“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
Second Amendment scholars and historians have almost completely skipped over a detailed analysis of the debates in the First Congress. What wasn’t discussed might be as important as what was. In his dissenting view in the Second Amendment case Heller v. District of...
If you’re like me, you’ve heard a lot of people talking lately about how the 2nd Amendment is under attack. And it sure is – in a pretty serious way. Unfortunately, however, a lot of these same people come across as if the attacks really just started in the last...
In 2021, the Biden administration continued a trend of aggressive federal gun control enforcement, with numbers at or near record levels. But this isn’t something limited to Joe Biden, or even just Democrats. Both parties have utterly failed to abide by the...
Tench Coxe isn’t well-known today, but he was an influential figure in the founding era. Coxe advocated for the new Constitution and the Bill of Rights, and he wrote extensively about the right to keep and bear arms. In their paper Tench Coxe And The Right To Keep...
If you’re like me, you’ve been hearing a constant barrage of attacks on the 2nd amendment – and your natural right to keep and bear arms.Personally – I think things are at an emergency level. But at the same time – I’m not going to...