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, ...

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 ...

It is disturbing, though not surprising, that the federal government has decided after numerous decades of settled thinking on the Second Amendment to reinterpret its position. The marked shift ...

The last 14 words of the Second Amendment, stating that the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, are not a separate paragraph, or even a separate sentence.

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 ...

Original intent is a term often quoted in Supreme Court rulings. It means what was actually intended at the time that the Constitution was written. The best way to make ...