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The Wrong Level of Generality: Misapplying Bruen to Young-Adult Firearm Right
Three relatively recent appellate opinions—McCoy v. ATF, National Rifle Ass’n v. Bondi, and Rocky Mountain Gun Owners v. Polis—upheld modern restrictions on 18-to-20-year-old adults’…
George A. Mocsary -
ArticleVol. 101 · Iss. 1
The Territories Under Text, History, and Tradition
In two of its major decisions in the 2021–2022 Term, New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v. Bruen and Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s…
Andrew Willinger -
ArticleVol. 93 · Iss. 1
The Right to Remain Armed
The laws governing gun possession are changing rapidly. In the past two years, federal courts have wielded a revitalized Second Amendment to invalidate longstanding…
Jeffrey Bellin -
ArticleVol. 92 · Iss. 5
The Limits of Second Amendment Originalism and the Constitutional Case for Gun Control
The Supreme Court’s 2008 ruling in District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008), reshaped decades of Second Amendment precedent and jurisprudence. Using…
Lawrence Rosenthal