Dr. Angus McClellan has just posted 151 pages of “Additional Research on Comprehensive Security and Sensitive Places” showing that at the Founding armed security was tied to each of Bruen’s three sensitive places where arms could be restricted. Historical tradition from the American colonies and early states demonstrates that the predicate for banning weapons by the public at courts, legislative assemblies, and polling places was the government’s provision of real protection in fact. That research supplements Dr. McClellan’s compendium “The Second Amendment, Sensitive Places, and Comprehensive Government Security” which I summarized here.

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