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How Much Constitution Do You Need?

Donald Kilmer is a Professor of Constitutional Law at Lincoln University Law School, where his courses include Second Amendment and Firearms Law. He is co-author of the third edition of the textbook Firearms Law and the Second Amendment. When someone uses the catchphrase “You can’t...

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A Well-Outfitted Militia

Brandon Kinney is a Ph.D., History candidate at Temple University. He specializes in German-American diplomatic and transnational history. In a recent article in the American Journal of Legal History, I argue that German-American translations of the Second Amendment provide evidence that the original public meaning...

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“[B]eing Necessary to the Security of a Free State …”: Understanding a Possible Relationship Between the Second Amendment and the Rule of Law

This is a guest post based on a paper that was presented at the 2023 Firearms Law Works-In-Progress Workshop. The Workshop is held each year on a home-and-away basis with the Duke Center for Firearms Law. The relationship between the Second Amendment and the jurisprudential concept of...

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