The Second Amendment provides U.S. citizens the right to bear arms. Ratified in December 1791, the amendment says: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the ...

What today’s Second Amendment activists forget: The right to not bear arms. As militias gather and march, they exercise a super-sized version of a right invented by gun advocates, not the Founders.

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. —Amendment II Modern debates about the meaning ...

March 20, 2007 Yes, the Second Amendment Guarantees an Individual Right to Bear Arms By Pierre Atlas. On March 9, the Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia issued a groundbreaking ...

“A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”—The Second Amendment to the US Constitution ...

The Right to Bear Arms : Throughline In April 1938, an Oklahoma bank robber was arrested for carrying an unregistered sawed-off shotgun across state lines. The robber, Jack Miller, put forward a ...

President of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law Michael Waldman talks about the original intent of the Second Amendment as it relates to militias and the right to bear arms.

The Second Amendment provides that “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” ...

With Heller as plaintiff, it is the first test since 1939 of whether the Second Amendment supports an individual's right to bear arms and not just a state's right to form a militia. It is a ...

What is the Second Amendment and why can the 'right to bear arms' cause so much argument and debate? The amendment has become increasingly more controversial since it was adopted in 1791 ...

When it comes to the “right to bear arms,” which the Second Amendment protects, many people fall into one of two camps. Folks in the first camp views those rights as absolute, or close to it.

Second Amendment Roundup: ATF's Final Rule Implicates the Right to Bear Arms Its restrictions on self-made firearms are inconsistent with the Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation.