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Firearms Law Deskbook (2018-19 Edition)
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Scholarly Articles and Book Chapters
| Article | Date |
|---|---|
| “The Constitutional Right to Hunt: New Recognition of an Old Liberty in Virginia,” 19 William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal, Issue 1, 197-233 (2010). | 2010 |
| “Defense of Self and Community: A Response to Professor Johnson,” 45 Connecticut Law Review 1653 (July 2013). | 2013 |
| “The Empire Strikes Back: The District of Columbia’s Post-Heller Firearm Registration System,” 81 Tennessee Law Review 571 (2014). | 2014 |
| “Firearms, the Fourth Amendment, and Air Carrier Security,” 53 Journal of Air Law and Commerce 585-680 (1987), reprinted in Serial No. 91, House Judiciary Committee, 100th Cong., 1st Sess., 174-270 (1987). | 1987 |
| “From Heller to Chicagoland: Will Reconstruction Come to the Windy City?” 3 Northeastern University Law Journal, No. 1, 105 (2011). | 2011 |
| “Guns, Criminality and Federalism: Supreme Court Curbs Congressional Power; Reins in Courts of Appeals,” 20 The Champion 12-15, 34 (June 1996). | 1996 |
| “Heller, the Second Amendment, and Reconstruction: Protecting All Freedmen or Only Militiamen?” 50 Santa Clara Law Review 1073 (2010). | 2010 |
| “The Jurisprudence of the Second and Fourteenth Amendments,” 4 George Mason University Law Review 1-69 (Spring 1981). | 1981 |
| “Miller versus Texas: Police Violence, Race Relations, Capital Punishment, and Gun-Toting,” 9 Journal of Law and Policy (Brooklyn Law School), No. 3, 737-66 (2001) (with Cynthia Leonardatos & David Kopel). | 2001 |
| “No Right to ‘Bear Arms’? A Critical Analysis of United States v. Masciandaro,” 1 Wake Forest Law Review Online 116 (2011). | 2011 |
| “NRA and Law Enforcement Opposition to the Brady Act: From Congress to the Courts” (with R. Gardiner), 10 St. John’s Journal of Legal Commentary 13-41 (Fall 1994). | 1994 |
| “NRA v. BATFE: A Misinterpretation of History,” Jurist, Nov. 9. 2012. | 2012 |
| “N.Y.’s Not So ‘SAFE’ Act,” 78 Albany L. Rev. 789 (2015) | 2015 |
| “‘Only Law Enforcement Will Be Allowed to Have Guns’: Hurricane Katrina and the New Orleans Firearm Confiscations,” 18 George Mason University Civil Rights Law Journal 339 (Spring 2008). | 2008 |
| “Reality Check: The ‘Assault Weapon’ Fantasy & Second Amendment Jurisprudence,” 14 Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy 47 (2016). | 2016 |
| “A Revolution in Second Amendment Law,” Delaware Lawyer 12-16 (Winter 2011/2012) (with Dan Peterson). Cited as authority in Doe v. Wilmington Housing Authority , 88 A.3d 654, 663 n.32-34 (Del. 2014). | 2012 |
| “The Right of Workers to Assemble and to Bear Arms: Presser v. Illinois, One of the Last Holdouts Against Application of the Bill of Rights to the States,” 76 University of Detroit Mercy Law Review 943-89 (Summer 1999). | 1999 |
| “The Right to Bear Arms in Texas,” 41 Baylor Law Review 629-88 (1989). | 1989 |
| “The Second Amendment in the Supreme Court: Where It’s Been and Where It’s Going,” 29 Hamline Law Review, No. 3, 449-49 (Summer 2006). | 2006 |
