The Center for the Study of Firearms and Public Policy Was Established in 1988 by the Second Amendment Foundation
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CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF FIREARMS & PUBLIC POLICY A PROJECT OF SECOND AMENDMENT FOUNDATION The Center for the Study of Firearms and Public Policy was established in 1988 by the Second Amendment Foundation. Its primary purpose was to publish The Journal on Firearms and Public Policy The goal of this project was to expand the audience who had access to legal, economic, historical and other scholarly research about the Second Amendment. This year’s publication is the 25th Journal on Firearms and Public Policy. Dr. Edward F. Leddy, who was one of the prime movers behind the Journal served as editor for the first four issues. In 1993, Julianne Versnel assumed the role of editor for one year before becoming its Publisher. David B. Kopel, J.D. became its editor in 1994. In 2011, Dr. Gary Mauser became the editor. It has been the Second Amendment Foundation’s privilege to distribute over 100,000 print copies of the Journal on Firearms and Public Policy as well as offer significant access to them electronically over the years. The authors who have so generously provided the Journal on Firearms and Public Policy with their work are listed with their articles in the following pages. All Journals are available on www.saf.org as PDFs. State Constitutions: The Right to Bear Arms State Constitutions The Right of the Individual to Bear Arms David I. Caplan The Bill of Rights and the Military Earl Warren Standing Armies and Armed Citizens Roy G. Weatherup Historical Development and Subsequent Erosion James B. Whisker The Right to Bear Arms John Levin The Federalist Papers Alexander Hamilton/ James Madison Can the Second Amendment Survive Ashley Halsey Jr. The Right to Keep and Bear Arms John Santee Gun Control Legislation Stanley Mosk To Keep and Bear Arms Stephen P. Halbrook The Right to Have and Use Arms Under 2nd and David I. Caplan 3rd Amendments The Embarrassing Second Amendment Sanford Levinson Law Enforcement Lobbying Paul H. Blackman Gun Control Jeopardizes All Constitutional Rights David I. Caplan The Battle over Gun Control Don B. Kates Jr. Trust the People David B. Kopel Guns, Politics and Reason Lance K. Stell Gun-making as A Cottage Industry Charles Chandler Why Waiting Periods threaten Safety David B. Kopel The Costs of Using Gun Control Alan A. Lizotte The Misconception of the American’s Citizen’s Michael J. Palmiotto The Right to Possess Arms Bernard J. Bordenet The Text of the 2nd Amendment J. Neil Schulman The Right to Keep and Bear Arms Under the Stephen P. Halbrook Second and Fourteenth Amendments The Assault Weapon Panic David B. Kopel The Second Amendment and the Histography David T. Hardy The Role of the Militia Joyce Lee Malcolm The Right to Keep and Bears Arms in the State Robert Dowlut Bills of Rights A Nation of Cowards Jeffrey Snyder Sorry Wrong Number Gary A. Mauser/David B. Kopel The Sporting Purpose Preston K. Covey The Right of the People or the Power of the State Stephen P. Halbrook The Tragedy at Waco Paul H. Blackman The Second Amendment and the Personal Right William Van Alystyne The Federal Factoid Paul H. Blackman The Second Amendment : Toward and Afro Robert J. Cottrol/ American Reconsideration Raymond T. Diamond Ethical Problems of Mass Murder Coverage Clayton Cramer Personal Security/14th Amendment Stephen P. Halbrook The Second Amendment and States Rights Glenn Harlan Reynolds/Don B. Kates Gun Control and Economic Discrimination T. Markus Funk The Rite to Arms Heinrich Harke A Tale of Three Cities David B. Kopel/ Clayton E. Cramer/ Scott G. Hattrup The Wheel-Lock Gun Thomas F. Arnold Using Speculation to Meet Evidence Gary Kleck The Rodney King Syndrome Vance McLaughlin/ Steve Smith The Militia Movement David C. Williams Gun Control: Will it Work? H. Taylor Buckner Characteristics of Automatic or Semiautomatic David Hemenway/ Firearms Elizabeth Richardson What the Doctor Orders Jacob Sullum Toward an Annotated Bibliography Don B. Kates The Politics of Firearms Registration in Canada Gary Mauser The Uses and Limitation of BATF Paul H. Blackman Gun Terrence Hypothesis Gary Kleck Brady or Not? Wesley Lasseigne Ideological and Civil Liberties Implications of the Raymond G. Kessler Public Health Comprehensive Bibliography David B. Kopel Armed Self-Defense: The Canadian Case Gary Mauser Degrading Scientific Standards Gary Kleck Lott’s More Guns and Other Fallacies Andrew J. McClurg A Systematic Approach to Controlling Firearms William J. Vizzard Markets Even Deadly Force David Caplan Loss of Institutional Memory and the Diminution Ted Goldman of Liberty The Political Culture of Contemporary American Roy Wortman Liberalism and Firearms Prohibition The Political Economy of Gun Control: An Jody Lipford Analysis of Senatorial Votes on the 1993 Brady Bill The Supreme Court’s Thirty-five Other Gun David Kopel Cases: What the Supreme Court has Said About the Second Amendment The Emperor Has No Clothes: Using Interrupted Gary Kleck/Chester L. Time Series Designs to Evaluate Social Policy Britt/David J. Bordua Impact Absolutist