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SECOND
AMENDMENT LINKS
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Douglas S.
Sandhaus
Attorney at Law
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Most of the following links were culled from the "Links" page of the EXCELLENT
organization known as Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership.
Visit their home page or, better yet, JOIN THEM! To do either,
please click the icon below:
DISCLAIMER-- Listing of the following
sites should in no way be construed as an endorsement of any opinions,
statements, products, or services set forth or described
therein.
The editor
of this page has no financial interest whatsoever in any organization, company
or entity whose site may be listed below.
1. WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT
"A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State,
the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed." --
The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution.
2. THE CONSTITUTION
3. INTERPRETIVE CASE LAW, ARTICLES AND
STATUTES
The following citations are presented irrespective as to they are "pro-gun"
or "anti-gun." The goal here is to compile something of an exhaustive list
of "authoritative" legal resources where the Second Amendment is discussed.
Ideally, all of the articles listed below would be "hyperlinked" to the actual
articles themselves. Where that is not possible, however, I have taken to
simply provide the citation for the article so you can review it yourself.
Finally, a warning: some of these items cited deal only peripherally with
the Second Amendment, but are included in the interest of completeness.
Much of this section was obtained from the excellent list of resources retrieved
using the search engine found at Findlaw, using
as my search term the phrase "second amendment".
Notwithstanding the utility of Findlaw, perhaps
the best place to begin your research into law review articles on the Second
Amendment is at the Second Amendment
Law Library, which has an extensive, READABLE list of law review articles.
From that list, I have included below [under the first "bullet"] only those
articles that the Second Amendment Law Library deemed as good introductory
articles. If you are interested in this type of legal research, you should
be sure to hit the Second Amendment Law
Library's more exhaustive list.
A. ARTICLES
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Halbrook, Stephen P., The Right
of the People or the Power of the State: Bearing Arms, Arming Militias, and
the Second Amendment, 26
Val. L. Rev. 131-207 (1991).
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Encroachments of the Crown on the
Liberty of the Subject: Pre-Revolutionary Origins of the Second
Amendment, 15 Dayton L.
Rev. 91-124 (1989).
118k
Kates, Don B. Jr.,
The Second Amendment and the Ideology of
Self-Protection, 9 Const.
Comm. 87-104 (1992).
57k
Lund, Nelson,
The Past and Future of the Individual's Right to
Arms, 31 Ga. L. Rev.
1-76 (1996).
242k
Reynolds, Glenn H.,
A Critical Guide to the Second Amendment,
62 Tenn. L. Rev. 461-512
(1995).
196k
Shalhope, Robert E.,,
The Ideological Origins of the Second Amendment,
69 J. of Am. Hist. 599-614
(1982).
59k
Van Alstyne, William,
The Second Amendment and the Personal Right to Arms,
43 Duke L.J. 1236-1255
(1994).
65k
Vandercoy, David E.,
The History of the Second Amendment,
28 Val. L. Rev. 1007-1039
(1994).
121k
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Gun Control and the Constitution: Sources and Explorations on the Second
Amendment (Robert J. Cottrol, ed. 1993)
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Halbrook, Stephen P. That Every Man Be Armed: The Evolution of a Constitutional
Right (1984)
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Kates, Don B. Handgun Prohibition and the Original Meaning of the Second
Amendment (1984)
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Levinson, Samuel. The Embarrassing Second Amendment, 99 Yale L.J. 637
(1989)
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National Commission on Reform of Federal Criminal Laws, Working Papers 1031-1058
(1970), and Final Report 246-247 (1971)
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Staff of Subcom. on the Constitution, Senate Committee on the Judiciary,
97th Congress, 2d Sess., The Right to Keep and Bear Arms (Comm. Print 1982)
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Symposium, Gun Control, 49 Law and Contemp. Probs. 1 (1986)
B. CASES
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Barrett v. United
States,423
U.S. 212 (1976)
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Cases v. United States, 131 F. 2d 916, 922 (1st Cir. 1942), cert. denied,
319
U.S. 770 (1943
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Hickman v. Block, 81 F.3d 98 (9th Cir.), cert. denied 117 S. Ct. 276 (1996)
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Lewis v. United States,
445
U.S. 55, 65 n.8 (1980)
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Miller v.
Texas,153
U.S. 535 (1894)
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Presser v.
Illinois,116
U.S. 252, 265 (1886)
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Quilici v. Village of Morton Grove, 695 F. 2d 261 (7th Cir. 1982), cert.
denied,
464
U.S. 863 (1983)
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Robertson v. Baldwin,
165
U.S. 275, 281-282 (1897)
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Scarborough v. United States,
431
U.S. 563 (1977)
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United States v. Bass,
404
U.S. 336 (1971)
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United States v. Cruikshank,
92
U.S. 542 (1875)
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United States v. Gomez, 92 F.3d 770, 775 n.7 (9th Cir. 1996)
C. STATUTES
Gun Control Act of 1968. 82 Stat. 226, 18 U.S.C. Sec. Sec. 921-928.
