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About Bill Durston

Bill Durston, M.D., is a board certified emergency physician who has treated innumerable civilian gunshot victims during a medical career spanning more than 40 years. Before becoming a physician, Durston served in combat with the U.S. Marine Corps during the height of the Vietnam War. He qualified as an expert marksman in the Marines and was decorated for "courage under fire" as a patrol leader with the Marines' prestigious Third Force Reconnaissance Company. Dr. Durston has worked in the area of gun violence prevention with numerous organizations, both medical and non-medical, throughout his career. In 2016, he co-founded Americans Against Gun Violence to fill the need for a national organization that would openly advocate adopting stringent gun control laws in the United States comparable to the laws that have long been in effect in all the other high income democratic countries of the world. Dr. Durston continues to serve as the founding president of Americans Against Gun Violence.

Oct 13, 2021

An invitation from the president of Americans Against Gun Violence to join in a discussion of the book, Dunblane: Never Forget, with the author, Dr. Michael North, on Sunday, November 7

Bill Durston2022-10-09T13:43:46-07:00

I’d like to invite everyone who is serous about stopping our country's shameful epidemic of gun violence to participate in an online discussion of the book, Dunblane: Never Forget, with the book's author, Dr. Michael North on Sunday, November 7, at 11 AM PST. Dr. North, who was our keynote speaker at last year’s online annual conference, lost his five year old daughter, Sophie, in the mass shooting at the elementary school in Dunblane, Scotland, in 1996, [...]

An invitation from the president of Americans Against Gun Violence to join in a discussion of the book, Dunblane: Never Forget, with the author, Dr. Michael North, on Sunday, November 7Bill Durston2022-10-09T13:43:46-07:00

Sep 22, 2021

Americans Against Gun Violence Calls on High Court to Overturn Rogue 2nd Amendment Decision

Bill Durston2022-10-09T13:43:46-07:00

Sacramento California, September 22, 2021: Americans Against Gun Violence filed an amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief in the case of the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen on Tuesday, September 21, in which the organization called on the Supreme Court to overturn its rogue 2008 Heller decision. In the NYSRPA v. Bruen case, the gun lobby claims that New York State's laws restricting the carrying of concealed handguns violates the Second Amendment. The gun lobby's argument is based [...]

Americans Against Gun Violence Calls on High Court to Overturn Rogue 2nd Amendment DecisionBill Durston2022-10-09T13:43:46-07:00

Jul 20, 2021

Americans Against Gun Violence Denounces Split Ruling by 3-Judge Appeals Court Panel Concerning the Legal Age to Purchase a Handgun

Bill Durston2022-10-09T13:43:46-07:00

Sacramento California, July 20, 2021: Americans Against Gun Violence denounces the ruling by a 2-1 majority of a panel of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals that the federal law prohibiting the sale of handguns to persons under the age of 21 by federally licensed firearm dealers (FFL’s) violates the Second Amendment. In 1968, in response to a growing epidemic of gun violence in the United States, with the majority of shootings being committed with [...]

Americans Against Gun Violence Denounces Split Ruling by 3-Judge Appeals Court Panel Concerning the Legal Age to Purchase a HandgunBill Durston2022-10-09T13:43:46-07:00

Jun 29, 2021

Americans Against Gun Violence President Speaks About Gun Violence Prevention at “Pathways for Justice” Event

Bill Durston2022-10-09T13:43:46-07:00

Americans Against Gun Violence president Dr. Bill Durston was invited to speak on the topic, "Gun Violence in America: A Preventable Epidemic," during an hour long interactive online forum hosted by the Pathways for Justice Ministry of Sacramento's St. Francis of Assisi Parish on Monday, June 28. The event was recorded and can be viewed online by clicking on this link: https://youtu.be/vsTZ0HRicJg During his presentation, which is supplemented with illustrative slides, Dr. Durston speaks and [...]

Americans Against Gun Violence President Speaks About Gun Violence Prevention at “Pathways for Justice” EventBill Durston2022-10-09T13:43:46-07:00

Jun 09, 2021

Americans Against Gun Violence Denounces District Court Judge Roger Benitez’s Ruling in Miller v. Bonta that California’s Assault Weapons Ban Violates Second Amendment

Bill Durston2022-12-27T18:39:55-08:00

Sacramento California, June 9, 2021: Americans Against Gun Violence denounces the ruling by San Diego District Court Judge Roger T. Benitez on June 4, 2021, in the case of James Miller et al v. Rob Bonta, in his official capacity as Attorney General of the State of California, et al, that California’s assault weapons ban violates the Second Amendment. Judge Benitez’s extreme bias is clear from the very first sentence of his decision, in which [...]

Americans Against Gun Violence Denounces District Court Judge Roger Benitez’s Ruling in Miller v. Bonta that California’s Assault Weapons Ban Violates Second AmendmentBill Durston2022-12-27T18:39:55-08:00

May 27, 2021