Sept 12, 1947

• author and lawyer
• 1969 B.S. Business Florida State University
• 1972 PhD in philosophy
• 1978 attorney specializing in civil litigation and criminal defense
• published several books and dozens of articles on:
  – the history of the right to bear arms
  – the historical background of the Second Amendment
  – modern gun control, Nazi gun control policies during World War II
  – Switzerland’s policy of armed neutrality during World War II
• 1981 in the George Mason University Law Review
  – the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to arms
  – the 14th Amendment intended to make that 2nd Amendment enforceable against the states
• 1984 That Every Man Be Armed: The Evolution of a Constitutional Right
• 1984 Defectless Firearms Litigation
• 1986 What the Framers Intended: A Linguistic Analysis of the Right to “Bear Arms“
• 1989 A Right to Bear Arms: State and Federal Bills of Rights and Constitutional Guarantees
• 1991 The Right of the People or the Power of the State: Bearing Arms, Arming Militias, and the Second Amendment
• 1994 NRA and Law Enforcement Opposition to the Brady Act: From Congress to the District Courts
• 1998 Freedmen, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Right to Bear Arms, 1866-1876 
• 2006 St. George Tucker’s Second Amendment: Deconstructing “The True Palladium of Liberty”
• 2008 The Founder’s Second Amendment: Origins of the Right to Bear Arms
• 2008 Arms in the Hands of Jews Are a Danger to Public Safety: Nazism, Firearm Registration, and the Night of the Broken Glass
• 2014 David & Goliath Award from Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership