Mr. Halbrook has been engaged in civil litigation and criminal defense since 1978, particularly regarding constitutional issues involving Federalism and Bill of Rights guarantees. Represent firearm associations, manufacturers, importers, and owners in administrative, civil, and criminal proceedings under federal, state, and local law, including before the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Member of Virginia State Bar, District of Columbia Bar, U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Courts of Appeals – most circuits, other selected Federal Courts.

Halbrook filed an amici curiae brief on behalf of 55 Members of the U.S. Senate, the President of U.S. Senate, and 250 Members of the U.S. House of Representatives in District of Columbia v. Heller, No. 07-290, the Second Amendment case pending before the U.S. Supreme Court. http://stephenhalbrook.com/lawsuits/Heller.brief.senators.pdf

Education: Georgetown University Law Center, J.D. (1978); Florida State University, B.S. Business (1969), Ph.D. Philosophy (1972). Assistant Professor of Philosophy - George Mason University, 1980-81; Howard University, 1974-79; Tuskegee Institute, 1972-74. Fellow, Independent Institute.

Contact information: Stephen P. Halbrook, 10560 Main St., Suite 404, Fairfax, VA 22030, tel. (703) 352-7276, fax (703) 359-0938, protell@aol.com, www.stephenhalbrook.com

Small v. U.S., 544 U.S. 385 (2005) (on brief). Foreign convictions excluded from Gun Control Act prohibition.

Castillo v. U.S., 530 U.S. 120 (2000), rev'g 91 F.3d 699 (5th Cir. 1996) & 179 F.3d 321 (5th Cir. 1999). Oral argument: www.oyez.org/oyez/audio/1233/argument.smil. Right to jury trial upheld in Waco criminal prosecution.

Printz v. U.S., 521 U.S. 898 (1997). Oral argument: The Supreme Court's Greatest Hits (CD, Northwestern Univ., 1999), & www.oyez.org/oyez/resource/case/835/audioresources.
Prior litigation: Mack v. U.S., 66 F.3d 1025 (9th Cir. 1995), rev'g 856 F. Supp. 1372 (D.Ariz. 1994) and rev'g Printz v. U.S., 854 F.Supp. 1503 (D. Mont. 1994). Brady Act mandates held to be unconstitutional federal commands to State and local law enforcement.

U.S. v. Thompson/Center Arms Co., 504 U.S. 505 (1992), aff'g. 924 F.2d 1041 (Fed. Cir. 1991), rev'g 19 Cl.Ct. 725 (1990). Earlier proceeding, Thompson/Center Arms Co. v. Baker, 686 F. Supp. 38 (D.N.H. 1988). Pistol/carbine kit held not to be regulated by National Firearms Act.

Baca v. New Mexico Dept. of Public Safety, 132 N.M. 282, 47 P.3d 441 (2002)

Blaustein & Reich, Inc. v. Buckles, 365 F.3d 281 (4th Cir. 2004)

Coalition of New Jersey Sportsmen v. Whitman, 44 F. Supp.2d 666 (D.N.J. 1999), aff'd, 263 F.3d 157 (3d Cir. 2001), cert. denied, 534 U.S. 1039 (2001).

Farmer v. Higgins, 907 F.2d 1041 (11th Cir. 1990), cert. denied, 498 U.S. 1047 (1991)

F.J. Vollmer Co., 23 F.3d 448 (D.C. Cir. 1994), later proceeding, F.J. Vollmer Co., Inc. v. Magaw, 102 F.3d 591 (D.C. Cir. 1996)

Fresno Rifle & Pistol Club, Inc. v. Van de Kamp, 965 F.2d 723 (9th Cir. 1992)

Gilbert Equipment Co., Inc. v. Higgins, 709 F. Supp. 1071 (S.D. Ala. 1989), aff'd, 894 F.2d 412 (11th Cir. 1990) (mem.)

Gun Owners' Action League, Inc. v. Swift, 284 F.3d 198 (1st Cir. 2002)

Koog/McGee v. U.S., 79 F.3d 452 (5th Cir. 1996)

Lomont v. Summers, 285 F.3d 9 (D.C. Cir. 2002)

NRA v. Brady, 914 F.2d 475 (4th Cir. 1990), cert. denied, 499 U.S. 959 (1991), later proceeding, NRA v. Bentsen, 999 F.2d 772 (4th Cir. 1993)

NRA v. City of South Miami, 774 So. 2d 815 (Fla. 3rd DCA 2000), later proceeding, 812 So. 2d 504 (2002)

NRA v. Nagin, 2005 WL 2428840 (E.D. La. 2005)

NRA v. Reno, 216 F.3d 122 (D.C. Cir. 2000), cert. denied, 533 U.S. 928 (2001)

Peoples Rights Organization, Inc. v. City of Columbus, 152 F.3d 522 (6th Cir. 1998)

Richmond Boro Gun Club, Inc. v. City of New York, 97 F.3d 681 (2nd Cir. 1996)

Robertson v. City of Denver, 874 P.2d 325 (Colo. 1994)

RSM, Inc. v. Buckles, 94 F. Supp. 2d 692 (D. Md. 2000), rev'd, 254 F.3d 61 (4th Cir. 2001)

Seegars v. Ashcroft, 396 F.3d 1248 (D.C. Cir. 2005), reh. denied, 413 F.3d 1 (D.C. Cir. 2005), cert. denied, 126 S.Ct. 1187 (2006)

Springfield Armory, Inc. v. City of Columbus, 29 F.3d 250 (6th Cir. 1994)

Springfield, Inc. v. Buckles, 292 F.3d 813 (D.C. Cir. 2002)

U.S. v. Bundy, 392 F.3d 641 (4th Cir. 2004).

