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67
. “The Knox Update form [
sic
] the Firearms Coalition: The History of the Gun Rights War,”
Shotgun News
, June 1, 2011.

68
. “Personal Story: Interview with Alan Gottlieb and Lisa Lange,” Fox News Network,
The O' Reilly Factor
, Fox News, Mar. 7, 2002.

69
. “Jolly Greed Giant,”
The Oregonian
, Aug. 16, 1992.

70
. “Gun Advocate Trains Sights on 1–676: Disarming Personality Conceals Steely Resolve of National Figure,”
Spokesman Review
, Sept. 28, 1997.

71
. “Jolly Greed Giant.”

72
. Rick Anderson, “Barack & Load; Alan Gottlieb's Challenge to a Gun Ban in the President's Adopted Hometown Has Made It All the Way to the Supreme Court, and Fattened the Ex-con's Wallet in the Process,”
Seattle Weekly
, Nov. 11, 2009.

73
. Ibid.; Steve Bailey, “A.K.A. Gunnut,”
Boston Globe
, Aug. 10, 2007.

74
. See Antonin Scalia, “Financial Disclosure Report for Calendar Year 2007,” sec. V, “Gifts,” 5. It is possible that the gift was not reported because its value was inconsequential. That cannot be known without a more detailed description of the gift than is available on the public record. The average price of silver in 2007 was $13.3836 per ounce. Source: Goldmasters Gold Coins & Precious Metals,
http://goldmastersusa.com/silver_historical_prices.asp
.

75
. For examples, see James Oberg, “Soviet Space Propaganda: Doctored Cosmonaut Photos,”
Wired
, Apr. 12, 2011,
www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/04/soviet-space-propaganda
.

76
. “‘Fantasy' Website Helps Students Learn About Supreme Court,”
CNN.com
, Nov. 23, 2010.

77
. “Gun Chic: Out Among the Firearms Experts at the Fairfax Rod & Gun Club,”
Daily Standard
, Apr. 23, 2002; “How to Win Your Very Own Glock 9mm,”
Newsweek
Web Exclusive, May 14, 2001.

78
. “High Court to Consider Pledge in Schools; Scalia Recuses Himself from California Case,”
Washington Post
, Oct. 15, 2003.

79
. Dave Kopel, “Conservative Activists Key to DC Handgun Decision,”
Human Events Online
, June 27, 2008.

80
. Anderson, “Barack & Load.”

81
. Dorie E.Apollonio and Lisa A. Bero, “The Creation of Industry Front Groups: The Tobacco Industry and ‘Get Government off Our Back,'”
American Journal of Public Health
, Mar. 2007.

82
. Bailey, “A.K.A. Gunnut.”

83
. “Raging Bitch Beer Ban Spurs Flying Dog Brewery to Sue Michigan Liquor Control Commission on First Amendment Grounds,”
Business Wire
, Mar. 28, 2011.

84
. “The New Terminators: The Anti-Indian Movement Resurfaces,”
Native America's
, Sept. 30, 2000.

85
. “Influence Game: Leaks Show Group's Climate Efforts,” Associated Press Financial Wire, Feb. 16, 2012.

86
. See Violence Policy Center,
Joe Camel with Feathers: How the NRA with Gun and Tobacco Industry Dollars Uses Its Eddie Eagle Program to Market Guns to Kids
(Washington, DC: Violence Policy Center, 1997),
www.vpc.org/studies/eddiecon.htm
.

87
. Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway,
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscure the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
(New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2010), 236.

88
. Ibid., 217.

89
. Brief
Amicus Curiae
of The Heartland Institute in Support of Petitioners,
McDonald v. City of Chicago
, Docket No. 08–1521, Supreme Court of the United States, p. 2; “Gun Rights,” Heartland Institute,
http://news.heartland.org/ideas/gun-rights
(“In this case, Otis McDonald and the other Petitioners seek the right to possess handguns within their homes for the purpose of self-defense. They need handguns.”).

90
. “Agenda: 2011 Emerging Issues Forum,”
http://eif.heartland.org/?page_id=39
.

91
. “Policy Documents,” Heartland Institute,
http://heartland.org/policy-documents/heartlander-July-2002
.

