Robert Spitzer, distinguished service professor emeritus, Political Science, is the author of a new book just published by Oxford University Press. Titled, Gun Law History: How Three-Hundred Years of Weapons Laws Built the Nation, the book brings together, for the first time, the full panoply of types of old weapons laws, numbering in the thousands, dating from the 1600s through the start of the 20th century, upending standard assumptions about America’s gun history past. Contrary to American mythology, the default in American history was weapons regulation, not the reverse. It also argues that weapons laws were essential to America’s development, and further demonstrates that the Supreme Court’s interpretation of America’s gun law history is deeply flawed.