Website (if any): http://www.gunowners.org
Biography: Larry Pratt has been Executive Director of Gun Owners of America for more than 25 years. GOA is a national membership organization of 300,000 Americans dedicated to promoting their second amendment freedom to keep and bear arms.
GOA lobbies for the progun position in Washington and is involved in firearms issues in the states. GOA's work includes providing legal assistance to those involved in law suits with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the federal firearms law enforcement agency.
Pratt has appeared on numerous national radio and TV programs such as NBC's Today show, CBS' Good Morning America, CNN's Crossfire and Larry King Live, Fox's Hannity & Colmes, MSNBC's Phil Donahue show and many others. He has debated Congressmen James Traficant, Jr. (D-OH), Charles Rangel (D-NY), Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY), Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), and Vice President Al Gore, among others. His columns have appeared in newspapers across the country.
He published a book, Armed People Victorious, in 1990 and was editor of a book, Safeguarding Liberty The Constitution & Citizen Militias, in 1995. His latest book, On the Firing Line: Essays in the Defense of Liberty was published in 2001.
Pratt has held elective office in the state legislature of Virginia, serving in the House of Delegates. Pratt directs a number of other public interest organizations and serves as the Vice-Chairman of the American Institute for Cancer Research.
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Larry Pratt Archives
2007-01-18 Feminism's Assault on Self Defense
2006-12-05 Sovereign Immunity Needs to Go
2005-02-21 Why Do Criminals Break The Law?
2004-12-07 Cuba: Lessons In Gun Control And Medicine
2004-11-15 Gun Control Kills At Home And Abroad
2004-09-14 Lesson from Beslan School Massacre
2004-09-02 The Watermelon Candidate
2004-08-26 Deacons For Defense
2004-08-17 Universities: Tyranny's Breeding Grounds
2004-08-10 Medical System Leading Cause Of Death
2004-06-30 Help On The Way To The Senate?
2004-06-23 Gun Control Is Socialist -- II
2004-05-05 IRA: Terror For Profit
2004-04-27 Judicial Supremacy: Threat To Freedom
2004-04-12 Lawsuits Beat Working For A Living
2004-03-22 When The People Were The Police
2004-03-17 Even Football Players Need Guns
2004-03-11 Wisconsin: Concessions Don't Work
2004-02-16 Lash Of Islamic Slavery Still Torments Sudan
2004-02-09 Watch Your Tongue -- Even When Under Attack
2004-01-15 Did Gun Control Lead To September 11?
2003-12-01 Systemic Integrity Challenge Pervades FBI
2003-11-28 Why Blacks Tend To Support Gun Control
2003-11-18 On The CCW Merry-Go-Round
2003-11-17 Score Another Success For Grassroots Lobbying
2003-11-04 County Treasurer Stirs Rights Debate
2003-10-27 Another Gun Ban Needs To Expire In Peace
2003-10-20 Campaign Finance Laws: Incumbents' Best Friends
2003-10-17 Thunder On The Left
2003-09-23 City Of Detroit -- Breaking The Law In The Name Of The Law
2003-09-12 Licensing Of Gun Owners: Tool Of Control
2003-09-06 Canada's Gun Registry Not A Crime - Fighting Tool
2003-09-03 Lessons From The Third World: TSA Take Notes
2003-09-01 Big Bias Against Guns
2003-08-27 Judge Roy Moore Is Right
2003-08-19 Psychologists Misfire In Study
2003-08-14 Is Your School's Curriculum UN Approved?
2003-08-05 Dependent On Washington
2003-07-31 The Power To Tax Is The Power To Destroy
2003-07-27 Media Catching On To Dangers Of Background Checks
2003-07-11 Choirboys They Are Not
2003-07-09 All Guns Are Machine Guns, Right?
2003-07-06 Washington DC Mayor Thinks Arming Taxi Drivers "Nutty"
2003-06-24 OSHA Lists Safety Tips For Cab Drivers But No Room For Guns
2003-06-17 Gun Control Is Socialist
2003-06-12 What Went Wrong At Columbine
2003-03-03 The New Boogeyman In The Gun Debate
2003-02-20 Liberals Outraged By Self-Defense On The Border
2003-02-15 Life On The Border: Better Be Armed
2003-02-10 Mexican Embassy Confirms Why Border Citizens Must Be Armed
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