When people say the Second Amendment should be abolished because it was “written for muskets,” they’re ignoring both history and logic. If we applied that reasoning across the Constitution, we’d also ...

Joshua Villanueva is JURIST’s Washington, DC Correspondent and an LL.M. candidate in National Security and U.S. Foreign Relations Law at The George Washington University Law School.  The Supreme ...

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The Justice Department recently established a "Second Amendment Section" within its Civil Rights Division. On its face, that move is a welcome development for defenders of the constitutional right to ...

With the Supreme Court back in session, the justices are preparing to weigh two Second Amendment challenges. One will look at whether it is constitutional to restrict people from carrying firearms on ...

On August 18, the Second Circuit decided Kellogg v. Nichols, a suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against a New York state judge who denied applications by two individuals for firearm licenses. The court ...

The Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution doesn’t just say Congress shall not infringe the right to “keep and bear Arms.” It specifically says that right exists in order to maintain “a well ...

So the framers intended the Second Amendment to guarantee the rights of Americans not only to “keep and bear arms” for their personal protection but also to organize themselves into a protective force ...