Mr. Sulzer has been practicing law in Washington, DC, since 1980 and has been a partner at some of the city’s most prominent national law firms, including Steptoe & Johnson and California-based Manatt, Phelps & Phillips. In fall 2013, Mr. Sulzer broke away from Big Law to found his own law firm, and after much planning and preparation, expanded his practice to encompass firearms-related matters. 

Mr. Sulzer has more than 40 years of experience in high-stakes litigation in state and federal courts, including hundreds of hours of trial experience, and has been consistently victorious for his clients.  He is particularly focused on criminal and civil defense work for clients who have had to use firearms in self-defense and specializes in how the law of self-defense limits your tactical choices in deadly force confrontations.              

Mr. Sulzer has handled cases involving (i) the defensive use of firearms; (ii) accidental shootings resulting in homicides or personal injury; (iii) road rage incidents; (iv) brandishing; (v) record expungement and restoration of firearms rights; (vi) appeals from denials of concealed carry permits; (vii) ATF regulation of destructive devices and NFA firearms; and (viii) ATF regulation of federal firearms licensees.  He has also expanded into Second Amendment challenges to unconstitutional gun laws and disputes over insurance coverage for self-defense incidents.  

Mr. Sulzer has an AV Preeminent Peer and Judicial Rating from Martindale Hubbell, the highest rating given by Martindale-Hubbell for legal skills and professional ethics.

He is pleased to have been selected as a referral attorney for both the United States Concealed Carry Association (USCCA) and the Armed Citizens Legal Defense Network.  He has also been named to the USCCA's Critical Response Legal Team.

Mr. Sulzer has been active in the shooting sports dating back to the mid-1990s, when he began shooting service rifles in competition against the Marine Corps Rifle Teams and the Army Marksmanship Unit.  He began his competitive shooting career with the M1A and transitioned to the AR-15 in 2000.  He competed in three position “across the course” iron sight matches at distances of 200, 300, and 600 yards, and has also competed at 1,000 yards.  When Mr. Sulzer retired from competition in 2005, he was shooting Master level scores.  He still shoots handguns (particularly M-1911s) avidly and has been trained in the defensive use of handguns.  Mr. Sulzer has held a Virginia Concealed Carry Permit since the mid-1990s and is an NRA-certified pistol instructor.