Journal on Firearms and Public Policy			Volume 6

The Journal on Firearms and Public Policy is the official publication
of the Center for the Study of Firearms and Public Policy of the
Second Amendment Foundation.

Editor				Associate Editors
David B. Kopel			Jody Rozonsky
Independence Institute		Second Amendment Foundation

Publisher			Paul Williams
Julianne Versnel Gottlieb	Citizens Committee for the Right
Women & Guns Magazine		to Keep and Bear Arms

Fellows of the Center
David Bordua, Ph.D.		Gary Kleck, Ph.D.
David I. Caplan, Ph.D., J.D.	Edward F. Leddy, Ph.D.
Brendan Furnish, Ph.D.		Joseph P. Tartaro
Alan M. Gottlieb		William Tonso, Ph.D.
Don B. Kates, Jr., J.D.		James K. Whisker, Ph.D.

JOURNAL POLICY

	The Second Amendment Foundation sponsors this journal to encourage
objective research. The Foundation invites submission of research
papers of scholarly quality from a variety of disciplines, regardless
of whether their conclusions support the Foundation's positions on
controversial issues.

	Manuscripts should be sent in duplicate to: Center for the Study
on Firearms and Public Policy, a division of the Second Amendment
Foundation, 12500 N.E. Tenth Place, Bellevue, Washington 98005.
Authors using computers should, if possible, submit on diskette in
Microsoft Word for Windows c format.



Journal on Firearms and Public Policy

CONTENTS

A nation of cowards
	Stephen P.  Snyder 	page 7

"Sorry Wrong Number": Why Media Polls on Gun Control Are So Often
Unreliable
	Gary A. Mauser and David Kopel	page 23

The "Sporting Purpose" Issue in Gun-Control Policy
	Preston K. Covey	page  54

The Right of the People or the Power of the State: Bearing Arms,
Arming Militias, and the Second Amendment
	Stephen P. Halbrook	 page 69

The Tragedy at Waco
	Paul H. Blackman	page 164



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