To Trust the People with Arms: The Supreme Court and the Second Amendment Cottrol Robert J.
To Trust the People with Arms: The Supreme Court and the Second Amendment Cottrol Robert J. In 2007, for the first time in nearly seventy years, the Supreme Court decided to hear a case involving the…
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To Trust the People with Arms: The Supreme Court and the Second Amendment Cottrol Robert J.
In 2007, for the first time in nearly seventy years, the Supreme Court decided to hear a case involving the Second Amendment. Heller (2008) was the first time the Court declared a firearms restriction to be unconstitutional on the basis of the Second Amendment. The resulting decision in District of Columbia v.
City of Chicago, and in 2022, the Court further expanded its support for Second Amendment rights in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. It was followed two years later by a similar decision in McDonald v. Bruen--a decision whose far-reaching implications are still being unraveled.
To Trust the People with Arms explores the remarkable and complex legal history of how the right to bear arms was widely accepted during the nation's founding, was near extinction in the late twentieth century, and is now experiencing a rebirth in the Supreme