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Surprise: Chicago rarely enforced it gun law

Story here , thanks to reader Joe Olson.

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More on Bellesiles’ latest

James Lindgren reports on his more extensive investigation . He submits that Chronicles of Higher Education, which published B’s article, at this point must ask him for proof, because every indicator is that his article is fiction.

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Former Justice Souter speaks

Story here . I can understand that he doesn’t seem to like textualism — stick to the words, that’s what was agreed upon — nor original understanding — words explained by our best understanding of what they were meant to be

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New record sniper shot

A British sniper in Afghanistan has scored two one-shot kills at 1.54 miles , on a pair of Taliban machinegunners. (The reference in the article to an 8.59 mm bullet is actually a reference to the .338 Lapua Magnum version of the British L115A1 rifle

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Further thoughts on effects of pardons

Snowflakes in Hell has some thoughts on the effect of a conviction and then pardon in State A, on the person’s gun rights if he moves to State B.

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DC voting "rights" bill ended

Good riddance . Some legislators, while wanting to violate Article I, thought giving up violating the 2nd Amendment was too high a price

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Reminds me of my government days

At Interior (1982-1992) I chiefly represented Fish and Wildlife Service. And this article reminds me of the type of strange cases we had

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Yet another trip in the time machine

Here’s an OCR’d version (there may be typos) of my 1974 Chicago-Kent Law Review article on the Second Amendment. By modern standards, it’s quite limited. But it was a start

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Subsequent history

After that article, the sequence went something like this: Dave Caplan published one in 1977, Don Kates and Steve Halbrook and Joyce Malcolm came in in 1978-79. Halbrook, Malcolm, Kates and I put out a number of articles in the lesser law reviews over the next few years

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New article by Randy Barnett

“Whence Comes Section One? The Abolitionist Origins of the Fourteenth Amendment.” It explores the many ways in which abolitionist legal thought influenced the 14th Amendment. The leadership of the 39th Congress were abolitionists to a man, and shared legal understandings that did not require explanation.

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