This article lists articles about the Second Amendment or gun
control that have been published in law reviews. David B. Kopel is an adjunct
professor law at New York University School of Law, and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal on Firearms and Public Policy.
This bibliography contains only law journals. It does not include bar
association journals and the like. An html version of this bibliography, which
will be updated from time to time, is available at http://i2i.org/suptdocs/crime/bibliography.htm.
The html bibliography will contain links to online versions of many articles.
If the law school affiliation
is not clear from the journal’s name, a parenthetical explains the journal’s
home.
Articles labeled “Comment”,
“Note”, “Casenote” and the like are written by the student editors of the law
journals. In the past, some journals did not publish the names of student
authors, or published only initials.
Full-text Internet versions
of many of the articles listed here can be found at the websites for the
Journal on Firearms and Public Policy (http://www.saf.org/journal.html);
The Second Amendment Law Library (http://www.2ndlawlib.org);
and at
the Independence Institute http://i2i.org/crimjust.htm
and http://i2i.org/waco.htm).
Some of the most important of
these articles can be found in Robert Cottrol, editor, Gun Control and the
Constitution (N.Y.: Garland Press), which is available in a 3-volume set, and
in a shorter one-volume paperback.
Akron Law Review
Anthony J. Dennis, Clearing the Smoke from the Right to Bear Arms and the Second Amendment, 29 (1995): 57.
David B. Kopel & Paul H. Blackman, Can Soldiers be Peace Officers? The Waco Disaster and the Militarization of Law Enforcement, 30 (1997): 619.
Alabama Law
Review
Nelson Lund, The Second Amendment, Political Liberty, and the Right to Self-Preservation, 39 (1987): 103.
Albany Law
Review
Note, The Right to Bear Arms: A Necessary Constitutional Guarantee or an Outmoded Provision of the Bill of Rights? 31 (1967): 74.
American Journal
of Criminal Law (Texas)
Robert Batey, Techniques of Strict Construction: The Supreme Court and the Gun Control Act of 1968, 13 (1986): 123.
Note, Mark Udulutch, The Constitutional Implications of Gun Control and Several Realistic Gun Control Proposals, 17 (1989): 19.
Note, Eric C. Morgan, Assault Rifle Legislation: Unwise and Unconstitutional, 17 (1990): 143.
Don B. Kates, The Value of Civilian Handgun Possession as a Deterrent to Crime or a Defense Against Crime, 18 (1991): 113.
American Journal
of Legal History (Temple)
William S. Fields & David T. Hardy, The Third Amendment and the Issue of the
Maintenance of Standing Armies: A Legal History, 35 (1991): 393.
James Étienne Viator, Book Review: Robert Cottrol, Gun Control and the Second Amendment, 37 (1995): 245.
American
University Law Review
Andrew J. McClurg, The Rhetoric of Gun Control, 42 (1992): 53. Analyzes rhetorical styles and logical flaws on both sides of the Brady Bill debate.
Arizona Law
Review
Note, Leonce Armand Richard III, Strict Products Liability: Application to Gun Dealers Who Sell to Incompetent Purchasers, 26 (1984): 889.
Arkansas Law
Review
Comment, Act 696: Robbing the Hunter or Hunting the Robber? 29 (1976): 570.
Asia-Pacific Law
Review
David B. Kopel, Japanese Gun Control, 2 (1993): 26.
Baylor Law
Review
Stephen Halbrook, The Right to Bear Arms in Texas: The Intent of the Framers of the Bill of Rights, 41 (1989): 629.
Bill of Rights
Journal
George I. Haight, The Right to Keep and Bear Arms, 2 (1941): 31. (Then called the “Bill of Right Review”).
Michael K. Beard & Kristin M. Rand, The Handgun Battle, 20 (1987): 13.
Boston
University Law Review
Melvin M. Johnson, Jr., The Liability of Makers and Sellers of Firearms, 17 (1937): 670.
James A. Beha, II, “And Nobody Can Get You Out”: The Impact of a Mandatory Prison Sentence for the Illegal Carrying of a Firearm on the Use of Firearms and on the Administration of Criminal Justice in Boston--Parts I & II, 57 (1977): 96, 289.
Andrew D. Herz, Gun Crazy: Constitutional False Consciousness and Dereliction of Dialogic Responsibility, 75 (1995): 57.
Sanford Levinson, Correspondence, 75 (1995): 529. Reply to Herz’s attack on Levinson.
Boston
University Public Interest Law Journal
Note, Benjamin Bejar, Wielding the Consumer Protection Shield: Sensible Handgun Regulation in Massachusetts: A Paradigm for a National Model, 7 (1998): 59.
Brigham Young
University Law Review
Lloyd R. Cohen, Book Review: George P. Fletcher, The Legitimacy of Vigilantism. A Crime of Self-Defense: Bernhard Goetz and the Law on Trial, 1989: 1261.
Second Amendment Symposium, 1998, No. 1.
Marguerite A. Driessen. Private Organizations and the Militia Status: They Don’t Make Militias Like They Used To: 1.
Steven H. Gunn, A Lawyer's Guide to the Second Amendment: 35.
David Harmer, Securing a Free State: Why the Second Amendment Matters: 55.
Orrin G. Hatch, The Brady Handgun Prevention Act and the Community Protection Initiative: Legislative Responses to the Second Amendment?: 103.
Sanford Levinson, Is the Second Amendment Finally Becoming Recognized as Part of the Constitution? Voices from the Courts: 127.
Kevin J Worthen, The Right to Keep and Bear Arms in Light of Thornton: The People and Essential Attributes of Sovereignty: 137.
David B. Kopel, The Second Amendment in the Nineteenth Century, 1998: 1359 (not part of the symposium issue above).
Brooklyn Law
Review
Note, Paul B. Wright, The Effect of Federal Firearms Control on Civil Disorder, 35 (1969): 433.
Buffalo Law
Review
Stephanie A. Levin, Grassroots Voices: Local Action and National Military Policy, 40 (1992): 321.
Note, Kevin D. Szczepanski, Searching for the Plain Meaning of the Second Amendment, 44 (1996): 197.
Capital
University Law Review
Michael J. Quinlan, Is There a Neutral Justification for Refusing to Implement the Second Amendment or Is The Supreme Court Just "Gun Shy"? 22 (1993): 641.
Case Western
Reserve Law Review
Note, James T. Dixon, On Lemon Squeezers and Locking Devices: Consumer Product Safety and Firearms, A Modest Proposal, 47 (1997): 979.
Catholic
University of America Law Review
Ralph J. Rohner, The Right to Bear Arms: A Phenomenon of Constitutional History, 16 (1966): 53.
Chicago-Kent Law
Review
John Levin, The Right to Bear Arms: The Development of the American Experience, 48 (1971): 148.
David T. Hardy & John Stompoly, Of Arms and the Law, 15 (1974): 62.
Robert J. Cottrol and Raymond T. Diamond "Never Intended to Be Applied to the White Population": Firearms Regulation And Racial Disparity‑the Redeemed South's Legacy to a National Jurisprudence? 70 (1995): 1307.
Civil Liberties
Law Review (American Civil Liberties Union Foundation)
Don B. Kates, Jr., Why a Civil Libertarian Opposes Gun Control, 3 (no. 2, June/July 1976): 24.
Robert F. Drinin, Gun Control: The Good Outweighs the Evil, 3 (no. 3, Aug./Sept. 1976): 44.
Don B. Kates, Jr. replies, 3 (no. 3, June/July 1976): 53.
Cleveland State
Law Review
John Kaplan, Controlling Firearms, 28 (1979): 1. A scholar of drug prohibition applies his knowledge to the gun issue.
Columbia Journal
of Law and Social Problems
Note, Markus Boser, Go Ahead, State, Make Them Pay: An Analysis of Washington D.C.’s Assault Weapon Manufacturing Strict Liability Act, 25 (1992): 313.
