| Lyn Bates is the Vice President of We are AWARE (Arming Women Against Rape and Endangerment), a competitive shooter, and is certified to teach a range of self-defense techniques. Her Internet email address is bates@aware.org. For more on AWARE, including class schedules, visit www.aware.org |
| R.K. "Bob" Campbell is a working, sworn law-enforcement officer who writes about guns and self-defense issues for W&G and several other gun publications. |
| Will & Serina Cox have been focusing on primarily training issues for W&G since 1994 |
| Gila Hayes is a reserve police officer, serving as firearms instructor for her department. Author of the women's self-defense book "Effective Defense, 2nd Edition" She teaches defensive firearms to both co-ed and women's-only classes for the Firearms Academy of Seattle (360-978-6100). For more information on Gila's class schedule and new book, visit www.firearmsacademy.com |
| Roger Lanny is a certified firearms and defensive weapons instructor, a certified Glock armorer, a competitive shooter, and board member of We Are AWARE. His e-mail address is lanny@aware.org. |
| Susan Laws goes by the moniker "Aimless Annie" when she steps to the Cowboy Action line. She and her husband are deeply involved in the Single Action Shooting Society where they helped initiate a scholarship program for young people. Her book Cowgirl Action Shooting is available from Aimless Enterprises, PO Box 1755, Wimberley, TX 78676 for $29.95 plus $4 S/H. For more information, email her at SMLAWS@aol.com |
| Sheila Link was W&G's first contributing editor, and hasn't missed a deadline since. In addition to her regular "Gear & Gadget" column, she has covered all manner of gun related subjects in feature articles. The first woman president of the Outdoor Writers of America Association, she is an avid hunter and active competition shooter as well as a certified firearms instructor. |
| Karen L. MacNutt is a consulting attorney for the Second Amendment Foundation, National Rifle Association and Gun Owners Action League. She maintains a general law practice in Boston, and is an active rifle and pistol competitor. |
| Paul S. Scarlata is a full time magazine writer in North Carolina. He writes for seventeen different firearm and military history related publications in eight countries specializing in classic (1875-1945) military small arms, military/police/self-defense handguns, hunting rifles, sporting and police shotgun and competitive handgun shooting. |
| Peggy Tartaro
is executive editor of Women & Guns magazine.
In 1979 she began working at Gun Week, and held positions
in circulation and advertising through 1989. In 1989, with the
acquisition of Women & Guns by the Second Amendment
Foundation, she became associate editor of that title, and helped
guide it to its newsstand debut in 1991. She became Executive
Editor in 1993. In addition to her duties as editor of the magazine, she has become a well-known spokesperson for the gun rights cause, appearing on numerous international, national and local television and radio programs to discuss the firearms civil rights issue. She has also dealt extensively with the print media, through interviews with such titles as Ladies Home Journal, Mademoiselle, Glamour and the New York Times Magazine. She is also a frequent talk radio guest on stations around the country. She is a frequent lecturer to pro-gunners on inclusion of women and the importance of reaching out "beyond the choir" of traditionally identified gunowners through the Leadership Training Conference program sponsored by the Second Amendment Foundation and the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms held around the country to train gun rights activists. In addition, she has spoken at state association annual meetings, appeared at women-oriented public expositions, and spoken at the annual Gun Rights Policy Conference. She has consulted with authors of both fiction and non-fiction whose work is focused on women's personal protection issues, including Gun Women (2000) by Mary Zeiss Stange and Carol Oyster. She is a member of the New York State gunowners group, Shooters Committee on Political Education (SCOPE, Inc.) and served several terms as its recording secretary. An NRA Life Member, she served for several years as a member of the National Rifle Association's Women's Policies Committee. In 1997, she became a trustee of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA), and serves as that national gun rights group's treasurer. |
