Kates and Levinson: A Post-Bruen Look at the Roots of Modern Second Amendment Scholarship

By LKB Like many of you, I am still processing the depth of the legal earthquakes from the Supreme Court late last month. With the 6 to 3 opinion in Bruen now the law of the land, the Second Amendment is no longer a “second class right,” and the test set out in Justice Thomas’ … Read more

Don Kates, RIP

Long before the Heller case, before More Guns, Less Crime, back when Texas didn’t allow concealed carry, there was Don Kates. In 1983, when he was in private practice of law, he published an article titled, “Handgun Prohibition and the Original Meaning of the Second Amendment,” in the University of Michigan Law Review, which was one of … Read more