We provide you with updates of the Institute's current research, publications, events and media programs, plus comment on current affairs. Institute Publishes New Edition of Second Amendment Classic 2. Unfortunately for Mr. Bellesile' s reputation, a growing number of historians are taking issue with his claim, pointing out misquotations or citations that failed to support his claims, his neglect of memoirs that contradict his thesis, and his gross oversight of probate records or estate inventories that included firearms.
Shoddy research is nothing to celebrate.
Since the original publication of Halbrook's book in 1984, legal scholarship has come to favor the individual-right interpretation of the Second Amendment. The question is not whether this trend will affect the courts, but when. Halbrook also explains why the first generation of Americans fought so hard for inclusion of the Second Amendment in the Bill of Rights, how courts viewed the Amendment before and after the Civil War, and why understanding the Fourteenth Amendment is essential for understanding today's gun control debates. The Evolution of a Constitutional Right . The collapse of the Soviet Bloc a decade ago should have driven a stake through the heart of the myth of statist efficiency.