“If the Second Amendment is read to confer a personal right to ‘keep and bear arms,’ a colorable argument exists that the Federal Government’s regulatory scheme, at least as it pertains to the purely intrastate sale or possession of firearms, runs afoul of that Amendment’s protections. . . . Marshalling an impressive array of historical evidence, a growing body of scholarly commentary indicates that the ‘right to keep and bear arms’ is, as the Amendment’s text suggests, a personal right. See, e.g., S. Halbrook, That Every Man Be Armed: The Evolution of a Constitutional Right.”

– CLARENCE THOMAS, Associate Justice, U. S. Supreme Court, in Printz v. United States

"Gun ownership is an inexorable birthright of American tradition. 'Americans who participated in the Revolution of 1776 and adopted the Bill of Rights held the individual right to have and use arms against tyranny to be fundamental.' Stephen P. Halbrook, That Every Man Be Armed"

– RICHARD B. SANDERS, Justice, Supreme Court of the State of Washington, in State of Washington v. Christopher William Sieyes

“That Every Man Be Armed provides indefatigable research into the Second Amendment, and all serious scholars will eternally be in its debt.”

– SANFORD V. LEVINSON, Professor of Law, University of Texas

“That Every Man Be Armed is extremely well-documented and is indispensable to anyone seriously interested in understanding the constitutional and other issues involved in the great American gun control debate.”

– QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF IDEOLOGY

“Halbrook’s pathbreaking book has inaugerated modern Second Amendment scholarship, and no research can overlook That Every Man Be Armed.”

– DANIEL D. POLSBY, Professor of Law, Geoge Mason University