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Law and Legal Issues

Gun Control and Self Defense/Gun Litigation

Studies

"Self-Defense: An Endangered Right," by Joyce Lee Malcolm, Cato Policy Report, vol. XXVI, no. 2, March/April 2004.

"There Goes the Neighborhood: The Bush-Ashcroft Plan to 'Help' Localities Fight Gun Crime," by Gene Healy, Cato Policy Analysis no. 440, May 28, 2002.

"Pistol Whipped: Baseless Lawsuits, Foolish Laws," by Robert A. Levy, Cato Policy Analysis no. 400, May 9, 2001.

"Fighting Back: Crime, Self-Defense, and the Right to Carry a Handgun," by Jeffrey R. Snyder, Cato Policy Analysis no. 284, October 22, 1997.

"Trust the People: The Case against Gun Control," by David Kopel, Cato Policy Analysis no. 109, July 11, 1988.

Opinion and Commentary

"Playing Chicken Roulette," by Robert A. Levy and Alan Gura, March 23, 2005.

"Courts Defend Guns," by Robert A. Levy, the American Spectator, December 3, 2004.

"Let the Courts Resolve the D.C. Gun Ban," by Robert A. Levy, Nationalreview.com, October 1, 2004.

"Less Guns, More Crime," by Gene Healy, the American Spectator, January 20, 2004.

"Battle of the Ban," by Robert A. Levy and Gene Healy, FoxNews.com, July 30, 2003.

"You Can Fight City Hall," by Gene Healy, February 27, 2003.

"On the Defensive: Does the Second Amendment Give Individuals the Right to Keep and Bear Arms?" by Robert A. Levy, Los Angeles Daily Journal, July 17, 2001.

"Litigation As Extortion Aimed at Gun Makers," by Robert A. Levy, San Diego Union Tribune, July 8, 2001.

"Disarming the Nation's Gun Controllers," by Robert A. Levy, Savannah Morning News, May 15, 2001.

"Fewer Gun Injuries: Good News, Bad Logic," by Robert A. Levy, Nationalreview.com, May 11, 2001.

"Clinton, Gore and a Million More," by Robert A. Levy, the Washington Times, May 12, 2000.

"Blackmail of Gun Makers," by Robert A. Levy, National Law Journal, Jan. 31, 2000.

"So Sue Them, Sue Them: Cities Look to Squeeze Gun Makers," by Michael I. Krauss and Robert A. Levy, the Weekly Standard, May 24, 1999.

"A Referendum on Trust," by Jeffrey R. Snyder, April 12, 1999.

"Lesson of Reason: Don't Sue Gun Makers," by Roger Pilon, letter to the editor, National Law Journal, February 1, 1999.

"Smile When You Say Gun Control," by Roger Pilon, letter to the editor, the Wall Street Journal, January 14, 1992.

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