Volume 5                         	Fall 1993  	Number 1

		Journal on Firearms and Public Policy

The Journal on Firearms and Public Policy is the official publication
of the Center for the Study of Firearms and Public Policy of the
Second Amendment Foundation.

Editor				Associate Editors

Julianne Versnel Gottlieb	John Barnett
Women & Guns Magazine		Second Amendment Foundation
				Editorial Assistant

				Harry J. Mills
Kristen Joy Smith		Second Amendment Foundation
Merril Press

Paul Williams			Timothy Sekerak, J.D.
Citizens Committee for the Right Citizens Committee for the Right
to Keep and Bear Arms		 to Keep and Bear Arms

David Bordua, Ph.D.		Gary Kleck, Ph.D.
David I. Caplan, Ph.D., J.D.	Edward F. Leddy, Ph.D.
Brendan Furnish, Ph.D.		Joseph P. Tartaro
Alan M. Gottlieb		William Tonso, Ph.D..
Don B. Kates, Jr., J.D.		James K. Whisker, Ph.D.

JOURNAL POLICY

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of whether their conclusions support the Foundation's positions on
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CONTENTS

Articles in this issue of the Journal on Firearms and Public Policy
are based on some of the papers presented at a Second Amendment
Symposium held at University of Arizona College of Law in
commemoration of the Bicentennial of the Bill of Rights. This program
was chaired by Sandra S. Froman, Attorney, Snell & Wilmer and
Elizabeth Hoffman, Associate Dean and Professor of Economics, Karl
Eller Graduate School of Management at the University of Arizona.
Funding for the Second Amendment Symposium was provided by a grant
from the Second Amendment Foundation, through private donations to the
University of Arizona Law College Fund, and by a grant from the
Arizona Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States
Constitution.  Special thanks go to Mrs. Caroline Roberts for her
generous support of this program.

The Right to Keep and Bear Arms
Under the Second and Fourteenth Amendments:
the Framers' Intent and  Supreme Court Jurisprudence
	Stephen P.  Halbrook	page 7

The "Assault Weapon"Panic
	David Kopel		Page 29

The Second Amendment and
the Historiography of the Bill of Rights
	David T. Hardy		page 67

The Role of the Militia in the Development
of the Englishman's Right to Be Armed _
Clarifying the Legacy
	Joyce Lee Malcolm	page 139

The Right to Keep and Bear Arms
in State Bills of Rights and Judicial Interpretation
	Robert Dowlut		page 153