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Heller and Beyond: The Gun Rights Movement’s Decades-Long Effort to Redefine the Terms of the Second Amendment

  Despite Scalia’s professed methodology, we can also understand his opinion for the majority [in D.C. v. Heller] as an example of the modern understanding of the right to keep and bear arms, itself heavily…

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Supreme Court Fiddles While the Second Amendment Burns [Part 1 of 3]

(Leah Millis/Pool via AP) By John Velleco For the last decade, the United States Supreme Court has abdicated its constitutional duty to resolve “cases and controversies” involving the Second Amendment. It has run from its…


Blackman: The Second Amendment is Now Up to the Fifth Circuit Now

Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via AP, Pool) And so it continues. Twelve years after Heller, we are in the exact same place. The government cannot ban the possession…