Heller and Beyond: The Gun Rights Movement’s Decades-Long Effort to Redefine the Terms of the Second Amendment
Despite Scalia’s professed methodology, we can also understand his opinion for the majority [in D.C. v. Heller] as an example of the modern understanding of the right to keep and bear arms, itself heavily influenced by the gun rights movement. Shortly after the Court decided Heller, Professor Reva Siegel described how “Heller’s originalism enforces … Read more
