Clayton Cramer

[not in body] His research also informed the Supreme Court decision in the Second Amendment cases District of Columbia v. Heller and McDonald v.

[not in body] In 1996, while working on his master's thesis, Cramer read a paper by Bellesiles on early gun laws, published in the Journal of American History.

"I sat down with a list of bizarre, amazing claims that Bellesiles had made, and started chasing down the citations at Sonoma State University’s library.

"[1] Cramer's research encountered resistance from journal editors and other historians, but he continued alleging fraud against Bellesiles' scholarship.

[4] Cramer is critical of making involuntary commitment of mentally ill persons difficult,[5] and has researched and compiled a book explaining the origins of this policy.