Aaron S. Zelman

{{About|the American gun rights advocate and author|the American television writer and producer|Aaron Zelman}}

Aaron S. Zelman (March 14, 1946 – December 21, 2010) was an American gun rights advocate, author, and founder of Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership.

Career

Zelman was best known as the founder and executive director of Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership (JFPO), which he founded in 1989 in Wisconsin. He was an author and co-author of books and articles about gun rights, on which he took an absolutist stance on the meaning of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and encouraged Americans to understand, uphold, and defend the Bill of Rights. In addition, he produced and co-produced films on the subject.{{cite news|last1=Kahn |first1=Diana |last2=Cohen |first2=Leon |date=January 30, 2011 |title=Zelman was impassioned defender of firearms rights |url=http://www.jewishchronicle.org/article.php?article_id=12597 |newspaper=Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle |location=Milwaukee, Wisconsin |access-date=March 23, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140324051904/http://www.jewishchronicle.org/article.php?article_id=12597 |archive-date=March 24, 2014 }}

Life

Zelman was born March 14, 1946, in Massachusetts, and reared in Tucson, Arizona, by his grandmother. He served in the U.S. Navy as a Corpsman to Marines (Fleet Marine Force Medic, Third Marine Air Wing), working as a psychiatric unit assistant to returning Vietnam War veterans. After different sales jobs, and work as a gun dealer, he ultimately settled in Wisconsin.{{cite web |url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/jsonline/obituary.aspx?pid=147358450 |title=Aaron S. Zelman Obituary |author= |date=December 23, 2010 |website=legacy.com |access-date=March 23, 2014 }}originally published in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Zelman was survived by his wife and two sons. Both sons later died from complications of Marfan syndrome.{{cite news|last=Rattner |first=Heidi |date=August 31, 2012 |title=UWM student was a tzaddik and mentsch |url=http://www.jewishchronicle.org/article.php?article_id=13799 |newspaper=Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle |location=Milwaukee, Wisconsin |access-date=March 23, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140324050118/http://www.jewishchronicle.org/article.php?article_id=13799 |archive-date=March 24, 2014 }}{{cite web |url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/jsonline/obituary.aspx?pid=158737571 |title=Erik Zelman Obituary |author= |date=July 25, 2012 |website=legacy.com |access-date=March 23, 2014 }}originally published in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Partial bibliography

"{{cite book |last1=Zelman |first1=Aaron |last2=Neuens |first2=Michael L. |year=1986 |title=Consumer's Guide to Handguns: Tough, unbiased test reports show you which guns are reliable and your best values |location=Harrisburg, Pennsylvania |publisher=Stackpole Books |pages=197 |oclc=12556917 }}"
"{{cite book |last1=Zelman |first1=Aaron |last2=Simkin |first2=Jay |year=1992 |title=Gun Control: Gateway to Tyranny |location=Hartford, Wisconsin |publisher=Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership |pages=139 |oclc=29535251 }}"
"{{cite book |last1=Zelman |first1=Aaron |last2=Smith |first2=L. Neil |year=1999 |title=The Mitzvah |location=Hartford, Wisconsin |publisher=Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership |pages=245 |oclc=44589381 }}"
"{{cite book |last1=Zelman |first1=Aaron |last2=Stevens |first2=Richard W. |year=2001 |title=Death by Gun Control: The Human Cost of Victim Disarmament |location=Hartford, Wisconsin |publisher=Mazel Freedom Press |pages=338 |oclc=49718155 }}"
"{{cite book |last1=Smith |first1=L. Neil |last2=Zelman |first2=Aaron |year=2009 |title=Hope |location=Rockville, Maryland |publisher=Phoenix Pick |pages=245 |oclc=265735832 }}"

=Gran'pa Jack series=

"{{cite book |last1=Zelman |first1=Aaron |last2=Stevens |first2=Richard W. |year=1997 |title=Gran'pa Jack says: It's common sense to use our Bill of Rights |location=Hartford, Wisconsin |publisher=Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership |pages=47 |oclc=778561793 }}"
"{{cite book |last1=Zelman |first1=Aaron |last2=Stevens |first2=Richard W. |year=1998 |title=Gran'pa Jack exposes - Gun Control is Racist!: Facts that racists don't want you to know! |location=Hartford, Wisconsin |publisher=Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership |pages=23 |oclc=778562970 }}"
"{{cite book |last1=Stevens |first1=Richard W. |last2=Zelman |first2=Aaron |year=1999 |title=Gran'pa Jack exposes how the United Nations is killing your freedoms! |location=Hartford, Wisconsin |publisher=Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership |pages=23 |oclc=53168946 }}"