The First Congress proposed a Bill of Rights as protection for those fearful of a strong national government. The Bill of Rights came into effect in December 1791, after ratification by three-fourths ...

By the time the Second Amendment was ratified ... David B. Kopel, The History of Firearm Magazines and Magazine Prohibitions, 88 ALBANY L. REV. 849 (2015).

To understand why, it's helpful to know the long history of the proposed amendment, and the legal ... support she needed in the late 1960s, when second-wave feminists helped push it toward passage.

he "remains among 'the people' protected by the Second Amendment." Further, "the Government did not carry its burden of showing that the principles underlying our Nation's history and tradition ...

President Biden says he believes the amendment has met the requirements to be enshrined in the Constitution. Its history has been long and complex. By Noah Weiland Reporting from Washington ...

The federal ban on handgun sales to adults younger than 21 violates the Second Amendment, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the ...

The suspect's lawyer submitted a motion to dismiss the charge on the argument that he has the right to bear arms under the Second Amendment ... with the Nation’s history and tradition of ...

Second Amendment advocates are raising eleventh-hour concerns about past gun-control efforts pushed by former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to run the ...