| “Second-Class Citizenship and the Second Amendment in the District of Columbia,” 5 George Mason University Civil Rights Law Journal, Nos. 1 & 2, 105-178 (1995). Cited as authority in Kasler v. Lockyer, 23 Cal.4th 472, 506, 2 P.3d 581 (2000) (Brown, J., concurring). | 1995 |
| “Suing the Firearms Industry: A Case for Federal Reform?” 7 Chapman Law Review 11-38 (Spring 2004). | 2004 |
| “Taking Heller Seriously: Where Has the Roberts Court Been, and Where Is it Headed, on the Second Amendment?” 13 Charleston Law Review 175 (2018). | 2018 |
| “The Right to Bear Arms: For Me, But Not for Thee?” 43 Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy 1, 331-46 (Spring 2020). | 2020 |
| “Tort Liability for the Manufacture, Sale, and Ownership of Handguns?” 6 Hamline University Law Review 351-382 (1983). | 1983 |
Articles and Op-Eds
| Article | Date |
|---|---|
| “Afraid to Trust the People with Arms,” 7 The Free Market No. 6, 2, 5 (June 1989); reprinted in The Economics of Liberty, ed. L. Rockwell (Ludwig von Mises Institute, 1990). | 1990 |
| “Anatomy of a Lie,” America’s 1st Freedom, October 2001, 24-29, 52-53. | 2001 |
| “Another Look at the Brady Law,” Washington Post, Oct. 8, 1994, A18. | 1994 |
| “Armed and Free,” Soldier of Fortune, December 1994, 6. | 1994 |
| “Armed School Guards Are Our Best Bet to Stop Future Newtowns,” Newsday (Long Island), Jan. 24, 2013. | 2013 |
| “Armenian Genocide Didn’t Happen by Accident,” Tribune News Service, May 13, 2015. | 2015 |
| “Attorney General Ashcroft & the Second Amendment,” NRA-ILA, (July 1, 2004). | 2004 |
| “BATF vs. Supreme Court,” 144 American Rifleman 4 (Apr. 1996). | 1996 |
| “Bear Arms and Go to Jail,” Part A1 of We The People: Community Forums on the Constitution, American Bar Association Commission on Public Understanding About the Law (1987), 14 pp. | 1987 |
| “Bearing Arms a Right, Not Rhetoric,” Savannah Morning News, Dec. 15, 2007. | 2007 |
| “Bearing Arms Is a Right,” San Antonio Express-News, April 16, 1991, 9-A. | 1991 |
| “Blame for Parkland Rests with Local School Officials and FBI Ineptitude,” Sacramento Bee, Feb. 28, 2018. | 2018 |
| “The Bush Administration and the Second Amendment,” ALEC Policy Forum, Vol.4, No.2, 42-45 (Summer/Fall 2002). | 2002 |
| “Chicago Versus the Second Amendment,”Washington Examiner, Feb. 27, 2010. | 2010 |
| “Citizens’ Rights Reloaded” (with U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson), Washington Times, June 29, 2008. | 2008 |
| “Debating the Second Amendment Point: The Constitution protects each American’s right to own a firearm,” San Diego Union Tribune, May 19, 2002, G1, 6. | 2002 |
| “Does the United States Need a National Database for Ballistic Fingerprints?” Insight Magazine, Vol. 18, Issue 41, Nov. 26, 2002. | 2002 |
| “Don’t Confirm Holder,” Human Events, Jan. 28, 2009. | 2009 |
| “Emerson’s Second Amendment,” Independent Institute, 2001. | 2001 |
| “Firearms: On Trial in Germany,” NRA Action, 3 (August 1992). | 1992 |
| “Gun Control Laws Won’t Stop Las Vegas-Type Massacres,” Sacramento Bee, Oct. 12, 2017. | 2017 |
| “Gun Control Measures Hazardous for Citizens,” Canadian Firearms Journal, March/April 2015, 14-15. | 2015 |
| “Gun Control Is Not Constitutional,” in Guns and Violence, Henny H. Kim ed. (San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 1999), 109-112. | 1999 |
