Source: http://david-kopel.org/RKBA-Law-History.htm
Timestamp: 2019-04-25 11:57:28+00:00

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I. The Supreme Court. Subtopics: McDonald v. Chicago. District of Columbia v. Heller. Other Supreme Court cases. Supreme Court Justices, and other judges. (Gorsuch, Kagan, Sotomayor, Others).
IV. Politics and Elections. Subtopics: Modern Times. The Age of Obama. 2008 Election. 2006 Election. 2003-04 Elections. 2002 Election and Politics. 2000 Election. Earlier Elections.
Page on Firearms policy issues.
II. Prohibition of arms. Subtopics: Inexpensive guns. Self-loading guns. All guns. Handguns. "Plastic guns". Fifty caliber Guns. Machine guns. Ammunition. Knives. Other arms.
V. Other Gun Issues. Subtopics: Book reviews. Ballistic "Fingerprinting." BATFE and Gun Traces. Burglary. Culture and sociology. History. Public health/Medicine/Psychology. Women. General/miscellaneous.
Subtopics: McDonald v. Chicago. District of Columbia v. Heller. Other Supreme Court cases. Supreme Court Justices, and other judges.
Teixeira v. Alameda County, no 17-982. U.S. Supreme Court, Feb. 9, 2018. Amicus brief on behalf of Cato Institute, Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Owner, Independence Institute, Millennial Policy. Argues that county's ban on all new gun stores violates the Second Amendment. Address circuit court doctrine, and the history of the British arms embargo on the American colonies.
Wins of Change. Special digital edition of America's 1st Freedom, July 2010. Long article by Kopel explaining the Supreme Court opinions in McDonald.
NRA News, June 28, 2010. Last segment of the show. 28 minutes.
Kopel's Supreme Court amicus brief in McDonald v. Chicago. The brief was cited by Justice Alito's plurality opinion (footnote 2), and by Justice Stevens' dissent (twice).
Analysis of the McDonald Oral Argument. Downrange TV with Michael Bane. 34 minutes. Mar. 2, 2010.
Podcast on the Independence Institute's Supreme Court amicus brief in McDonald v. Chicago. iVoices.org Dec. 1, 2009.
The Second Amendment Goes to the Supreme Court Again. Kopel explains McDonald v. Chicago. iVoices.org podcast. Oct. 5, 2009. 11:04.
"Reasonable regulation" and McDonald. Volokh.com. March 2, 2010.
McDonald amicus briefs: Academics, Congress redux, and California District Attorneys. Volokh.com. November 25, 2009.
McDonald amicus: Don't trust Fairman and Berger. Volokh.com. November 23, 2009.
Rules for Aldridge's Bingham. Volokh.com. November 23, 2009.
Institute for Justice brief in McDonald v. Chicago. Volokh.com. November 23, 2009.
Congressional brief in McDonald v. Chicago. Volokh.com. November 23, 2009.
Academics for the Second Amendment brief in McDonald. Volokh.com. November 23, 2009.
Cato brief in McDonald v. Chicago. Volokh.com. November 23, 2009.
NRA brief in McDonald v. Chicago. Volokh.com. November 17, 2009.
Kopel Amicus brief in the Chicago handgun ban cases. Filed in the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, Feb. 5, 2009.
7th Circuit Court of Appeals Handgun Ruling. Kopel explains the new decision in NRA v. Chicago. Dave Kopel's Second Amendment Podcast, on iVoices.org. June 4, 2009. 12 minutes. MP3.
Podcast on the Independence Institute amicus brief in the Chicago handgun ban case. Dave Kopel's Second Amendment Podcast. Feb. 13, 2009. MP3.
The lawsuits against the Chicago handgun ban, and whether the Second Amendment is incorporated against state and local governments. Dave Kopel's Second Amendment Podcast, in iVoices.org Feb. 6, 2009. MP3.
The First Dominoes Fall: Morton Grove and Wilmette Handgun Bans. The Volokh Conspiracy weblog, June 29, 2008.
