How States Can Limit Gun Violence
In May 2022, a teenage shooter armed with an AR-15 style semiautomatic rifle entered a Tops Supermarket in Buffalo, New York, and methodically killed...
Second Amendment
Bruen’s Ricochet: Why Scored Live-Fire Requirements Violate the Second Amendment
Vol. 136 No. 5
Introduction City of Boston residents who wish to carry a handgun for self-defense must apply for a License to Carry Firearms (LTC) with the...
Racism, Abolition, and Historical Resemblance
Forum response to Professor Bridges' Foreword
Response to Race in the Roberts Court
Vol. 136 No. 1
Race in the Roberts Court
Vol. 136 No. 1
When it comes to people of color, the Roberts Court treats “racism” as if it is an objective fact — out there in the world, apparent to anyone who stumbles upon it. The Roberts Court invites observers to believe that it is just using simple common sense when it identifies, or refuses to identify, something as racism.
Racist Gun Laws and the Second Amendment
Vol. 135 No. 8
For a significant portion of American history, gun laws bore the ugly taint of racism. The founding generation that wrote the Second Amendment had...
Race and Guns, Courts and Democracy
Vol. 135 No. 8
Is racism in gun regulation reason to look to the Supreme Court to expand Second Amendment rights? While discussion of race and guns recurs...
Torture in Our Schools?
Vol. 135 No. 8
Nothing can fix what that day broke inside of me and in every child in that school. My biggest fear walking into school every...
Violence and Nondelegation
Vol. 135 No. 8
Introduction Debates over delegation are experiencing a renaissance. These debates presuppose an initial distribution of constitutional authority between actors that cannot be redistributed, or...
Governing Through Gun Crime: How Chicago Funded Police After the 2020 BLM Protests
Vol. 135 No. 8
Gun violence is the number one issue plaguing the city in this moment. — Mayor Lori Lightfoot, July 15, 2021 There can be no...
Public Carry and Criminal Law after Bruen
Vol. 135 No. 8
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....