ATF Pistol Brace Rule: An “Experiment of your Disposition”
With an enforcement deadline looming at the end of May, potentially affecting millions of stabilizing braces, the new ATF rule is โ as the founders told us โ a test or an โexperiment of your disposition.โ The Department of Justice (DOJ) submitted its โFinal Ruleโ on...
Refuting the “Second Amendment Protected Slavery” Argument Part III: Ratifying the Bill of Rights
With the Constitution ratified by the necessary states in 1788, it officially became the supreme law of the land in the states so ratifying.ย Up until this point in the story, there wasnโt a single piece of direct, or even indirect evidence, of a concerted effort to...
Refuting the โSecond Amendment Protected Slaveryโ Argument Part II: The Virginia Ratifying Convention
Note: This is the second in a three-part series examining a pro-slavery interpretation of the Second Amendment that persists to this day. You can read part 1 HERE. The Hidden History of the Second Amendmentย by law professor Carl T. Bogus argued that James...