Firearms, Crime, and the Second Amendment

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Why Can't We Be Like France? How the Right to Bear Arms Got Left Out of the Declaration of Rights and How Gun Registration Was Decreed Just in Time for the Nazi Occupation
Stephen P. Halbrook 4/22/2013

The Criminology of Firearms
Don B. Kates Jr. 3/1/2013

Debate on Gun Control Should Ask Whether Congress Has Power to Regulate
William J. Watkins 2/14/2013

The Second Amendment Was Not Ratified to Preserve Slavery
Anthony Gregory 1/30/2013

Armed School Guards Are Our Best Bet to Stop Future Newtowns
Stephen P. Halbrook 1/28/2013

Troubling Public Opinion Trends for Gun Rights and Civil Liberties
Anthony Gregory 1/24/2013

Gun Control and the Security Illusion
Anthony Gregory 8/23/2012

The Truth about Guns
John C. Goodman 8/4/2012

The Aurora Shootings
David J. Theroux 7/23/12

Why Not Gun Control for the Government?
Anthony Gregory 1/11/2011

Civil Liberties in Obama’s America
Anthony Gregory 3/20/2010

Chicago versus the Second Amendment
Stephen Halbrook 2/27/2010

Gun Control Restricts Those Least Likely to Commit Violent Crimes
Don B. Kates, Jr. 4/6/2009

“Arms in the Hands of Jews Are a Danger to Public Safety”: Nazism, Firearm Registration, and the Night of the Broken Glass
Stephen P. Halbrook 3/2/2009

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Stephen Halbrook Joins the Versus Debates on Firearms and Freedom
April 2, 2013

Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook joins the Versus Debates on "The Right to Bear Arms is a Freedom Too Far."

Benjamin Powell on Texas Economy & Gun Laws
July 26, 2011

Benjamin Powell, Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute, engages with Judge Napolitano on Fox Business Network’s Freedom Watch.

Stephen Halbrook on DC vs. Heller II
November 15, 2010

Stephen P. Halbrook on nra.org discusses his optimism that the U.S. Court of Appeals in the D.C. Circuit will rule that Mayor Fenty's anti-gun laws in D.C. are unconstitutional.

The Supreme Court and the Battle for Second Amendment Rights (Oakland)
July 22, 2010

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