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Firearms And Protest: Lessons From The Black Tradition Of Arms, Nicholas J. Johnson
Firearms And Protest: Lessons From The Black Tradition Of Arms, Nicholas J. Johnson
Connecticut Law Review
Kenosha was no aberration. Our history is filled with episodes of righteous protest boiling over into violence. Where violence is imminent, our traditions and laws allow innocents to use corresponding violence in self-defense. This arrangement is imperfect and demands hard thinking about how to refine and possibly improve it. One source of lessons toward this end is the experience of Black freedom fighters who navigated turmoil that dwarfs our current troubles. The principles that guided their struggle help frame a sphere of legitimate gun use during periods of civil unrest. These principles emerge from a considered philosophy and practice of …
Time To Bite The Bullet? How An Emboldened Fda Could Take Aim At The Firearms Industry, Lars Noah
Time To Bite The Bullet? How An Emboldened Fda Could Take Aim At The Firearms Industry, Lars Noah
Connecticut Law Review
Firearms continue to cause tremendous losses in the United States, prompting increasingly frustrated calls for a public health response to this endemic problem. Although Congress has legislated repeatedly on the issue over the last century, it has not managed to do anything remotely comprehensive in the aggregate. This Article offers a radical new approach that has gone entirely unnoticed. Much as it tried to do a quarter of a century ago in asserting jurisdiction over tobacco products, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) could try to use its “device” authority to rein in companies that manufacture firearms and accessories …