Firearms law and the Second Amendment regulation
Subtitle: rights, and policy
By: Nicholas J. Johnson ... [et al.].
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Law & Business
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1008
ISBN-13: 9781454805113
Subjects: United States; Gun control; Law and legislation; Firearms; History
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: A brief introduction to firearms and their regulation; title: Antecedents of the second amendment; title: The colonies and the revolution; title: The new constitution; title: The right to arms, militias, and slavery in the early republic; title: And antebellum periods; title: Reconstruction and beyond; title: A new and dangerous century; title: Between Miller and Heller : the Second Amendment in the modern era; title: The Supreme Court affirms an individual right to arms; title: Firearms policy and status : race, gender, age, disability, and sexual orientation; title: Applying the affirmed right to arms.