Adam Winkler

professor of law at UCLA, and author of "Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America"

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Adam Winkler is a professor of constitutional law at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the author of Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America. His forthcoming book is We the Corporations.

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