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edited by David B. Kopel


Paperback 
Published by Merril Press

The Journal, an annual work published by the Center for the Study of Firearms and Public Policy, a division of the Second Amendment Foundation, is produced in order to encourage objective research on the right to keep and bear arms. Volumes 4-7 are currently available with Volume 8 becoming available in October of 1996. Softcovers.

Volume 4 contains: “Why Gun Waiting Periods Threaten Public Safety,” by David Kopel; “The Costs of Using Gun Control to Reduce Homicide,” by Alan Lizotte; “The Misconception of the American Citizen’s Right to Keep and Bear Arms,” by Michael Paalmiotto; “Ten Years Later: An Analysis of the Effects of New York City’s Mandatory Sentencing Law,” by Talcott Franklin; “The Right to Possess Arms,” by Bernard Bordenent; and the “Text of the Second Amendment,” by J. Neil Schulman.

Volume 5 contains: “The Right to Keep and Bear Arms under the Second and Fourteenth Amendments,” by Stephen Halbrook; “The ‘Assault Weapons’ Panic,” by David Kopel; “The Second Amendment and the Historiography of the Bill of Rights,” by David Hardy; “The Role of the Militia in the Development of the Englishman’s Right to be Armed,” by Joyce Lee Malcolm; “The Right to Keep and Bear Arms in State Bills of Rights and Judicial Interpretation,” by Robert Dowlet.

Volume 6 contains: “A Nation of Cowards,” by Jeffrey Snyder; “‘Sorry Wrong Number’: Why Media Polls on Gun Control Are So Often Unreliable,” by Gary Mauser and David Kopel; “The ‘Sporting Purpose’ Issue in Gun Control Policy,” by Preston Covey; “The Right of the People or the Power of the State,” by Stephen Halbrook; “The Tragedy of Waco,” by Paul Blackman.

Volume 7 contains: “The Second Amendment and the Personal Right to Arms,” by William Van Alstyne; “The Federal Factoid Factory on Firearms and Violence,” by Paul Blackman; The Second Amendment: Toward An African-American Reconsideration, by Robert Cottrol and Raymond Diamond; “Ethical Problems of Mass Murder Coverage in the Mass Media,” by Clayton Cramer; and “Personal Security, Personal Liberty, and ‘The Constitutional Right to Bear Arms’,” by Stephen Halbrook.

Volume 8 contains: “The Second Amendment and States’ Rights: A Thought Experiment,” by Glenn Harlan Reynolds and Don B. Kates; “Gun Control and Economic Discrimination: The Melting-Point Case-in-Point,” by T. Markus Funk; “The Rite to Bear Arms,” by Heinrich Härke; and “A Tale of Three Cities: The Right to Keep and Bear Arms in State Supreme Court Cases,” by David B. Kopel, Clayton E. Cramer and Scott G. Hattrup.

Volume 9 contains: “Using Speculation to Meet Evidence: Reply to Alba and Messner,” by Gary Kleck , “The Wheel-Lock Gun,” by Thomas F. Arnold, “The Rodney King Syndrome,” by Vance McLaughlin and Steve Smith, “The Militia Movement and Second Amendment Revolution,” by David C. Williams, “Gun Control: Will It Work?” by H. Taylor Buckner, “Characteristics of Automatic or Semiautomatic Firearms Ownership in the United States,” by David Hemenway and Elizabeth Richardson, “What the Doctor Orders,” by Jacob Sullum, and “Toward an Annotated Bibliography of the Second Amendment,” by Don Kates.

Volume 10 contains: “The Politics of Firearms Registration in Canada” by Gary Mauser; “The Uses and Limitations of BATF Tracing Data for Law Enforcement, Policymaking, and Criminological Research” by Paul Blackman; “Has the Gun Deterrence Hypothesis Been Discredited” by Gary Kleck; “’Brady’ or Not?” by Wesley Lasseigne; and “Ideological and Civil Liberties Implications of the Public Health Approach to Guns, Crime and Violence” by Raymond Kessler.


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