Law professor keeps steady hand in analyzing gun control | The Columbus Dispatch

I don't like linking to the LA times which is notoriously anti-gun, as is Bloomberg News and the NYTimes for that matter. But this article is a book review and it seems reasonably balanced.

Law professor keeps steady hand in analyzing gun control | The Columbus Dispatch: "Adam Winkler’s Gunfight is a potboiler of constitutional interpretation and is both a vital history and an intellectually satisfying, emotionally rewarding tale of a great case.

The backbone of the book is District of Columbia v. Heller, a landmark gun-control case decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2008. Heller tested the question of whether the Second Amendment protected militias and reached individuals only derivatively or whether it guaranteed every American the right to own a firearm. No decision of the Supreme Court had ever reached the latter conclusion, and others had tipped the other way, upholding, for instance, the right of the government to restrict machine guns."


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