Key People
Dave Workman is the award-winning Communications Director of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. He joined the staff in October 2000. Prior to that he spent 21 years at Outdoor Empire Publishing as editor of Fishing & Hunting News and Hunter Education Instructor. Workman spent nine years on the National Rifle Association Board of Directors. He is co-author of six books with CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb: Double Trouble – Daschle and Gephardt, Capitol Hill Bullies; America Fights Back: Armed Self-Defense in a Violent Age; These Dogs Don’t Hunt: The Democrats’ War on Guns, Assault on Weapons: The Campaign to Eliminate Your Guns, Shooting Blanks: Facts Don’t Matter to the Gun Control Crowd, and Dancing In Blood, Exposing the Gun Ban Lobby’s Playbook to Destroy Your Rights. Dave’s byline also regularly appears in TheGunMag.com, Women & Guns, GUN WORLD, Gun Digest, and Northwest Sportsman and on the opinion pages of prominent newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Seattle Times, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, and the Providence Journal. He is also the author of Washington State Gun Rights and Responsibilities, now in its 12th printing, and writes a daily online gun rights column for Examiner.com. His journalism career began at the Snoqualmie Valley Record, a weekly newspaper in Washington State.
Julianne Versnel is the director of operations for Citizens Committee for the Right to keep and Bear Arms. In addition, she serves as publisher of The Journal on Firearms and Public Policy for The Second Amendment Foundation. She is active in the international arena reminding disparate governmental representatives that there is a civil and natural right to self-defense. She is a founding officer of the International Association for the Protection of Civilian Arms Rights (IAPCAR).
Alan M. Gottlieb is Chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA). He is also the author or co-author of numerous books including Dancing In Blood: Exposing the Gun Lobby to Destroy Your Rights, Politically Correct Guns, The Gun Rights Fact Book, The Gun Grabbers, Things You Can Do to Defend Your Gun Rights, Gun Rights Affirmed and Black and Blue. He is also co-author (with Dave Workman) of Shooting Blanks: The Democrats War Against Guns, America Fights Back: Armed Self-Defense in a Violent Age, These Dogs Don’t Hunt: The Democrats’ War On Guns, Assault on Weapons: The Campaign to Eliminate Your Guns and Shooting Blanks: Facts Don’t Matter to the Gun Control Crowd. Alan has published articles in the San Francisco Examiner, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune and USA Today. Mr. Gottlieb has appeared on over 6,000 TV and radio talk shows, including Lou Dobbs, ABC’s 20/20, The O’Reilly Show, MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews, CNN’s Crossfire, CBS Morning News, Laura Ingraham Show, BBC, NBC’s Today Show, Good Morning America and China TV.