This book examines the historical, legal, political, and cultural controversies surrounding the U.S. federal Second Amendment right to bear arms. The Second Amendment is not merely a constitutional ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post via Getty Images) The Supreme Court has made a mess of the law concerning the Second ...

When people say the Second Amendment should be abolished because it was “written for muskets,” they’re ignoring both history and logic. If we applied that reasoning across the Constitution, we’d also ...

The Second Amendment, Sensitive Places, and Comprehensive Government Security compendium by Dr. Angus McClellan has just been posted on SSRN. This comprehensive survey of historic "gun free zones" ...

Two hundred and fifty years after Americans declared independence from Britain and began writing the first state constitutions, it’s not the Constitution that’s dead. It’s the idea of amending it.

One mass shooting after another, one accidental child death after another tears through this country on an almost daily basis. Once again, lawmakers hide behind “thoughts and prayers,” while clinging ...