Constitutional
Commentary (Minnesota)
F. Smith Fussner, Book Review: That Every Man Be Armed, 3 (1986): 582.
Douglas Laycock, Vicious Stereotypes in Polite Society, 8 (1991): 395. Response to Wendy Brown article in Yale Law Journal, below.
Don B. Kates, Jr., The Second Amendment and the Ideology of Self-Protection, 9 (1992): 87. Argues that the Second Amendment protects firearms for personal defense, as well as for militia purposes.
Cornell Law
Review
David C. Williams, The Militia Movement and Second Amendment Revolution: Conjuring with the People, 81 (1996): 879.
Creighton Law
Review
Raneta Lawson Mack, This Gun for Hire: Concealed Weapons Legislation in the Workplace and Beyond, 30 (1997): 285.
Cumberland Law
Review
David T. Hardy, The Firearms Owners' Protection Act: A Historical and Legal Perspective, 17 (1986-87): 585. The best article on the FOPA statute.
Brannon P. Denning, Can the Simple Cite Be Trusted?: Lower Court Interpretations of United States v. Miller and the Second Amendment, 26 (1996): 961.
Detroit College
of Law Review (now affiliated with Michigan State University; see next entry)
David I. Caplan, The Right to Bear Arms: A Recent Judicial Trend, 4 (1982): 789.
Detroit College of Law at Michigan State University
Law Review
David B. Kopel, Clueless: How Anti-gun Activists Misuse BATF Tracing Data, 1998 (no. 3, forthcoming).
Drake Law Review
John Santee, The Right to Keep and Bear Arms, 26 (1976): 26.
Duke Law Journal
Martin S. Geisel, Richard Roll, & R. Stanton Wettick, The Effectiveness of State and Local Regulation of Handguns: A Statistical Analysis, 1969: 647. Finds that gun control laws have a major life-saving effect.
Note, Constitutional Limits on Firearms Regulation, 1969: 773
William Van Alstyne, The Second Amendment and the Personal Right to Arms, 43 (1994): 1236.
Duquesne
University Law Review
David E. Murley, Private Enforcement of the Social Contract: DeShaney and the Second Amendment Right to Own Firearms, 36 (1998): 827.
Emory Law
Journal
Kermit L. Hall, Political Power and Constitutional Legitimacy: The South Carolina Ku Klux Klan Trials, 1871-1872, 33 (1984): 921. The trials which set the stage for the Cruikshank case.
Randy E. Barnett & Don Kates, Under Fire: The New Consensus on the Second Amendment, 45 (1996): 1139. A reply to Herz’s B.U. L.Rev. article.
Florida Law
Review
Note, Keersten Heskin, Easier than Obtaining a Driver’s License: The Federal Licensing of Gun Dealers, 22 (1994): 805.
Note, Gregory Lee Shelton, In Search of the Lost Amendment: Challenging Federal Firearms Regulation Through the “State’s Right” Interpretation of the Second Amendment, 23 (1995): 105.
Florida State
University Law Review
Note, Matthew S. Steffey, Manufacturers’ or Marketers’ Liability for the criminal use of Saturday Night Specials: A New Common Law Approach -- Kelley v. R.G. Industries, 497 A.2d 1143 (Md. 1985), 14 (1986): 149.
Comment, Richard Getchell, Carrying Concealed Weapons in Self-Defense: Florida Adopts Uniform Regulations for the Issuance of Concealed Weapons Permits, 15 (1987): 751.
Comment, Roland Docal, The Second, Fifth, And Ninth Amendments -- The Precarious Protectors of the American Gun Collector, 23 (1996): 1101.
Fordham Law
Review
Note, H. Todd Iveson, Manufacturer’s Liability to the Victims of Handgun Crime: A Common-Law Approach, 51 (1983): 771.
Fordham Urban
Law Journal
Note, Criminal Law—Firearms Possession, 3 (1975): 375.
David I. Caplan, Restoring the Balance: The Second Amendment Revisited, 5 (1976): 31.
Richard M. Aborn, The Battle over the Brady Bill and the Future of Gun Control Advocacy, 22 (1995): 417.
Nicholas J. Johnson, Shots Across No Man’s Land: A Response to Handgun Control, Inc.’s Richard Aborn, 22 (1995): 441.
Suzanne Novak, Why the New York State System for Obtaining a License to Carry a Concealed Weapon is Unconstitutional, 26 (1998): 121.
George Mason University
Civil Rights Law Journal
Stefan B. Tahmassebi, Gun Control and Racism, 2 (1991): 67.
Stephen P. Halbrook, Second-Class Citizenship and the Second Amendment in the District of Columbia, 5 (1994): 105.
David B. Kopel, The Brady Bill Comes Due: The Printz Case and State Autonomy, 9 (1999): 189.
George Mason
University Law Review
Stephen P. Halbrook, The Jurisprudence of the Second and Fourteenth Amendments, 4 (1981): 1.
George
Washington University Law Review
Joyce Lee Malcolm, Book Review: Stephen Halbrook, That Every Man Be Armed, 54 (1986): 452.
Note, Patrick Todd Mullins, The Militia Clauses, the National Guard, and Federalism: A Constitutional Tug of War, 57 (1988): 328.
Georgetown Law
Journal
Comment, Cary McN. Euwer, Taxation—National Firearms Act, 28 (1939): 207.
Note, Paul R. Bonney, Manufacturers’ Strict Liability for Handgun Injuries: An Economic Analysis, 73 (1985): 1437.
Robert J. Cottrol & Raymond T. Diamond, The Second Amendment: Toward an Afro-Americanist Reconsideration, 80 (1990): 309.
Georgia Law
Review
Nelson Lund, The Past and Future of the Individual’s Right to Arms, 31 (1996): 1.
Georgia State
University Law Review
Comment, Rachelle Renfro Green, Offenses Against Public Order and Safety: Provide for Specific Means of Carrying Concealed Weapons; Permit Holder of Valid License to Have Handgun in Any Location Within Motor Vehicle; Permit Persons Legally Entitled to Carry Handguns in Other States to Carry Handguns in Georgia, 13 (1996): 123.
Golden Gate
University Law Review
Note, Steven Rosenberg . Just Another Kid with A Gun? United States v. Michael R.: Reviewing The Youth Handgun Safety Act Under The United States v. Lopez Commerce Clause Analysis, 28 (1998): 51.
Gonzaga Law
Review
Ellen M. Bowden & Morris S. Dees, Ounce of Prevention: The Constitutionality of State Anti-Militia Laws, 32 (1996 / 1997): 523.
Hamline Journal
of Public Law and Policy
Monica Fennell, Missing the Mark in Maryland: How Poor Drafting and Implementation Vitiated a Model State Gun Control Law, 13 (1992): 37.
Kristine R. DeMay, Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994: The Semi-Automatic “Assault Weapon”--The Latest Victim in This Country’s War Against Crime, 16 (1994): 199.
David B. Kopel & with Paul Blackman, The Unwarranted Warrant: The Waco Search Warrant and the Decline of the Fourth Amendment, 18 (1996): 1.
Hamline Law
Review
Symposium on Firearms Legislation and Litigation,
vol. 6, no. 2. 1983.
Richard T Oakes, Introduction: 277.
Proceedings of the Foundation for Handgun Education
Conference on “Victim Recovery: Firearm Litigation in the Eighties”:
Samuel Fields, Opening Statements: 281.
Windle Turley & Cliff Harrison, Strict Tort Liability for Handgun Suppliers: 285.
Jacob A. Stein, Profile of a Products Liability Case: 313.
Howard L. Siegel, Liability of Manufacturers for the Negligent Design and Distribution of Handguns: 321.
Richard Brzeczek, Law Enforcement Perspective on Utility of Handguns: 333.
Steven Teret & Garen Wintemute, Handgun Injuries: The Epidemiologic Evidence of Assessing Legal Responsibility: 341.
Articles:
Stephen P. Halbrook, Tort Liability for the Manufacture, Sale, and Ownership of Handguns: 351.
Warren Spannaus, State Firearms Regulation and the Second Amendment: 385.
