Shall Not Be Infringed

David A. Keene is the opinion editor of the Washington Times and former president of the National Rifle Association. From 1982 to 2011, Keene served as the elected chairman of the American Conservative Union, the nation's oldest and largest grassroots conservative advocacy group. For more than ten years, Keene wrote a regular column for the Boston Globe and a regular column for the Hill, which focuses on a Capitol Hill readership. He has written for the National Review, Human Events, and the American Spectator along with several book chapters. His appearances include Face the Nation and the PBS News Hour, and he was a CBS News political campaign consultant for a presidential campaign, among others. He is the recipient of the 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Second Amendment Foundation and the 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Conservative Political Action Conference. Keene lives in Maryland.Thomas L. Mason is an attorney specializing in representing clients before international bodies such as the United Nations. Mason was elected to the Oregon House of Representatives for sixteen years and was an associate professor of administration of justice at Portland State University in Oregon. A member of the Oregon, 9th Circuit and US Supreme Court bars, he is the author of Governing Oregon: An Inside Look at Politics in One American State. Mason lives in California.