Negative Space: second amendment
- A compromise proposal for Kentucky Quakers
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The left’s hypothetical Quaker already exists across the country, denying carry licenses because he disagrees with a constitutional right to bear arms.
- Court cases regarding firearms
- Negative Space text archive of files on /pub/Firearms/Government/Courts/
- Firearms Essays
- Negative Space text archive of files on /pub/Firearms/Essays/
- Firearms Politics
- Firearms safety, second amendment scholarship, and other firearms links.
- Firearms Sites
- Web pages dealing with firearms and the second amendment.
- Government action on firearms
- Negative Space text archive of files on /pub/Firearms/Government/
- The insecurity of an unfree state
- Glenn Reynolds takes a look at the prefatory clause to the second amendment and asks, if we don’t have a militia, are we unfree, insecure, or both?
- More liberal than the ACLU
- If the people in the second amendment really means “state organizations”, what do the people in the first amendment mean?
- Necessary to the Security of a Free State
- We cannot have a free state when citizens are not encouraged to be responsible for their own defense.
- Second Amendment Scholarship
- Web pages and books on the history and legal meaning of the second amendment, as well as history and current studies of firearms in society.
- U.S. Supreme Court firearms cases
- Negative Space text archive of files on /pub/Firearms/Government/Courts/U.S. Supreme Court/
- U.S. v. Miller text and commentary
- Negative Space text archive of files on /pub/Firearms/Government/Courts/U.S. Supreme Court/Miller/
- United States vs. Miller
- U.S. v. Miller is often quoted as having upheld gun control but in fact it did no such thing. It’s a short case, and I recommend reading it for yourself.
More Information
- RKBA.ORG
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Featuring more political information than you can shake a stick at, focusing on the right to keep and bear arms.
- Treating the Second Amendment as Normal Constitutional Law
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“The modern American legal profession has been thoroughly acculturated to Max Weber's conception of the modern state as the monopolist of all legitimate force--a principle in tension with the private keeping of arms for self-defense.”