David T. Hardy, Legal Restriction on Firearms Ownership as an Answer to Violent Crime: What Was the Question?: 391
Research Project:
Federal Firearms Legislation: 409.
Licensing and Registration Statutes: 419.
Handgun Bans: Constitutional Questions: 431.
Minnesota Gun Laws: 455.
Negligent Entrustment of Firearms: 467.
Product Defect Cases in Minnesota: 477.
Donald Beschle, Reconsidering the Second Amendment Constitutional Protection of a Right of Security, 9 (1986): 69. Argues that the Second Amendment guarantees a right of personal security, which could be effectuated by banning all handguns.
Joseph Olson & David B. Kopel, All the Way Down the Slippery Slope: Gun Prohibition in England and Some Lessons for Civil Liberties in America, 22 (1999): 399.
Harvard Journal
of Law and Public Policy
David T. Hardy, Armed Citizens, Citizen Armies: Toward a Jurisprudence of the Second Amendment, 9 (1986): 559. Explains the different political philosophy strands leading to the introductory and the main clauses of the Second Amendment.
Brannon P. Denning, Gun Shy: The Second Amendment as an “Underenforced Constitutional Norm”, 21 (1998): 719. Investigates judicial reluctance to enforce the Second Amendment.
Harvard Journal
on Legislation
Kimberly Stallings, Book Review: Erik Larson, Lethal Passage: How the Travels of a Single Handgun Expose The Roots Of America's Gun Crisis, 31 (1993): 529.
Harvard Law
Review
Lucilius A. Emery, The Constitutional Right to Keep and Bear Arms, 28 (1915): 473.
Note, Handguns and Products Liability, 97 (1984): 1912.
Note, Absolute Liability For Ammunition Manufacturers, 108 (1995): 1679.
Hastings
Constitutional Law Quarterly
Roy G. Weatherup, Standing Armies and Armed Citizens: An Historical Analysis of the Second Amendment, 2 (1975): 961.
Joyce Lee Malcolm, The
Right of the People to Keep and Bear Arms: The Common Law Tradition, 10
(1983): 285.
Houston Law
Review
Ronald B. Levine & David B. Saxe, The Second Amendment: The Right to Bear Arms, 7 (1969): 1.
Comment, Ann-Marie White, A New Trend in Gun Control: Criminal Liability for the Negligent Storage of Firearms, 30 (1993): 1389.
Howard Law
Journal
Thomas M. Moncure, Jr., The Second Amendment Ain’t About Hunting, 34 (1991): 589.
T. Markus Funk, Is the True Meaning of the Second Amendment Really Such a Riddle? Tracing the Historical “Origins of an Anglo-American Right”, Book Review: Joyce Lee Malcolm, To Keep and Bear Arms: The Origins of an Anglo-American Right, 39 (1995): 411.
Idaho Law Review
James B. McClure, Firearms and Federalism, 7 (1970): 197.
Indiana Law
Journal
Note, Keith A. Fafarman, State Assault Rifle Bans and the Militia Clauses of the United States Constitution, 67 (1991): 187.
John Marshall
Law Review
Note, Chuck Dougherty, The Minutemen, the National Guard and the Private Militia Movement: Will the Real Militia Please Stand Up?, 28 (1995): 959.
Brendan J. Healey, Plugging the Bullet Holes in U.S. Gun Law: An Ammunition-Based Proposal for Tightening Gun Control, 32 (1998): 1.
Journal of Air
Law and Commerce (Southern Methodist)
Stephen P. Halbrook, Firearms, the Fourth Amendment, and Air Carrier Security, 52 (1987): 585.
Journal of
Contemporary Law (University of Utah)
Don B. Kates, Gun Control: Separating Reality from Symbolism, 20 (1994): 353.
David B. Kopel, Rational Basis Analysis of “Assault Weapon” Prohibition, 20 (1994): 387.
Comment, H. Jay, Printz v. United States: Supreme Court Declares Brady Act's Review of Handgun Application Requirement Unconstitutional, 24 (1998): 178.
Journal of
Criminal Law and Criminology (Northwestern)
Note, J.W.G., The Menace of the Pistol, 2 (1911): 23. The Journal was then called the American Inst. of Crim. L.
Karl T. Frederick, Pistol Regulation: Its Principles and History, 23 (1932-33) 531. Parts I and II appeared in the American Journal of Police Science, Sept./Oct. 1931, at 440, and Jan./Feb. 1932, at 72.
Rosario Fontaine, Identification of Shells, 23 (1932-33): 542.
Philip B. Sharpe, The Thompson Sub-Machine Gun, 23 (1932-33): 1098.
Andrew A. Bruce & Shurl Rosmarin, The Gunman and His Gun, 24 (1933-34): 521.
Earl E. Munz, A Plan for Control of Firearms, 25 (1934-35): 445.
Casenote, Alvah Rogers, Jr., National Firearms Act—Tax on Dealers, 28 (1937-38 ): 139.
Sam B. Warner, The Uniform Pistol Act, 29 (1938): 529.
William W. Harper, The Behavior of Bullets Fired through Glass, 29 (1938): 718.
Charles M. Wilson, The Identification of Extractor Marks on Fired Shells, 29 (1939): 724.
Dwight W. Rife, Recovery of Bullets from High Speed Ammunition, 30 (1939-40): 379.
Walter J. Howe, Problems of the Submachine Gun in Post-War Crime, 35 (1944-45): 69.
Leroy G. Schultz, Why the Negro Carries Weapons, 53 (1962): 476.
Raymond G. Kessler, Book Review: James D. Wright, Peter H. Rossi, & Kathleen Daly, Under The Gun: Weapons, Crime And Violence In America, (1984): 314.
Raymond G. Kessler, Book Review: Stephen P. Halbrook, That Every Man Be Armed: The Evolution of a Constitutional Right, 77 (1986): 260.
Raymond G. Kessler, Book Review: James D. Wright & Peter H. Rossi, Armed And Considered Dangerous: A Survey Of Felons And Their Firearms, 77 (1986): 504.
Raymond G. Kessler, Book Review: Franklin E. Zimring & Gordon Hawkins, The Citizen’s Guide to Gun Control, 79 (1988): 541.
Raymond G. Kessler, Book Review: Gary Kleck, Point Blank, 82 (1992): 1187.
David McDowall, Colin Loftin & Brian Wiersema, A Comparative Study of the Preventive Effects of Mandatory Sentencing Laws for Gun Crimes, 83 (1992): 378.
Note, T. Markus Funk, Gun Control and Economic Discrimination: The Melting-Point Case-in-Point, 85 (1995): 764.
Guns and
Violence Symposium, vol. 86, no. 1, 1995.
Franklin E. Zimring, Reflections on Firearms and the Criminal Law: 1.
Alfred Blumstein, Youth Violence, Guns, and the Illicit-Drug Industry: 10.
Beth Bjerregaard & Alan J. Lizotte, Gun Ownership and Gang Membership: 37.
Philip J. Cook, Stephanie Molliconi, & Thomas B. Cole, Regulating Gun Markets: 59.
James B. Jacobs & Kimberly A. Potter, Keeping Guns Out of the "Wrong" Hands: The Brady Law and the Limits of Regulation: 93.
David Hemenway, Sara J. Solnick, & Deborah R. Azrael, Firearms and Community Feelings of Safety: 121.
Tom W. Smith & Robert J. Smith, Changes in Firearms Ownership Among Women, 1980-1994: 133.
Gary Kleck & Marc Gertz, Armed Resistance to Crime: The Prevalence and Nature of Self-Defense with a Gun: 150.
Marvin E. Wolfgang, A Tribute to a View I Have Opposed: 188.
David McDowall, Colin Loftin & Brian Wiersema, Easing Concealed Firearms Laws: Effects on Homicide in Three States: 193.
Daniel D. Polsby, Firearms Costs, Firearms Benefits and the Limits of Knowledge: 207.
