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In 1863 President Lincoln signed a congressional charter creating the National Academy of Sciences. Now, 150 years later, President Obama is enlisting NAS to implement an item in his January 16 plan to change the lives of America’s 100 million gun owners. Read more…
[Ed: At the Second Amendment Foundation’s Gun Rights Policy Conference September 27, Associate Director and ENT surgeon Hayes Wanamaker spoke to the importance of suppressors as a medical device to protect hearing for shooters and bystanders. He and DRGO founder Tim Wheeler (also an ENT surgeon) spearheaded their recent endorsement by the American Association of […]
[DRGO’s founding director, Tim Wheeler, MD, wrote this for NRA’s America’s 1st Freedom magazine, first posted February 20 but also in the most recent print issue.] Academic medical organizations have traditionally resisted the decades-long loosening of American gun-control laws. Since at least the 1980s, they have been uniformly hostile to the very idea of gun […]
The American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, representing more than 13,000 Ear, Nose and Throat physicians, issued its formal policy statement on November 18 supporting the use of suppressors for the prevention of hearing loss from firearms. Earlier this year, seven Academy members led by Dr. Timothy Wheeler, founder of Doctors for Responsible Gun […]
[Ed: This was originally posted on HaciendaPub.com November 5, excerpted from his latest book America, Guns, and Freedom: A Journey Into Politics and the Public Health & Gun Control Movements (2019).] For many years, the federal government has arrogated more power to itself at the expense of the individual states, including policing actions that should fall […]
[Ed: This was Dr. Edeen’s talk at 2023’s Gun Rights Policy Conference September 24. See the video beginning at 13:40 here. Dr. Young followed, discussing Sandra Richardson’s study reported in A Legal Barrier to MH Care in NYS, beginning at 22:05.] What is public health? The CDC defines it as …the science of protecting and […]
[Ed: This paper was first published at Ammoland on June 27 by Alan J. Chwick, Joanne D. Eisen DDS, and Gary Mauser PhD, an A Team of longtime pro-gun rights experts and good writers. (Drs. Eisen and Mauser have previously contributed to DRGO, and we welcome Mr. Chwick.) It is dense with facts and solid […]
[Ed: This article originally appeared in a mailing from SCOPE-NY. Grassroots opinion pieces and letters to the editor are powerful ammunition in promoting the importance of the Second Amendment and private gun ownership.] Based on the number of articles appearing everywhere, gun grabbing season must be open. It only opens once a year but the […]