Alan Merril Gottlieb is an American author,

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gun rights The right to keep and bear arms (often referred to as the right to bear arms) is a right for people to possess weapons (arms) for the preservation of life, liberty, and property. The purpose of gun rights is for self-defense, including securi ...

advocate, and

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. Gottlieb has published 23 books.

Biography

He was born in

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and graduated from the

University of Tennessee The University of Tennessee (officially The University of Tennessee, Knoxville; or UT Knoxville; UTK; or UT) is a public land-grant research university in Knoxville, Tennessee. Founded in 1794, two years before Tennessee became the 16th state, ...

in the summer of 1971, after a five-year course, with a degree in

nuclear engineering Nuclear engineering is the branch of engineering concerned with the application of breaking down atomic nuclei ( fission) or of combining atomic nuclei (fusion), or with the application of other sub-atomic processes based on the principles of n ...

. He was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of filing false income tax returns in 1977 and 1978 by failing to include gross receipts of $138,000 and $260,000 those two years from Merril Associates, his political fund-raising firm Gottlieb is a defender of

, and most of his 19 books are about the subject. Gottlieb is a businessman who owns several businesses whose target market is libertarian to conservative groups. Gottlieb owns Merril Press, an "independent publisher of unusual nonfiction books by authors who know what they're writing about." He is also president of four

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s, including

KITZ KITZ (1400 AM) is a radio station featuring a News/Talk format. Licensed to Silverdale, Washington, United States, it serves the Puget Sound Region. It is currently owned by KITZ Radio, Inc. consisting of the gun-rights group Second Amendment ...

Port Orchard, Washington Port Orchard is a city in and the county seat of Kitsap County, Washington, United States. It is located due west of West Seattle and is connected to Seattle and Vashon Island via the Washington State Ferries run to Southworth. It is named a ...

KGTK KGTK (920 AM "Megatalk 920 and 1400") is a commercial radio station featuring a talk radio format, simulcast with sister station KITZ 1400 AM Silverdale.. Licensed to Olympia, Washington, KGTK serves the Puget Sound Region. Its parent company ...

Olympia, Washington Olympia is the capital of the U.S. state of Washington and the county seat and largest city of Thurston County. It is southwest of the state's most populous city, Seattle, and is a cultural center of the southern Puget Sound region. European ...

, KBNP in

Portland, Oregon Portland (, ) is a port city in the Pacific Northwest and the largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon. Situated at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers, Portland is the county seat of Multnomah County, the most populous co ...

, and KSBN in

Spokane, Washington Spokane ( ) is the largest city and county seat of Spokane County, Washington, United States. It is in eastern Washington, along the Spokane River, adjacent to the Selkirk Mountains, and west of the Rocky Mountain foothills, south of the Canada ...

. Gottlieb is also the Chairman of the

Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) is a United States nonprofit organization A nonprofit organization (NPO) or non-profit organisation, also known as a non-business entity, not-for-profit organization, or nonprofit institution, is a leg ...

, Founder of the

Second Amendment Foundation The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) is a United States nonprofit organization that supports gun rights. Founded in 1974 by Alan Gottlieb and headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, SAF publishes gun rights magazines and public education materials ...

, a board member of the

American Conservative Union The American Conservative Union (ACU) is an American political organization that advocates for conservative policies, ranks politicians based on their level of conservatism, and organizes the Conservative Political Action Conference. Founded on ...

, and President of the

Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise The Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise (CDFE) is a wise use think tank which describes itself as "an educational foundation for individual liberty, free markets, property rights and limited government". CDFE was founded in 1974 by Alan ...

. In 1984, Gottlieb plead guilty to filing a tax return that was not true to every material mater and was sentenced to a year and a day in prison by U.S. District Court Judge John Coughenour. Gottlieb's right to own firearms was restored in 1985. In 2013, Gottlieb's lobbying organization (the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms) would have backed with amendments to expand gun rights a "compromise gun registration amendment proposed by Sens. Joe Manchin and Pat Toomey." The ill-fated expanded background checks bill was overwhelmingly supported by Senate Democrats and President Barack Obama at the time. The needed gun rights amendments to gain support were blocked and the bill failed.

Works

Gottlieb has published or self-published 23 books.

Books

* ''Gun Rights Affirmed: The Emerson Case'' * ''Gun Rights Fact Book'' * ''Politically Correct Guns: Please Don't Rob or Kill Me'' * ''Celebrity Address Book'' * ''THE GUN GRABBERS: Who are they, how they operate, where they get their money'' * ''Things You Can Do to Defend Your Gun Rights'' * ''She Took A Village'' * ''Rights of Gun Owners: A Second Amendment'' * ''The Wise Use Agenda'' * ''Gun owner's political action manual'' * ''Black & Blue: How Obama and the Democrats are Beating Up the Constitution''

Books co-authored by Gottlieb

* ''George W. Bush Speaks to the Nation'' –

George W. Bush George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009. A member of the Republican Party, Bush family, and son of the 41st president George H. W. Bush, he ...

and Alan M. Gottlieb (Merril Press, 2010; ) * ''Trashing the Economy: How Runaway Environmentalism Is Wrecking America'' – Ron Arnold and Alan Gottlieb * ''Guns for Women'' – George Flynn and Alan Gottlieb * ''More Things You Can Do to Defend Your Gun Rights'' – by Alan Gottlieb and

David Kopel David B. Kopel (born January 7, 1960) is an American author, attorney, gun rights advocate, and contributing editor to several publications. As of August 2021, he is research director of the Independence Institute, associate policy analyst at ...

* ''Double Trouble: Daschle and Gephardt – Capital Hill Bullies'' by Alan M. Gottlieb and Dave Workman * ''Politically Correct Environment'' by Alan M. Gottlieb,

Ron Arnold Ron Arnold (born August 8, 1937) is an American writer and activist. He has been the Executive Vice-President of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise since 1984. He writes frequently on natural resource issues and is an opponent of the ...

, and

Chuck Asay Charles R. "Chuck" Asay (pronounced AY-see) (born September 1, 1942, in Alamosa, Colorado) is a conservative political cartoonist. He was an editorial cartoonist for the Colorado Springs Gazette until his retirement on March 28, 2007. Previously ...

* ''America Fights Back: Armed Self-defense in a Violent Age'' by Alan M. Gottlieb and Dave Workman * ''These Dogs Don't Hunt: The Democrats' War on Guns'' by Alan M. Gottlieb and Dave Workman * ''Assault on Weapons: The Campaign to Eliminate Your Guns'' by Alan M. Gottlieb and Dave Workman (2009) * ''Dancing in Blood:Exposing the Gun Ban Lobby's Playbook to Destroy Your Rights'' by Alan Gottlieb and Dave Workman (2014) * ''Right to Carry: I carry a Gun a Cop is too Heavy'' by Alan Gottlieb and Dave Workman (2016) * ''Good Guys with Guns'' by Alan Gottlieb and Dave Workman (2019)

References

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Bellevue gun-rights advocate becomes key player in national debate , Local News , The Seattle Times

Seattle News and Events , Cover Story: Barack & Load

Jewish Legal Minds and American Gun Rights: Gura, Sigale, Gottlieb, and Posner

External links

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