Overview

J.D. Georgetown University Law Center (1978), Ph.D. in Philosophy, Florida State University (1972). Admitted to Virginia and D.C. Bars, most Federal Circuits. Numerous federal and state civil and criminal appeals argued. Cases involve Bill of Rights, Fourteenth Amendment, firearms law, federal mandates, right to bear arms, commerce clause, freedom of expression and association, and right to jury trial. Won the cases argued in the Supreme Court and on brief in Small v. United States, 544 U.S. 385 (2005).

Books authored: Firearms Law Deskbook (West); That Every Man Be Armed: The Evolution of a Constitutional Right (Independent Institute); Freedmen, the Fourteenth Amendment, & the Right to Bear Arms (Praeger); A Right to Bear Arms (Greenwood); Target Switzerland: Swiss Armed Neutrality in World War II (Da Capo) (also in German, French, Italian, and Polish editions); The Swiss and the Nazis: How the Alpine Republic Survived in the Shadow of the Third Reich (Casemate).

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