About once a month, Dave Kopel produces a free e-mail Newsletter containing short summaries and links to important new research and writing involving the Second Amendment and firearms policy. The newsletter also reports on Kopel's latest writing.
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Archive of past issues.
Kopel's Second Amendment Newsletter. October 23, 2001.
The Second Amendment Project is based at the Independence Institute, a free-market think tank in Golden, Colorado.
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Starting with this issue, electronic distribution of this newsletter will be handled by the Second Amendment Foundation, based in Bellevue, Washington.
This will give me more time to work on the content of the newsletter, instead of maintaining the mailing list and conducting the e-mailings. Over time, we hope to use the Second Amendment Foundation's expertise to improve the production quality of this newsletter.
Soon, the Second Amendment Foundation will begin making back issues of the newsletter available on-line.
Like the previous issue, this issue contains articles and links related to the war. Almost all of them will have some connection to Second Amendment issues. In some cases, the connection will be obvious - e.g., armed pilots. In other cases, there will be discussion of civil liberties issues where gun rights are placed at risk over the long term - e.g., in the expansion of warrantless surveillance, which could be used against gun owners or activists by some future administration, or a national ID card, which could be used to store gun registration information.
Finally, all my material has moved to a new website:
http://www.davidkopel.com/ (or .org or .net).
The website and I are both still affiliated with the Independence
Institute, and
my new site contains plenty of links to the main Independence
Institute website.
But there are now so many documents on the Independence main site
that we needed to
move my material over to separate site, to make it easier for users
to find and read. If
you'd like to go straight to the Second Amendment page for my new
site, which contains
links to scores of firearms-related articles, go to:
http://www.davidkopel.org/2damendment.htm
Best wishes,
Dave Kopel
/LawRev/LawyersGunsBurglars.htm
How America's high rate of household gun ownership dramatically reduces the home invasion burglary rate. Because burglars don't know which homes are armed, most burglars avoid entering homes while they are occupied. As a result, all Americans - even members of gun prohibition groups - are made safer by American gun ownership.
The HTML version of this article is brand new, and still needs some spiffing up and improved links. (Any volunteers?)
a. Coming this week and next in National Review Online: articles on the Emerson case, on Switzerland, and on phony claims against .50 caliber rifles
b. Coming next weekend on National Review Online, Weekend Edition. Book review of "Shots in Dark: The Policy, Politics, and Symbolism of Gun Control," by William Vizzard.
c. Will the War Kill the Bill of Rights?
Discusses secret searches and warrantless Internet/e-mail
surveillance.
Cato Institute
October 18, 2001
http://www.cato.org/current/
terrorism/pubs/kopel-011018.html
d. A Potential Ally? In conversation with Iran.
National Review Online. Oct. 3, 2001.
Kopel's interview with the Tehran newspaper Siasat Roos (Politics of
the Day).
http://www.nationalreview.com/kopel/kopel100301.shtml
e. ID Nation. A national ID card is the wrong way to go.
National Review Online. Oct. 2, 2001. Kopel and two other writers.
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-symposium100201.shtml
f. Wargames. How conflict simulation games from Avalon Hill, SPI,
and other
companies have educated Americans about the realities of war.
With Glenn Harlan Reynolds.
National Review Online. Oct. 1, 2001
http://www.nationalreview.com/kopel/kopel100101.shtml
g. Arms in the Air. Thinking through arming pilots.
National Review Online. Sept. 26, 2001.
http://www.nationalreview.com/kopel/kopel092601.shtml
h. Don't Press the Panic Button. The antiterrorism legislation
before Congress is
dangerous. National Review Online. Sept. 21, 2001.
http://www.nationalreview.com/kopel/kopel092101.shtml
a. The War
Only Guns Can Stop Terrorists
It's harder to victimize armed citizens.
By John R. Lott, Jr.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=95001226
Saved by the Militia
Arming an army against terrorism.