92
. See, e.g., “The U.S. Is on a Suicide Watch,”
AmmoLand.com
, Jan. 18, 2012 (“Conservative think tanks like The Heritage Foundation, the Cato Institute, The Heartland Institute, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and others have spelled out programs that can and will save America . . .”); “Charlton Heston, Meet Joe Camel,”
Washington Post
, May 4, 1999 (“The free-market Heartland Institute, arguing against gun control. . .”).

93
. Lee Fang, “Memo: Health Insurance, Banking, Oil Industries Met with Koch, Chamber, Glenn Beck to Plot 2010 Election,”
Think Progress
, Oct. 20, 2010,
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2010/10/20/124642/beck-koch-chamber-meeting/?mobile=nc
.

94
. “Advocacy Group Says Justices May Have Conflict in Campaign Finance Cases,”
New York Times
, Jan. 20, 2011.

95
. Brad Friedman, “Exclusive Audio: Inside the Koch Brothers' Secret Seminar: A Close-up View of the Oil Billionaires' Dark-Money Fundraiser and 2012
Strategy Session,”
Mother Jones
, Sept. 6, 2011,
http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/09/exclusive-audio-koch-brofhers-seminar-tapes
.

96
. “Beck Claims ‘This Game Is for Keeps' with ‘the Left', Asks Listeners to ‘Pray for Protection,'” Media Matters, Sept. 8, 2009,
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200909080010
(from the Sept. 8 edition of Premiere Radio Networks'
Glenn Beck Program
).

97
. “Beck Repeats Call for Prayers, Claims, ‘You Can Shoot Me in the Head . . . but There Will Be 10 Others That Line Up,'” Media Matters, Sept. 08, 2009,
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200909080013
(from the Sept. 8 edition of Premiere Radio Networks'
Glenn Beck Program
). “You can try to put the lid on this group of people, but you will never silence us. You will never—you can shoot me in the head, you can shoot the next guy in the head, but there will be 10 others that line up. And it may not happen today, it may not happen next week, but freedom will be restored in this land.”

98
. Fang, “Memo: Health Insurance, Banking, Oil Industries Met.”

99
. Petition for Declaratory Judgment,
Koch v. Washburn
, Johnson County, Kansas District Court, Case No. 12CV01749, filed Mar. 1, 2012.

100
. “Policy Group Caught in Rift over Direction,”
New York Times
, Mar. 6, 2012.

101
. “Supreme Court Strikes Down D.C. Gun Ban; Antiwar
MoveOn.org
Ad Uses Baby,”
Glenn Beck
, CNN, June 26, 2008.

102
. “Naples Man Behind Major Supreme Court Decision Plays as Hard as He Works,”
Naples Daily News
, June 27, 2008.

103
. “For Young Area Lawyer, the Supreme Compliment,”
Washington Post
, Mar. 18, 2008.

104
. “Lawyer Who Wiped Out D.C. Ban Says It's About Liberties, Not Guns,”
Washington Post
, Mar. 18, 2007.

105
. “Heller Attorneys Awarded $1.1M in Fees, One-Third of Their Request,” The BLT blog,
Legal Times
, Dec. 29, 2011,
http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2011/12/heller-attorneys-awarded-11m-in-fees-one-third-of-their-request.html
.

106
. “Robert A. Levy, Chairman,” Cato Institute,
www.cato.org/people/robert-levy
.

107
. “Robert A. Levy, Legal Briefs,” Cato Institute,
www.cato.org/people/pub_list.php?auth_id=225&pub_list=5
.

108
. “Lawyer Who Wiped Out D.C. Ban Says It's About Liberties, Not Guns.”

109
. “Staff, Clark Neily, Senior Attorney,” Institute for Justice,
www.ij.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=607&Itemid=165
; Cato Institute, “Robert A. Levy, Chairman.”

110
. “For Young Area Lawyer, the Supreme Compliment,”
Washington Post
, Mar. 18, 2008.

111
. “Lawyer Who Wiped Out D.C. Ban Says It's About Liberties, Not Guns.”

112
. “Commentary: Scalia, Writing Expert Team Up to Offer Practice Pointers, Stress Self-Preparation,”
North Carolina Lawyers Weekly
, June 9, 2008; Liptak, “In Re Scalia the Outspoken v. Scalia the Reserved”; “Acerbic Scalia Hurls Barbs from the Bench,” Associated Press, July 3, 1994.

