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Stephen Halbrook

American jurist

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Also known as Stephen Porter Halbrook · Stephen P. Halbrook

Born: September 12, 1947
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1.Stated in BnF authoritiescatalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb13743987qRetrieved 2019-12-30
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Citizenship: United States
Occupation: jurist
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1.Stated in Integrated Authority FileRetrieved 2026-04-20
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, historian
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1.Stated in Integrated Authority FileRetrieved 2026-04-20
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Education: Florida State University
Languages spoken, written or signed: English
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1.Stated in Czech National Authority DatabaseRetrieved 2022-03-01
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Stephen P. Halbrook is a senior fellow at the Independent Institute and an author and lawyer known for his litigation on cases involving laws pertaining to firearms. He has written extensively about the original meanings of the Second Amendment and the Fourteenth Amendment. He has argued and won three cases before the US Supreme Court: Printz v. United States, United States v. Thompson-Center Arms Company, and Castillo v. United States. He has also written briefs in many other cases, including the Supreme Court cases Small v. United States and McDonald v. Chicago. In District of Columbia v. Heller, he wrote a brief on behalf of the majority of both houses of Congress. He has written many books and articles on the topic of gun control, some of which have been cited in Supreme Court opinions. He has testified before Congress on multiple occasions. Halbrook's most popular book is That Every Man Be Armed, originally published in 1984. The book is an analysis of the legal history and original intent of the Second Amendment.

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GGun Control in the Third Reich2013 · non-fiction work by Stephen Halbrook

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Sex or gender: male
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1.Stated in Czech National Authority DatabaseRetrieved 2025-08-29
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Given name: Stephen
Website: stephenhalbrook.com
Field of work: law
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1.Stated in Czech National Authority DatabaseRetrieved 2022-11-07
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