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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Yet while most people are solidly on his side, the law may not withstand legal challenges. The gun lobby has vowed that it “will go down in a flaming ash heap.” Now imagine a world where we ...

Exploring the origins and evolution of the Second Amendment, this episode examines how a post-revolutionary principle became one of the most polarizing topics in American politics. From the ...

Second Amendment Roundup: VanDerStok Tests Limits of Yet Another ATF Rule The Supreme Court is set to decide whether the agency may expand criminal liability under the Gun Control Act.

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 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.