David McDowall, Colin Loftin & Brian Wiersema, Additional Discussion about Easing Concealed Firearms Laws: 221.
Daniel D. Polbsy, Daniel D. Polsby Replies: 227.
Jeremy Rabkin, Constitutional Firepower: New Light on the Meaning of the Second Amendment: 231.
Don B. Kates, Jr., & Daniel D. Polsby, Of Genocide and Disarmament: 247.
David Hemenway, Survey Research and Self-Defense Gun Use: An Explanation of Extreme Overestimates, 87 (1997): 1430.
Gary Kleck & Marc Gertz, The Illegitimacy of One-Sided Speculation: Getting the Defensive Gun Use Estimate Down, 87 (1997): 1446.
Tom W. Smith, A Call for a Truce in the DGU War, 87 (1997): 1462.
James B. Jacobs & Kimberly A. Potter, Comprehensive Handgun Licensing & Regulation: An Analysis & Critique of Brady II, Gun Control’s Next (and Last?) Step, 89 (1998): 81.
Journal on
Firearms and Public Policy
This Journal contains a combination of original articles and reprints of significant articles published elsewhere.
Vol. 1, 1989.
Reprints of Caplan, Detroit; Warren, NYU; Weatherup, Hastings Con. LQ; Whisker, West Virginia; Levin, Chicago-Kent.
Vol. 2, 1990
David I. Caplan, The Right to Have Arms and Use Deadly Force Under the Second and Third Amendments: 165.
Reprints of Halsey, Can the Second Amendment Survive? (American Rifleman); Sante, Drake; Halbrook, N. Ky.; Mosk, NYLF.
Vol. 3, 1991
Paul H. Blackman, Law Enforcement Lobbying and Policy-Making on “Gun Control”: 29.
David B. Kopel, Trust the People: The Case Against Gun Control: 77.
Charles H. Chandler, Gun-Making as a Cottage Industry: 155.
Reprints of Levinson, Yale; Caplan, Gun Control Jeopardizes All our Constitutional Rights (Am. Rifleman); Kates, The Battle over Gun Control; Stell, Guns, Politics, and Reason.
Vol. 4, 1992
David B. Kopel, Why Gun Waiting Periods Threaten Public Safety: 1.
Michael J. Palmiotto, The Misconception of the American Citizen’s Right to Keep and Bear Arms: 85.
Talcott J. Franklin, Ten Years Later: An Analysis of the Effects of New York City’s Mandatory Sentencing Law: 91.
J. Neil Schulman, The Text of the Second Amendment: 159.
Reprint of Alan A. Lizotte, The Costs of Using Gun Control to Reduce Homicide (Bulletin of the N.Y. Acad. of Medicine); Bordent, UWLA.
Vol. 5, 1993
David B. Kopel, The “Assault Weapon” Panic: 29.
Joyce Lee Malcolm, The
Role of the Militia in the Development of the Englishman’s Right to be Armed:
Clarifying the Legacy: 139.
Robert Dowlut, The Right to Keep and Bear Arms In State Bills of Rights and Judicial Interpretation: 153.
Reprints of Halbrook, George Mason; Hardy, Journal of Law & Politics.
Vol. 6, 1994
Preston K. Covey, The “Sporting Purpose” Issue in Gun Control Policy: 55.
Paul H. Blackman, The Tragedy at Waco: 165.
Reprints of Snyder, A Nation of Cowards (The Public Interest); Mauser & Kopel, Sorry Wrong Number (Pol. Comm. & Persuasion); Halbrook, Valparaiso.
Vol. 7, 1995
Paul H. Blackman, The Federal Factoid Factory on Firearms and Violence: 21.
Clayton Cramer, Ethical Problems of Mass Murder Coverage: 113.
Reprints of Van Alstyne, Duke; Cottrol & Diamond, Georgetown; Halbrook, Seton Hall Const. LJ.
Vol. 8, 1996
Reprints of Reynolds & Kates, William & Mary; Funk, Northwestern; Kopel, Cramer, Hattrup, Temple; and Heinrich Härke, The Rite to Bear Arms (originally published in Guns Review, in England).
Vol. 9, 1997.
Gary Kleck, Using Speculation to Meet Evidence: Reply to Alba and Messner: 13.
Vance McLaughlin & Steve Smith, The Rodney King Syndrome: 51.
H. Taylor Buckner, Gun Control: Will It Work?: 175.
Don B. Kates, Toward an Annotated Bibliography of the Second Amendment: 215.
Reprints of Thomas Arnold, The Wheel-Lock Gun (Military History Quarterly); Williams, Cornell; David Hemenway & Elizabeth Richard, Characteristics of Automatic or Semiautomatic Weapons Ownership in the United States (Am. J. Pub. Health); Jacob Sullum, What the Doctor Orders (Reason).
Vol. 10, 1998.
Gary Mauser, The Politics of Firearms Registration in Canada: 1.
Paul H. Blackman, The Uses and Limitations of BATF Tracing Data for Law Enforcement, Policymaking, and Criminological Research: 27.
Gary Kleck, Has the Gun Deterrence Hypothesis Been Discredited?: 65.
Wesley Lasseigne, “Brady” or Not?: 77.
Raymond Kessler, Ideological and Civil Liberties Implications of the Public Health Approach to Guns, Crime and Violence: 111.
Journal of Law and Commerce (University
of Pittsburgh).
Note, Ted Copetas, Handguns Without Child Safety Devices--Defective In Design, 16 (1996): 171.
Journal of Law
and Policy
Note, Dyan Finguerra, The Tenth Amendment Shoots Down the Brady Act, 3 (1995): 637.
Journal of Law
and Politics (Virginia)
David T. Hardy, The Second Amendment and the Historiography of the Bill of Rights, 4 (1987): 1.
Journal of Legal
Education (Association of American Law Schools)
Eugene Volokh, Robert J. Cottrol, Sanford Levinson, L.A. Powe, Jr., Glenn H. Reynolds, The Second Amendment as Teaching Tool in Constitutional Law Classes, 48 (1998): 591.
Journal of Legal
Studies
Franklin E. Zimring, Firearms and Federal Law: The Gun Control Act of 1968, 4 (1975): 133.
John R. Lott, Jr. & David B. Mustard, Crime, Deterrence, and Right-to-Carry Concealed Handguns, 26 (1997): 1.
Journal of
Legislation (Notre Dame)
Note, Ronald R. Ratton, Corrective Justice and the D.C. Assault Weapon Liability Act, 19 (1993): 287.
Scott D. Dailard, The Role Of Ammunition In A Balanced Program Of Gun Control: A Critique Of The Moynihan Bullet Bills, 20 (1994): 19.
Journal of
Product Liability
Goldbard, Product Liability and the Small Concealable Handgun: A Shot at a New Solution, 9 (1985): 301.
Journal of Urban
Law (University of Detroit)
Robert J. Riley, Shooting to Kill the Handgun: Time to Martyr Another American “Hero”, 51 (1972): 491.
Jonathan A. Weiss, A Reply to Advocates of Gun-Control Law, 52 (1974): 577.
Journal of Urban
& Contemporary Law
Dimos, “Saturday Night Special” Manufacturers and Marketers Strictly Liable for Misuse of Their Products, 32 (1987): 347.
Justice of the
Peace (British)
Refusal of Certificate of Ammunition, 94 (Nov. 29, 1930): 745. Summarizes a court decision holding that a person with a legally-owned handgun had no right to buy ammunition for defensive purposes, because he could scare away burglars by pointing an unloaded gun at them.
Kansas Journal
of Law & Public Policy,
Bob Dole, The Brady Bill: It’s Just Not Enough, 3 (1993): 135.
Clayton Cramer, The Racist Roots of Gun Control, 4 (1995): 17.
Kentucky Law
Journal
Note, Gardner L. Turner, Criminal Law—The Law as to Concealed Deadly Weapons, 43 (1954-55): 523.
Note, David E. Johnson, Taking a Second Look at the Second Amendment and Modern Gun Control Laws, 86 (1997-98): 197. Heavily cited in the Emerson case.
