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.

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 ...

Yet, now, in 2015, Justice Thomas has called Alito’s bluff, writing, “I would grant certiorari to prevent the Seventh Circuit from relegating the Second Amendment to a second-class right.” ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Second Amendment advocates are raising eleventh-hour concerns about past gun-control efforts pushed by former Florida ...

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.

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 ...

The act, which Gov. Parson signed at a gun shop in June of 2021, states that any gun law that violates a citizen’s Second Amendment rights, by Missouri’s standards, cannot be enforced ...

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 ...