Duke Center for Firearms Law

Historians Defending Gun Control Laws are Mighty Selective When Constructing Their Arguments

UC-Berkely History Professor Brian DeLay is an expert witness states frequently have turned to recently to defend unconstitutional gun control laws in light of Bruen. This week The Duke Center for Firearms law published his…

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Charles: Bruen Is Part of the Supreme Court’s Attempt to Concentrate its Own Power

“[I]n requiring courts to strike down gun regulations even when they might be narrowly tailored to accomplish the most compelling of governmental interests,” Professor Khiara Bridges argues, Bruen “has rendered the right to bear arms…


Greenlee: Americans Shouldn’t Have to Prove They Have the Right to Keep and Bear Arms

  Professor [Jake] Charles mistakenly asserts that “[text, history, and tradition] and arguments like those about self-made guns imply that government always regulates to the outer limits of its power.” To the contrary, THT analyzes…


Intellectual Bankruptcy: Trying to Preserve Gun Control in the US Using a 14th Century English Law

By MarkPA Much is made of the 1328 Statute of Northampton to minimize or even to deny the right to bear arms. Northampton seems to be the core of the 9th Circuit’s opinion in Young…


Duke Center for Firearms Law: Parsing the 2A to Invalidate Individual Gun Rights

The Duke Center for Firearms Law is publishing a series of papers on corpus linguistics and the Second Amendment. Corpus linguistics is the search for and study of words and phrases in their context to…