Law and
Contemporary Problems
John Brabner-Smith, Firearm Regulation, 1 (1933-34): 400. By a U.S. Dept. of Justice attorney.
Gun Control Symposium, vol. 49, no. 1, 1986:
John Kaplan, Foreword: 1.
James B. Jacobs, Exceptions to the General Prohibition on Handgun Possession: Do They Swallow up the Rule?: 5.
Gary Kleck, Policy Lessons from Recent Gen Control Research: 35.
Margaret Howard, Husband-Wife Homicide: An Essay from a Family Law Perspective: 63.
Daniel D. Polsby, Reflections on Violence, Guns, and the Defensive Use of Deadly Force: 89.
Lance K. Stell, Close Encounters of the Lethal Kind: The Use of Deadly Force in Self-Defense: 113.
Robert E. Shalhope, The Armed Citizen in the Early Republic: 125.
Don B. Kates, Jr., The Second Amendment: A Dialogue: 143.
Stephen P. Halbrook, What the Framers Intended: A Linguistic Analysis of the Right to “Bear Arms”: 153.
Robert Batey, Strict Construction of Firearms Offenses: The Supreme Court and the Gun Control Act of 1968: 163.
Alan Lizotte & Marjorie S. Zatz, The Use and Abuse of Sentence Enhancement for Firearms Offenses in California: 199.
Note, The Public Use Test: Would a Ban on the Possession of Firearms Require Just Compensation?: 223.
John J. Hasko, Gun Control: A Selective Bibliography: 251.
Symposium: Kids, Guns, and Public Policy, vol. 59,
no. 1 (1996):
Philip J. Cook, Foreword: 1.
Alfred Blumstein & Daniel Cork, Linking Gun Availability to Youth Gun Markets: 5.
Franklin E. Zimring, Kids, Guns, and Homicide: Policy Notes on an Age-Specific Epidemic: 25.
Deanna L. Wilkinson & Jeffrey Fagan, The Role of Firearms in Violence “Scripts”: The Dynamics of Gun Events Among Adolescent Males: 55.
Philip J. Cook & James A. Leitzel, “Perversity, Futility, Jeopardy”: An Economic Analysis of the Attack on Gun Control: 91.
Christopher S. Koper & Peter Reuter, Suppressing Illegal Gun Markets: Lessons from Drug Enforcement: 119.
David M. Kennedy, Anne M. Piehl, and Anthony A Braga, Youth Violence in Boston: Gun Markets, Serious Youth Offenders, and a Use-Reduction Strategy: 147.
Law and Policy
Quarterly (Sage Publications, not published by a law school)
Issue on Firearms and Firearms Regulation: Old
Premises, New Research, vol. 5, no. 3, 1983.
Don B. Kates, Introduction: 261.
Gary Kleck & David Bordua, The Factual Foundations of Certain Key Assumptions of Gun Control: 271.
Paula D. McClain, Firearms Ownership, Gun Control Attitudes, and Neighborhood Environment: 299.
William R. Tonso, Social Science and Sagecraft in the Debate over Gun Control: 325.
David J. Bordua, Adversary Polling in the Construction of Social Meaning: Implications in Gun Control Elections in Massachusetts and California: 345.
Matthew R. DeZee, Gun Control Legislation: Impact and Ideology: 367.
Raymond G. Kessler, Gun Control and Political Power: 381.
David McDowall, Gun Availability and Robbery Rates: A Panel Study of Large U.S. Cities, 1974-1978, 8 (1986): 135.
Law and
Psychology Review
Student Article, Jarrod Braxton Bazemore, Warrior Mercenaries or Toy Soldiers: The Rise of Militias in the United States, 22 (1998): 219.
Law and Society
Review
Colin Loftin, et al., Mandatory Sentencing and Firearms Violence: Evaluating an Alternative to Gun Control, 17 (1983): 287.
Lincoln Law
Review
Thomas M. Moncure, Jr., Who is the Militia: The Virginia Ratification Convention and the Right to Bear Arms, 19 (1990): 1.
Loyola-Chicago
Law Journal
George Anastaplo, Amendments to the Constitution of the United States: A Commentary, 23 (1992): 631.
Maine Law Review
Casenote, June A. Jackson, State v. Brown: How Limited a Right to Keep and Bear Arms?, 41 (1992): 519.
Marquette Law
Review
Daniel J. McKenna, The Right to Keep and Bear Arms, 12 (1928): 138.
Maryland Law
Review
Note, Susan M. Stevens, Kelley v. R.G. Industries: When Hard Cases Make Bad Law, 46 (1987): 486.
David B. Kopel & Christopher Little, Communitarians, Neorepublicans, and Guns: Assessing the Case for Firearms Prohibition, 56 (1997): 438.
McGeorge Law
Review (University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law)
Michael J. Daponde, New Residents and Collectors Must Register Their Out-of-State Handguns: Making a (Government) List and Checking it Twice, 29 (1998): 539.
Memphis State
University Law Review
Note, Tanja Lueck Thompson, Weapons in the Workplace: The Effect of Tennessee's Concealed Weapons Statute on Employer Liability, 28 (1997): 281.
Mercer Law
Review
Comment, R.J. Larizza, Paranoia, Patriotism, and the Citizen Militia Movement: Constitutional Right or Criminal Conduct?, 47 (1996): 581.
Michigan Law
Review
John Barker Waite, Public Policy and the Arrest of Felons, 31 (1933): 764.
John Barker Waite, Criminal Law in Action--Carrying Concealed Weapons--Chicago Statistics, 32 (1934): 88.
Note, Some Observations on the Disposition of CCW Cases in Detroit, 74 (1976): 614.
Don B. Kates, Jr., Handgun Prohibition and the Original Meaning of the Second Amendment, 82 (1983): 203.
Franklin E. Zimring, Book Review: Firearms and Violence, 83 (1985): 954.
Franklin E. Zimring , Hardly The Trial of the Century. Book Review: George P. Fletcher, A Crime of Self-Defense: Bernhard Goetz And The Law On Trial, 87 (1989): 1307.
William A. Walker, Book Review: The Privilege to Keep and Bear Arms--The Second Amendment and Its Interpretation, 88 (1990): 1409.
David B. Kopel, It isn’t about Duck Hunting: The British Origins of the Right to Arms. Book Review: Joyce Malcolm, To Keep and Bear Arms: The Origin of an Anglo-American Right, 96 (1995): 1333.
Military Law
Review (Department of the Army, Judge Advocate General’s School)
Williams S. Fields and David T. Hardy, The Militia and the Constitution: A Legal History, 136 (1992): 1. A superb article which has not drawn the attention it deserves.
Montana Law
Review
Symposium. The Militia: Constitutional and Legal
Perspectives, vol 58, no. 1, 1997.
Edward R. Becker, The
Second Amendment and Other Federal Constitutional Rights of the Private Militia:
7.
David Neiwert, Ash on the Sills: The Significance of the Patriot Movement in America: 19.
Thomas B. McAffee, Constitutional Limits on Regulating Private Militia Groups: 45.
Donald W. Dowd, The Relevance of the Second Amendment to Gun Control Legislation: 79.
Andrew P. Morris, Private Actors & Structural Balance: Militia & The Free Rider Problem in Private Provision of Law: 115.
New Mexico Law
Review
John Dwight Ingram & Alison Ann Ray, The Right(?) To Keep And Bear Arms, 27 (1997): 491.
New York Law
School Journal of International and Comparative Law
Symposium, Guns at Home, Guns on the Street: An
International Perspective, vol. 15, nos. 2 & 3, 1995.
International Perspectives on Gun Control:
David B. Kopel: 247.
Wendy Cukier: 253.
Joachim J. Savelsberg: 259.
William K. Hastings: 265.
James B. Jacobs: 275.
Christopher D. Ram, Living Next to the United States: Recent Developments in Canadian Gun Control Policy, Politics, and Law: 279.
