Dave Kopel Analyzes McDonald Ruling (NRA Video)

Research Director at the Independence Institute Dave Kopel talks to Cam Edwards about the future of gun rights in America following the Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of Second Amendment incorporation in McDonald v. City of Chicago. Kopel notes that the Supreme Court was divided on this issue and has the potential to become less supportive of Second Amendment rights in the future. Local politicians and anti-gun activists are claiming that they can still restrict the use of guns as they please, and the NRA will need to be ready to fight them all over the nation. But Kopel notes that many of the greatest financial supporters of the anti-gun movement were drawn by the prospect of eventually banning handguns, and the Supreme Court has taken this option off the table. Originally aired 6/28/2010

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David B. Kopel is Research Director of the Independence Institute, a public policy research organization in Golden, Colorado, and is an Associate Policy Analyst with the Cato Institute, in Washington.

His latest book, Aiming for Liberty: The Past, Present, And Future of Freedom and Self-Defense, covers topics ranging from the origins of the Washington, DC gun ban to the Heller decision. He discusses the genesis of modern American gun control, the KKK, the true anti-gun agenda and the deceptions and errors used to promote anti-gun laws. He covers the right to self defense from Judeo Christian perspectives. Other chapters explore United Nations and International gun control attempts and failures, law enforcement abuses and solutions, the culture of the right to keep and bear arms and the gun control movement. He concludes his book with a chapter on several prominent American gun owners from Thomas Jefferson to Eleanor Roosevelt.