Early Firearm Legislation and Control
Firearms and Weapon Legislation up to the 20th Century
GUN LAW HISTORY IN THE UNITED STATES AND SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS
FIREARMS OWNERSHIP & MANUFACTURING IN EARLY AMERICA
Arms and The Man: What did the Right to Keep Arms Mean in the Early Republic?
A Well Regulated Right: Early American Origins of Gun Control
Ohio 1933 Gun Law required permitting and bonding of certain semi-automatic firearms. See also my Google Doc article on overthrowing the govt is not a right here.
Taxes in Early pre and Colonial America: https://www.hoover.org/research/colonial-roots-american-taxation-1607-1700. Includes references to gunpowder.
Five types of gun laws the Founding Fathers loved
Counting Guns in Early America
Grammar and the Second Amendment Meanings
Clauses in the Second Amendment
Guns and Grammar: Commas and the Second Amendment
The Second Amendment in Context: The Case of the Vanishing Predicate
Argument: Owning Guns Preserves Freedom
Owning Guns Doesn’t Preserve Freedom
Argument: Universal Background Checks Would Require Registration
We already have an indirect method of registration. If the Govt wanted to it could track purchases via bank transactions and serial numbers by issuing subpoenas to banks. It could then deduce, using AI and cross-referencing various data tables that you bought a firearm. The data exists as does a way to track purchases. It’s really only a matter of time before we end up with de facto registration.
Hunting and the Second Amendment
HUNTING AND THE SECOND AMENDMENT
Controlling Slaves and the Second Amendment
Hidden History of the Second Amendment: Controlling Slaves
Court Briefs
Misc
The Slippery Slope Argument: If everything is a slippery slope, then nothing is. Specifically, just because we ban semi-auto rifles doesn’t also mean we confiscate them.
What conservatives fear about bans https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/18/opinion/assault-rifle-ban.html
Public Safety and the Right to Bear Arms
Public Safety and the Right to Bear Arms
Guns And the Right to Self Defense
The Second Amendment and the Constitutional Right to Self-Defense
Right to Carry Laws
The Second Amendment and the Personal Right to Arms.
THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND CARRY ARMS IN ANGLO-AMERICAN LAW: PRESERVING LIBERTY AND KEEPING THE PEACE
The Right to Carry Firearms Outside of the Home- A History
Do Right‐To‐Carry Laws Deter Violent Crime?
Two Guns, Four Guns, Six Guns, More Guns: Does Arming the Public Reduce Crime?
Arms and the Man: What Did the Right to “Keep” Arms Mean in the Early Republic?
My article on Permitless Carry here
Firearm Regionalism and Public Carry: Placing Southern Antebellum Case Law in Context
Buying a Gun In Another Country
Steps to buying a gun in other countries
Cincinnati Revolt
The Cincinnati Revolt which changed the NRA
Chicago and Baltimore Gun Violence
Impact of Illegal Guns on Violence in Chicago
Defensive Gun Uses (DGUs)
Hard to quantify but studies rely on surveys that are not reliable on their own: https://www.npr.org/2018/04/13/602143823/how-often-do-people-use-guns-in-self-defense.
Rand Corp study https://www.rand.org/research/gun-policy/analysis/essays/defensive-gun-use.html
Guns and Accidents
More guns = more accidents https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/firearms-research/gun-threats-and-self-defense-gun-use/
Guns and Crime
More guns = more crime https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2443681
Guns and Violent Crime
More guns = more violent crime: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/firearms-research/guns-and-death/. Rand Corp found limited evidence that CC = more violent crime https://www.rand.org/research/gun-policy/analysis/concealed-carry/violent-crime.html
Red Flag Laws
Liberty is restricted when there is a threat: https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/red-flag-laws-yes-we-limit-liberty-when-theres-evidence-of-a-threat/
Argument: Polling Questions as a result show false support for UBS
Public Support for Gun Violence Prevention Policies Among Gun Owners and Non–Gun Owners in 2017
Gallup Polling on guns https://news.gallup.com/poll/1645/guns.aspx
Majorities of gun and non-gun owners support restrictions: https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/abs/10.1377/hlthaff.2019.00576?. See also image
Second Amendment History
The Armed Citizen In the Early Republic
To Keep and Bear Arms in the Early Republic
Tench Coxe and the Right to Keep and Bear Arms 1787 to 1823
A MODERN HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE SECOND AMENDMENT
Scrutinizing the Second Amendment
The History and Politics of Second Amendment Scholarship: A Primer
The Militia and the Second Amendment
The Militia and the Right to Arms, or, How the Second Amendment Fell Silent
Book review of the above: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/50663
Selling Guns on Facebook
People sell guns on Facebook and use creative means to get around censors. See: https://www.wsj.com/articles/gun-sellers-use-new-tactic-to-deal-on-facebook-marketplace-11598270872.
Owning Guns Prevents Tyranny
Banning Firearms Reduces Murder and Suicide
WOULD BANNING FIREARMS REDUCE MURDER AND SUICIDE?
Summary of Select Firearm Violence Prevention Strategies
John Lott
Shooting Down the Gun Lobby’s Favorite “Academic”: A Lott of Lies
Militia Muster Rolls
Muster Rolls showing who owned what guns
After being required to billet Redcoats in their own homes, many didn’t want, and the broke government was unable able to pay for, a standing army. So they set up the militia system where citizens would be trained by the states and called up as necessary. It was to protect the US from enemies outside of the US or to go to war to gain territory. The Founders didn’t imagine they would not answer the call, but the New York militia refused in the War of 1812. When you read the history of the Civil War you read of the individual states’ units that were called up.
The legacy of that system is the National Guard. The Militia Act of 1903 started the federalization of the system, which eventually led to acts in 1916 where the Fed paid the expenses, and in 1933 all National Guardsmen have been members of both their State National Guard (or militia) and the National Guard of the United States.
Madison Federalist Argument: Federalist 46
- THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU for finally admitting your hypocrisy on gun regulations by referring to Madison’s word. As you correctly point out, Madison says we need militias “officered by men chosen from among themselves, fighting for their common liberties, and united and conducted by governments possessing their affections and confidence … the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of.”
OR did you not understand that Madison is saying that unregulated vigilantes with unregulated weapons are a threat to us? Did you completely miss the point that the 2A never, nowhere, refers people outside a regulated group with officers appointed by a government subordinate to the affections and confidence of the citizens in the community raising the militia? When you ask what part of “shall not be infringed” people don’t understand, IT’S THE PART WHERE YOU WILLFULLY IGNORE THIS INTENT OF THE 2A AND INSTEAD SHOVE GUNS INTO THE HANDS OF HOMEGROWN TERRORISTS SO THEY CAN SLAUGHTER OUR SCHOOLCHILDREN IN THEIR CLASSROOMS. You, an elected public servant, charged with representing the safety and security interests of Ohioans, are instead dismantling the very mechanisms Madison tells you are the regulations necessary for the security of a free State.
Why will you not do your duty to our community? Why will you not #dosomething? Why are you mocking Madison’s very words you posted? Why? Why? Why? How many dead Ohioans will it take? How many dead schoolchildren will be enough for you to do your job? - Hamilton has a different hot take in Federalist 29. As do Samuel Bryan and Luther Martin in the Anti-Federalist Papers.