Note, Scott Jacobs, Toward a More Reasonable Approach to Gun Control: Canada as a Model: 315.
Joyce Saltalamachia, Book Review: Lethal Passage: 345.
David B. Kopel, Book Review: Lethal Laws: 355.
Michael T. McCarthy, Legal Aspects of Gun Control: A Selective Bibliography: 399 (covers materials published between
1985 and 1994).
New York Law
School Review
Stanley Mosk, Gun Control Legislation: Valid and Necessary, 14 (1968): 694. (The Review was at the time known as the “New York Law Forum.”)
Mark K. Benenson, A Controlled Look at Gun Controls, 14 (1968): 718.
New York
University Law Review
Hugo Black, The Bill of Rights, 35 (1960): 865.
Earl Warren, The Bill of Rights and the Military, 37 (1962): 181.
Eugene Volokh, The
Commonplace Second Amendment, 73 (1998): 793.
David C. Williams, Response: The Unitary Second Amendment, 73 (1998): 822.
Eugene Volokh, The
Amazing Vanishing Second Amendment, 73 (1998): 831.
North Carolina
Central Law Journal
Maynard Holbrook Jackson, Jr., Handgun Control: Constitutional and Critically Needed, 8 (1977): 189.
David I. Caplan, Handgun Control: Constitutional or Unconstitutional?--A Reply to Mayor Jackson, 10 (1978): 53.
North Carolina
Law Review
Note, John D. Eller, Jr., Legislation—Control of Firearms, 35 (1956): 149.
Note, Carl W. Thurman, III, State v. Fennell: The North Carolina Tradition of Reasonable Regulation of the Right to Bear Arms, 68 (1990): 1078.
William F. Lane, Public Endangerment or Personal Liberty? North Carolina Enacts a Liberalized Concealed Handgun Statute, 74 (1996): 2214.
Thomas McAffee & Michael J. Quinlan, Bringing Forward the Right to Keep and Bear Arms: Do Text, History, or Precedent Stand in the Way?, 75 (1997): 781.
Northern
Kentucky Law Review
Second Amendment Symposium: Rights in Conflict in
the 1980’s, vol. 10, no. 1, 1982.
Edward M. Kennedy, The Handgun Crime Control Act of 1981: 1.
Stephen P. Halbrook, To Keep and Bear Arms: The Adoption of the Second Amendment 1787-1791: 13.
Windle Turley, Manufacturers’ and Suppliers’ Liability to Handgun Victims: 41.
Richard E. Gardiner, To Preserve Liberty--A Look at the Right to Keep and Bear Arms: 63.
Alan M. Gottlieb, Gun Ownership: A Constitutional Right: 113.
Sam Fields, Guns, Crime, and the Negligent Gun Owner: 141.
Second Amendment Survey: 155.
Northwestern
University Law Review
Peter Buck Feller & Karl L. Gotting, The Second Amendment: A Second Look, 61 (1966): 46.
Note, Daryl J. Lapp, Mandatory Self-Reporting under Section 922(e) of the Gun Control Act of 1968: Its Infringement on the Fifth Amendment Privilege Against Self-Incrimination, 81 (1987): 263.
Notre Dame Law
Review
Note, Patrick S. Davies, Saturday Night Specials: A “Special” Exception In Strict Liability Law, 61 (1986): 478.
Ohio State Law
Journal
Case Comment, Elizabeth M. Welch, Arnold v. City of Cleveland: An Analysis of the Constitutionality of Assault Weapon Bans in Ohio, 55 (1994): 953.
Note, Michael J. Delaney, Lethal Weapon: Will Tenth Amendment Challenges Kill the Brady Act?, 56 (1995): 1217.
Nicholas Johnson, Plenary Power and Constitutional Outcasts: Federal Power, Critical Race Theory and the Second, Ninth and Tenth Amendments, 57 (1996): 1556.
Comment, Isaac Molnar, Resurrecting the Bad Tendency Test to Combat Instructional Speech: Militias Beware: Rice v. Paladin Enterprises, Inc., 128 F.3d 233 (4th Cir. 1997), 59 (1998): 1333.
Oklahoma City
Law Review
Robert Dowlut & Janet A. Knoop, State Constitutions and the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, 7 (1982): 177.
Symposium on Terrorism, vol. 21, nos. 2 & 3, 1996.
Brannon P. Denning, Palladium of Liberty? Causes and Consequences of the Federalization of State Militias in the Twentieth Century: 191.
David B. Kopel & Joseph Olson, Preventing a Reign of Terror: Civil Liberties Implications of Terrorism Legislation: 247.
Oklahoma Law
Review
Robert Dowlut, The Right to Arms: Does the Constitution or the Predilection of Judges Reign? 36 (1983): 65.
Comment, Jacqueline Ballinger, Torts and Gun Control: Sealing Up the Cracks and Helping Licensed Dealers Avoid Sales to Unqualified Buyers, 48 (1995): 593.
Pacific Law
Journal (now known as the McGeorge Law Review; see above)
Rose Safarian, A Shot at Stricter Controls: Strict Liability for Gun Manufacturers, 15 (1983): 171.
Public Interest
Law Review (National Legal Center for the Public Interest)
Don B. Kates, Jr., Bigotry, Symbolism and Ideology in the Battle over Gun Control, 1992: 31.
Nicholas J. Johnson, Book Review: The Samurai, the Mountie, and the Cowboy, 1993: 207.
Regent
University Law Review
Michael I. Garcia, The “Assault Weapons” Ban, the Second Amendment, and the Security of a Free State, 6 (1995): 261.
Richmond Law
Review
Note, The Second Amendment: A Study of Recent Judicial Trends, 25 (1991): 501.
Rutgers Law
Journal (Rutgers-Camden)
Nicholas J. Johnson, Beyond the Second Amendment: An Individual Right to Arms Viewed Through the Ninth Amendment, 24 (1992): 1.
Note, Michelle L. Maute, New Jersey Takes Aim at Gun Violence by Minors: Parental Criminal Liability, 26 (1995): 431.
Rutgers Law
Review (Rutgers-Newark)
Note, John C. Lenzen, Liberalizing The Concealed Carry of Handguns by Qualified Civilians: The Case for “Carry Reform”, 47 (1995): 1503.
Nicholas J. Johnson, Principles and Passions: The Intersection of Abortion and Gun Rights, 50 (1997): 97.
San Diego Justice
Journal (Western State University College of Law)
Note, Donna Morel, Bang! Bang! You're Liable! The Imposition of Strict Liability on the Makers of Semi-Automatic Assault Weapons, 3 (1995): 263.
Santa Clara Law
Review
Note, Michael Dillon, Hitting the Mark: Strict Liability for Defective Handgun Design, 24 (1984): 743.
Note, Common Law Strict Liability Against Manufacturers of Saturday Night Specials, 27 (1987): 607.
Seton Hall
Constitutional Law Journal
Sayoko Blodget-Ford, The Changing Meaning of the Right to Bear Arms, 6 (1995): 101.
Stephen P. Halbrook, Personal Security, Personal Liberty, and the "The Constitutional Right to Bear Arms": Visions of the Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment, 5 (1995): 341.
Seton Hall Law
Review
Comment, Michelle Capezza, Controlling Guns: A Call for Consistency in Judicial Review of Challenges to Gun Control Legislation, 25 (1995): 1467.
Seton Hall
Legislative Journal
Note, Marc Christopher Cozzolino, Gun Control: The Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, (1992): 245.
Symposium: Triggering Liability: Should
Manufacturers, Distributors, and Dealers be Held Accountable for the Harm
Caused by Guns? vol. 19, no. 3, 1995.
Timothy A. Bumann, A Product Liability Response to Gun Control Litigation: 715.
David B. Kopel & Richard Gardiner, The Sullivan Principles: Protecting the Second Amendment from Abuse of Product Liability Law: 737.
Andrew J. McClurg, The Tortious Marketing of Handguns: Strict Liability is Dead, Long Live Negligence: 777.
