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Gun-control advocates often argue that gun-control laws must be more restrictive than the original meaning of the Second Amendment would allow, because modern firearms are so different from the ...
The actual original intent of the Second Amendment November 22, 2017 More than 7 years ago Handguns for sale at a gun shop in Merrimack, N.H. (Dominick Reuter/AFP/Getty Images) ...
The original text of the Second Amendment in the Bill of Rights states, "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, ...
The Second Amendment conceded nothing to the Anti-Federalists’ desire to sharply curtail the military power that the Constitution gave the federal government, but that very fact prevented the ...
However, the Court continued, "those discussions took place 75 years after the ratification of the Second Amendment," and thus "they do not provide as much insight into its original meaning as ...
The courts will not have to continue a Kabuki dance regulating gun sales, because of a constitutional straitjacket in which they are constricted by the original Second Amendment, written in 1787 ...
United States, 533 U. S. 27, 35-36 (2001), the Second Amendment extends, prima facie, to all instruments that constitute bearable arms, even those that were not in existence at the time of the ...
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