Stephen P. Halbrook is one of the most accomplished Second Amendment litigators and scholars in American history. A Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute and a member of the Virginia State Bar, D.C. Bar, and bars of all federal circuit courts and the Supreme Court of the United States, he has been engaged in civil litigation and criminal defense since 1978. He earned his Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center (1978) and his PhD in Philosophy from Florida State University (1972), and served as an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at George Mason University, Howard University, and Tuskegee University from 1972 to 1981. He has personally argued and won three landmark Supreme Court cases — Castillo v. U.S. (2000), Printz v. U.S. (1997), and U.S. v. Thompson/Center Arms Co. (1992) — and served as counsel for 55 Senators and 250 Representatives as amici curiae in D.C. v. Heller (2008). He is the author of nine books on firearms law and history, including America’s Rifle: The Case for the AR-15 and The Founders’ Second Amendment.