Reagan and Trump framed the Second Amendment as an absolute right to own ... not the government as a whole. “The people”: The founders used this phrase to mean not individual persons, but ...

To listen to the gun lobby, the Second Amendment provides an absolute constitutional ... the framing device of the whole thing—to protect “the security of a free State.” ...

President Trump could end this mess tomorrow by appointing a strong, empowered Second Amendment Czar to carry out his orders ...

Of course, the collective whole in 1789 excluded women ... Nevertheless, keep the plural form in mind when reading the Second Amendment. The final form of the amendment consists of linked phrases ...

The Second Amendment permits the government to disarm dangerous criminals, but what about people convicted of nonviolent paperwork offenses? Bryan Range pleaded guilty in 1995 to a state ...

Learn more. Regarding Jan. 26, Justin Davis “Firearms rights are under assault in Maine”: The Second Amendment of the Constitution is a mere 27 words but the gun lobby folks never mention the ...

(An earlier draft of the amendment specifically defined "militia ... It's the most beautiful thing in the whole Constitution. Here, at last, the Founding Fathers told us something specific ...

The sweeping bill would ease the purchase of gun silencers. Mr. Funk was the managing editor of Pleroma Media, and worked as ...

Most of you would say, “Yes.” I think the answer would probably stay the same even for those who consider themselves to be supporters of the Second Amendment. Last week, the 8th Ohio District ...

The whole debate, if that’s the right word for it, has been stale and repetitive since the mid-1990s. The novelist Paul Auster, in “Bloodbath Nation,” seems momentarily aware that to say ...

Pro-Second Amendment advocacy is bottom-up ... why the NRA membership may not actually be reflective of gun owners as a whole? GUTOWSKI: Yeah. I mean, we've seen gun ownership increase, especially ...