Brian Miller

Growing up in a family of gun owners, with a dad who was a Vietnam vet and later a constitutional attorney and a mom who believed every American should own their own business, the family dinner conversations generally centered around the state of affairs in America – what was happening in Washington that should (or shouldn’t) be, and what patriotic people could do about it. On a summer bus trip during college, Brian read Atlas Shrugged and the deeper philosophical ramifications of these dinner conversations clicked into place. Then 9/11 happened. Washington’s domestic response to the attacks, epitomized by the "security theater" of the TSA and the clandestine mass surveillance of Americans that was taking place (which was intentionally hidden from the American populace and the vast majority of the legislature until Edward Snowden courageously stepped forward), got Brian actively involved in defending the civil liberties of his fellow Americans from the myriad of threats posed by those in power in Washington, D.C. After all, power unchecked is power abused. Brian believes in personal freedom, political liberty, and free speech – defended by force of arms, if necessary. Thus, American gun rights serve as a bulwark for private citizens to defend their civil liberties from all enemies, both foreign and domestic. As the publisher of Ammo.com, Brian is proud that work from the Resistance Library has been featured by journalists across the political spectrum who share these concerns. Reason, Bloomberg’s "Business Week," USA Today, Instapundit, The Guardian, BillMoyers.com, and National Review have all cited work from Ammo.com’s Resistance Library. Brian is also a contributor to Activist Post, Future of Freedom Foundation, Everything Voluntary, and the Foundation for Economic Education. Brian’s first gun was a Glock 22 chambered in .357 SIG, which he bought from a business partner who told him “he’d needs that out in California,” before he (temporarily) moved out there. One day, he’ll be the happy owner of a custom 1911 from John Jardine. To date, one of his favorite firearm memories is a European trip to visit the factories of Beretta, SIG, and CZ, amongst others.