Politics in a Moderate Package: Gary Kleck Prohibitionist Intentions of the Gun Control Movement Off-Target: Gun Control in Canada Gary Mauser Penetrating the Web of Official Lies Regarding the David T. Hardy/Rex Waco Incident Kimball Armed America: Firearms Ownership and Clayton Cramer Hunting in America Policy Research and Policy Initiative: The Case of Dr. Paul Blackman “Gun Control” Exposing the Second Amendment: Federal Norman Heath Preemption of State Militia Legislation Research Agenda on Guns, Violence, and Gun Gary Kleck Control Missing Guns: Are the Canada Firearms Centre G. Larry Mays/Rick Estimates Off-Target? Ruddell Trigger Happy: Rethinking the “Weapons Effect” Paul Gallant/Joanne D. Eisen Gun Control Around the World: Lessons to Learn Gary Mauser Lock, Stock and Barrel: Civil Liability for Allowing Andrew McClurg Unauthorized Access to Firearms The Second Amendment and Global Gun Control Joseph Bruce Alonso A Billion Dollars Later: The Canadian Firearms Donald Blake Webster Act, Revisited Instrumentality and Wounds in Civilian Homicides Vance McLaughlin in Savannah: 1896 to 1903 & 1986 to 1993 The Highest Possible Generality: The Militia and J. Norman Heath Moral Philosophy in Enlightenment Scotland Wrongs and Rights: Britain’s Firearms Control Derek Phillips Legislation at Work Christians and Guns Carlo Stagnaro Legal Scholarship 2003 Joshua Samuel Kirk Survey of Federal Right to Keep and Bear Arms William L. McCoskey/ Cases since 2000 Wayne Warf Colonial Firearm Regulation Clayton E. Cramer Conflicts Between State Firearms Statutes and Robert J. Woolley Municipal Ordinances: A Digest of Cases and Attorney General Opinions The Failed Experiment : Gun Control and Public Gary A. Mauser Safety in Canada, Australia, England and Wales Gun Control in England: The Tarnished Gold Joyce Lee Malcolm Standard Mapping the U.S. Gun Culture: A Content James B. Jacobs/ Analysis of Gun Magazines Domingo Villaronga Recent Legal Scholarship on the Second Sarah Merril Gottlieb Amendment The Roman Legal Treatment of Self Defense and Will Tysee the Private Possession of Weapons in the Codex Justinianus The Wild West Down Under: Comparing Abigail Kohn American and Australian Expressions of Gun Enthusiasm Evaluating Canada’s 1995 Firearms Legislation Gary A. Mauser Citizens in Arms: The Swiss Experience Stephen P. Halbrook The Mechanisms of the Slippery Slope Eugene Volokh Blacks, Gun Cultures, and Gun Control: T.R.M. David T. Beito/Linda Howard, Armed Self-Defense, and the Struggle Royster Beito for Civil Rights in Mississippi Ohio’s Concealed Carry Law: Practical Ian Redmond Applications and Possible Revisions The Religious Roots of the American Revolution David B. Kopel and the Right to Keep and Bear Arms Small Arms Control and the United Nations Cate Buchanan et al. Postmodernism and the Model Penal Code v. The David I. Caplan/Sue Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments—and Wimmershoff-Caplan the Castle Privacy Doctrine in the Twenty-First Century The Consumer Federation of America’s Case for Howard Nemerov Gun Safety Regulations The Firearms Safety and Consumer Protection Act Dennis B. Wilson Federal Appellate Cases 2003-2006 Elizabeth Cooke The District of Columbia Gun Ban: Where the Robert J. Endorf Jr. Seductive Promise of Gun Control Meets Reality Would Banning Firearms Reduce Murder and Don B. Kates/Gary Suicide? A Review of International and Some Mauser Domestic Evidence Armed Resistance to the Holocaust David B. Kopel A Heller Overview David B. Kopel Friends of the Second Amendment: A Walk Ilya Shapiro through the Amicus Briefs in D.C. v. Heller A Development of the British Faith is Strict Gun Derek Bernard Control Prohibition without a Law: Gun Control in Italian Silvia Gentile History from the Roman Age to Fascism “Arms in the Hands of Jews Are a Danger to Stephen P. Halbrook Public Safety”: Nazism, Firearm Registration, and the Night of the Broken Glass How Not to Study the Effect of Gun Levels on Gary Kleck Violence Rates Factual Errors by Gun Control Organizations in the Howard Nemerov Public Debate Friends of the Second Amendment: A Walk through Ilya Shapiro the Amicus Briefs in McDonald v. Chicago Do the New Zealand Firearm Control Laws Impact C. Forsyth upon Firearm Misuse, and upon Firearm Use? Self-Defense in England: Not Quite Dead Joyce Lee Malcolm Ten Myths about Firearms Violence in Canada Gary A. Mauser An Economic Evaluation of the Impact of Method Jeanine Baker/Samara Restriction on Suicide Rates among Australians Aged McPhedran 45 and Over The Gun as a Symbol of Evil: Exaggerated Brian Anse Patrick/ Perceptions of Firearms Violence as a Media Artifact Kylo-Patrick R. Hart What We Can Learns from Britt v. State: How Joshua J. Styles Overcriminalization Is Eroding Fundamental Right The American Revolutionary Era Origin of the David E. Young Second Amendment’s Clauses The Not So Slippery Slope: Canada Abandons the Gary Mauser Long-Gun Registry Restrictive Firearms Laws Gary Mauser Journal on Firearms and Public Policy Volume 25 The Journal on Firearms and Public Policy is the official publication of the Center for the Study of Firearms and Public Policy of the Second Amendment Foundation.