Alan Merril Gottlieb is an American

United States

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 author, conservative political activist, and businessman.

Personal

He was born a first child to Seymour and Sherry Gottlieb on May 2, 1947 in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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. Gottlieb graduated from the University of Tennessee

University of Tennessee

The University of Tennessee is a public land-grant university headquartered at Knoxville, Tennessee, United States...

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

Nuclear engineering

Nuclear engineering is the branch of engineering concerned with the application of the breakdown as well as the fusion of atomic nuclei and/or the application of other sub-atomic physics, based on the principles of nuclear physics...

. He has also attended the Institute on Comparative Political & Economic Systems at Georgetown University

Georgetown University

Georgetown University is a private, Jesuit, research university whose main campus is in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic university in the United States...

. "I am," he [Gottlieb] says, "the premiere anti-communist, free-enterprise, laissez-faire

Laissez-faire

In economics, laissez-faire describes an environment in which transactions between private parties are free from state intervention, including restrictive regulations, taxes, tariffs and enforced monopolies....

 capitalist."

In 1984 Gottlieb was convicted of tax fraud and spent 8 months in a work release

Work release

In prison systems, work release programs allow a prisoner who is sufficiently trusted or can be sufficiently monitored to leave confinement to continue working at his or her current place of employment, returning to prison when his/her shift is complete...

 program. As a convicted felon, Gottlieb forfeited his right to own guns, but he regained that right in 1985 under a federal law allowing individuals of good character to apply for relief from that legal disability.

Gottlieb is an avid collector of old handgun

Handgun

A handgun is a firearm designed to be held and operated by one hand. This characteristic differentiates handguns as a general class of firearms from long guns such as rifles and shotguns ....

s and postage stamps.

Gottlieb resides in Bellevue, Washington

Bellevue, Washington

Bellevue is a city in the Eastside region of King County, Washington, United States, across Lake Washington from Seattle. Long known as a suburb or satellite city of Seattle, it is now categorized as an edge city or a boomburb. The population was 122,363 at the 2010 census.Downtown Bellevue is...

 with his wife Julianne.

Authorship

Gottlieb is an accomplished writer, having published over 19 books. He is recognized as a member of the working press, maintaining active membership in the Outdoor Writers Association of America. His articles have appeared in the Seattle Times, Manchester Union Leader, San Francisco Examiner, Washington Post, Guns Magazine, Guns & Ammo Magazine, Gun Week, Orlando Sentinel

Orlando Sentinel

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, Chicago Tribune

Chicago Tribune

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, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Cincinnati Enquirer

The Cincinnati Enquirer

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, Ft. Worth Star-Telegram and USA Today

USA Today

USA Today is a national American daily newspaper published by the Gannett Company. It was founded by Al Neuharth. The newspaper vies with The Wall Street Journal for the position of having the widest circulation of any newspaper in the United States, something it previously held since 2003...

, among others.

Gottlieb is the Publisher of Gun Week and The Gottlieb-Tartaro Report.

Activism

Gottlieb is the Chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms

Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms

Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, or CCRKBA, is a gun rights organization in the United States, headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. It is closely affiliated with the Second Amendment Foundation. The CCRKBA was founded in 1971 and it now has 615,000 members with Alan...

, Founder of the Second Amendment Foundation

Second Amendment Foundation

The Second Amendment Foundation or SAF is an educational- and legal-defense organization which describes its mission as “promoting a better understanding about our constitutional heritage to privately own and possess firearms...

, a National Director of the American Conservative Union

American Conservative Union

The American Conservative Union is an American political organization advocating conservative policies, and is the oldest such conservative lobbying organization in the country.-Organization:...

, President of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise

Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise

The Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise or 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 Gottlieb....

, President of the American Political Action Committee, President of NoInternetTax.org, and President of KeepAndBearArms.com.

Gottlieb has appeared on over 3,800 TV and radio talk shows, including the McNeil-Lehrer News Hour, ABC’s 20/20, The Michael Reagan

Michael Reagan

Michael Edward Reagan is a former American radio host and Republican strategist. His nationally syndicated radio show, The Michael Reagan Talk Show, aired on stations throughout the United States on the Premiere Radio Networks before being dropped, after which it moved to Radio America...

 Show, The Ken Hamblin

Ken Hamblin

Ken Loronzo Hamblin II , the self-titled Black Avenger, was host of the Ken Hamblin Show, which was syndicated nationally on Entertainment Radio Networks....

 Show, PBS All Things Considered

All Things Considered

All Things Considered is the flagship news program on the American network National Public Radio. It was the first news program on NPR, and is broadcast live worldwide through several outlets...