September 18, 2001
By Randy E. Barnett
National Review Online
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-barnett091801.shtml
Save Lives, Arm Pilots
Tanya Metaksa, FrontPage Magazine
Oct. 3, 2001
http://www.frontpagemag.com/columnists/
metaksa/2001/metaksa10-03-01.htm
"Interview With An Unlikely Hero"
RiShawn Biddle, Forbes.com
Sept. 13, 2001
The story of one of the heroes of flight 93
http://www.forbes.com/2001/09/13/0913hero.html
bin Laden target.
Practice your parasite extermination skills
http://www.sightm1911.com/lib/other/osm_target.htm
Attacks on American Muslims Reaffirm Wisdom of 2nd
Amendment
By Glenn J. Sacks
Pasadena Star-News.
http://www.glennjsacks.com/attacks_on_american.htm
Americans in Good Standing
Advocate for armed citizens on planes.
"Americans have the right to protect themselves and can take an
active role in making
our skies safe again."
www.americansingoodstanding.com
Project Safe Skies
Another group to promote safety by promoting armed passengers.
http://www.projectsafeskies.org/
For Many Without Guns, Attack Was a Call to Arm
By Yuki Noguchi
Washington Post
Oct. 2, 2001
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55662-2001Oct1.html
Mommy Liberty
Popular new image shows Statue of Liberty with a revolver!
Wired
Sept. 26, 2001
http://www.wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,47102,00.html
Many a truth is said in jest...
"Hijackers Surprised To Find Selves In Hell: We Expected Eternal
Paradise For This,
Say Suicide Bombers"
The Onion
Sept. 26, 2001
http://www.theonion.com/onion3734/hijackers_surprised.html
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b. General Firearms Issues
Operation Self-Defense
Collects reports of firearms self-defense
https://www.keepandbeararms.com/opsd/
New California gun control law, full text, 105 pages.
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_00010050/
ab_35_bill_20010912_amended_sen.pdf
Coverage of "First Monday" anti-gun event
By Ari Armstrong
Colorado Freedom Report
Oct. 9, 2001
http://www.co-freedom.com/2001/10/firstmonday.html
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c. History. Bellesiles' "Arming America" hoax continues to unravel.
University asks historian to defend his research on gun ownership
book
By David Mehegan,
Boston Globe Staff
Oct. 3, 2001
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/276/living
/University_asks_historian_to_defend_his
_research_on_gun_ownership_book+.shtml
Gun Control Book Based on Faulty Data
Glenn Harlan Reynolds
FoxNews.com
October 10, 2001
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,36122,00.html
Knife.com
http://www.knife.com/faqs/lawexp.asp
Historical Armed Combat Association
http://www.thehaca.com/
U.S. v. McFarland.
Judges Garwood & DeMoss (the two majority judges from the Emerson
case)
uphold a federal armed robbery conviction, but raise doubts about
whether
the Congressional power to regulate interstate commerce really
should
still be interpreted to allow federalization of street crime.
http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/
opinions/pub/00/00-10569-cr0.htm
Maryland gun rights group's lawsuit against Governor
Glendenning, for failing to implement the state's new
handgun safety training mandate (and by failing to implement
the new law which the Governor lobbied for, attempting to
make it impossible to buy handguns).
http://199.244.139.109/dcwww?-show:client/journal/MTG/j2001/q3/
m09/t20/pa/s004/003_001_001.dcs
Nellie Jones v. Williams Pawn & Guns
No. 4d00-3723
Florida Court of Appeals
Oct. 10, 2001
Court rejects a vagueness challenge to Florida statute prohibiting
sale of guns to persons
of "unsound mind."
The Fifth Circuit's ruling, in HTML
http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/99/99-10331-cr0.htm
A decision of historic importance
U.S. News & World Report
By Michael Barone
Web exclusive 10/19/01
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/
opinion/baroneweb/mb_011019.htm
2nd Amendment Victory
National Review interview with Nelson Lund
http://www.nationalreview.com/
interrogatory/interrogatory101801.shtml
(If this last quote seems obscure, ask your friends who know Roman history to explain the phrase "Carthago delenda est!")
