In 1791, when the Second Amendment was adopted, the state-of-the-art firearm was a flintlock musket firing paper cartridges loaded with gunpowder and a lead ball.

The 2nd Amendment is just 27 words long: ... And yet, this is the ... Coming to Terms with Los Angeles,” the novella “Labyrinth,” “The Lost Art of Reading: ...

For decades the federal judiciary has been trying to interpret the Second Amendment out of the Constitution. It is, as Sanford Levinson has termed it, an "embarrassment" to an elite class of legal ...

Recent books by a novelist, a professor and a legal academic might inject new insights into the old debate on guns in America—or not.

The Second Amendment permits the government to disarm dangerous criminals, but what about people convicted of nonviolent paperwork offenses? Bryan Range pleaded guilty in 1995 to a state ...

Those who claim that the Second Amendment applies only to the National Guard shall first have to explain why the “people” mentioned therein are different than the “people” in the First ...

The Second Amendment inherits this ethos, casting the armed citizen as a steward of liberty, answerable not just to government but to a higher authority. America’s founders understood this.

The Second Amendment, he stated, does not protect “the right of citizens to carry arms for any sort of confrontation, just as we do not read the First Amendment to protect the right of citizens ...

We’re way overdue to repeal and replace the 2nd Amendment; ... But if muskets were “state of the art ... You published a long article on the rise of hate-filled propaganda and yet avoided ...

Gavin Newsom Says Second Amendment Is “Becoming a Suicide Pact” After Yet Another Mass Shooting At least seven people were killed in the Half Moon Bay shooting. California is reeling from ...

This makes the Second Amendment "a second-class right, subject to an entirely different body of rules than the other Bill of Rights guarantees." The magazine ban The 2nd Circuit devoted two ...