, CNN Crossfire

Crossfire

A crossfire is a military term for the siting of weapons so that their arcs of fire overlap. This tactic came to prominence in World War I....

, Fox TV’s Crier Report, NBC Today Show, The O'Reilly Factor

The O'Reilly Factor

The O'Reilly Factor, originally titled The O'Reilly Report from 1996 to 1998 and often called The Factor, is an American talk show on the Fox News Channel hosted by commentator Bill O'Reilly, who often discusses current controversial political issues with guests.The program was the most watched...

, ESPN

ESPN

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, Larry King Live

Larry King Live

Larry King Live is an American talk show hosted by Larry King on CNN from 1985 to 2010. It was CNN's most watched and longest-running program, with over one million viewers nightly....

, CNN

CNN

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 Special Reports, CNN All Politics, MSNBC, CNN Headline News, Fox News Channel

Fox News Channel

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, Hardball with Chris Mathews, Lou Dobbs Tonight, and Good Morning America

Good Morning America

Good Morning America is an American morning news and talk show that is broadcast on the ABC television network; it debuted on November 3, 1975. The weekday program airs for two hours; a third hour aired between 2007 and 2008 exclusively on ABC News Now...

.

Business

Gottlieb owns Merril Press, an "independent publisher of unusual nonfiction books by authors who know what they're writing about." He also president of four radio station

Radio station

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s, including KITZ

KITZ

KITZ is a radio station featuring a News/Talk format. Licensed to Silverdale, Washington, USA, it serves the Puget Sound Region. The main KITZ studio and production facilities are located in Port Orchard, Washington....

 in Port Orchard, Washington

Port Orchard, Washington

Port Orchard is a city in and the county seat of Kitsap County, Washington, United States. It is located 13 miles due west of West Seattle and connected to Seattle and Vashon Island via the Washington State Ferries run to Southworth...

, KGTK

KGTK

KGTK is a radio station licensed to serve Olympia, Washington, USA. The station is owned by KITZ Radio, Inc.KGTK broadcasts a business/talk radio format....

 in Olympia, Washington

Olympia, Washington

Olympia is the capital city of the U.S. state of Washington and the county seat of Thurston County. It was incorporated on January 28, 1859. The population was 46,478 at the 2010 census...

, KBNP

KBNP

KBNP is a class D AM radio station broadcasting from Portland, Oregon, United States. The station is owned by KBNP Radio, Inc.Programming:...

 in Portland, Oregon

Portland, Oregon

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, and KSBN in Spokane, Washington

Spokane, Washington

Spokane is a city located in the Northwestern United States in the state of Washington. It is the largest city of Spokane County of which it is also the county seat, and the metropolitan center of the Inland Northwest region...

.

Gottlieb owns Merril Mail Marketing, Inc., a for-profit corporation, that is his direct response mail fund-raising business. He also controls The Service Bureau, Inc, a non-profit cooperative corporation that provides its members with services such as telephone

Telephone

The telephone , colloquially referred to as a phone, is a telecommunications device that transmits and receives sounds, usually the human voice. Telephones are a point-to-point communication system whose most basic function is to allow two people separated by large distances to talk to each other...

 fund-raising and accounting. The member organizations that can receive assets upon dissolution of the cooperative

Cooperative

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 are the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise; Second Amendment Foundation; Right to Keep and Bear Arms Political Victory Fund; Merril Associates; and Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.

Books by Alan M. Gottlieb

• 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 the 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 Alan M. Gottlieb

• George W. Bush Speaks to the Nation -- George W. Bush
  George W. Bush
  George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....
  
   and Alan M. Gottlieb
• Trashing the Economy: How Runaway Environmentalism Is Wrecking America -- Ron Arnold and Alan Gottlieb
• Guns for Women -- George Flynn
  George Flynn
  George Flynn is a distinguished American composer and pianist. Born in Montana in 1937, he grew up in Montana and Washington. He studied and taught at Columbia University, New York City, and from 1977 to 2001 headed the Department of Composition at DePaul University in Chicago. His works cover a...
  
   and Alan Gottlieb
• More Things You Can Do to Defend Your Gun Rights -- by Alan Gottlieb and David Kopel
• 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
  Ron Arnold has been the Executive Vice-President of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise since 1984. He is a prolific writer on natural resource issues and one of the most effective adversaries of the environmental movement, according to the Environmental Grantmakers Association, which...
  
  , and Chuck Asay
  Chuck Asay
  Charles R. "Chuck" Asay is a conservative political cartoonist. He was an editorial cartoonist for the Colorado Springs Gazette until his retirement on March 28, 2007. Previously, he drew for the Taos News, Colorado Springs Sun, and briefly at the Denver Post...
  
  
• 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)