Mark D. Polsten, Civil Liability for High Risk Gun Sales: An Approach to Combat Gun Trafficking: 821.
Note, Thomas E. Romano, Firing Back: Legislative Attempts to Combat Assault Weapons: 857.
Note, Jill A. Tobia, The Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act: Does It Have a Shot at Success?: 894.
Note, Susan L. Ludwigson, Gun-Free School Zones: 921.
E. Judson Jennings, Saturday Night. Ten P.M.: Do You Know Where Your Handgun Is?, 21 (1997): 31.
South Carolina
Law Review
Note, James L. Mann, II, The Right to Bar Arms, 19 (1967): 402.
Southern California
Law Review
Note, G.M. Harris, Criminal Law—Weapons—Firearms—Pistols, 7 (1933-34): 114.
Casenote, Phillip Kraus, Constitutional Law—Second Amendment—National Firearms Act, 13 (1939): 129.
Carl Bogus, Race, Riots, and Guns, 66 (1993): 1365.
Southern Illinois
University Law Journal
Brannon P. Denning, Professional Discourse, the Second Amendment and the “Talking Head Constitutionalism” Counterrevolution: A Review Essay, Book Review: Dennis Henigan, E. Bruce Nicholson, & David Hemenway, Guns and the Constitution: The Myth of Second Amendment Protection for Firearms in America, 21 (1997): 227.
Comment, Simeon Kim, Utopia or the Wild, Wild, West? The Right to Carry Concealed Handguns Law: Senate Bill 1190 and House Bill 2164, 21 (1997): 597.
Frank Espohl, The Right to Carry Concealed Weapons for Self-defense, 22 (1997): 151.
Southwestern
University Law Review
Note, Paul S. Arrow, Kelley v. R.G. Industries: California Caught in the Crossfire (1988): 497.
St. John’s
Journal of Legal Commentary
Symposium: Federal Gun Control and the Brady Act,
vol. 10, no. 1, 1994.
Albert J. Rosenthal, Introduction: 1.
Kevin Cunningham, When Gun Control Meets the Constitution: 59.
Sarah Brady, Working for a Safer America: 77.
Note, Kevin A. Fox & Nutan Christine Shah, Natural Born Killers: The Assault Weapons Ban of the Crime Bill--Legitimate Exercise of Congressional Authority to Control Violent Crime or Infringement of a Constitutional Guarantee?: 123.
Note, Ronald A. Giller, Federal Gun Control in the United States: Revival of the Tenth Amendment: 151.
Note, Timothy Jones & Janine Tyne, Printz v. United States: An Assault Upon the Brady Act or a Tenth Amendment Fortification?: 179.
Note, Lynn Murtha & Suzanne L. Smith, “An Ounce of Prevention...”: Restriction versus Proaction in American Gun Violence Policies: 205.
Note, Wayne H. Wink, Jr., Biting the Bullet: Two Proposals to Stem the Tide of Gun Violence: 235.
St. John’s Law
Review
Casenote, A.S., Negligence—Representation that Object is Harmless—Liability of Manufacturers, 5 (1930):128. The manufacturer of a toy gun which claimed to be “absolutely safe” for children was sued by the parents of a boy whose clothing caught on fire from a spark from the gun.
Note, Alfred M. Ascione, The Federal Firearms Act, 13 (1939): 437.
Note, Kelley v. R.G. Industries, Inc.: Maryland Court of Appeals Takes a Shot in the Dark at Saturday Night Specials, 60 (1986).
Note, Robert A. O’Hare, Jr. and Jorge Pedreira, An Uncertain Right: The Second Amendment and the Assault Weapon Controversy, 66 (1992): 179.
St. Louis
University Law Journal
Don Kates, Some Remarks on the Prohibition of Handguns, 23 (1979): 11.
Sam Fields, Handgun Prohibition and Social Necessity, 23 (1979): 35.
St. Louis
University Public Law Review
Crime and Punishment Symposium, vol 12, no. 2, 1993.
Nicholas Dixon, Why We Should Ban Handguns in the United States: 243.
David B. Kopel, Peril or Protection? The Risks and Benefits of Handgun Prohibition: 285.
Nicholas Dixon, Perilous Protection: A Reply to Kopel: 361.
Debra Burke, Jo Anne Hopper, B.J. Dunlap, Women and Guns: Legal and Ethical Implications for Marketing Strategy: 393.
St. Mary’s Law
Journal
Comment, A Farewell to Arms?--An Analysis of Texas Handgun Control Law, 13 (1982): 601.
Donald E. Santarelli & Nicholas E. Calio, Turning the Gun on Tort Law: Aiming at Courts to Take Products Liability to the Limit, 14 (1983): 471.
St. Thomas Law
Review
Robert Dowlut, Bearing Arms in State Bills of Rights, Judicial Interpretation, and Public Housing, 5 (1992): 203.
Stanford Law and
Policy Review
Darwin Farrar, In Defense of Home Rule: California’s Preemption of Local Firearms Regulation, 7 (1996): 51.
Symposium, Sin under Siege: The Legal Attack on
Firearms, Tobacco, & Gambling, vol. 8, no. 1, 1997
Mark D. Polston & Douglas S. Weil, Unsafe by Design: Using Tort Actions to Reduce Firearms-Related Injuries: 13.
Robert Dowlut, The Right to Keep and Bear Arms: A Right to Self-Defense Against Criminals and Despots: 25.
Bruce H. Kobayashi and Joseph E. Olson, In re 101 California Street: A Legal and
Economic Analysis of Strict Liability for the Manufacture and Sale of “Assault
Weapons”: 41.
Suffolk
University Law Review
Case Comment, Catherine L. Calhoun, Constitutional Law--Eleventh Circuit Interprets Firearms Owners’ Protection Act to Prohibit Private Possession of Machine Guns--Farmer v. Higgins, 25 (1991): 797.
Temple Journal
of International and Comparative Law
David B. Kopel, Canadian Gun Control: Should America Look North for a Solution to its Firearms Problem?, 5 (1991): 1.
Temple Law Review
Note, R.T.G., The Federal Firearms Act, 17 (1942-43): 286.
David B. Kopel, Clayton E. Cramer, and Scott G. Hattrup, A Tale of Three Cities: The Right to Bear Arms in State Supreme Courts, 68 (1995): 1177.
David Kairys, Legal Claims of Cities Against the Manufacturers of Handguns, 71 (1998): 1.
Temple Political
and Civil Rights Law Review
Note & Comment, Thomas W. McGoldrick, Happiness is a Warm Gun: The Sixth Circuit Shoots Down a Ban on Assault Weapons, 5 (1996): 203.
Tennessee Law
Review
Glenn Harlan Reynolds, The Right to Keep and Bear Arms Under the Tennessee Constitution: A Case Study in Civic Republican Thought: 61 (1994): 647.
Second Amendment Symposium, vol. 62, no. 3, 1995.
Randy E. Barnett, Foreword: Guns, Militias and Oklahoma City: 443.
Glenn Harlan Reynolds, A Critical Guide to the Second Amendment: 461.
Don B. Kates, Henry E. Schaffer, John K. Lattimer,
George B. Murray, & Edwin W. Cassem, Guns
and Public Health: Epidemic of Violence or Pandemic of Propaganda?: 513.
Stephen P. Halbrook, Congress Interprets the Second Amendment: Declarations by a Co-Equal Branch on the Individual Right to Keep and Bear Arms: 597.
Charles J. Dunlap, Jr., Revolt of the Masses: Armed Civilians and the Insurrectionary Theory of the Second Amendment: 643.
Clayton E. Cramer and David B. Kopel, “Shall Issue:” The New Breed of Concealed Handgun Permit Laws: 679.
Dan Gifford, The Conceptual Foundations of Anglo-American Jurisprudence in Religion and Reason: 759.
Joyce Lee Malcolm, Book Review: Gun Control and the Constitution: Sources and Explorations of the Second Amendment: 813.
