Stephen P. Halbrook, Author at The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

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Stephen P. Halbrook

Stephen P. Halbrook is a Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute, Oakland, Calif., and author of The Founders’ Second Amendment, Gun Control in the Third Reich, and Gun Control in Nazi-Occupied France.

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Recalling the Tragic History of Gun Control

by Stephen P. Halbrook | Sep 4, 2019

Murderers with poisonous ideologies have taken the lives of innocents once again. And the response is the same as it always is: Politicians turn to the proven solution of creating yet more felonies to criminalize law-abiding gun owners. Won’t it…