DAVID HARDY

Legal & Scholarship Team

(J.D., Univ. of Arizona 1975) David Hardy is an attorney practicing in Tucson, Arizona. Prior to returning to private practice, Mr. Hardy spent ten years in Washington, D.C., as a career attorney in the Interior Department’s Office of the Solicitor. Before then, he was extensively involved in drafting and lobbying for what became the Firearm Owners’ Protection Act of 1986.

Mr. Hardy is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the Arizona Supreme Court, the Second, Fifth, and Ninth Circuits, and the District Courts for the Districts of Arizona, Colorado, Texas (S.D.), and the District of Columbia. His practice largely centers on firearm rights cases. Among the cases he has handled are a successful murder/death penalty appeal in the Arizona Supreme Court and a successful 10th Amendment/federalism appeal in the U.S. Supreme Court. He filed amicus briefs in Heller and McDonald and in several other firearm cases.

Mr. Hardy is a former Associate Editor of the Arizona Law Review. He has published seven books (one a New York Times best-seller) and twenty-eight law review articles, primarily on the 2nd and 14th Amendments. His 1986 article, The Firearm Owners’ Protection Act: A Historical and Legal Perspective, has been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court and by ten of the thirteen U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals. His 2009 article, Original Popular Understanding of the 14th Amendment as Reflected in the Print Media of 1866-68, was cited in McDonald v. City of Chicago, both by the plurality and in Justice Thomas’ concurrence.

Dave Hardy, author of Dred Scott: The Inside Story

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“There are no dangerous weapons. There are only dangerous men.”
— Robert A. Heinlein