Publications and Productions

David T. Hardy
Position: Affiliate Counsel
(562) 216-4444
DHardy@michellawyers.com

Productions
In Search of the Second Amendment (Second Amendment Films, LLC 2007) (documentary).

Books
David T. Hardy & Jason Clarke, Michael Moore is a Big Fat Stupid White Man (Harper Collins 2004).
David T. Hardy & Rex Kimball, This Is Not An Assault: Penetrating the Web of Official Lies Surrounding the Waco Incident (Xlibris Corp. 2001).
Origins and Development of the Second Amendment: a Sourcebook (Blacksmith Corp. 1986).
David T. Hardy, Hank Bennett, Harry L. Helms, The Complete Shortwave Listener’s Handbook (3 Ed., Tab Bks. 1986).
The BATF’s War on Civil Liberties: The Assault on Gun Owners: Report of the Task Force to Investigate the Enforcement of Policies of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (Second Amend. Found. 1979) (reprinted in1979 Oversight Hearings Before the Senate Appropriations Committee).
Four Chapters in Restricting Handguns: The Liberal Skeptics Speak Out (Don B. Kates ed., N. River Press 1979).

Anthologies
The Origins of the Separation of Powers, in The New Federalist Papers 75 (J. Jackson Barlow, Dennis J. Mahoney & John G. West eds., U. Press of Am. 1988).
Defending Legislative-Executive Stalemates, in The New Federalist Papers 110 (J. Jackson Barlow, Dennis J. Mahoney & John G. West eds., U. Press of Am. 1988).
The Origins of the Second Amendment, in The New Federalist Papers 110 (J. Jackson Barlow, Dennis J. Mahoney & John G. West eds., U. Press of Am. 1988).

Monographs
Of Mice and Men: Surviving Endangered Species Act Litigation (Washington Leg. Found. 1993).

Editorials
If the Founding Fathers Were Alive Today, 17 Reason 28 (Jan. 1986).

Articles
Original Popular Understanding of the 14th Amendment as Reflected in the Print Media of 1866-68, 30 Whittier L. Rev. 695 (2009).
The Lecture Notes of St. George Tucker: A Framing Era View of the Bill of Rights,103 Nw. U. L. Rev. 272 (2008).
Standing to Sue in the Absence of Prosecution: Can a Case Be Too Controversial for “Case or Controversy”?, 29 T. Jefferson L. Rev. 53 (2008).
Book Review: A Well Regulated Militia, 15 Wm. & Mary Bill of Rts. J. 1237 (2007).
William D. Fields & David T. Hardy, The Militia and the Constitution: A Legal History, 136 Mil. L. Rev. 1 (1992).
William S. Fields & David T. Hardy, The Third Amendment and the Issue of the Maintenance of Standing Armies: A Legal History, 35 Am. J. of Legal Hist. 393 (1991).
The Second Amendment and the Historiography of the Bill of Rights, 4 J. L. & Pol. 1 (1987).
The Firearm Owners’ Protection Act: a Legal and Historical Analysis, 17 Cumb. L. Rev. 585 (1987).
Product Liability and Weapons Manufacture, 10 J. Prod. Liab. 61(1987).
Armed Citizens and Citizen Armies: Toward a Jurisprudence of the Second Amendment, 9 Harv. J. L. & Pub. Pol’y. 559 (1986).
Strict Liability and the Manufacture of Weapons, 20 Wake Forest L. Rev. 541 (1984).
Legal Restriction of Firearm Ownership as an Answer to Violent Crime; What Was the Question?, 6 Hamline L. Rev. 391 (1983).
Historical Bases of the Second Amendment, Militia in the Twentieth Century (1985)
Gun Control, Crime and Freedom, in Criminal Justice Reform: a Blueprint (Patrcik B. McGuigan & Randall R. Rader eds., Regnery Publg. 1983).
Gun Control: Arm Yourself with Evidence, 14 Reason 37 (Nov. 1982).
David T. Hardy & George V. Higgins, Why Gun Control Can’t Work, Inquiry, Feb. 28, 1982, at 15.
Historical Bases of the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, Report of Sen. Jud Comm., (1982)
Harris v. McRae–The Clash of a Nonenumerated Right with Legislative Control of the Purse, 31 Case W. Res. L. Rev. 465 (1981).
Of Gun Laws and Gun Collectors, in The Reference Shelf: The Issue of Gun Control (Thomas Draper ed., H.W. Wilson 1981).
Firearm Ownership and Regulation: Tackling an Old Problem with Renewed Vigor 20 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 235 (1978).
Gun Laws and Gun Collectors, Case & Comment, Jan.-Feb. 1980, at 3.
Privacy and Public Funding: Maher v. Roe as the Interaction of Roe v. Wade and Dandridge v. Williams, 18 Ariz. L. Rev. 903 (1977).
David T. Hardy & John Stompoly, Of Arms and the Law, 51 Chic.-Kent L. Rev. 62 (1974) (cited at 37 A.L.R. Fed. 696, 702, 711).
Note, Informants’ Statements as a Basis for Stop and Frisk, 15 Ariz. L. Rev. 677 (1973).

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