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 Stephen Halbrook has been engaged in civil litigation and criminal defense since 1978,
particularly regarding constitutional issues involving Federalism and Bill of Rights guarantees.
Represents firearm associations, manufacturers, importers, and owners in administrative, civil, and criminal proceedings under federal, state, and local law, including ATF compliance.
Member of Virginia State Bar, District of Columbia Bar, U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Courts
of Appeal – all circuits, other federal courts. Testified in Senate and House Judiciary
Committees, U.S. Congress (e.g., nominations of Eric Holder and Sonia Sotomayor.)
Georgetown University Law Center, J.D. (1978); Florida State University, Ph.D. Philosophy
(1972). Assistant Professor of Philosophy 1972-81, George Mason University, Howard University, Tuskegee Institute. Fellow, Independent Institute.
Counsel in Supreme Court cases: Small v. United States, 544 U.S. 385 (2005);
Castillo v.
United States, 530 U.S. 120 (2000); Printz v. United States, 521 U.S. 898 (1997);
United States v. Thompson/Center Arms Co., 504 U.S. 505 (1992). Filed an amici curiae brief on behalf of 55
Members of the U.S. Senate, the Senate President, and 250 Members of the U.S. House of
Representatives in District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008). Counsel for NRA in
McDonald v. City of Chicago, 130 S.Ct. 3020 (2010).
Books
Firearms Law Deskbook: Federal and State Criminal Practice. Thomson/West, 2010.
Supplemented annually.
The Founders’ Second Amendment: Origins of the Right to Bear Arms (2008).
Cited in McDonald v. Chicago.
Freedmen, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Right to Bear Arms, 1866-1876 (1998).
Cited in McDonald v. Chicago and DC v. Heller. New Edition: Securing Civil Rights (2010).
That Every Man Be Armed: The Evolution of a Constitutional Right (1984, 2000).
A Right to Bear Arms: State & Federal Bills of Rights & Constitutional Guarantees
(1989).
The Swiss and the Nazis: How the Alpine Republic Survived in the Shadow of the Third Reich
(2006). Also published in German and French.
Target Switzerland: Swiss Armed Neutrality in World War II (1998, 2003). Also published
in German, French, Italian, and Polish.
*** For a full list of Mr. Halbrook’s books and law review articles, as well as cases in which Mr. Halbrook served as counsel, please see
www.stephenhalbrook.com.
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