The Second Amendment gives American citizens the right to keep and bear arms, but why is it considered a fundamental freedom?

Supported by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s American History and Civics Education Program, the Firearms Research Center (FRC) at the University of Wyoming College of Law will host the ...

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Patriots' Day -- Ratification -- The tub to the whale -- Arkansas toothpicks, Beecher's bibles, and the Fourteenth Amendment -- Revolt at Cincinnati -- Contest for the Constitution -- The road to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Three variations of the AR-15 rifle are displayed at the California Department of Justice in Sacramento. (Rich Pedroncelli / ...

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 ...

King Kamehameha I united the Hawaiian Islands to create the Kingdom of Hawaii. His statue stands outside of Ali'iolani Hale, the home of the Hawaii Supreme Court. (Candace Cheung/Courthouse News) ...

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 contrast in ...

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 ...

On January 27, in United States v. Hembree, the Fifth Circuit held that the federal felon firearm ban (18 USC 922(g)(1)) based on a conviction for simple possession of methamphetamine violates the ...

In previous articles, I explored two of the biggest unanswered questions in the Second Amendment space: Who are “the people,” and what constitutes “Arms”? In the landmark case of District of ...