The Natural Right of Self-defense: Heller's Lesson for the World. Symposium issue on the Heller case. 59 Syracuse Law Review (2009).
Unraveling Judicial Restraint: Guns, Abortion, and the Faux Conservatism of J. Harvie Wilkinson, III. 25 Journal of Law & Politics 1 (University of Virginia) (2009). Critique of 4th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Wilkinson's Virginia Law Review article asserting the D.C. v. Heller is a 21st century version of Roe v. Wade. With Nelson Lund.
Did Heller matter? The New York Times says it did not, but Kopel details the Times' numerous omissions. Dave Kopel's Second Amendment Podcast. April 3, 2009. MP3.
Supreme Court Victory: Now What? Independent Thinking. CPT12 TV. Kopel and the head of Colorado's Million Mom March. July 12, 2008. 27 minutes.
Kmiec v. Kmiec on Heller. Volokh.com. Jan. 6, 2009.
After Heller: The New American Debate on Guns. Weblog debate about the Heller case and its implications. Participants are Bob Levy of the Cato Institute, Kopel, Dennis Henigan of the Brady Campaign, and Erwin Chemerinsky. Kopel's entries are: "The Right to Bear Arms and 'Sensible' Gun Laws"; "Slope Still Slippery"; "More on 'The' and Pre-existing Rights"; "One Man's 'Sensible' is Another Man's 'Extreme'"; "What Did They Mean in Massachusetts?"; "The NRA and the Supreme Court"; and "In Scalia's Defense". Cato Unbound. July 2008.
Heller's Kitchen. How the Heller decision may affect New York City gun laws. New York Sun, June 30, 2008.
The First Dominoes Fall: Morton Grove & Wilmette Handgun Bans. Volokh.com. June 29, 2008.
What is the right protected in the Heller dissent? Volokh.com. June 28, 2008.
Constitution is Big Winner in D.C. Gun Case. Pajamas Media. June 26, 2008.
Ringside at the Supreme Court. Report on the Heller oral argument. America's 1st Freedom. June 2008..
Amicus brief of the Independence Institute, the International Law Enforcement Educators & Trainers Association, and many other law enforcement organizations and leaders in District of Columbia v. Heller. PDF.
Ready to shoot. The legal availability of handguns makes for a better-prepared police force and a safer citizenry. Baltimore Sun. Feb. 27, 2008.With Ed Nowicki.
What are the anti's thinking? America's 1st Freedom. April 2008. Analysis of the anti-Second Amendment amicus briefs in District of Columbia v. Heller. PDF.
Military Brief (including full text of Maryland Governor Herbert L. O'Conor's 1942 radio address calling for Maryland Minutemen to defend the state), 2/13/08. District Attorneys, the ABA, and precedent in DC v. Heller, 2/13/08. Goldwater vs. the Solicitor General, in DC v. Heller, 2/12/08. State-level Battle of the Attorneys General in DC v. Heller, 2/12/08. Battle of the Attorneys General in DC v. Heller, 2/11/08. Historical briefs in DC v. Heller, 2/11/08. Law Enforcement Brief in DC v. Heller, 2/11/08. Respondent's Brief in DC v. Heller, 2/7/08. NRA brief in DC v. Heller, 2/7/08. Claremont Institute Empirical Brief in DC v. Heller, 2/7/08. DC v. Heller, amicus brief on racial issues, 2/8/08. Congressional Brief in DC v. Heller, 2/8/08. LGBT brief in DC v. Heller, 2/9/08. The English Roots of the Right Arms. DC v. Heller brief, 2/9/08. Women's Rights Brief in DC v. Heller, 2/9/08. Nelson Lund brief in DC v. Heller, 2/10/08. Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership brief in DC v. Heller, 2/10/08. The "Failed State" Brief in DC v. Heller, 2/10/08. Amicus Briefs for Petitioner in D.C. v. Heller, 1/14/08.
American Constitution Society panel on DC v. Heller. Moderated by Dahlia Lithwick of Slate, the panel features a discussion with John Payne (formerly of the D.C. Corporation Counsel's office; attorney of record on the Brady amicus brief, and currently head of the NAACP LDF), Carl Bogus (Prof. of Law at Roger Williams, and lead author on a pro-DC amicus brief of some historians) and Dave Kopel. The debate was held at the National Press Club, in Washington, D.C.; on March 13, 2008. C-Span video.
Larry Tribe's flip-flop in DC v. Heller. Volokh.com. Mar. 4, 2008.
The Supreme Decision. Analysis of the D.C. v. Heller case. America's 1st Freedom. Jan. 2008.
DC's Gun Ban, Round 2. Analysis of the D.C. Circuit Court's denial of the city's petition for rehearing en banc. America's First Freedom. July 2007.
Supreme Court Gun Cases: Two Centuries of Rights Revealed. By David B. Kopel, Alan Korwin, and Stephen P. Halbrook. Book review in WorldNet Daily.
The Self-Defense Cases: How the United States Supreme Court Confronted a Hanging Judge in the Nineteenth Century and Taught Some Lessons for Jurisprudence in the Twenty-first. 27 American Journal of Criminal Law 293 (2000).
The Supreme Court's Thirty-five Other Gun Cases. 18 St. Louis University Public Law Review 99 (1999).
The Sounds of the Supremes: A Reply to Professor Yassky. Part of an exchange sparked by the previous article. 18 St. Louis U. Pub. L. Rev. 203 (1999).
Why United States v. Miller was so badly written. Volokh.com. February 27, 2010.
Guns in Court. (The Miller case). National Review Online. May 30, 2001.
No Firearms Exception to the Fourth Amendment. Regarding win in Florida v. J.L. Chronicles magazine. August 2000, pp. 7-8.
Keep and Bear Arms. All of the Supreme Court's 19th century cases involving the Second Amendment recognize a broad right for all law-abiding citizens, not a "collective" or militia-only right. America's 1st Freedom. Mar. 2008.
Rights During War. In 1864, the U.S. Army court-martialed an Indiana civilian and sentenced him to death. What does this case teach us about the Second Amendment and the limits of presidential powers? Liberty magazine, April 2004.
NRA News. Cam & Company. July 10, 2017. Brett Kavanaugh nomination.
Neil Gorsuch nominated for Supreme Court. Colorado Inside-Out. Feb. 3, 2017 (TV).
Kopel oral testimony on Kagan nomination. Starts at 41:09. YouTube of Kopel only, including Q&A with Senators Sessions and Hatch. Audio only. MP3 download.
blog: Sotomayor vs. the Second Amendment, Part II, 6/2/2009. Highly dubious claim against Sotomayor, 5/26/09. Sonia Sotomayor vs. the Second Amendment, 5/26/09.
Sonia Sotomayor. Kopel interviewed by Amy Oliver on KFKA radio. May 27, 2009. MP3.
Potential Supreme Court nominee records on the Second Amendment. Volokh.com. April 11, 2010.
Diane Wood on the Second Amendment. Volokh.com. April 9, 2010.
Merrick Garland is no friend of the rights of gun owners. Volokh.com. April 9, 2010.
Goodwin Liu on the Second Amendment. Volokh.com. February 25, 2010.
Warren Burger and the Second Amendment. Kopel responds to ex-Chief Justice Burger's article on the Second Amendment in Parade magazine.
Blog: Second Amendment Tea Leaves, 10/29/05 (Corrigan, Luttig, Alito). Miers on the RKBA, 10/3/05. Gun Case in the Supreme Court; Sporting Clays Case in Virginia, 11/4/04.
Subtopics: Lower federal courts. Emerson case. State Constitutions and cases.
The Federal Circuits' Second Amendment Doctrines. 61 St. Louis University Law Journal 193 (2017). With Joseph G.S. Greenlee.
First Circuit upholds federal ban on juvenile handgun possession. Volokh.com. October 6, 2009.
