Government

Legislative

Library of Congress

Courts

Second Amendment Law Library
In-depth collection of scholarship on the Second Amendment. One of the best sites around for term paper research or arguing the finer points on a News group discussion.

SUPREME COURT DECISIONS
Cornell University Law School's collection of Supremes records.

United States Code

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The view of firearms as a social disease. Professor James Wright (as in Wright-Rossi study) called the CDC's view a cost-benefit analysis that looked only at the cost side.

Pro-Liberty Media and Think Tanks

Libertarian Party
They've never been much of a political force, i.e. they haven't won many elections. But the Libertarian Party is a party of principle. One day that principle may be translated into political power.

Cato Institute
If the Libertarian Party ever becomes a serious contender, this organization will be its brain.

Republican Liberty Caucus
The organized libertarian (lower-case "l") wing of the Republican party.

Reason Magazine
"Free Minds and Free Markets" One of America's most important periodicals. It is to libertarianism what The Nation is to American socialism.

Jewish World Review
Here's some real diversity for you. To be a Jew and to espouse political thought outside the Jewish mainstream as defined by B'nai B'rith or Simon Wiesenthal Center is a courageous act. Here's an ant-hill of Jewish thinking that challenges the status quo on just about any topic you're interested in (and some you may not be interested in but should investigate).

Independence Institute
David Kopel, widely-published attorney and Second Amendment scholar serves as Research Director for this Denver organization.

Nonpartisan Political Sites

Antis

Handgun Control Memorial Dead Ends

Handgun Control Incorporated once had a cranny tucked away in a corner of a pretentiously high-brow porn site (I am not joking) called "Bianca's Smut Shack." I believe that the Bianca site is still around, (I'm not going looking for it because...well, just because) but the HCI site eventually went away. Maybe the folks at longtime HCI supporter the United Methodist Church took exception. In any case, the new and very flashy site that replaced it has since bit the dust. Yields a "404 -- File Not Found."

Handgun Control Incorporated
Graphics-intensive with an imposing front page looking down the business end of a pistol. Interesting bit under Programs which includes some surprisingly frank acknowledgements of HCI's alliance with the showbiz kids in Hollywood. Also defunct.

The Return of Handgun Control
The wacky folks over on Eye Street (right under the United Methodist Church are back. This page is much the same layout as the memorial dead-end above. See Entertainment Resources for the acknowledgement that "entertainment can change attitudes" and a pointer to its Entertainment Resources Department in Los Angeles. My wife thinks I'm paranoid. No, dear, I just read.

Mother Jones Magazine
Mother Jones is truly an amazing publication. They brag about how independent they are from the "corporate" magazines while hewing puppy-like to the editorial line laid down by The New York Times, Time and Readers Digest. I've often thought it would be interesting to hear labor organizer Mary Harris Jones' reaction to a bespectacled, college-educated anarchist wannabe that suggested she hand her gun over to the nice policeman.

The Pacific Center for Violence Prevention
Funding for this site provided by The California Wellness Foundation. Extensive links page. Oddly absent are any dissenting views.

Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) The recently adopted resolution calling on members to "work toward removing handguns and assault weapons from our homes and our communities"

Privacy

Some Personal Pages

Jeff Chan's rkba.org -- Arms Rights and Liberty Information on the Internet
Useful and broad (albeit somewhat dated) archive of firearms and rights-related information on the Net. Some of my favorites among Jeff's stuff

Howard Fezell's Second Amendment Home Page
Attorney and former NRA Director Howard Fezell has an extensive set of links and information on the Second Amendment. Lots of good practical advice -- like how to read legal citations, plus links to law review, sociological and other scholarly articles.

Viking Phoenix Web Page
An intriguing page. The anonymous (to me anyway) owner publishes an occasional newsletter of things that make you go "hmmm." Eclectic set of links to commentaries and writings including Sun Tzu's The Art of War, text of The Resister, an underground newsletter published by Special Forces Underground, celebrity links, yakuza movie links (like I said, eclectic) and anything else political. Hardline libertarian (lowercase L) bent.

GunCite: Gun Control and Second Amendment Issues
A fine digest of current gun rights information. Lots of good general information for anyone who wants to learn more about the gun rights debate.

Rich's Firearms Page
I limit the number of personal firearms page links because of the overhead of keeping them up, however this one is very slick and also has a passle of content-rich links. Links into the Shooters' Web Ring an exceptionally rich link list.

Home Page of David T. Hardy
Well-known Second Amendment scholar. This page contains pointers to his published works, mostly stashed in Jeff Chan's FTP site. I'd often heard Hardy's ancestry questioned, particularly by the antis. This page should resolve any doubts.

Oleg Volk's RKBA Page
Beautiful photography combined with an in-your-face attitude toward gun rights. Nearby pages include a photo gallery and Oleg's personal page. Interesting, varied, often unusual subject matter. Like attending a good photography exhibition at a bohemian gallery. Why, yes, I'd take another hit of espresso.

Strictly Commercial

Yankee Dog
Thoroughly reactionary catalog featuring books, knives, black powder and stuff to stock your bunker.