Through Insty comes these links to new Second Amendment research:
Stephen P. Halbrook, "St. George Tucker's Second Amendment: Deconstructing 'The True Palladium of Liberty,'"
The article also points out deficiencies in Saul Cornell's treatment of Tucker; Cornell has a tendency to quote Tucker's analysis of militia issues as if the analysis were about the Second Amendment, and to gloss over what Tucker actually wrote about the Second Amendment.
"What Does 'Bear Arms' Imply?" Working Paper by Clayton Cramer and Joseph Olson.
Cramer and Olson show that "bear arms" never had an exclusively military connotation, either before ratification of the Second Amendment, or in the following decades.
"Pistols, Crime, and Public Safety in Early America" is another Working Paper by Cramer and Olson.
The authors show that the governments of Founding Era were familiar with handguns, and never regulated them differently from long guns.
Good stuff, there.
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