Proponents of gun control have long pointed to the Second Amendment’s prefatory clause — “A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State” — as a necessary prelude to its ...

For decades the federal judiciary has been trying to interpret the Second Amendment out of the Constitution. It is, as Sanford Levinson has termed it, an “embarrassment” to an elite class of legal ...

A common misconception about the Second Amendment is that it only protects arms for the militia, or in modern day, the National Guard or other government-organized military group. This is simply ...