4. THE PREMIER NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
National Rifle Assocation
Gun Owners of America
Women Against Gun Control
Jews for the Preservation of Firearms
Ownership
5. MARYLAND ORGANIZATIONS AND ALERTS
Much of this list (including the commentary) was lifted from the excellent
collection of regional gun links found at
GunHoo:
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Associated Gun Clubs of Baltimore,
Inc.
Association of 26 member clubs in Maryland offering a wide variety of shooting
sports activites and facilities
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Atlantic Guns Inc.
Full line gunshop in Maryland. Site features cowboy action shooting information.
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Berretta USA
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COMTAC
Firearms Training Center
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D [and] J Bullet Company, Inc.
Makers of match grade lead and jacketed bullets - also offers accessories
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Firearms Research and Instruction, Inc.
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H.P. White Laboratory, Inc.
Full service ballistic testing laboratory
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IWLA Rockville
The Rockville Maryland Chapter of the Izaac Walton League of America has
quite a few things to offer shooters
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Maryland State Rifle and Pistol Association
Official NRA State Association for Maryland
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Miltech Airsoft
Offers a wide range of airsoft supplies
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Monumental Rifle and Pistol Club
Marriottsville, Maryland club with pistol, rifle and trap facilties
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Practical Security Options
International
PSOI offers Firearms training, Urban survival training, Martial arts classes
and Residential surveys. MD, DC, VA
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The Airgun Letter
Publication about airguns. More than just a 'subscribe to our publication'
page. Check out their 'Best Deals' listing
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The
Armed Citizen
Links to other firearms related subjects
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The Maryland
Hunting Page
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www.2ndAmendment.net
Edited by an attorney, the 2nd Amendment Home Page is an on-line reference
source for Supreme Court opinions and other authorities supporting the right
of ordinary people to keep and bear arms. In addition to essays, it contains
summaries of court opinions, and lists of relevant books and law review articles.
NRA-ILA
FAX ALERT - Vol. 7, No. 15 4/14/00
2000-04-14
NRA-ILA
FAX ALERT - Vol. 7, No. 14 4/7/00
2000-04-07
News
Release - NRA Responds to Maryland Gun Control Legislation
2000-04-04
NRA-ILA
FAX ALERT - Vol. 7, No. 12 3/24/00
2000-03-24
NRA-ILA
FAX ALERT - Vol. 7, No. 11 3/17/00
2000-03-17
NRA-ILA
FAX ALERT - Vol. 7, No. 10 3/10/00
2000-03-10
NRA-ILA FAX ALERT - Vol. 7, No. 9 3/3/00
2000-03-03
NRA-ILA FAX ALERT - Vol. 6, No. 52 12/30/99
1999-12-30
Brochure - Compendium of State Firearms Laws
1999 1999-07-16
6. STATE GUN RIGHTS
ORGANIZATIONS
GunHoo, which is discussed
elsewhere on this page, provides an extensive list, by region, of gun-related
organizations. The list below, however, was culled (as was much of the
information on this page) from JPFO's extensive
list of links:
Coalition of New Jersey Sportsmen
Pike's Peak (Colo.) Firearms Coalition
Allegheny County (Pa.) Sportsmen's
League
Georgia Sports Shooting Association
Maryland State Rifle & Pistol
Association
Missouri Sports Shooting
Association
New York State Rifle & Pistol
Association
Gun Owners Of New
Jersey (GONJ) (This site, which is chock full of links to things like
the U.S.Code, is well worth a visit.)
Northern Virginia Citizens Defense League
Washington Arms Collectors
7. A FEW ON-LINE PLACES TO PURCHASE
FIREARMS
Auction Arms
Shooters' GunXchange
Shooters' Links.Com
Gun Finder
8. THE RKBA
rkba.net The "Net"
dedicated to the *R*ight to *K*eep and *B*ear *A*rms. This site is an execellent
jumping off point for those interested in exploring the websites maintained
by various pro-gun activists and manufacturers of firearms or firearms related
products.
9. RKBA Organizations
10. FIREARMS RESOURCES
11. LARGELY COMMERCIAL SITES
12. POLITICAL SITES
13. NEWS, EDITORIALS AND ESSAYS (with thanks
to Stephen P. Wenger, of
spwenger's Defensive
Use of Firearms)
**CLICK HERE FOR
AN UPDATED LIST OF NEWS, EDITORIALS AND ESSAYS CONCERNING GUN-RELATED
ISSUES!!**
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