113
.
United States v. Miller
, 307 U.S. 174 (1939).

114
. Bogus, “History and Politics of Second Amendment Scholarship,” 3, 4.

115
. Ibid., 3, 4–5.

116
. Robert J. Spitzer, “Lost and Found: Researching the Second Amendment,”
Chicago-Kent Law Review
76, no. 1 (2000): 349, 376.

117
. Bogus, “History and Politics of Second Amendment Scholarship,” 3, 14.

118
. “Good Day for the Bill of Rights,”
[email protected]
blog, June 27, 2008.

119
. Posner, “In Defense of Looseness.”

120
. Anderson, “Barack & Load.”

121
. Violence Policy Center, “National Rifle Association Receives Millions of Dollars from Gun Industry ‘Corporate Partners,' New VPC Report Reveals,” news release, Apr. 13, 2011,
www.vpc.org/press/1104blood.htm
.

122
. Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, “Post-Heller Litigation Summary,” Aug. 1, 2012,
http://smartgunlaws.org/post-heller-litigation-summary

123
. “Portion of Md. Gun Law Ruled Too Broad,”
Washington Post
, Mar. 6, 2012.

124
. David Hemenway,
Private Guns, Public Health
(Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006), 61–62.

125
. “Shooting from the Lip: Justice Scalia's New Book on Judging Is Brilliant but Acerbic,” ABA
Journal
, Jan. 1997.

126
. For a detailed discussion, see Violence Policy Center,
Unintended Consequences: Pro-Handgun Experts Prove That Handguns Are a Dangerous Choice for Self-Defense
(Washington, DC: Violence Policy Center, 2001).

127
. Arthur L. Kellermann, “Do Guns Matter?”
Western Journal of Medicine
161 (Dec. 1994): 614.

128
. Arthur L. Kellermann, Dawna S. Fuqua-Whitley, Tomoko R. Sampson, and Walter Lindenmann, “Public Opinion About Guns in the Home,”
Injury Prevention
, Sept. 2000, 189–94.

129
. Lisa Hepburn, Matthew Miller, Deborah Azrael, and David Hemenway, “The US Gun Stock: Results from the 2004 National Firearms Survey,”
Injury Prevention
13 (2007):15–19.

130
. Violence Policy Center,
A Shrinking Minority: The Continuing Decline of Gun Ownership in America
(Washington, DC: Violence Policy Center, 2011),
www.vpc.org/studies/ownership.pdf

131
. Hepburn et al., “US Gun Stock.”

132
. Ibid.

133
. Anderson, “Barack & Load.”

134
. Duane Thomas,
The Truth About Handguns: Exploding the Myths, Hype, and Misinformation
(Boulder, CO: Paladin Press, 1997), 45.

135
. Chris Bird,
The Concealed Handgun Manual: How to Choose, Carry, and Shoot a Gun in Self Defense
(San Antonio: Privateer Publications, 1998), 40.

1
. “Pistol-Packing Soccer Dad Gives Tearful Apology,”
Muskegon Chronicle
, Aug. 17, 2010.

2
. “Soccer Dad Pleads No Contest to Gun Charge: Judge Commits to Capping Sentence to 30 Days for Felony Conviction,”
Grand Rapids Press
, July 9, 2010.

3
. “Asst. Coach Pulls Gun on Soccer Dad: Coach Was Arrested for Felonious Assault,” WOOD-TV (Grand Rapids, MI), May 28, 2010,
www.woodtv.com/dpp/news/local/muskegon_county/assistant-coach-pulls-gun-on-soccer-dad
.

4
. “Soccer Dad Pleads No Contest to Gun Charge.”

5
. “Pistol-Packing Soccer Dad Gives Tearful Apology.”

6
. “Militia on the Move: Group Training in Manistee National Forest to ‘Help Our Citizens,'
”Muskegon Chronicle
, June 25, 2011.

7
. “Our Story,” Fruitport Township website,
www.fruitporttownship-mi.gov/visitors/25-the-township/20-our-storyhtml
.

8
. “Pistol-Packing Soccer Dad Gives Tearful Apology.”

9
. Result of search to “Verify a License/Registration” for James Ian Sherrill, Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs website, Mar. 4, 2012, in files of Violence Policy Center, Washington, DC.