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The Second Amendment landscape

Now that the Supreme Court appears to have filled out its oral argument docket for the 2025-26 term (unless it opts to fast-track a case), it seems an apt time […] The post The Second Amendment ...
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Text, history, and party presentation

A Second Opinion is a recurring series by Haley Proctor on the Second Amendment and constitutional litigation. As has been observed by Rory Little at SCOTUSblog, the party presentation principle […] ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post via Getty Images) The Supreme Court has made a mess of the law concerning the Second ...
Joshua Villanueva is JURIST’s Washington, DC Correspondent and an LL.M. candidate in National Security and U.S. Foreign Relations Law at The George Washington University Law School. The contrast in ...
The Second Amendment, Sensitive Places, and Comprehensive Government Security compendium by Dr. Angus McClellan has just been posted on SSRN. This comprehensive survey of historic "gun free zones" ...
So the framers intended the Second Amendment to guarantee the rights of Americans not only to “keep and bear arms” for their personal protection but also to organize themselves into a protective force ...
The Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution doesn’t just say Congress shall not infringe the right to “keep and bear Arms.” It specifically says that right exists in order to maintain “a well ...
From Alaska Court of Appeals Judge Timothy Terrell's concurrence Wednesday in Ivyories v. State: I write separately to set out my view that the Second Amendment does not permit persons convicted of ...