Stephen P. Halbrook

Publications

• The Power to Tax, The Second Amendment, and the Search for Which "'Gangster' Weapons" to Tax
  25 WYO. L. REV 149 (2025) · Wyoming Law Review · 2025
• THE COMMON LAW AND THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TO BEAR ARMS: CARRYING FIREARMS AT THE FOUNDING AND IN THE EARLY REPUBLIC
  Lincoln Memorial University Law Review Archive · 2020

• The Right to Bear Arms in the Virginia Constitution and the Second Amendment: Historical Development and Precedent in Virginia and the Fourth Circuit
  8 LIBERTY U. L. REV. (2014) · Liberty University Law Review · 2014
• Defense of Self and Community: A Response to Professor Johnson Commentary: Gun Control Policy and the Second Amendment: Responses
  Connecticut Law Review · 2013
• Why Can't We Be Like France? How the Right to Bear Arms Got Left Out of the Declaration of Rights and How Gun Registration was Decreed Just In Time For the Nazi Occupation
  39 FORDHAM URB. L.J. 1637 (2012) · Fordham Urban Law Journal · 2012
• Heller, the Second Amendment, and Reconstruction: Protecting All Freedmen or Only Militiamen
  50 SANTA CLARA L. REV. 1073 (2010) · Santa Clara Law Review · 2010
• The Constitutional Right to Hunt: New Recognition of an Old Liberty in Virginia
  19 WM. & MARY BILL RTS. J. 197 (2010) · William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal · 2010

• St. George Tucker's Second Amendment: Deconstructing the True Palladium of Liberty
  3 TENN. J. L. & POL'Y (2007) · Tennessee Journal of Law and Policy · 2007
• THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK: THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA'S POST-HELLER FIREARM REGISTRATION SYSTEM
  81 TENN. L. REV. (2005) · Tennessee Law Review · 2005
• <i> Miller Versus Texas:</i> Police Violence, Race Relations, Capital Punishment, and Gun-Toting in Texas in the Nineteenth Century - and Today
  9 J. L. & POL'Y (2001) · Journal of Law and Policy · 2001
• Panelist
  10 SETON HALL CONST. L.J. (2000) · Seton Hall Constitutional Law Journal · 2000

• Tench Coxe and the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, 1787-1823
  7 WM. & MARY BILL RTS. J. 347 (1999) · William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal · 1999
• NRA and Law Enforcement Opposition to the Brady Act: From Congress to the District Courts
  10 J. CIV. RTS. & ECON. DEV. (1998) · Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development · 1998
• Personal Security, Personal Liberty, and "The Constitutional Right to Bear Arms": Visions of the Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment
  5 SETON HALL CONST. L.J. (1995) · Seton Hall Constitutional Law Journal · 1995
• Rationing Firearms Purchases and the Right to Keep Arms: Reflections on the Bills of Rights of Virginia, West Virginia, and the United States
  96 W. VA. L. REV. (1993) · West Virginia Law Review · 1993

• Encroachments of the Crown on the Liberty of the Subject: Pre-Revolutionary Origins of the Second Amendment
  15 U. DAYTON L. REV. (1989) · University of Dayton Law Review · 1989
• Firearms, the Fourth Amendment, and Air Carrier Security
  52 J. AIR L. & COM. 585 (1987) · Journal of Air Law and Commerce · 1987
• What the Framers Intended: A Linguistic Analysis of the Right to “Bear Arms”
  49 LAW & CONTEMP. PROBS. 151 (1986) · Law and Contemporary Problems · 1986