Shew v. Malloy, no. 14-319-cv (2d Cir. 2014). Amicus brief for S.J. Fjestad (author of The Blue Book of Gun Values and other books on firearms history) and the Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence. The history of magazines of greater than 10 rounds, and of magazine prohibition, in the United States.
2nd Circuit upholds N.Y. and Conn. arms bans; contradicts Heller and McDonald. Washington Post. Oct. 21, 2015.
Federal judge's ruling on gun restrictions in Delaware public housing. NRA News. Aug. 8, 2012.
Woollard v. Gallagher, 712 F.3d 865 (4th Cir. 2013). Amicus brief of the International Law Enforcement Educators & Trainers Association, International Association of Law Enforcement Firearms Instructors, Inc., Prof. Clayton Cramer, and the Independence Institute. Social science re licensed carry.
Newsom v. Albermarle, 354 F.3d 249 (4th Cir. 2003). A middle school threatened to punish a student for wearing an NRA shooting sports camp t-shirt. The Independence Institute amicus brief argued that shooting sports are wholesome and promote good character, and that speech promoting shooting sports cannot rationally be censored in a public school.
Newsom Wins One. National Review Online. Jan. 8, 2004.
7th Circuit Says Gun Registration is OK. Guns at Obama protests. Volokh.com. August 20, 2009.
Pena v. Horan. Cert. petition from 9th Circuit case. No. 18-843. Feb. 1, 2019. Amicus brief for Second Amendment law professors, Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, Mountain States Legal Foundation, Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership, Independence Institute, and Millennial Policy Center. California's "microstamping" mandate creates a de facto ban on all new models of semiautomatic pistols. The Ninth Circuit opinion uphold the ban was based on speculation and refusal to consider the plaintiffs' evidence.
Duncan v. Becerra. 9th Circuit, Jan. 8, 2017. Amicus brief urges affirmance of district court decision against confiscation of standard capacity magazines. Addresses standard of review, and empirical evidence. On behalf of Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership, Independence Institute, and Millennial Policy Center.
Teixeira v. Alameda County, California (9th Cir., en banc). Jan. 31, 2017. Amicus brief on county ban on all new gun stores. Historical evidence from the American Revolution shows that the British bans on firearms commerce led the Americans to take up arms.
Fyock v. Sunnyvale, no. 14-15408 (9th Cir. 2014). Amicus brief for Gun Owners of California and the Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence. The history of magazines of greater than 10 rounds, and of magazine prohibition, in the United States.
Jackson v. San Francisco, 746 F.3d 953 (9th Cir. 2013). Amicus brief of California Rifle and Pistol Association Foundation and Independence Institute. Lead author Daniel Peterson. Requirement that guns at home must be locked up when they are not being carried on the person.
McKay v. Hutchens (9th Cir. 2012). Amicus brief of the International Law Enforcement Educators & Trainers Association, International Association of Law Enforcement Firearms Instructors, Inc., and the Independence Institute. Right to carry.
Devil's Advocate with Jon Caldara. Aug. 3, 2018. Recent Second Amendment cases in court.
The Second Amendment in the Tenth Circuit: Three Decades of (Mostly) Harmless Error. 86 Denver University Law Review 901 (2009). In the annual Tenth Circuit Survey.
Tenth Circuit split on gun ban for misdemeanants. Volokh.com. August 13, 2009.
What State Constitutions Teach about the Second Amendment, 29 Northern Kentucky Law Review 845 (2002). Cited in Mosby v. Devine, 851 A.2d 1031, 1040 (R.I. 2004), majority opinion by Chief Justice Williams; State v. Hamdan, 264 Wis.2d 433, 467 n. 23, 665 N.W.2d 785, 802 n. 23 (Wisc. 2003), majority opinion by Justice David T. Prosser.
A Tale of Three Cities: The Right to Bear Arms in State Supreme Courts. Examines state court decisions in Colorado, Oregon, Ohio which upheld bans on so-called "assault weapons." 68 Temple Law Review 1177 (1995), with Clayton Cramer and Scott Hattrup.
