Recently Added

New Book: The Founders' Second Amendment: Origins of the Right to Bear Arms

DC v. Heller: Amici Curiae Brief of 55 Senators, the Senate President, & 250 Representatives

2008 Firearms Law Deskbook Released

Second-Class Citizenship in D.C.

St. George Tucker's Second Amendment: Deconstructing "The True Palladium of Liberty"

Lawsuit against New Orleans gun confiscations from Hurricane Katrina Victims
- Motion to Hold Mayor in Contempt
- Opposition to Motion to Dismiss
- Order to Return Guns
- Order Denying Motion to Dismiss
- Argument & Ruling from Bench
- Complaint & Motion for Injunction

New Book Released: The Swiss & the Nazis: How the Alpine Republic Survived in the Shadow of the Third Reich
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- Buy on amazon.com

Constitutional Right to Hunt
- Orion Appeal to Virginia Supreme Court

Halbrook Books Cited in U.S. Department of Justice Opinion
"Whether the Second Amendment Secures an Individual Right"

Supreme Court Practice

• Small v. United States
  • Brief for the Petitioner
  • Supreme Court Decision
• Castillo v. United States
• Printz v. United States
• United States v. Thompson/Center Arms Co.

Books

• The Founders' Second Amendment
• The Swiss & the Nazis
• That Every Man be Armed
• Freedmen, the 14th Amendment, & the Right to Bear Arms, 1866-1876
• Firearms Law Deskbook
• A Right to Bear Arms
• Target Switzerland

  Translations:

  - Die Schweiz im Visier

  - La Suisse Encerclée

  - La Svizzera nel mirino

  - Cel: Szwajcaria

• Supreme Court Gun Cases

Articles

“Arms in the Hands of Jews Are a Danger to Public Safety”: Firearm Registration and the Night of the Broken Glass

Nazism, the Second Amendment, & the NRA

"Operation Sunrise: OSS, Swiss Intelligence, & the German Surrender"

Second Amendment in the Supreme Court
Hamline Law Review (Summer 2006)

The Posse Comitatus Act, The Constitution, and Military Enforcement of Drug Laws

Girl Beats Guys: A Swiss Teen Rifle Festival
Schiessen Schweiz (November 2004)

Suing the Firearms Industry: A Case for Federal Reform?
Chapman Law Review (Spring 2004)

Nazi Firearms Law and the Disarming of the German Jews
Arizona Journal of International & Comparative Law (2000)

Das Nazi-Waffengesetz und die Entwaffnung der deutschen Juden
ASMZ (Dezember 2001)

Lawsuits

Wisconsin Supreme Court
- Right to Carry Amicus Brief

State Preemption of Local Ordinances, Colorado Supreme Court
Sternberg v. Denver

Constitutional Right to Hunt
- Orion Appeal to Virginia Supreme Court

D.C. Handgun Ban Appeal:
Seegars v. Gonzales

NRA amicus brief in support of privacy rights:
DOJ, BATFE v. Chicago

Speeches

"Citizens in Arms: the Swiss Experience"
Presented in A Question of Balance, International Symposium on Legal, Economic, and Human Rights Implications of Civilian Firearms Ownership and Regulation (Tower of London, May 1-2, 2003).
DVD available.

The Posse Comitatus Act: Venerable Safeguard—Or Old Hat?
Conference at the Cato Institute featuring David Kopel, Stephen Halbrook, Paul Schott Stevens, and Margaret Stock (October 16, 2002)