Alan Korwin

Alan Korwin (born September 2, 1949) is an American writer, author and civil- and political-rights activist whose work serves the business, legal, news and firearms industries.

In 1988, Korwin founded Bloomfield Press, which has grown into the largest publisher and distributor of gun-law books in the nation.

Winner of the 2013 Defender of Liberty Award, conferred by the 600,000-member Second Amendment Foundation, Korwin is based in Scottsdale, Arizona, where he owns and along with his wife Cheryl operates GunLaws.com and Bloomfield Press.

He has received two national awards for publicity work as a member of the Society for Technical Communication, is a past board member of the Arizona chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, and is active with the speaker's bureau of Beltway-based news-media watchdog Accuracy In Media.

Born on September 2, 1949, in the Bronx, N.Y., to Irving and Shirley Korwin, first-generation Americans of European immigrant parents.