Texas Law Review
Note, Scott Bursor, Toward a Functional Framework for Interpreting the Second Amendment, 74 (1996): 1125.
Thomas Jefferson
Law Review
Note, Monica Sue Barry, Stockpiling Weapons: Can Private Militias Receive Protection Under the First and Second Amendments?, 18 (1996): 61.
Touro Law Review
Robert C. Dorf, “Use” and the Irresistible Impulse to Legislate, 12 (1995): 123.
Tulane Law
Review
Fred E. Inbau, Firearms and Legal Doctrine, 7 (1932-33): 529.
Comment, Jason Napoleon Thelen, “Midnight Stole My Impala, So I Shot Him”: Handguns and Personal Defense in Louisiana, 73 (1998): 331.
UCLA Law Review
Comment, Laura B. Riley, Concealed Weapon Detectors and the Fourth Amendment: The Constitutionality of Remote Sense-Enhanced Searches, 45 (1997): 281.
University of
Arkansas at Little Rock Law Journal
Philip D. Oliver, Rejecting the Whipping-Boy Approach to Tort Law: Well-Made Handguns are not Defective Products, 14 (1991): 1.
Andrew J. McClurg, Strict Liability for Handgun Manufacturers: A Reply to Professor Oliver, 14 (1992): 511.
Andrew J. McClurg, Handguns As Products Unreasonably Dangerous Per Se, 14 (1992): 559.
University of
California at Davis Law Review
Carl T. Bogus, The Hidden History of the Second Amendment, 31 (1998): 309.
Note, Melissa Ann Jones, Legislating Gun Control in Light of Printz v. United States, 32 (1999): 455.
University of
Chicago Law Review
Comment, Federal Regulation of Firearms Sales, 31 (1964): 780.
Note, Michael D. Ridberg, The Impact of State Constitutional Right to Bear Arms Provisions on State Gun Control Legislation, 38 (1970): 185.
Franklin E. Zimring, Is Gun Control Likely to Reduce Violent Killings?, 35 (1968): 721. A seminal and widely-cited article.
Comment, Andrew O. Smith, The Manufacture and Distribution of Handguns As an Abnormally Dangerous Activity, 54 (1987): 369.
University of
Cincinnati Law Review
Carl T. Bogus, Pistols, Politics And Products Liability, 59 (1991): 1103.
University of
Colorado Law Review
Note, Monte M.F. Cooper, Perpich v. Department of Defense: Federalism Values and the Militia Clause (1991): 637.
Symposium, Crime
is Not the Problem: Lethal Violence in America, Issues Arising from the New
Book by Franklin E. Zimring & Gordon Hawkins, vol. 69, no. 4, 1998.
Alfred Blumstein, Violence
Certainly Is the Problem—And Especially with Handguns: 945.
Daniel D. Polsby & Don B. Kates, Jr., American Homicide Exceptionalism: 969.
Robert J. Cottrol, Submission Is not the Answer: Lethal Violence, Microcultures of Criminal Violence and the Right to Self-Defense: 1029.
Delbert S. Elliot, Life-Threatening Violence is Primarily a Crime Problem: A Focus on Prevention: 1081.
James B. Jacobs, Legal and Political Impediments to Lethal Violence Policy: 1099.
David Garland, Criminology, Crime Control, and “The American Difference”: 1137.
Gale A. Norton, Comments on Zimring and Hawkins’s Crime is Not the Problem: Lethal Violence in America: 1163.
Franklin E. Zimring & Gordon Hawkins, Crime Is Not The Problem: A Reply: 1177.
University of
Dayton Law Review
Symposium. Gun Control and the Second Amendment,
vol. 15, no. 1, 1989.
Keith A. Ehrman and Dennis A. Henigan, The Second Amendment in the Twentieth Century: Have You Seen Your Militia Lately?: 5.
Robert Dowlut, Federal and State Constitutional Guarantees to Arms: 59.
Stephen P. Halbrook, Encroachments of the Crown on the Liberty of the Subject: Prerevolutionary Origins of the Second Amendment: 91.
Joshua M. Horowitz, Kelley v. R.G. Industries: A Cause of Action for Assault Weapons: 125.
James B. Jacobs, The
Regulation of Personal Chemical Weapons: Some Anomalies in American Weapons Law:
141.
Symposium, Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement
Act of 1994, vol. 20, no. 2, 1995.
William Jefferson Clinton, Remarks on Signing the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994: 567.
Michael G. Lenett, Taking a Bite Out of Violent Crime: 573.
Joseph P. Tartaro, The Great Assault Weapon Hoax: 619.
Jeffrey Y. Muchnik, The Assault Weapons Ban--Saving Lives: 641.
David C. Biggs, “The Good Samaritan Is Packing”: An Overview of the Broadened Duty to Aid Your Fellowman, with the Modern Desire to Possess Concealed Weapons, 22 (1997): 225.
University of
Detroit Mercy Law Review
Beau A. Hill, Go Ahead, Make My Day: Revisiting Michigan’s Concealed Weapons Law, 76 (1998): 67.
University of
Illinois Law Forum
Robert C. Palmer, The Parameters of Constitutional Reconstruction: Slaughter-House, Cruikshank, and the Fourteenth Amendment, 1984: 739.
Note, Rick L. Jett, Do Victims of Unlawful Handgun Violence Have a Remedy Against Handgun Manufacturers: An Overview and Analysis, 1985: 967.
Note, Inge Anna Larish, Why Annie Can't Get a Gun: A Feminist Appraisal of the Second Amendment, 1996: 467.
University of
Kansas Law Review
Jonathan Duncan, Comment, Looks Like a Waiting Period for the Brady Bill: Tenth Amendment Challenges to a Controversial Unfunded Mandate, 43 (1995): 835.
University of
Missouri Law Review
Todd Barnet, Gun “Control” Laws Violate the Second Amendment and May Lead to Higher Crime Rates, 63 (1998): 155.
University of
Pennsylvania Law Review
Note, Restrictions on the Right to Bear Arms: State and Federal Firearms Legislation, 98 (1950): 905.
Elaine Scarry, War and the Social Contract: Nuclear Policy, Distribution, and the Right to Bear Arms, 139 (1991): 1257. Argues that the values inherent in the Second Amendment (popular control over war making) are inconsistent with a President having unilateral authority to use nuclear weapons.
James Gray Pope, Republican Moments: The Role of Direct Popular Power in American Constitutional Order, 139 (1991): 287.
Comment, Joelle E. Polesky, The Rise of Private Militia: A First and Second Amendment Analysis of the Right to Organize and the Right to Train, 144 (1996): 1593.
University of
Richmond Law Review
Note, Michael T. O'Donnell, The Second Amendment: A Study of Recent Trends, 25 (1991): 501.
University of
San Francisco Law Review
Eric Gorovitz, California Dreamin’: The Myth of State Preemption of Local Firearm Regulation, 30 (1996): 395.
University of
West Los Angeles Law Review
Bernard J. Bordenet, The Right to Possess Arms: The Intent of the Framers of the Second Amendment, 21 (1990): 1.
Valparaiso
University Law Review
Bill of Rights Symposium, vol. 26, no. 1, 1991.
Dennis A. Henigan, Arms, Anarchy and the Second Amendment: 107.
Stephen P. Halbrook, The Right of the People or the Power of the State: Bearing Arms, Arming Militias, and the Second Amendment: 131.
David E. Vandercoy , The History of the Second Amendment, 70 (1994): 1007.
Symposium, Juvenile Crime: Policy Proposals on Guns
& Violence, Gangs & Drugs, vol. 31, no.2, 1997.
John Lott, Does Allowing Law-Abiding Citizens to Carry Concealed Handguns Save Lives?: 355.
Albert W. Alschuler, Two Guns, Four Guns, Six Guns, More Guns: Does Arming the Public Reduce Crime?: 365.
Alan J. Lizotte, Gregory J. Howard, Marving D. Krohn, & Terence P. Thornberry, Patterns of Illegal Gun Carrying Among Young Urban Males: 375.
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