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In 2007, for the first time in nearly seventy years, the Supreme Court decided to hear a case involving the Second Amendment. The resulting decision in District of Columbia v. Heller (2008) was the first time the Court declared a firearms restriction to be unconstitutional on the basis of the…

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1 author picked To Trust the People with Arms as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

A remarkable narrative about the history of gun regulation and the judicial treatment of the right to keep and bear arms from the Founding to today. Although this is my field, I learned a ton by reading this book.

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