Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America
Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America

Author: Adam Winkler

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2011-09-19

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 0393082296

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A provocative history that reveals how guns—not abortion, race, or religion—are at the heart of America's cultural divide. Gunfight is a timely work examining America’s four-centuries-long political battle over gun control and the right to bear arms. In this definitive and provocative history, Adam Winkler reveals how guns—not abortion, race, or religion—are at the heart of America’s cultural divide. Using the landmark 2008 case District of Columbia v. Heller—which invalidated a law banning handguns in the nation’s capital—as a springboard, Winkler brilliantly weaves together the dramatic stories of gun-rights advocates and gun-control lobbyists, providing often unexpected insights into the venomous debate that now cleaves our nation.

To Keep and Bear Arms
To Keep and Bear Arms

Author: Joyce Lee Malcolm

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 9780674893078

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This work illuminates the historical facts behind the current debate about gun-related violence, the Brady Bill and the NRA, including the original meaning and intentions behind the right to "bear arms". It traces its roots to the legacy of English law, leading directly to the Second Amendment

The Right to Bear Arms
The Right to Bear Arms

Author: Stephen P. Halbrook

Publisher: Bombardier Books

Published: 2021-05-03

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 163758119X

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The U.S. Supreme Court has recognized the individual right to keep and bear arms, but courts in states that have extreme gun control restrictions apply tests that balance the right away. This book demonstrates that the right peaceably to carry firearms is a fundamental right recognized by the text of the Second Amendment and is part of our American history and tradition. Halbrook’s scholarly work is an exhaustive historical treatment of the fundamental, individual right to carry firearms outside of the home. Halbrook traces this right from its origins in England through American colonial times, the American Revolution, the Constitution’s ratification debates, and then through the antebellum and post-bellum periods, including the history surrounding the enactment of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. This book is another important contribution by Halbrook to the scholarship concerning the text, history and tradition of the Second Amendment’s right to bear and carry arms.

The Founders' Second Amendment
The Founders' Second Amendment

Author: Stephen P. Halbrook

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2019-01-15

Total Pages: 449

ISBN-13: 1538129671

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Stephen P. Halbrook's The Founders' Second Amendment is the first book-length account of the origins of the Second Amendment, based on the Founders' own statements as found in newspapers, correspondence, debates, and resolutions. Mr. Halbrook investigates the period from 1768 to 1826, from the last years of British rule and the American Revolution through to the adoption of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, and the passing of the Founders' generation. His book offers the most comprehensive analysis of the arguments behind the drafting and adoption of the Second Amendment, and the intentions of the men who created it.

That Every Man Be Armed
That Every Man Be Armed

Author: Stephen P. Halbrook

Publisher: UNM Press

Published: 2013-02-15

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 0826352995

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That Every Man Be Armed, the first scholarly book on the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, has played a significant role in constitutional debate and litigation since it was first published in 1984. Halbrook traces the right to bear arms from ancient Greece and Rome to the English republicans, then to the American Revolution and Constitution, through the Reconstruction period extending the right to African Americans, and onward to today’s controversies. With reviews of recent literature and court decisions, this new edition ensures that Halbrook’s study remains the most comprehensive general work on the right to keep and bear arms.

The Second Amendment
The Second Amendment

Author: Larry Gerber

Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

Published: 2011-01-15

Total Pages: 66

ISBN-13: 1448823234

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The United States has the most guns per capita of any country in the world. Many Americans value the right to bear arms, which they believe is guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the Constitution. Others believe that the Second Amendment only guarantees the right for organized militias to own guns. This book surveys the history of the Second Amendment and gun ownership in the United States, and explores how the amendment continues to affect us today.

A Well-regulated Militia
A Well-regulated Militia

Author: Saul Cornell

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0195341031

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A leading constitutional historian argues that the Founding Fathers viewed the right to bear arms as neither an individual nor a collective right, but rather an obligation a citizen owed to the government to arm themselves and participate in a well-regulated militia.