All Articles tagged Second Amendment

• General
  January 06, 2023 EDT
  ABANDONING ORIGINAL MEANING
  Michael L. Smith

  This article argues the United States Supreme Court has abandoned the original public meaning approach in its recent opinions in Bruen, Dobbs, and Kennedy.

• New York Appeals
  May 05, 2017 EDT
  UNIVERSAL BACKGROUND CHECKING—NEW YORK’S SAFE ACT
  James B. JacobsZoe A. Fuhr

  This article focuses on the SAFE Act’s requirement that all sellers, indeed all transferors, of firearms and ammunition initiate purchaser (transferee) background checks.

• General
  March 23, 2015 EDT
  THE CONTINUING BATTLE OVER THE SECOND AMENDMENT
  Allen Rostron

  This article provides an updated look at the ongoing battle over the Second Amendment in the lower courts.

• General
  March 23, 2015 EDT
  A LOADED DEBATE: THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
  Michael R. Lieberman

  Foreword to symposium.

• General
  March 23, 2015 EDT
  NEW YORK’S NOT SO “SAFE” ACT: THE SECOND AMENDMENT IN AN ALICE-IN-WONDERLAND WORLD WHERE WORDS HAVE NO MEANING
  Stephen P. Halbrook

  This note states that arguments that seek to justify the SAFE Act reflect a fundamental misunderstanding of the basic nature of the right to keep and bear arms.

• General
  May 13, 2014 EDT
  THE ASSAULT WEAPONS BAN-POLITICS, THE SECOND AMENDMENT, AND THE COUNTRY‘S CONTINUED WILLINGNESS TO SACRIFICE INNOCENT LIVES FOR “FREEDOM”
  John J. Phelan IV

  This note analyzes the flaws in the now-expired Assault Weapons Ban and proposes that a new assault weapons ban be enacted without the fundamental weaknesses of the initial ban.