U.S. v. Fourteen Various Firearms, 889 F. Supp. 875, later proceeding, 899 F. Supp. 249 (E.D. Va. 1995)

U.S. v. Rock Island Armory, Inc., 773 F. Supp. 117 (C.D. Ill. 1991).

Firearms Law Deskbook: Federal and State Criminal Practice. St. Paul, MN: Thomson/West, 2008. Supplemented annually.

The Founders’ Second Amendment: Origins of the Right to Bear Arms. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2008.

Freedmen, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Right to Bear Arms, 1866-1876. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 1998.

That Every Man Be Armed: The Evolution of a Constitutional Right. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1984. Reprinted in 1994, 2000 by Independent Institute, Oakland, Ca.

A Right to Bear Arms: State and Federal Bills of Rights and Constitutional Guarantees. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1989.

The Swiss and the Nazis: How the Alpine Republic Survived in the Shadow of the Third Reich. Havertown, Pa.: Casemate Publishers; Gloucestershire, UK: Spellmount Ltd., 2006.

Target Switzerland: Swiss Armed Neutrality in World War II. Rockville Center, N.Y.: Sarpedon Publishers, 1998 (hardback); Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2003 (paperback). Also published in German, French, Italian, and Polish.

"Citizens in Arms: The Swiss Experience," Texas Review of Law & Politics, vol. 8, Issue 1 (Fall 2003), 142. www.stephenhalbrook.com/law_review_articles/citizens?in?arms.pdf. Oral presentation in A Question of Balance (DVD: www.jamesswan.com/AQOBsgs.html).

"Congress Interprets the Second Amendment,"62 Tennessee Law Review 597 (Spring 1995). www.stephenhalbrook.com/law_review_articles/congress.pdf

"Firearms, the Fourth Amendment, & Air Carrier Security," 53 Journal of Air Law & Commerce, 585 (1987), reprinted in Serial No. 91, House Judiciary Committee, 100th Cong., 1st Sess., 174 (1987).

"Military Enforcement of the Drug Laws," in K. and E. Zeese, Drug Law 6-44 (Clark Boardman Callahan, 1993).

"Miller versus Texas: Police Violence, Race Relations, Capital Punishment, and Gun-toting," 9 Journal of Law and Policy, No. 3, 737 (2001) (with C. Leonardatos & D. Kopel).
www.stephenhalbrook.com/law_review_articles/miller_v_texas.htm

"Nazi Firearms Law & the Disarming of the German Jews," 17 Ariz. Jour. of International & Comparative Law, No. 3, 483 (2000).
www.stephenhalbrook.com/article?nazilaw.pdf.

“Nazism, the Second Amendment, and the NRA: A Reply to Professor Harcourt,” 11 Tex. Rev. L. & Pol. 113 (2006). http://stephenhalbrook.com/law_review_articles/nazism.nra.pdf

'Only Law Enforcement Will Be Allowed to Have Guns’: Hurricane Katrina and the New Orleans Firearm Confiscations,” 18 Geo. Mason U. Civ. Rts. L.J. 339 (Spring 2008). 18 GMUCRLJ 339.

"Redefining a 'Crime' as a Sentencing Factor to Circumvent the Right to Jury Trial," Cato Supreme Court Review, 2001-2002, 187.
www.cato.org/pubs/scr/docs/2002/halbrook.pdf

"The Right of Workers to Assemble & to Bear Arms: Presser v. Illinois," 76 Univ. of Detroit Mercy Law Rev. 943 (Summer 1999).
www.stephenhalbrook.com/law_review_articles/presser.pdf

"The Right to Bear Arms in Texas," 41 Baylor Law Review, 629 (1989). "Second-Class Citizenship and the Second Amendment in the District of Columbia," 5 George Mason University Civil Rights Law Journal, Nos. 1 & 2, 105 (1995).
www.stephenhalbrook.com/law_review_articles/citizenship.pdf

“Second-Class Citizenship and the Second Amendment in the District of Columbia,” 5 George Mason University Civil Rights Law Journal, Nos. 1 & 2, 105 (1995). www.stephenhalbrook.com/law_review_articles/citizenship.pdf

“St. George Tucker’s Second Amendment: Deconstructing ‘The True Palladium of Liberty,’” 3 Tennessee Journal of Law and Policy, No. 2, 120-55 (Spring 2007). http://stephenhalbrook.com/law_review_articles/Deconstructing_The_True_Palladium_of_Liberty.pdf

"Suing the Firearms Industry: A Case for Federal Reform?" 7 Chapman Law Review 11-38 (Spring 2004).
www.stephenhalbrook.com/law_review_articles/suing.pdf

American Bar Association, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Fairfax Bar Association, U.S. Congress Constitutional Forum, Heritage Foundation, Federalist Society, Cato Institute, American Enterprise Institute, various law schools, numerous CLE lectures. Phil Donahue Show, History Channel, Court TV, numerous TV/radio shows. Testified in Senate and House Judiciary Committees, U.S. Congress.