The Amicus Briefs Keep Flying In!

The amicus briefs in support of striking down DC's gun law just keep flowing in. Here's a brief by ten retired U.S. generals (two major generals, five lieutenant generals, three full generals) and the American Hunters & Shooters Association (which was actually set up as a "reasonable alternative" to the NRA) arguing that a complete ban on handguns in DC, and effectively a ban on self-defense use of long guns, makes it harder for the military to train soldiers.

And a brief by Georgia Carry, Inc., pointing to the racist roots of gun control. Some of the material is clearly the result of mining my "The Racist Roots of Gun Control" paper published some years ago in Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy. I'm slightly miffed that they didn't cite that paper. Of course, as some people have pointed out, I'm a rather controversial figure--best not to have my name too closely attached.

Pink Pistols, the LGBT gun rights group has a brief.

And there's even more of them available here!

This is beginning to look like a parade. Here's the brief signed by 250 members of the House of Representatives, 55 members of the U.S. Senate, and President of the Senate who you all know as Vice President Cheney.

And a partridge in a pear tree!

UPDATE: Here's the Second Amendment Foundation's amicus brief, which focuses on grammar--and cites to the paper by Joe Olson and myself about the meaning of "bear arms." It emphasizes that "right of the people" necessarily includes much more than just militia members--even much more than the unorganized militia. It also emphasizes the self-defense aspects of the question.

UPDATE 2: And here's the Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership amicus brief, emphasizing the role of gun control in enabling genocide in much of the world--and in making oppression of the freedmen possible after the Civil War. It's nice to see them quoting from Eric Foner's book Reconstruction. I'm sure that this will steam him pretty good for writing an honest history book that doesn't conform to the politically correct standards of academia today. Love that quote from Judge Kozinski's dissent in Silveira v. Lockyer (9th Cir. 2003)!