david b. kOPEL
Senior Legal Advisor / Second Amendment Scholarship Specialist
David B. Kopel is a prolific American author, attorney, gun rights advocate, and contributing editor to several publications.
David is the research director of the Independence Institute, an associate policy analyst at the Cato Institute, an adjunct professor of advanced constitutional law at Denver University, Sturm College of Law, and contributes to the Volokh Conspiracy legal blog. Previously he was an adjunct professor of law, at New York University, and former assistant attorney general for Colorado.
Kopel is also a life member of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, and, as of 2010, served on the board of directors of the Colorado Union of Taxpayers.
Kopel earned a B.A. in history with highest honors from Brown University and won the National Geographic Society Prize for best history thesis with a biography of Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School. He was also a contributing editor of the Michigan Law Review.
David is actively involved in Second Amendment litigation in courts across the country.
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“The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them.”