An appellate panel in Cincinnati upheld a man’s conviction for owning a machine gun and limited the protections of the Second ...

The second way to propose an amendment is by two-thirds “…of the several States,” which “…call a Convention for proposing Amendments….” The first process is by far the more popular.

The Second Amendment in the Bill of Rights guarantees gun rights for millions of Americans and has contributed to the United States becoming the most heavily armed population in the world. However ...

There are twenty-seven words in the second amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Tragically, the selective misinterpretation of these words by the National Rifle Association, pseudo originalists ...

The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution says, “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not ...

Passed by Congress September 25, 1789. Ratified December 15, 1791. The first 10 amendments form the Bill of Rights Modern debates about the Second Amendment have focused on whether it protects a ...

For example, consider the historical context in which the Second Amendment was first adopted. When the Constitution was ratified in 1789 it lacked the Bill of Rights.

In 2008, the United States Supreme Court held, in District of Columbia v. Heller, that the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution protects an individual right to keep and bear arms.

The Second Amendment, moreover, is devoid of the absolutist “no law” language that the NRA and its acolytes promote. To end where I began, libertarians aren’t anarchists.

You come to the 14th Amendment, where it says: "No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States." ...

The “why” of the Second Amendment in the 1780s is very different from answering that same question in 2017.