By MarkPA Back when I was in high school, we spoke simply of “gun control.” Congress passed “An Act to amend title 18, United States Code, to provide for better control of the interstate traffic in firearms”, more simply called the “Gun Control Act of 1968”. Somewhere along the way, the rhetoric changed. The phrase … Read more
By MarkPA Nelson Lund of George Mason Law, in his forthcoming Northwestern Law Review article, offers a provocative view of the gun control debate. One relatively minor point struck me as especially important: . . . [V]ery few actual regulations effectively eliminate the right of individual Americans to keep or bear arms for the purpose … Read more
Massachusetts being Massachusetts, legislators there had passed a law banning stun guns. Why? Because they could and besides, why should Bay Staters have any more personal protection options than their elected representatives can possibly get away with prohibiting? Jaime Caetano was arrested for carrying a stun gun because she feared an abusive boyfriend. The Massachusetts … Read more
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