Legal Issues is a new addition to the Online Articles section. This section features important documentation pertaining to legal issues that face our government.
Many of these documents are crucial enough to also be included on either our Links or General RKBA sections. They are set-aside here as your one-stop resource guide for researching the true meaning of the Second Amendment.
CONSTITUTIONS & THE FOUNDING FATHERS
NEW: ACLU & the SECOND AMENDMENT
What the Second Amendment says, by Chuck Klein.
Quotes from the Founding Fathers of Our Country and Others
Right to Bear Arms - U.S. and State Constitutional Provisions
Concealed Carry Reciprocity - A State to State Listing
FindLaw.com on the Second Amendment - No "definitive resolution" by the Courts
U.S. Senate Report on Second Amendment as an Individual Right
Selected Text from Black's Handbook of American Constitutional Law (1st Ed., 1895)
Were Guns Scarce in Early America? A Response to Michael Bellesiles
Even More Information/Debates on the Right to Keep and Bear Arms
IMPORTANT FEDERAL COURT CASES
ONGOING: Federal Court Upholds Second Amendment as an Individual Right!
U.S. SUPREME COURT
• Second Amendment with LINKS to full Text.
• Second Amendment PLUS Key Gun Cases & Other Decisions of Interest with LINKS to full Text.
• Federal Courts Finder - U.S. Supreme Court/Appeals Courts/District Courts
FEDERAL APPEALS & DISTRICT COURTS
• Second Amendment with LINKS to full Text (coming soon)
• Summary of Second Amendment Cases with LINKS to full Text (coming soon)
• Second Amendment PLUS Key Gun Cases & Other Decisions of Interest with LINKS to full Text. (coming soon)
• Summary of All Above Cases of Interest with LINKS to full Text (coming soon)
• Federal Courts Finder - U.S. Supreme Court/Appeals Courts/District Courts
LAW REVIEWS & GENERAL RESEARCH
Second Amendment Law Library
What is the "Militia"? And Who are "The People"?
A Right to Keep and Bear Arms? The State of the Debate
Gun Control as Crime Control
Proof Repeating Firearms Predated the Second Amendment
Federal Courts Finder - U.S. Supreme Court/Appeals Courts/District Courts
Sources on the Second Amendment and Rights to Keep and Bear Arms in Key Documents, Court Cases & Constitutions
Testimony of Prof. Eugene Volokh on the Second Amendment, Senate Subcommittee on the Constitution, Sept. 23, 1998
The Second Amendment as Teaching Tool in Constitutional Law Classes
GunCite.com
Founding Documents
Liberty Library of Constitutional Classics
National Archives and Records Administration
Cornell Law School Index/Links
GUN LAWS
GunLaws.com
NFA and Other Gun Law Related Info and Court Cases
Constitutions, Statutes and Codes
Currently effective Militia Act- See also PERPICH v. DEPT. of DEFENSE
Concealed Carry Reciprocity - A State to State Listing
Findlaw.com
