The meme said George Washington said that "when government takes away citizens’ right to bear arms it becomes citizens’ duty to take away government’s right to govern." ...

John Adams wrote the "right to keep and to bear arms" into the Massachusetts Constitution a decade before it appeared in the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

First, Adams' understanding of the right to bear arms is fundamentally incompatible with New York's assertions in NYSRPA v. Bruen about the meaning of the Statute of Northampton and its analogs.

‘To bear arms’ didn’t always mean what today’s pro-gun crowd thinks. Antique dueling pistols, on view at the Grange, the home of Alexander Hamilton in New York.

Amendment 1 gave citizens the right in the state's constitution to bear arms. Proponents said it will help protect citizens' right to carry and own firearms in the state.

On Thursday afternoon, the U.S. Supreme Court af firmed the constitutional right to keep and bear arms. The 5-4 decision by the justices was based on scholarly and historical interpretation of the ...

Like Mexico, Guatemala permits gun ownership, but with severe restrictions. The right to bear arms is recognized and regulated by article 38 of the current constitution, which was established in 1985.

Professor Robert Leider and I have a new article on the right to keep and bear arms available on SSRN. It is called The General Law Right to Bear Arms and it is part of a symposium in the Notre ...

Misinterpreting the Right to Bear Arms. Richard A. Epstein, N.Y.U. School of Law Risks of Permanent Punishment. Leonard Noisette, Open Society Foundations ...