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"The Standardless Second Amendment"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the title of this new Issue Brief authored by Tina Mehr and Adam Winkler coming from the American Constitution Society. At this link, here is how ACS describes the piece: ACS is pleased to distribute ?The Standardless Second Amendment,? by Tina Mehr, an Attorney Fellow at the Los Angeles County District Attorney?s Office, and Adam Winkler, a Professor of Law at the University of California Los Angeles.  In their issue brief, Ms. Mehr and Professor Winkler discuss the state of Second Amendment law following the Supreme Court?s decisions in District of Columbia v. Heller and McDonald v. City of Chicago.  The authors observe that ?[i]t is often said that there are 20,000 gun control laws in the United States,? and these two decisions, which ?held that the Second Amendment guaranteed individuals a right to possess firearms for personal protection,? raise questions about the constitutionality of these laws...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on October 13, 2010 (boomark / email).