Patriots GunsThe list of briefs in the Heller vs. D.C. Case has been updated at the D.C. Gun Case websites Case Filings page. This list includes the recent brief from Texas on behalf of thirty-one states and that of the Vice-President and Congress. D.C. Gun Case has links to all briefs.

These are quite unlike the opposition’s briefs I included last month in “With friends Like This Who Needs Enemies?”

Listed here are the entities filing in support of Heller’s position.

  • Texas, for Thirty One (31) States of the Union
  • Vice President Cheney, 55 Senators, 250 Members of Congress
  • Goldwater Institute (Responding to the Solicitor General)
  • Edwin Meese, et al. (Former Dept. of Justice Officials)
  • Claremont Institute/Criminologists
  • Int’l Law Enforcement Trainers & Educators, et al. [Law Enforcement & Prosecutors on Self-Defense]
  • National Rifle Association
  • Cato Institute/Joyce Lee Malcolm [The Right Inherited from England]
  • Retired Military Officers
  • Second Amendment Foundation [Prof. Lund Brief]
  • Academics for the Second Amendment
  • Academics [Addressing DC Crime]
  • Foreign Academics [International/Comparative Law]
  • Institute for Justice [14th Amendment]
  • Citizens Committee [Debunking the other side’s myths and errors]
  • Maricopa County Attorney’s Office, et al. [Prosecutors]
  • Center for Individual Freedom [Debunking Collectivist Precedent]
  • Joseph Scaranti, President Pro Tem Pa. Senate [Pennsylvania History]
  • Southeastern Legal Foundation [Utility of Handguns]
  • National Shooting Sports Foundation
  • Heartland Institute, Prof. Volokh
  • Buckeye Firearms Foundation, et al. [911 Brief]
  • American Legislative Exchange Counsel [State Constitutional RKBA]
  • State Firearms Associations
  • American Association of Physicians and Surgeons
  • Pink Pistols
  • Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership
  • Women State Legislators and Academics
  • GeorgiaCarry.org [Racist Roots of Gun Control]
  • Congress of Racial Equality [Racist Roots of Gun Control]
  • Disabled Veterans for Self-Defense, et al.
  • Alaska Outdoor Council, et al.
  • Libertarian National Committee
  • Paragon Foundation
  • American Center for Law & Justice
  • Grass Roots South Carolina
  • Liberty Legal Institute
  • Gun Owners of America
  • American Civil Rights Union
  • Rutherford Institute [Resistance to Tyranny]
  • Jeanette Moll/Bill of Rights Foundation
  • Mountain States Legal Foundation
  • Foundation for Free Expression
  • Virginia 1774
  • Foundation for Moral Law
  • American Hunters and Shooters Association