Second Amendment
Race and Guns, Courts and Democracy
Is racism in gun regulation reason to look to the Supreme Court to expand Second Amendment rights? While discussion of race and guns recurs across the briefs in New York…
Is racism in gun regulation reason to look to the Supreme Court to expand Second Amendment rights? While discussion of race and guns recurs across the briefs in New York…
Nothing can fix what that day broke inside of me and in every child in that school. My biggest fear walking into school every day is not the homework or…
Introduction Debates over delegation are experiencing a renaissance.See generally, e.g., F. Andrew Hessick & Carissa Byrne Hessick, Nondelegation and Criminal Law, 107 Va. L. Rev. 281 (2021); Julian Davis Mortenson…
Gun violence is the number one issue plaguing the city in this moment. — Mayor Lori Lightfoot, July 15, 2021Heather Cherone, “People are Scared,” Lightfoot Says, As Violence Continues to…
Introduction Gun rights supporters appear to be on the cusp of achieving a decades-long goal: defanging licensing laws nationwide for carrying handguns in public. More than twenty states have removed…
Introduction Like many places in central Louisiana, Grant Parish became a haven for oil and gas prospecting in the late 1890s. Once speculators discovered the rich reserves, they hoped the…
For a significant portion of American history, gun laws bore the ugly taint of racism.On the racist history of gun laws, see generally Clayton E. Cramer, The Racist Roots of…
Introduction What is the relationship between the Second Amendment right to bear arms and inequality? Scholarly silence suggests a conventional view that there is no relationship between the two. In…