In their new book, Supreme Court Gun Cases (Bloomfield Press, September 2003), David Kopel, Stephen P. Halbrook, and Alan Korwin explain how the Supreme Court has upheld private gun ownership and armed self-defense since the founding of the Republic. The authors analyze and reprint the full or partial text...

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The National Academy of Sciences recentlyissued a report on gun-control laws, butit did notidentify any benefits of the effort to reduce crime and injury by restricting gun ownership.

Contrary tostereotypes recently voiced by Barack Obama, a 2006 study finds that gun owners are happier than non-gun owners and are just aseducated.

Passing the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act this month would still allow law suits, but would put gun makers on the same legal footing as other American manufacturers.

Everyone seems to believe that Democrats have changed their minds on gun control.

The solution to Brazil's high murder rate seemed obvious to the Brazilian government, the media, and the United Nations: Ban guns. But almost two thirds of Brazil's voters rejected the proposal.

Evenif theCanadian government were to convince the United States to ban guns, that would provide no more of a magic solution to Canadian crime than its own failed gun registry.