| “Gun Laws,” 2 Libertarian Forum, No. 20, 4-6 (Oct. 15, 1970). | 1970 |
| “Gun Ownership Rights Violated in Messerschmidt v. Millender,” Jurist—Hotline, Dec. 16, 2011. | 2011 |
| “Guns and Prohibition, in Al Capone’s Day and Now,” Wall Street Journal, April 11, 1989, A22. | 1989 |
| “Guns and Rights,” USA Today, May 16, 1990, 11A. | 1990 |
| “How Does New York City Get Away with This?” America’s First Freedom (July 26, 2020). | 2020 |
| “It Started in Kentucky . . . Our First Gun Law,” Gun Digest 52-55, ed. K. Warner (DBI Books 1986). | 1986 |
| “Judge Garland and the Second Amendment,” Washington Times, March 30, 2016, B3. | 2016 |
| “Justice Stevens’s Second Amendment Pipe Dream,” National Review Online, April 18, 2018. | 2018 |
| “Letter from Prague,” Chronicles 33-35 (Jan. 1995). | 1995 |
| “Massachusetts Target Censorship Violates the First Amendment,” The Message, Aug. 1999, 8. | 1999 |
| “National Rifle Association,” 2 Violence in America: An Encyclopedia, ed. Ronald Cottesman (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1999), 436-38. | 1999 |
| “NRA v. BATFE: A Misinterpretation of History,” Jurist—Hotline, Nov. 9, 2012. | 2012 |
| “No Controlling Legal Authority,” America’s 1st Freedom, Nov./Dec. 2000, 14. | 2000 |
| “Personal Liberty Guarantee,” Washington Times, May 21, 1995. | 1995 |
| “‘Printz’ Will Have Effect on U.S. Gun Legislation,” National Law Journal, Aug. 18, 1997, A18. | 1997 |
| “Product Liability Law,” 131 American Rifleman 34-35, 71 (May 1983). | 1983 |
| “Relief in Sight? H.R. 2640,” America’s 1st Freedom, Sept. 2007, 44, & American Rifleman, Sept. 2007, 16. | 2007 |
| “Repeal the Second Amendment?” Washington Times, March 1, 2018, B3. | 2018 |
| “Reports of the Death of the Second Amendment Have Been Greatly Exaggerated: The Emerson Decision,” Independent Institute, November 19, 2001. | 2001 |
| “Restoring the Second and Tenth Amendments,” LEAA Advocate, Summer-Fall 1997, 70-72. | 1997 |
| “Rewriting the Second Amendment,” American Rifleman, October 2001, 48-49, 88-89. | 2001 |
| “Second Amendment: Post-Sniper Policy,” National Law Journal, Nov. 11, 2002, A17. | 2002 |
| “The Second Amendment Stands,” USA Today, January 16, 1991, 8A. | 1991 |
| “Securing Civil Rights,” America’s First Freedom, Oct. 2010, 46-50. | 2010 |
| “Semiautomatic Article Draws BATF Response,” 136 American Rifleman 34-35 (Dec. 1988). | 1988 |
| “Should All Gun Sales Be Registered in a National Database?” 23 CQResearcher, No. 10, 249 (March 8, 2013). | 2013 |
| “Some of the World’s Most Powerful Banks Push Policies Circumventing Constitution and Federal Laws,” Los Angles Times, September 13, 2018. | 2018 |
| “Supreme Court Sides with Gun Owners,” American Rifleman 46-48, 90-91 (August 1992). | 1992 |
| “Terror Law Trap for Gun Owners?” Washington Times, Mar. 14, 1996, A19. | 1996 |
| “The War Against Semi-Automatics,” 136 American Rifleman 40-41, 80 (June 1988). | 1988 |
| “What Makes a Gun a Gun?,” America’s 1st Freedom, Mar. 23, 2020. | 2020 |
| “Will the Second Amendment Survive Coronavirus?” National Review, Mar. 30, 2020, and Independent Institute, Mar. 31, 2020. | 2020 |