The Second Amendment: Historical Issues
Books
That Every Man Be Armed
Freedmen, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Right to Bear Arms, 1866-1876
A Right to Bear Arms
Short Articles
‘Arming America’ or Disarming Reality? American Rifleman (January 2001)
The Arms of the People Should Be Taken Away American Rifleman (March 1989)
Framers Didn't Want National Police Force National Law Journal (January 1994)
Guns and Prohibition, in Al Capone's Day and Now Wall Street Journal (April 1989)
To Keep and Bear Arms The Republic (May 1995)
Were the Founding Fathers in Favor of Gun Ownership? Washington Times (November 2000) ¿Estaban los Padres Fundadores a Favor de la Tenencia de Armas? (Spanish version)
Law Review Articles
Congress Interprets the Second Amendment: Declarations by a Co-Equal Branch on the Individual Right to Keep and Bear Arms Tennessee Law Review (1995)
Encroachments of the Crown on the Liberty of the Subject: Pre-Revolutionary Origins of the Second Amendment University of Dayton Law Review (1989)
The Fourteenth Amendment and the Right to Keep and Bear Arms: The Intent of the Framers Senate Report (1982)
The Freedmen's Bureau Act and the Conundrum Over Whether the Fourteenth Amendment Incorporates the Second Amendment Northern Kentucky Law Review (2002)
The Jurisprudence of the Second and Fourteenth Amendments George Mason University Law Review (1981)
Miller versus Texas: Police Violence, Race Relations, Capital Punishment, and Gun-Toting in Texas in the Nineteenth Century--and Today Journal of Law and Policy (2001)
Personal Security, Personal Liberty, and The Constitutional Right to Bear Arms: Visions of the Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment Seton Hall Constitutional Journal (1995)
The Right of the People or the Power of the State: Bearing Arms, Arming Militias, and the Second Amendment Valparaiso Law Review (1991)
The Right of Workers to Assemble and to Bear Arms: Presser v. Illinois, One of the Last Holdouts Against Application of the Bill of Rights to the States University of Detroit Mercy Law Review (Summer 1999)
To Keep and Bear Their Private Arms: The Adoption of the Second Amendment, 1787-1791 Northern Kentucky Law Review (1982)
Tench Coxe and the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, 1787-1823 William and Mary Bill of Rights Journal (February 1999)
What the Framers Intended: A Linguistic Analysis of the Right to "Bear Arms" Law and Contemporary Problems (1986)
Nazi Gun Control Policies
The Darker Side of Gun Control National Law Journal (May 2004)
Nazi Firearms Law and the Disarming of the German Jews Arizona Journal of International & Comparative Law (2000)
Registration: The Nazi Paradigm American Rifleman (June 2001) Repressão Nazista dos Donos de Armas (Portuguese version)
Firearms Law and Precedent
Firearms Law Deskbook
Supreme Court Gun Cases
Another Look at the Brady Law Washington Post (October 1994)
Attorney General Ashcroft and the Second Amendment NRA-ILA Website (August 2001)
The Bush Administration and the Second Amendment ALEC Policy Forum (Summer/Fall 2002)
Debating the Second Amendment: The Constitution protects each American’s right to own a firearm San Diego Union Tribune (May 2002)
Deconstructing the Second Amendment NewsMax.com (November 2000)
Does the United States need a national database for ballistic fingerprints? Insight on the News (November 2002)
Emerson's Second Amendment (November 2001)
Florida Court of Appeal Invalidates Trigger-Lock Ordinance (March 2002)
The People Retain the Right to Arm Themselves National Law Journal (May 1996)
'Printz' Will Have Effect on U.S. Gun Legislation National Law Journal (August 1997)
Reports of the Death of the Second Amendment Have Been Greatly Exaggerated: The Emerson Decision (November 2001)
Rewriting the Second Amendment American Rifleman (October 2001)
The Right to Bear Arms Isn't Just for Militias National Law Journal (October 1995)
Second Amendment: Post-Sniper Policy National Law Journal, New Jersey Law Journal (November 2002)
Firearms, the Fourth Amendment, and Air Carrier Security Journal of Air Law and Commerce (1987)
Rationing Firearms Purchases and the Right to Keep Arms: Reflections on the Bills of Rights of Virginia, West Virginia, and the United States West Virginia Law Review (1993)
Redefining a "Crime" as a Sentencing Factor to Circumvent the Right to Jury Trial: Harris v. United States Cato Supreme Court Review (2001-2002)
The Right to Bear Arms in Texas: The Intent of the Framers of the Bills of Rights Baylor Law Review (1989)
The Right to Bear Arms in the First State Bills of Rights: Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Vermont, and Massachusetts Vermont Law Review (1985)
The Right to Keep and Bear Arms Under the Second and Fourteenth Amendments: The Framers' Intent and Supreme Court Jurisprudence Journal on Firearms and Public Policy (Fall 1993)
Second-Class Citizenship and the Second Amendment in the District of Columbia George Mason University Civil Rights Law Journal (1995)
Suing the Firearms Industry: A Case for Federal Reform? Chapman Law Review (Spring 2004)
Tort Liability for the Manufacture, Sale, and Ownership of Handguns? Hamline Law Review (1983)
