David B. Kopel
Associate Policy Analyst
David Kopel, associate policy analyst, is research director at the Independence Institute and director of the Center on the Digital Economy, at the Heartland Institute. He is the author of No More Wacos: What's Wrong with Federal Law Enforcement, and How to Fix It, Antitrust After Microsoft, and The Samurai, the Mountie, and the Cowboy: Should America Adopt the Gun Controls of Other Democracies? He is an expert on firearms policy, juvenile crime, drug policy, criminal sentencing, and environmental law.
Books and Book Chapters
After Prohibition: An Adult Approach to Drug Policies in the 21st Century, contributor (2000).
"The Expanding Federal Police Power," Chapter 17 of the Cato Handbook for Congress: 105th Congress (1999).
"Terrorism," Chapter 21 of the Cato Handbook for Congress: 105th Congress (1999).
Cato Studies
"Prison Blues: How America's Foolish Sentencing Policies Endanger Public Safety," Policy Analysis no. 208, May 17, 1994.
"Trust the People: The Case against Gun Control," Policy Analysis no. 109, July 11, 1988.
Opinion and Commentary
"What Next for D.C.'s Gun Laws," by Robert A. Levy and David Kopel, The Wall Street Journal, August 8, 2008
"Heller's Kitchen," New York Sun, June 30, 2008
"Ready to Shoot," by Ed Nowicki and David Kopel, Baltimore Sun, February 27, 2008
"In Liberty's Two Arms," Legal Times, January 14, 2008
"Gun Prohibitionists Mostly Misfire," OCRegister.com, November 21, 2007