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Race And Guns, Courts And Democracy, Joseph Blocher, Reva B. Siegel Jan 2022

Race And Guns, Courts And Democracy, Joseph Blocher, Reva B. Siegel

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Is racism in gun regulation reason to look to the Supreme Court to expand Second Amendment rights? While discussion of race and guns recurs across the briefs in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen, it is especially prominent in the brief of legal aid attorneys and public defenders who employed their Second Amendment arguments to showcase stories of racial bias in the enforcement of New York’s licensing and gun possession laws. Because this Second Amendment claim came from a coalition on the left, it was widely celebrated by gun rights advocates.

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New Approaches To Old Questions In Gun Scholarship, Joseph Blocher Jan 2015

New Approaches To Old Questions In Gun Scholarship, Joseph Blocher

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