CLAYTON CRAMER

Legal & Scholarship Team

Clayton E. Cramer is a historian who teaches at the College of Western Idaho.

Mr. Cramer specializes in the areas of research in race and gun control, black history, colonial and early Republic arms regulation, mental illness, deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill and its effects on murder, and mass murder. Mr., Cramer is currently producing a comprehensive collection of American mass murders with all instrument types from 1657 to the present day.

Mr. Cramer is the author of nine books, and numerous journal articles which have been cited in two U.S. Supreme Court decisions, seven federal courts of appeals decisions, three federal district court decisions, and four state supreme court decisions.

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“The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the best and most natural defense of a free country.”
— James Madison, I Annals of Congress 434, June 8, 1789