The Best Second Amendment Academic Textbook in Print

by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

I had the good fortune to spend some quality time again with Dr. Stephen P. Halbrook, Ph.D., J.D., on The Republican Professor (TRP) Podcast again today. Today’s recording featured what I believe is the best Second Amendment academic textbook in print by my lights. The book is called “America’s Rifle: The Case for the AR-15”.

Let me tell you a little bit about the author, how humble he is.

He’ll narrate the history of statutory law as it pertains the gun control in the twentieth century (US), and mention a case he won in front of the United States Supreme Court (and a big win, a big deal, huge case in all the Con Law textbooks), and he won’t mention it was he himself that won the case. But other places, where he lost not at the Supreme Court but in a lower court, he mentions that he was the lead attorney.

Dr. Halbrook has provided the public with a thoroughly documented academic work that isn’t “academicky”, if you know what I mean. He’s actually quite funny in very dry, understated ways, as well, as you go through, although this is not comedy, to say the least.

I very much enjoyed the book, and learned a lot myself, as he filled in statutory and legal holes I had missed in my own reading through the years.

Some of the most inane and irrational legal material is in the Second Amendment statutes and legal opinions. Dr. Halbrook patiently, thoroughly–without being boring–incisively explains this material, and what it means, the upshot, as it were, in fine, clear prose.

It’s also one of the finest Constitutional Law books I’ve had in my hands, and I have a Ph.D. in the stuff.

Go out and get the book “America’s Rifle: The Case for the AR-15” by Dr. Stephen P. Halbrook today, give it to your kids, require it for your students, make sure your grandkids, or your grandparents have a copy in every home.

Warmly,

Lucas J. Mather, for TRP project