I heard about this book on the radio today. I stumbled across it this evening. Unfortunately, this is the advertisement, but it does sound interesting. I don't know whether I'll fork over $24 to read it, but maybe.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=34163

SUPREME COURT GUN CASES

Attorney David B. Kopel
Attorney Stephen P. Halbrook, Ph.D.
Alan Korwin

The most important set of words written about your constitutional guarantees.

44 cases included unedited, 92 cases in all!

More than 1,000 highlighted quotations!

Plain English descriptions for every case

The decisions of the Supreme Court are beautifully thought out works of logic and reason (usually). In exquisite detail, the highest court of the land has interpreted our rights under the Second Amendment�and while some people have taken lately to belittling those freedoms, the High Court has recognized an individual right to arms in America for more than two centuries.

Here's the bottom line: the Supreme Court has upheld the legal tradition and historical record of private gun ownership, self defense, and armed self defense, since the country began.

They have not been quiet on the subject, and they have not disparaged individual rights�the days of saying that are now over. The High Court could change it's mind of course, but only by rejecting a record built up for hundreds of years. Don't take anyone's word for it any longer�see for yourself what the Supreme Court has said. It will make your day.

A superior reference, very quotable, an affordable one-volume debate winner.


If you think your gun rights are important, this book is for you.

This massive project is scheduled for release in September 2003.
Order now for first shipment when it comes off press!

672 pages, only $24.95 (+S&H $4 ea., $5 for 2, $6 for 3)
Special Lawyer's/Library Hardcover edition, $49.95 (+S&H)

Order yours now to get one first, hot off the press!


Partial Contents:
"About the Supreme Court's Gun Cases" by Alan Korwin
"The Supreme Court's 35 Other Gun Cases" by David B. Kopel
Insider's Guide to Winning Gun Cases in Federal Court by Stephen P. Halbrook
Gun Guarantees in Individual State Constitutions by Prof. Eugene Volokh
Complete text of the 44 main gun cases
Relevant excerpts from 48 additional gun cases
Descriptive Index of all 92 Cases (see sample below)
Plain-English summaries of all 92 cases

Supreme Court Gun Cases is a good read thanks to the plain-English gists with each case�you�ve got mutinies, lovers climbing through bedroom windows, Wild West shootouts, mob ambushes, drunken brawls, drug busts, family feuds, international criminals�if you threw this much into a novel your agent would say you were nuts. But this is all real!

Typical entry from the Descriptive Index
Alberty v. United States � 1896 � 162 U.S. 499 � p.231
If a husband sees another man trying to get into his wife�s room window at night is it natural for him to investigate further [YES]; Is the husband under a duty to retreat when attacked with a knife under such circumstances [NO]; May the husband use only as much force as is necessary to repel the assault [YES]; If in an ensuing confrontation the husband shoots and kills the other man, then flees, must his flight in and of itself be seen as evidence of his guilt [NO].

"�a political earthquake� an exceptional piece of research�
the anti-freedom crowd is not going to like Supreme Court Gun Cases."
Larry Pratt, Executive Director, Gun Owners of America

"�wonderful� groundbreaking� belongs on the bookshelf
of every practitioner of constitutional law� Gun rights are an
integral part of each American's fundamental constitutional liberties."
Thomas C. Patterson, M.D., Chairman, Goldwater Institute

"�dynamite� Sometimes people need to defend themselves while
we're responding to a 911 call. Law enforcement officers know that
firearms in the hands of decent people are a deterrent to crime�
It's good to know the Supreme Court has been this positive about
gun rights and self defense� pulls the rug out from under politicians
who want you to believe you have no right to defend yourself or own a gun."
Joe Arpaio, "America's Toughest Sheriff"

"Academics and judges will be surprised (no actually shocked)...
The number of precedents is truly overwhelming."
John R. Lott, Jr., Ph.D., American Enterprise Institute

"�a stunning accomplishment�
will change the political landscape on the gun-rights debate."
Evan Nappen, Attorney and Author

"The dream team of American gun-law experts has driven a stake through
the heart of the anti-rights gun-ban lobby� gun haters will need to
manufacture new lies� The individual right to keep and bear arms is
an American tradition with roots as deep as the nation itself."
Alan Gottlieb, Chairman, Second Amendment Foundation

"While the Supremes have directly acknowledged the Second Amendment
as an individual right, this new book unearths 92 gun-related cases where
the High Court upheld, among other things, armed self-defense of person,
family and community�the heart of the Second Amendment.
The synopsis of the Miller case is the best I have ever read."
Neal Knox, Gun-Rights Activist, The Firearms Coalition

"�strikes a powerful blow for freedom�
My hope and prayer is that your book will supply the brain-cell ammunition
necessary to continue our battle against those who would deny Americans
such a basic human right."
Suzanna Gratia Hupp, Texas State Representative
Survivor of Luby's Massacre and Mother

"This book proves what NRA has been saying all along�
the Second Amendment protects an individual's right
to keep and bear arms�a freedom existing before America's
founding and enshrined in our Bill of Rights."
Wayne R. LaPierre
National Rifle Association Executive Vice President

"...should convince anyone that the right to own firearms
is at least as strong as the right to free speech. Bravo on an
important scholastic work that is easy to read and understand."
Tom Gresham, Nationally Syndicated Radio Talk Show Host

Bloomfield Press (Phoenix)
ISBN: 1-889632-05-8 $24.95

Special Library/Lawyer's Hardcover Edition $49.95

This may be what I heard Paul Harvey talking about yesterday. Wouldn't it be nice if the SC handed down a decision that said indeed, the individual citizen does enjoy the right to own and use firearms and such right is as necessary and viable as all the others? You don't see the liberals trying to destroy the Third Amendment or the Fourth or the Fifth, do you? No; just that pesky Second Amendment. They have to destroy it so that they can institute full-on socialism in America. That bug-eyed bitch sarah brady even so much as said so.