Ted Garland Oiler

Ted Garland Oiler is a father, a veteran and a former military intelligence officer. He has argued about the Second Amendment since a political science lecture hall at The Ohio State University, where, as an ROTC cadet, he wrote the paper that started him down this road: anyone who wanted to seize power in America would have to start by disarming the people.

America Disarmed is the result. The Warning lays out how laws, databases and technology that already exist could be assembled into a disarmament campaign without a single villain or conspiracy. The Witness, a novel, follows one Ohio family through the same three years. Both books stick to one rule: the history is real, and the imagined parts are labeled as imagined.

After the Army, Ted spent thirty years in business. He lives in Central Ohio and writes Resolute Citizen, a free weekly newsletter on the laws, the lists, the money and the people behind them.