People v. Aguilar (Ill. 2013). Amicus brief of Professors Michael O'Shea, Nicholas Johnson, and David Kopel. (O'Shea was lead author). Illinois's complete prohibition of defensive carry in public places violates the Second Amendment.
Regents of the University of of Colorado v. Students for Concealed Carry on Campus, 271 P.3d 496 (Colo. 2012). Amicus brief for the County Sheriffs of Colorado and the Independence Institute. Licensed carry on campus promotes public safety.
Robertson v. Denver 874 P.2d 325 (Colo. 1993). Colorado Attorney General reply brief in district court. Denver's "assault weapon" ban. Later proceeding, 978 P.2d 156 (Colo. App. 1999) (brief for plaintiffs, with Stephen Halbrook).
Missouri Court Upholds Statute Against Gun Possession While Intoxicated. Volokh.com. November 20, 2009.
Indiana Court Vindicates Right to Self-Defense. Volokh.com. June 23, 2005.
W.V. Court Vindicates Self-Defense Right for Employees. Volokh.com, June 11, 2005.
Guns in the Dock. Liberty. Feb. 2003. Examines Nunn v. State and Salina v. Blaksley, two important 19th century cases involving the Second Amendment.
Subtopics: Legal History. Early America. Founding Era. Madison. 19th century. Civil War and Civil Rights. Bellesiles fraud. Philosophy.
For history of other countries, including England, see the Foreign Gun Control page. For philosophical issues involving religion, see the Religion page.
The Second Amendment Rights of Young Adults. Southern Illinois University Law Journal (forthcoming 2018). With Joseph Greenlee.
The First Century of Right to Arms Litigation. 14 Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy 217 (2016).
The Posse Comitatus and the Office of Sheriff: Armed Citizens Summoned to the Aid of Law Enforcement. 104 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 671 (2014).
The Right to Arms in the Living Constitution. 2009 Cardozo Law Review de Novo 99.
Comprehensive Bibliography of the Second Amendment in Law Reviews. 11 Journal on Firearms and Public Policy 1 (1999).
What Judge Reinhardt missed. Volokh.com. Aug. 5, 2012.
Roscoe Pound on the Second Amendment. Volokh.com. February 2, 2010.
Second Amendment: Kopel Defends Individualist View. Coverage of Kopel's debate with Denver University Law Professor Robert Hardaway and Ruchi Bhowmik of the Center to Prevent Handgun Violence. By Ari Armstrong. Colorado Freedom Report. May 8, 2000.
The American Indian foundation of American gun culture. Washington Post. Nov. 21, 2017. Archived at Reason, Volokh Conspiracy.
Firearms Law and the Second Amendment. Law school textbook. Podcast about Chapter 3, The Colonies and the Revolution. iVoices.org, May 9, 2012.
Firearms Law and the Second Amendment. Law school textbook. Podcast about Chapter 4, The new Constitution and the Second Amendment. iVoices.org podcast. 44 minutes. June 7, 2012.
The Keystone of the Second Amendment: The Quakers, the Pennsylvania Constitution, and the Questionable Scholarship of Nathan Kozuskanich. 19 Widener Law Journal 277 (2010). With Clayton Cramer.
Amendment II of the United States Constitution. Explains the key elements of the drafting, original meaning, and development of the right to arms. Constituting America. May 20, 2011.
Thomas Jefferson Forever. Chronicles. Celebrates the great Founder, and examines his statements about arms in a free society. In italiano.
Justice Stephen Breyer and James Madison. NRA News. Feb. 27, 2011. YouTube video.
The Second Amendment in the Nineteenth Century. Except for one judge in Arkansas, every court or scholarly commentator who wrote about the Second Amendment in the 19th century believed that the Amendment guaranteed an individual right. 1998 BYU Law Review 1359. Cited in Oregon v. Christian, --P.3d--, 249 Or. App. 1 (Or. Ct. App., 2012) (Edmonds, J., dissenting); Ezell v. City of Chicago, 651 F.3d 684, 702 n. 11(7th Cir. 2011) (Judge Sykes) (commending Kopel article as showing the proper model of "originalist interpretive method as applied to the Second Amendment."); Silveira v. Lockyer, 328 F.3d 567, 585 n. 92 (9th Cir. 2003) (Opinion by Judge Kleinfeld, joined by Judges Kozinski, O'Scannlain, and T.G. Nelson, dissenting from denial of petition for rehearing en banc); Gamble v. United States, 30 A.3d 161, 161 *n7 (D.C. App., Oct. 27, 2011) (Associate Judge Fisher).
