fish, golf or play soccer.

Wayne is also a successful author. His latest book, The Global War on Your Guns: Inside the U.N. Plan to Destroy the Bill of Rights, exposes the worldwide movement to undermine and destroy American firearm freedoms. His previous books include Guns, Freedom and Terrorism; Shooting Straight; and Guns, Crime and Freedom, which reached #11 on The New York Times best-seller list in 1994.

Wayne’s commitment to preserving Second Amendment freedoms extends to those safeguarded by the First Amendment. He has been a key strategist in opposing congressional efforts to restrict the ability of Americans to express their views during elections and is committed to the restoration and preservation of free speech for all Americans.

Backed by NRA’s 4 million active members, Wayne has led NRA efforts to restore the relevance and sanctity of the Second Amendment. Today, this right continues to be preserved by freedom’s largest, most potent and devoted voluntary organization.

Alan Korwin

Alan Korwin wrote his first book, The Arizona Gun Owner’s Guide, in 1989. It is now in its 25th edition with nearly 200,000 copies in print. He went on to write or co-write nine more books on gun laws, including state guides for California, Florida, Texas and Virginia, the unabridged federal guides Gun Laws of America and Supreme Court Gun Cases, his 11th, which debuted in 2008, is The Heller Case: Gun Rights Affirmed!, and his latest, After You Shoot, about the deadly loophole in self-defense law. 

With his wife Cheryl he operates Bloomfield Press, which has grown into the largest publisher and distributor of gun-law books in America. His website, gunlaws.com, features a free National Directory to every gun law in the country and more than 250 books and DVDs for gun owners and the freedom movement. Alan’s blog, PageNine.org, is carried by scores of paper and online outlets. Rumors about his outrageous political parody band, The Cartridge Family, cannot be confirmed.

Dave Kopel

Dave Kopel is Research Director of the Independence Institute, a public policy research organization in Denver, Colorado. He is also a constitutional law professor at Denver University, and an Associate Policy Analyst with the Cato Institute, in Washington. His website is www.davekopel.org. Kopel is a regular panelist on Colorado Public TV Channel 12’s “Colorado Inside Out”, and a blogger on the Volokh Conspiracy (the world leading legal weblog).

Kopel writes on constitutional criminal justice, civil rights, firearms policy international affairs, technology, politics, environmental policy, and the media. He is the author of 13 books, hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles, and over eighty scholarly journal articles. His newspaper articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times. Kopel’s scholarship has been published in journals from Yale, Harvard, NYU, the University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Johns Hopkins.

His most recent book is Firearms Law and the Second Amendment, the first law school textbook on the subject.

Kopel’s amicus briefs in District of Columbia v. Heller and McDonald v. Chicago were cited in the opinions of Justices Alito, Stevens, and Breyer. He appeared before the Supreme Court for the Heller oral argument, assisting lead attorney Alan Gura.

Kopel holds a J.D. magna cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School, and a B.A. in History with highest honors from Brown University.

Dr. Timothy Wheeler is the director of Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership (DRGO), a project of the Second Amendment Foundation.  With a small group of fellow physicians he founded DRGO in 1993 to counter the growing attack by the medical establishment on gun owners.  In 1994 DRGO became a project of the Claremont Institute, and in 2011 became affiliated with the Second Amendment Foundation.

DRGO is a nationwide network of 1,300 physicians, scientists, allied health professionals, and others who support the safe and lawful use of firearms.

Dr. Wheeler is a graduate of the California Department of Fish and Game Hunter Safety Training Program, the Lethal Force Institute’s LFI 1 course, and Tactical Pistol courses 1 and 2 of the Tactical Firearms Training Team.  His articles supporting the right to keep and bear arms have appeared in The Miami Herald, Washington Times, National Review Online, and others.  He has carried the message of responsible gun ownership to radio and television audiences including CBS News 60 Minutes, KNX 1070 AM radio in Los Angeles, and Fox News television.

Dr. Wheeler is now retired from the full time practice of surgery and lives in the Los Angeles area with his wife of 30 years, RoseAnn.