By Dr. Timothy Wheeler and Dr. E. John Wipfler
CCRKBA Defenders of the Month and Gun Rights Policy Conference Speakers  

This book by two practicing physicians and believers of Keeping Your Family Safe by practicing the responsibilities of firearm's ownership. They start with the facts about firearms, how to use their book and continued with concise detailed information about firearms and their mechanics. They discuss firearms safety rules, storage options and firearms training. They present the ethics and laws of self-defense. There is detailed practical information concerning the tactics for self-defense. Also included is a comprehensive chapter on first aid for gun shot wounds and other trauma with a suggested first aid kit for injuries that occur in the home. Their book concludes with a bibliography for Learning Safety for Life. Their information is highlighted by 39 strategically relevant photos throughout the book.

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Keeping Your Family Safe is essential reading for all who choose to use a gun for safety—
and in safety.

Arthur Z. Berg, M.D., Distinguished Life Fellow, American Psychiatric Association, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School

With firearms ownership, comes responsibilities. Drs. Wheeler and Wipfler make the facts clear and concise in Keeping Your Family Safe.   

Massad Ayoob, Handgun Instructor, Director, Lethal Force Institute

CONTENTS

1) The Facts About Firearms

2) How To Use This Book 

3) Types of Firearms 

4) Firearm Safety

5) Children and Firearms 

6) Storage of Firearms 

7) Firearms Training 

8) Ethics and Laws of Self-Defense

9) Tactics for Self-Defense 

10) First Aid for Gun Shot Wounds and Other Trauma 

11) Learning Safety For Life 

ABOUT THE AUTHORS:

Timothy W. Wheeler, MD is the director of Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership (DRGO), a Project of the Claremont Institute. DRGO is a nationwide group of physicians, scientists, medical students, and others who support the safe and lawful use of firearms. Dr. Wheeler is a surgeon practicing in Ontario, California. He has taken training in the moral, ethical, legal, and tactical aspects of defensive firearm use at the Lethal Force Institute under Massad Ayoob. He has passed the Tactical Handgun course, Parts I and II at the Tactical Firearms Training Team. His editorial articles on firearm policy have appeared in the Washington Times, the Miami Herald, National Review Online, and others. His television appearances have included Fox News television, CBS This Morning and CBS News 60 Minutes.

E. John Wipfler III, MD, FACEP is associate clinical professor at the University of Illinois College of Medicine and attending emergency physician at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center, a Level I trauma center in Peoria, Illinois. Dr. Wipfler is the Medical Director for an agency providing tactical emergency medicine support (TEMS) for three tactical law enforcement teams. He has been involved in over 80 SWAT callouts and serves as the Sheriff’s Physician and sworn auxiliary deputy sheriff with the Peoria County Sheriff’s Department. He co-chairs the TEMS committee with the Illinois Tactical Officer’s Association and Illinois Department of Public Health. Dr. Wipfler has 14 years of military experience with the United States Army Reserve Medical Corps. He is a certified firearms safety instructor and has completed firearms training with the U.S. Army, Chapman Academy, InSights Training Center, Combat Casualty Care Course, CONTOMS, and the Heckler & Koch TEMS International Training Division. He is an instructor with the International School of Tactical Medicine.