Albion Tourgee and the Second Amendment. Volokh.com. Dec. 4, 2006.
Blog: Condoleezza Rice and the Second Amendment, 11/19/04.
Disarming Errors. Book review of Michael Bellesiles' "Arming America." National Review, print edition. Oct. 9, 2000. With Clayton Cramer. This was the first printed article to accuse Bellesiles of fraud.
blog: New developments in Bellesiles' record of lies, 4/10/02. The Poulshock fraud in 1966 and the contrasts with the publisher's handling of the fraudulent Bellesiles book, 3/15/02. Bellesiles gets a new grant, 3/5/02 (the grant was later rescinded).
For philosophical issues involving religion, see the Religion page.
Is There a Right to Own a Gun? Dave Kopel sits down with CU philosophy professor Michael Huemer to discuss Huemer's philosophical argument that we not only have the right of self-defense, but that right also includes the right to own a gun. iVoices.org. May 18, 2011. 41 minutes. MP3.
Bodin, Beccaria, and Bastiat. Diverse views on arms and the use of force in society from important philosophers: a French absolutist, the Italian father of criminology, and a French liberal. Liberty magazine. En italiano.
Rudyard Kipling and Gun Control, Volokh.com. Nov. 28, 2005.
Subtopics: The Age of Obama. 2008 Election. 2006 Election. 2003-04 Elections. 2002 Election and Politics. 2000 Election. Earlier Elections.
The Problem Was With the Legislation. Kopel featured in the NY Times Room for Debate series on the question, "If 90 percent of Americans support background checks but most senators don't, is the system broken?" New York Times. Apr. 18, 2013.
Trimming Citizens. Efforts to restrict the free speech rights which had been protected in the Citizens United case. America's 1st Freedom, May 2010.
Guns at Presidential Speeches. The lawful carrying of firearms outside of buildings where the President is speaking, and why it is harmful to the pro-Second Amendment movement. iVoices.org podcast. Aug. 21, 2009. 11:58.
The once-fired brass debate. The Obama Department of Defense abruptly announced that it would stop selling once-fired brass to ammunition manufacturers--a move which threatened to substantially worsen the current shortage of ammunition for citizens. But the story has a happy ending, thanks to quick action by Second Amendment supporters. Unfortunately, this week it was also revealed that the Obama administration has moved to destroy the armed pilots program. And the National Park Service moves to ban all lead in national parks. Dave Kopel's Second Amendment Podcast. Mar. 20, 2009. MP3.
Restoring the Right to Bear Arms in the Cato Handbook for Policymakers (2009, 7th ed.). With Robert A. Levy.
Education at the Extremez, America's 1st Freedom, Apr. 2009. Education Secretary Arne Duncan.
Secretary of State Clinton and the Second Amendment. Dave Kopel's Second Amendment Podcast. Jan. 30, 2009. MP3.
Attorney General nominee Eric Holder. Jan. 23, 2009. Dave Kopel's Second Amendment Podcast. MP3.
Gun Control. Issue 24 of the "Change in Command" series, explaining how Americans view the impending inauguration of President Obama. January 2009.
Eric Holder on Firearms Policy. Volokh Conspiracy. Nov. 20, 2008.
NRA News. Kopel analyzes the 2010 election results. Video. Nov. 3, 2010.
Dale Peterson Returns, Even Worse. Volokh.com. June 17, 2010.
The Dale Peterson Ad. Volokh.com. June 1, 2010.
Another good night for the Second Amendment. Off-year elections in Virginia and New Jersey. November 4, 2009.
