Josh Sugarmann of VPC is a licensed firearm dealer WTF?

[edstephan]

Josh Sugarmann
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Josh Sugarmann is the executive director and founder of the Violence Policy Center (VPC). Prior to founding the VPC, Sugarmann was a press officer in the national office of Amnesty International USA and was the communications director for the National Coalition to Ban Handguns.

He is known for taking the position that gun violence should be approached as a broadbased public health issue as opposed to solely a crime issue and that firearms should be held to the same health and safety standards as other consumer products. This is detailed in the 1994 publication Cease Fire: A Comprehensive Strategy to Reduce Firearms Violence, which he co-authored. Noting that only two consumer products sold in America are not regulated for health and safety--guns and tobacco--he argues that firearms should be regulated by the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Sugarmann writes frequently on gun violence issues, including two books. The first, National Rifle Association: Money, Firepower & Fear, an expose of the National Rifle Association, was published in 1992 by National Press Books. The second, Every Handgun is Aimed at You: The Case for Banning Handguns,was published in 2000 by The New Press and details the arguments in support of banning private handgun possession in the United States.

Some credit Sugarmann for coining the term "assault weapon", which is derived from the designation Sturmgewehr 44 (literally meaning "storm rifle" but most often translated as "assault rifle"), a style of rifle conceptualized in Nazi Germany during World War II. Sugarmann uses the term because he argues that a semi-automatic rifle is capable of rapid fire that makes it almost as lethal as a fully automatic firearm such as assault rifles. The impression that Sugarmann originated the term may stem from a 1988 study he authored, Assault Weapons and Accessories in America, which was the first study to look at semiautomatic assault weapons. However, variations on the term were in use in the gun press before Sugarmann's 1988 study. [1]

In spite of his anti-gun activism, Josh Sugarmann is a licensed firearm dealer and current holder of a Federal Firearms License (License Number: 1-54-XXX-XX-XX-00725; Expires: 03/01/2011) which is registered at the Violence Policy Center headquarters in Washington D.C.[1] (cf. ATF's FFLeZCheck web site).


Ed

[PA Rifleman]

I just checked that, the EZ-Check is for dealers only, not C&R. That's particularly interesting since he's licensed in an area that's been flagrantly ignoring both the second amendment, but the SCOTUS-Heller ruling as well.

It seems to me BATFE requires a statement from the FFL applicant that they are in compliance will all state & local laws & ordinances. I'd love to see Mr. Sugarmann's local compliance statement.

[granuale]

See this High Road thread for info/discussion.

[PennsyPlinker]

I remember when this came up on the High Road. This illustrates beyond a shadow of a doubt the hypocrisy of these people. Guns and protection are fine for them - just not for the rest of us unwashed proletarian masses.