Torossian is making an important case: the pro-2A Jewish community deserves a seat at the table of the broader Jewish community—but first, we need to build a stronger table of our own. The organizations and individuals working for Jewish self-defense, firearms training, Second Amendment rights, and Jewish security need to learn to support one another, work together, and recognize that we are stronger when we do. We don’t all have to do the same thing or agree on every issue. But we should be able to stand together on the things we share. A unified pro-2A Jewish community will have a far stronger voice and a much better chance of earning the place at the table that Torossian is talking about.
I’m especially pleased that Jews Can Shoot is mentioned twice in this article. I founded Jews Can Shoot in 2013, initially offering firearms training in the Greater Los Angeles area and bringing more than 400 people to the shooting range. From the beginning, the goal was to get Jews comfortable with firearms and to educate them about their right to defend themselves.
Over the years, Jews Can Shoot has grown beyond firearms training into education and advocacy for Second Amendment rights. So seeing Jews Can Shoot recognized as part of this growing Jewish firearms community—and specifically identified as an advocacy organization—is meaningful.
The bigger point is that we need each other. If we want the broader Jewish community to recognize that the pro-2A Jewish community belongs at the table, we need to first demonstrate that we can come together, support one another, and speak with a stronger collective voice.This is an important conversation, and I’m proud that Jews Can Shoot has been part of it since 2013.
Guns N’ Moses, a Jewish Gun Club, directed by Alex Dov should also be recognized in this discussion.
Study 1 of this series established that not one of the 53 national organizations in the Conference of Presidents has issued a formal position on whether Jews inside a sanctuary should be armed. That is not because nobody in American Jewish life has answered the question. It is because the people who answered it built their own organizations to do it.
There are now Jewish gun clubs in at least 24 states. One of them partnered with the National Rifle Association in April 2026. One of them sued the governor of New York to carry a pistol into a synagogue. One of them assembled twelve rabbis in 2014 to formally refute the Orthodox Union and the Rabbinical Council of America on Jewish law and firearms.
None of them holds a seat at any national Jewish umbrella body. None of them is cited in any national Jewish organization’s policy platform. The largest Jewish security organization in North America has published guidance that runs directly against the core premise of most of them.
The clubs are the counter-position. They are also unrepresented.
By Ronn Torossian
