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Articles 1 - 9 of 9
Full-Text Articles in Second Amendment
Securing Gun Rights By Statute: The Right To Keep And Bear Arms Outside The Constitution, Jacob D. Charles
Securing Gun Rights By Statute: The Right To Keep And Bear Arms Outside The Constitution, Jacob D. Charles
Michigan Law Review
In popular and professional discourse, debate about the right to keep and bear arms most often revolves around the Second Amendment. But that narrow reference ignores a vast and expansive nonconstitutional legal regime privileging guns and their owners. This collection of nonconstitutional gun rights confers broad powers and immunities on gun owners that go far beyond those required by the Constitution, like rights to bring guns on private property against an owner’s wishes and to carry a concealed firearm in public with no training or background check. This Article catalogues this set of expansive laws and critically assesses them. Unlike …
Scrutinizing The Second Amendment, Adam Winkler
Scrutinizing The Second Amendment, Adam Winkler
Michigan Law Review
One overlooked issue in the voluminous literature on the Second Amendment is what standard of review should apply to gun control if the Amendment is read to protect an individual right to bear arms. This lack of attention may be due to the assumption that strict scrutiny would necessarily apply because the right would be "fundamental" or because the right is located in the Bill of Rights. In this Article, Professor Winkler challenges that assumption and considers the arguments for a contrary conclusion: that the Second Amendment's individual right to bear arms is appropriately governed by a deferential, reasonableness review …
Ifeminism, Ashlie Warnick
Ifeminism, Ashlie Warnick
Michigan Law Review
Laws should be judged not by their words or intentions, but by their effects and consequences. When government enacts laws designed to benefit one group, society should judge those laws first by examining whether they have, in practice, provided a net benefit to the law's intended beneficiaries. Next, any such benefit must be weighed against the costs imposed on the rest of society. If the benefits outweigh the costs, this is a socially efficient law. Government should repeal a law when the costs it imposes outweigh its benefits. When laws do not provide a net benefit to the group they …
Taking Aim At An American Myth, Paul Finkelman
Taking Aim At An American Myth, Paul Finkelman
Michigan Law Review
Every American had a musket hanging over his fireplace at night, and by his side during the day. Like Cincinnatus, time and again Americans dropped their plows to shoulder their arms, to fight the Indians, the French, the Indians, the British, the Indians, the Mexicans, the Indians yet again, and then, from 1861 to 1865, each other. American men were comfortable with guns; they needed them and wanted them. They felt at home in woods, in search of food, or in defense of their homesteads. It is a story as old as our first pulp novels and earliest movies. It …
The Second Amendment: Structure, History, And Constitutional Change, David Yassky
The Second Amendment: Structure, History, And Constitutional Change, David Yassky
Michigan Law Review
A fierce debate about the Second Amendment has been percolating in academia for two decades, and has now bubbled through to the courts. The question at the heart of this debate is whether the Amendment restricts the government's ability to regulate the private possession of firearms. Since at least 1939 - when the Supreme Court decided United States v. Miller, its only decision squarely addressing the scope of the right to "keep and bear Arms" - the answer to that question has been an unqualified "no." Courts have brushed aside Second Amendment challenges to gun control legislation, reading the Amendment …
The Privilege To Keep And Bear Arms: The Second Amendment And Its Interpretation, William A. Walker
The Privilege To Keep And Bear Arms: The Second Amendment And Its Interpretation, William A. Walker
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Privilege to Keep and Bear Arms: The Second Amendment and Its Interpretation by Warren Freedman
Two New Books On Guns, Franklin E. Zimring
Two New Books On Guns, Franklin E. Zimring
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Under The Gun: Weapons, Crime and Violence in America by James D. Wright, Peter H. Rossi and Kathleen Daly and Firearms and Violence: Issues of Public Policy edited by Don B. Kates, Jr.
Handgun Prohibition And The Original Meaning Of The Second Amendment, Don B. Kates Jr.
Handgun Prohibition And The Original Meaning Of The Second Amendment, Don B. Kates Jr.
Michigan Law Review
One of the purposes of this Article will be to sketch out at least some of the very substantial limitations on the right of individuals to keep and bear arms suggested by the historical evidence. First, however, the controversy between the individual right and the exclusively state's right views must be resolved. The evidence to be examined must include: the literal language of the second amendment; the history of its proposal and ratification; the philosophical and historical background that gave rise to the Founders' belief in "the necessity of an armed populace to effect popular sovereignty"; and the contemporary understanding …
Bakal: The Right To Bear Arms, Virgil W. Peterson
Bakal: The Right To Bear Arms, Virgil W. Peterson
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Right To Bear Arms by Carl Bakal