Policing the Second Amendment provides a framework for thinking about how the right to arms plays out for people of color.
Nicholas J. Johnson
The complaint actually reads more like an attempt at healing than a serious legal claim.
Where in the enumerated federal powers is there anything close to the authority to infringe on the right to keep and bear arms for self-defense?
Debates about gun control suffer from the fact that the most ardent proponents of stricter policies know so little about firearms and existing law.
It is heartening that Danny Glover has read Carl Bogus' work on the Second Amendment, but there is a lot more to the story than what Bogus offers.
Nicholas J. Johnson is Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law is the author of Negroes and the Gun: The Black Tradition of Arms. He is the lead editor of Firearms Law and the Second Amendment: Cases and Materials (Aspen Press, 2012).