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Institute for Justice and the D.C. gun case – 

The historic opinion upholding the individual right to bear arms had an interesting IJ pedigree.  While it wasn't an IJ case, all three attorneys who handled the case had IJ connections.  Bob Levy is an IJ Board member (and co-author of The Dirty Dozen), Clark Neily is an IJ Senior Attorney, and Alan Gura was one of IJ's first law clerks.  The case was deliberately put together and pursued like an IJ case right from the start.

There were 47 friend-of-the-court briefs filed supporting the individual right to bear arms.  IJ's brief was the only one cited favorably in Justice Scalia's 64-page opinion. 

Chip Mellor

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