Gun Facts now in Spanish

Online, April 24, 2010 (Newswire.com) - For release on SUNDAY, April 25, 2010
Contact: Guy Smith - 510-693-4477, [email protected]

Gun Facts now in Spanish
Exporting gun owner rights to the rest of the hemisphere

San Francisco, CA - April 25, 2010: The current edition of Gun Facts, the de facto desk reference for firearm policy, has been translated into Latin American Spanish and released on the Gun Facts web site at www.GunFacts.info.

"Freedom is not negotiable," said Guy Smith, author of Gun Facts. "This includes the human right of self-defense. People in Latin America, encouraged by freedoms in the United States, are resisting gun control. It is time for Gun Facts to help refute the anti-freedom factions in the South as it has in the North."

For more than a decade, Gun Facts has debunked common gun control myths. In 118 pages and nearly 500 detailed citations, the Spanish version of Gun Facts gives advocates and policy researchers a ready resource for refuting distorted data and claims proffered by gun control groups and governments alike.

"The last major English language edition of Gun Facts was download into 165 countries and has been read in every Latin American country from Peru to Argentina to Cuba," said Smith. "Given how the Brazilian people voted down new gun control, how Argentinean gun rights groups are blocking new restrictions, and how Latin Americans have suffered in the past under despots, Gun Facts provides them the tools they need to grow their freedom."

In response to firearms used by Mexican drug cartels, Gun Facts version 5.1 - the source for the Spanish language version - has added and reorganized data on international firearms trafficking.

"People in Latin America have told me that Gun Facts is widely read because the same falsehoods told by the gun control industry in the United States are being spread in the southern hemisphere," said Smith. "The Spanish language version of Gun Facts makes the correct information available to a much larger audience, and makes them appropriately skeptical of those who would take away their rights."

Gun Facts chapters are organized around gun control topics like assault weapons, concealed carry, crime and microstamping. In each chapter, common gun control myths are listed and for each myth multiple facts debunking the myth are cited. Facts carry detailed citations from reputable sources, allowing Gun Facts readers to authoritatively counter sound bites echoed by politicians and anti-freedom activists.

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Guy Smith is accepting interview requests. Contact Smith directly at either [email protected] or 510-693-4477.

Media Briefing Sheet
Details about Gun Facts
Media resources:
Details about the book, cover art, author bio and pictures can be found on the Gun Facts web site media resources page at http://www.gunfacts.info/gun-facts-media-resources/.
Current version (Spanish):
Release: 5.1
Pages: 110
Citations: 487
Gun Facts distribution:
From the primary web site (www.GunFacts.info) the book has been:

o Downloaded into 165 countries including China, U.K., Japan, Iran, Viet Nam, Mongolia and Cuba.
o In the United States, it is most frequently downloaded into Washington D.C.
o Nearly 400,000 copies of each edition are downloaded from the primary site alone.
o Estimated viral distribution is over one million copies of each edition (the copyright allows the book to be posted on other web sites).
o Both electronic and printed versions are available.
Topic chapters in Gun Facts:
Microstamping
Ballistic fingerprinting
Assault weapons
Crime and guns
Guns and crime prevention
Licensing and registration
Concealed carry laws
Availability of guns
Accidental deaths from guns
Government and social costs
Police and guns
Children and guns
50-Caliber rifles
Gun control in other countries
Assorted gun control myths
Public opinions about gun control
The Second Amendment
Quotes by gun control proponents and opponents
The Gun Facts community:
After version 5.1 was released, production of Gun Facts switched to a community project. More than 600 volunteer researchers have enrolled at GunFacts.info. The online community will aggressively detect new and mutating gun control myths, and rapidly edit the Gun Facts book.
Internationalizion:
Beginning with version 5.1, Gun Facts will be translated into other languages, beginning with Latin American Spanish. Internationally there is growing concern about gun control, and recent developments in South America have prioritized this initial translation.

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