The Second Amendment's Great Election night. The New Ledger. Nov. 4, 2010.
How the Second Amendment Fared Tonight. Volokh Conspiracy. Nov. 5, 2008.
Interview with Richard Pearson, Executive Director of the Illinois State Rifle Association. Podcast for iVoices.org. Oct. 14, 2008. Pearson has been lobbying on sporting and right to arms issues at the Illinois legislature since 1989. He has more first-hand knowledge of Obama's record on these issues than anyone except Obama himself. In the 20-minutes podcast interview, Pearson suggests that Obama's claim about his supposed support for sportsmen is extremely inaccurate.
blog: Hillary Clinton's growing appeal to the gun vote, 5/10/08, 4/13/08.
Federal year in review, 2005. Volokh.com. Jan. 3, 2006.
Election Night 2006 and the Second Amendment. iVoices.org podcast interview with Kopel. 8 minutes. Nov. 8, 2006.
blog: Texas Primary and the RKBA, 3/8/06.
Gore Screws on the Silencer. Al goes mum on guns to avoid a Dukakis-like blunder. National Review Online. Aug. 29, 2000.
Does the National Rifle Association Influence Federal Elections? Examines the 1994 and 1994 House of Representatives elections. Independence Institute Issue Paper no. 8-2006. December 2006. By Christopher B. Kenny, Michael McBurnett & David J. Bordua.
The Gun Issue in the 1988 Presidential Election. How Dukakis's gun prohibition stand turned what could have been a close race into a landslide. Gun World. 1989.
Anti-gun groups and individuals. Pro-gun groups and individuals. Other topics.
The Million Mom March: Mass Mobilization Against Guns. In 2000, the Million Mom March brought hundreds of thousands of people together to demonstrate against guns. Reason.com. March 22, 2018.
Michael Bloomberg's AstroTurf group. Volokh.com. October 26, 2010.
blog: Inaccurate Statement by Brady Campaign's head, 6/13/08. Hurray for Jim and Sarah Brady, 4/1/06.
Targeting Liberties. Montgomery County Police Chief Moose bungled the sniper case while recklessly abusing civil liberty. Chronicles, July 2003. With Paul Blackman. PDF of pre-publication galleys.
blog: Moose's bogus lawsuit, 8/8/03.
Klanwatch Project. Part of the work of fundraising conman Morris Dees and his "Southern Poverty Law Center." Entry in Guns in American Society: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, Culture and the Law (Gregg Lee Carter ed., ABC-CLIO 2002).
Gunning for Hysteria. The long-term objectives of the anti-gun lobbies. National Review Online. Feb 23, 2001.
The Million Mom March. Much Less than Advertised. National Review Online, May, 12, 2000.
The Independence Institute's exposed Denver Mayor Wellington Webb's 1991 campaign promise to issue handgun carry permits, and his attempt to obtain NRA election support. Read Wellington Webb's pro-NRA, pro-handgun-carrying letter yourself.
Does the National Rifle Association Influence Federal Elections? Independence Institute Issue Paper no. 8-2006. December 2006. Examines the 1994 and 1994 House of Representatives elections. By Christopher B. Kenny, Michael McBurnett & David J. Bordua. PDF.
Podcast with NRA President David Keene. What it's like to be president of the NRA, political strategies, how to defeat the Michael Bloombergs of the world. MP3. 52 minutes. Feb. 7, 2013.
Aaron Zelman, R.I.P. Volokh.com. January 4, 2011.
The Hero of Gettysburg. Winfield Scott Hancock shot straight. National Review Online. July 2, 2004. With Paul Gallant & Joanne D. Eisen. Biography of the 8th President of the National Rifle Association.
Scoundrel Time is Back. A response to the false charge that Larry Pratt, President of Gun Owners of America, is a racist. Denver Post, Feb. 20, 1996.
Good Riddance George. Paul Danish and David Kopel bid farewell to George Bush as an NRA member. May 1995.
Things You Can Do to Defend Your Gun Rights. (Electronic Edition). Alan Gottlieb and Dave Kopel. Book.

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