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Some relevant links:

Statistics and Facts

• Atlas of U.S. Mortality from the Centers for Disease Control
• More U.S. Mortality stats from CDC
• Articles by John Lott
• GunCite -- Excellent source for facts about gun law
• The Swiss and their Guns

Law:

• Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms
  • State Laws and Published Ordinances - Firearms 22nd Edition

Other Groups:

• Wisconsin Rifle and Pistol Association
• The National Rifle Association
• Gun Owners of America
• Jews for the Preservation of Firearm Ownership
• National Shooting Sports Foundation
• Mothers' Arms - A Woman's RKBA site
• Pink Pistols - An organization for people with alternative sexuality who also enjoy shooting.

Articles, Politics and Debates

• Zak's Firearm page, including safety, politics, ballistics, accuracy, etc. Great page from one of the founding members of SAFER
• The Firing Line: a message board for everything from reloading and hunting advice to cut-throat politics.
• Bruce Tiemann's arguments against the anti-gun lobby.
• RKBA
• Oleg Volk's most excellent RKBA site
• A story on Massad Ayoob's LFI
• The Wild and Free Pigs of the Okefenokee Swamp

Manufacturers, Products, Sales, and other Periphenalia

• Blount Manufacturing makers of RCBS reloading equipment, CCI and Federal cartridges, Speer bullets, Weaver optics, and other wonderful toys
• Winchester
• Remington
• Ruger
• Springfield Armory
• Savage Arms
• Heckler & Koch - USA
• Glock
• Browning
• Anschütz
• Hornady, a manufacturer of high quality bullets, powders, and other reloading equipment. Check out Hornady's "Know Thine Enemy" page. This is an excellant page. Check out their Links! (they even include their major competitors!)
• Auction Arms the "eBay" for guns
• GunBroker - Firearm Auctions
• ReloadAmmo.com an online reloading guide
• Cablela's Outfitters A good place for mail-order stuff
• JBM's Ballistics page
  • JBM's list of ballistics software
• Natchez Shooting Supplies - Good stuff at low prices. Look for ammo discounts!

Suggested Readings

• Unintended Consequences by John Ross is a piece of "realistic" fiction tracing gun culture and gun laws through the 20th century.
• More Guns, Less Crime by John Lott is a book written to analyze the evidence that allowing the general populace to own and carry guns in fact decreases crime. Lott wrote the book after he was impressed by the findings of his extensive study of crime statistics.

Hunting, Shooting, Marksmanship

• Wisconsin's Department of Natural Resources
• International Defensive Pistol Association (IDPA)
• Wisconsin IDPA - (Local IDPA Chapter in WI)
• US Olympic Shooting Team
• A guide to (intermediate) Marksmanship