Gun Control and the Constitution

Robert J. Cottrol RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY SCHOOL OF LAW

• I. GENERAL INTRODUCTION II. INTRODUCTION TO GUN CONTROL AND THE CONSTITUTION III. COURT OPINIONS Aymette vs. The State; Presser v. Illinois; United States v. Miller et al; IV. CONGRESS Firearms Owners’ Protection Act; Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act; V. GENERAL TOPICS Handgun Prohibition and the Original Meaning of the Second Amendment; The Embarrassing Second Amendment; Arms, Anarchy and the Second Amendment; VI. THE ENGLISH BACKGROUND Standing Armies and Armed Citizens: An Historical Analysis of the Second Amendment; The Right of the People to Keep and Bear Arms: The Common Law Tradition; VII. CITIZENSHIP, REPUBLICANISM, AND THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS The Ideological Origns of the Second Amendment; An Armed Community: The Origins and Meaning of the Right to Bear Arms; Civic Republicanism and the Citizen Militia: The Terrifying Second Amendment; The Fourteenth Amendment and The Right To Keep and Bear Arms: The Intent of the Framers; The Second Amendment: Toward an Afro-Americanist Reconsideration