Parchment Rights
Vol. 135 No. 8
Introduction Like many places in central Louisiana, Grant Parish became a haven for oil and gas prospecting in the late 1890s. Once speculators discovered...
Second Amendment
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...
United States v. Perez
Second Circuit Rules Prohibition of Firearms Possession by Undocumented Immigrants Passes Intermediate Scrutiny
Vol. 135 No. 4
“Lineal Descendant” Analysis in Second Amendment Litigation
Second Amendment doctrine—perhaps more than any other constitutional right save the Seventh Amendment civil jury—has become intensely preoccupied with genealogy. Ever since Chief Justice...
New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v. City of New York
Vol. 134 No. 1
After the grand but doctrinally vacant pronouncements of District of Columbia v. Heller and McDonald v. City of Chicago, the Supreme Court rejected nearly...
The Supreme Court is Poised to Blow A Giant Hole in Gun Control. Here’s How the Liberal Justices Can Intervene.
Lost in the shuffle of a busy October at the Supreme Court—one filled with high profile developments concerning the right to abortion and the treatment of LGBT...
Young v. Hawaii
Ninth Circuit Panel Holds Open-Carry Law Infringes Core Right to Bear Arms in Public.
Vol. 132 No. 7
Why the Latest Ruling in the Sandy Hook Shooting Litigation Matters
Last week the Connecticut Supreme Court issued a decision in the ongoing litigation brought by plaintiffs representing the twenty children and six adults shot dead...
Corpus Linguistics and the Second Amendment
Big Data rekindles the debate over the original meaning of the Second Amendment The Second Amendment provides: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to...
The Second Amendment and Second-Class Rights
Advocates for gun rights feel oppressed. It has been a decade since the Supreme Court found in District of Columbia v. Heller that the...