Griffin Dix

After Griffin Dix’s 15-year-old son, Kenzo, was killed by a friend in an unintentional shooting, he joined a California coalition that passed laws establishing safety standards for handguns. They helped greatly reduced gun deaths there. He has been Co-Chair of the Oakland, California Brady chapter for many years and is a nationally known gun violence prevention activist. Dix was elected by the chapters to the Brady Board. He has received many awards and his op-eds have been published widely. See: https://griffindix.com/ The lawsuit Dix and his wife filed against Beretta USA in 1995 was the first to argue that a gun is “defective” without safety devices, such as a functional chamber-loaded indicator.

Griffin Dix received a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from the University of California, San Diego (1977) and was a college professor at Santa Clara University (1977-1980). He conducted research studies in publishing and marketing for the San Francisco Chronicle and San Francisco Examiner (1984-1987), and was Research Director at MacWEEK (1987-1991). He then founded a successful computer industry research company. But after Kenzo was killed, he began to work on gun violence prevention.