Why do civilians own AR-15s? This is one of the questions I hear most frequently when people learn I study American gun culture. Sometimes genuine curiosity motivates the question, but more often it is a statement masquerading as a question: Civilians should not be able...
Read MoreThe Seventh Circuit recently held in Bevis v. City of Naperville, — F.3d — (7th Cir. Nov. 3, 2023), that AR-15s are not “arms” protected by the Second Amendment because they are “almost the same” as machine guns and other weapons “exclusively or predominantly useful...
Read MoreE. Gregory Wallace is a Professor of Law at Campbell University School of Law, where his constitutional law courses include a course on the Second Amendment. He has written and spoken extensively about “assault weapons.” He is co-author of the third edition of the textbook...
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