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Guns And Commerce In Dialectical Perspective, Thomas Lundmark

Brigham Young University Journal of Public Law

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Guns, Words, And Constitutional Interpretation, L. A. Powe Jr.

William & Mary Law Review

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Communitarians, Neorepublicans, And Guns: Assessing The Case For Firearms Prohibition, David B. Kopel, Christopher C. Little

Maryland Law Review

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Taking A Second Look At The Second Amendment And Modem Gun Control Laws, David E. Johnson

Kentucky Law Journal

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Finding The Right Target, Richard C. Reuben

Faculty Publications

It is no surprise that the most significant handgun control law passed by Congress has produced a potential blockbuster case before the U.S. Supreme Court. After all, intense debate has been going on for years over the extent of the right to bear arms under

the Second Amendment. Congress took more than a decade to pass the Brady Handgun Control Act of 1993, 18 U.S.C. § 922(s), named for James Brady, the press secretary to President Reagan who was wounded in a 1981 assassination attempt. But while a pair of cases challenging the Brady Act might have been expected to …

Principles And Passions: The Intersection Of Abortion And Gun Rights , Nicholas J. Johnson

Faculty Scholarship

In this article, Professor Nicholas J. Johnson explores the parallels between the right of armed self-defense and the woman's right to abortion. Professor Johnson demonstrates that the theories and principles advanced to support the abortion right intersect substantially with an individual's right to armed self-defense. Professor Johnson uncovers common ground between the gun and abortion rights - two rights that have come to symbolize society's deepest social and cultural divisions - divisions that prompt many to embrace the abortion right while summarily rejecting the gun right. Unreflective disparagement of the gun right, he argues, threatens the vitality of the abortion …